Ziga Podgornik-Jakil

Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) · Department of Civil Law

This series of letters began with an introduction written by Ziga Podgornik Jakil and published jointly by Blog Medizinethnologie of the Working Group Medical Anthropology and the Blogsite of the Working Group Public Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association. These letters highlight the personal experiences of African students who esca...

Experiences and demands of African students from Ukraine who fled to Germany. The open letter is jointly published in https://www.medizinethnologie.net/ and https://publicanthropology.de/.

Experiences and demands of African students from Ukraine who fled to Germany. The open letter is jointly published in https://www.medizinethnologie.net/ and https://publicanthropology.de/.

This is a second instalment of letters from African Students from Ukraine who Fled to Germany, published on https://www.medizinethnologie.net/open-letters-from-african-students-from-ukraine-who-fled-to-germany/ and http://publicanthropology.de/2022/05/05/letters-af2/ on May 5, 2022.

This post consists of an introductory text on the situation of African students who have escaped the war in Ukraine to neighbouring countries of the European Union (EU) and two letters I wrote with two African students from Ukraine to highlight the forms of legal exclusion they face in Germany. I learned about the legal situation of African student...

Podgornik Jakil, Žiga. 2021. Asylum workers in German logistics centres. MoLab Inventory of Mobilities and Socioeconomic Changes. Department ‘Anthropology of Economic Experimentation’. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

There is an ongoing debate in anthropology on the kinds of subject positions activists ascribe to the marginalized actors they encounter and the political consequences this brings about. Drawing from ethnographic research on refugee activism in Germany and transitional justice activism in Uganda, we revisit the respective debates on humanitarian ac...

Ruben Andersson provides a convincing ethnographical account of how contemporary systems of military, aid, and border intervention, usually led by powerful Western states, produce physical and narrative maps of fear and risk with the aim of securing the remote danger zones across the globe. He explores the power of mapping and interventions from th...

All visual art material is made by Claudia Virginia Vitari. In the photos are my written contributions to her catalog. Claudia Virigina Vitari's project 'Identità Interstiziali' (Interstitial Identities) represents the most recent stage of a decade of artistic and theoretical research focused on the relationship between identity and cultural other...

This article analyses how local "anti-Lager" activists and asylum seekers challenged the state-sponsored humanitarian approach to refugee accommodation in Berlin, Germany, during the "long summer of migration" of 2015/2016. In line with Germany's post-WWII "liberal-constitutional political culture" regarding political asylum, the Berlin government...

How is it possible that people with different political positioning end up similarly criticizing the governmental measures intended to curb the pandemic ? To find an answer to this question and understand the demands protesters make in different parts of the world, I believe we need to be attentive to local political geographies. This is the starti...

The paper frames everyday struggles of asylum seekers living in Berlin's emergency shelter located in a sport hall as everyday forms of resistance, using James C. Scott's terminology. Being housed in a sport hall located on the Osloer Straße between November 2015 and March 2017 pushed its residents to negotiate the existing power relations with the...

The article focuses on emergency shelters for refugees in Berlin, that is, on their function and the ways in which their residents, the asylum seekers, struggle against the living conditions they provide. It argues that by analyzing the contemporary border regimes, we also uncover some insights into functioning of contemporary political economy. Th...