Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Dr. Tsypylma Darieva

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Name
Dr. Tsypylma Darieva
Email
tsypylma.darieva (at) zois-berlin.de
Homepage
https://www.zois-berlin.de/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen/dr-tsypylma-darieva/
External institution
Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS)
Function / Working Area
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin
Phone number
(030) 2005949-38
Consultation hours
by appointment only
Mailing address
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Curriculum Vitae
  • Senior researcher and coordinator of the research area "Migration and Diversity" at the Centre for East European and international Studies (ZOiS), Berlin
  • Associate Member of the institute for Slavonic and Caucasus Studies at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

  • 2010 - 13: Associate Professor at the University of Tsuskuba in Japan, Department for International Area Studies, Special Central Asia Program

  • 2004 - 10: Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

  • 2003 - 04: Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthroplogy in Halle

 

 

 

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Anthropology of migration
  • transnational diaspora and homeland relations
  • sacred sites and religious diversityy
  • cosmopolitanism
  • city and postsocialist urban cultures
  • Central Eurasian Studies (South Caucasus and Central Asia)

 

Habilitation Thesis

"Homeland Pilgrimage. Roots and Routes of transnational Engagement." 

 

Research Project at ZOiS

Transformation urbaner Räume und religiöse Pluralisierung im Südkaukasus

 

 

Selected Publications

 

Books

2020. Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Strategies and Practices, Berlin: Dom Publishers, co-editor Carola Neugebauer. https://dom-publishers.com/products/urban-activism-in-eastern-europe-and-eurasia

2018. Sacred Places-Emergent Spaces. Religious Pluralism in the post-Soviet Caucasus, co-edited with Florian Mühlfried and Kevin Tuite, New York: Berghahn Books.

2017. Sakralität und Mobilität im Kaukasus und Südosteuropa, hrsg. mit Thede Kahl und Svetoslava Toncheva, Wien: Verlag für Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

2012. Cosmopolitan Sociability. Locating Transnational Religious and Diasporic Networks, with Nina Glick Schiller and Sandra Gruner-Domic, London: Routledge.

2011. Urban Spaces after Socialism. Ethnographies of Public Places in Eurasian Cities, co-edited with Wolfgang Kaschuba and Melanie Krebs, Frankfurt: Campus Verlag.

2004. Russkij Berlin. Migrants and Media in Berlin and London, Münster: LIT Verlag.

 

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

2019. 'Discovering ‘Homeland’: A New Generation of Armenian Diasporic Organisations'. Revue d’Etudes Comparatives Est-Ouest, vol. 19, no. 4: pp. 9-41.

2017. 'Journey to the Future. Imaginaries and Motivations for Homeland Trips to Armenia'. Global Networks Journal vol. 17 (3): pp. 423-440.

2016. 'Global Cosmopolitanism/ Global Cosmopolitans'. Willey Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism, edited by John Stone et al., Oxford.

2016. 'The Boneless Saint from Baku: Exploring the Shia Muslim Pilgrimage in a Secular City'. Religion, State and Church vol. 2 (34): pp. 203-225 (in Russian).

2016. 'Prayer House or a Cultural Center? Restoring a Mosque in post-socialist Armenia'. Central Asian Survey vol. 35: pp. 292-308.

2015. 'Modernizing the Waterfront: Urban Green, Built Environment and Social Life in Baku'. Europa Regional, Leibnitz Institut für Länderkunde 1-2: pp. 65-79.

2011. 'Defining Cosmopolitan Sociability. Locating Transnational Religious and Diasporic Networks', with Nina Glick-Schiller and Sandra Gruner-Domic. Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 34, no. 3: pp. 399-418.

2011. 'Rethinking Homecoming. Diasporic Cosmopolitanism in Post-socialist Armenia'. Ethnic and Racial Studies vol. 34, no. 3: pp. 490-508.

 

Other articles

2015. 'Kontaktraum Kaukasus. Sprachen, Religionen, Völker und Kulturen', mit Florian Mühlfried. Osteuropa Zeitschrift 7-10: S. 45-70.

 

Chapters in edited volumes

2018. 'Introduction'. In: Sacred Places-Emerging Spaces: Religious Pluralism in the post-Soviet Caucasus, co-edited with F. Mühlfried and K. Tuite, pp. 1-18. New York: Berghahn Books.

2018. 'Between ‘Great’ and ‘Little’ Traditions? Situating Shia Saints in contemporary Baku'. In: Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces: Religious Pluralism in the post-Soviet Caucasus, co-edited with F. Mühlfried and K. Tuite, pp. 19-45. New York: Berghahn Books.

2017. 'Einleitung'. In: Sakralität und Mobilität im Kaukasus und Südosteuropa, hrsg. mit  T. Kahl und S. Toncheva, S. 5-16. Wien: Verlag für Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

2017. 'Der knochenlose Heilige aus Baku: Zur Bedeutung muslimischer Wallfahrten in einer säkularen Stadt'. In: Sakralität und Mobilität im Kaukasus und Südosteuropa, S. 201-222. Wien: Verlag für Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

2013. 'Between Long-Distance Nationalism and ‘Rooted’ Cosmopolitanism? Armenian-American Engagement with their Homeland'. In: East European Diaspora, Migration and Cosmopolitanism, edited by Ulrike Zieme, pp. 25-40. London: Routledge.

2007. 'Migrationsforschung in der Ethnologie'. In: Ethnizität und Migration. Einführung in Wissenschaft und Arbeitsfelder, hrsg. von Brigitte Schmidt-Lauber, S. 69-94. Berlin: Reimer-Verlag.

 

Other publications

2019. 'Der Gedenktag des armenischen Genozids nach der „samtenen Revolution“'. ZOiS Spotlight 16/2019.

2018. 'Aserbaidschan feiert sein säkulares Erbe'. ZOiS Spotlight 23/2018.

2018. 'Migration und ein neuer Patriotismus in Armenien'. ZOiS Spotlight 2/2018.

 

Book reviews

2018. Siekierski, Konrad und Troebst, Stefan. Armenians in Post-Socialist Europe. In: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Europas, E-Reviews, Volume 2, pp. 69-72, Köln: Böhlau.