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Tabea Häberlein

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Scientific career

Professional experience

UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH, FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Oct. 2024 - Mar. 2025: Substitute for the Professorship of Social and Cultural Anthropology (with a focus on Africa)
Dec. 2023 - Sep. 2024: Post-Habilitation Fellow
Sep. 2022 - Nov. 2023: Research Associate at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
Mar. 2019 - Aug. 2022: Research associate in the "Africa Multiple" Cluster of Excellence supporting Vice Dean Research in the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
Aug. 2017 - Dec. 2018: Research associate in the DFG research project "Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa", Head: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, Cultural & Social Anthropology
Apr. 2017 - Jul. 2017: Research Assosciate at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
Mar. 2014 - Mar. 2017: Research associate in the DFG research project "Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa", Head: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, Cultural & Social Anthropology
Nov. 2012 – Feb. 2014: Research Assistant at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
Jul. 2009 – Nov. 2012: Research associate in the DFG research project "Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa", Head: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, Cultural & Social Anthropology
May 2005 – Jun. 2007: Part-time research assistant to the Junior Professorship of Ethnosociology, Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber, and in the CRC/RG 560 sub-project B8 "Family Change in Africa”

Academic Career

May 2019 - Jun. 2024: UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH
Habilitation candidate at the Faculty of Cultural Studies in the field of Cultural and Social Anthropology, title of habilitation thesis: Erwachsenes Sein. Konzeptionen, ökonomische und relationale Realisierungen einer spezifischen Lebensphase (in Togo und Benin). Teaching qualification for the subject of social and cultural anthropology established on June 5, 2024.

Oct. 2006 – Oct. 2012: UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH

Feb. 2008 – Oct. 2012: Doctoral student at Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Erdmute Alber
Title of dissertation (2012): Generational ties. Order, practice and history of generational relations among the Lama (Kabiye) in northern Togo. Grade: magna cum laude (1,0)
Jul. 2007 – Jun. 2009: Scholarship holder in the Graduate School of the University of Bavaria e.V.

Oct. 2000 – Apr. 2005 FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN

Studied social anthropology and geography (Master's degree with two main subjects); graduated in April 2005 with the title Magistra Artium, grade 1,0 (distinction)
Title of master's thesis (2005): Institutional change in post-socialist Mongolia using the example of the Zuunchangai Sum region. Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences, 19.04.2005, grade: 1,0 (distinction)

Oct. 1998 – Sep. 2000 LUDWIG-MAXIMILIAN UNIVERSITY MUNICH

Studies of social anthropology, geography, psychology (“Magister”)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Research areas

West Africa (Togo, Benin) and Central Asia (Mongolia)
Economics over the course of life, adulthood, old age and ageing; generational relations, age class systems, course of life; intra-societal conflicts, and change of social institutions after political transformation. Rural societies, nomadism

Current research project

Generational Relations and Intra-family Resource Flows in West Africa

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology

Publications

2024

Häberlein, Tabea; Irambeshya, Albert
Housing and Food Provision in Old Age : Gendered Positionalities in Rural Rwanda and the Border ...
Old Age, Gender, Social Security in Africa and Europe
Münster : Lit-Verlag, 2024. - page 247-271 . - (Narrating (Hi)stories : Kultur und Geschichte in Afrika = Culture and History in Africa; 8)

Häberlein, Tabea
When parents die : Bereavement, decision-making and achieving adult personhood in rural Togo
in cultura & psyché volume 5 (2024)
doi:10.1007/s43638-024-00092-8 ...

2023

Häberlein, Tabea
Erwachsenes Sein : Konzeptionen, ökonomische und relationale Realisierungen einer spezifischen ...
Bayreuth, 2023. - 299 page
(habilitation, 2024, )

2021

Liebelt, Claudia; Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea; Martin, Jeannett; Maurus, Sabrina; Thelen, Tatjana; Zoanni, Tyler
Revisiting Marilyn Strathern's Relations : A Relational Reading
in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie volume 146 (2021) issue 1/2. - page 219-224

2020

Häberlein, Tabea
Entangled Family : Parenting and Field Research in a Togolese Village
Being a Parent in the Field : Implications and Challenges of Accompanied Fieldwork
Bielefeld : transcript, 2020. - page 127-144 . - (Culture and Social Practice)

2020

Losing or securing futures? Decision-making about young people’s education in Africa
publ: Häberlein, Tabea; Maurus, Sabrina
Children's Geographies
2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cchg20/18/6?nav=to ...

Häberlein, Tabea; Maurus, Sabrina
Losing or securing futures? Looking beyond 'proper' education to decision-making processes abou ...
in Children's Geographies volume 18 (2020) issue 6. - page 569-583
doi:10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005159 ...

2018

Häberlein, Tabea
reviewed by: Beer, Bettina ; Fischer, Hans ; Pauli, Julia (Hrsg.): Ethnologie : Einführung in die Erforschun ...
in EthnoScripts volume 20 (2018) issue 1. - page 119-123
https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ethnoscripts/a ...

Häberlein, Tabea
Complexities of elder livelihoods : changing age-inscriptions and stable norms in three village ...
in Anthropology & Aging volume 39 (2018) issue 1. - page 33-47
doi:10.5195/aa.2018.174 ...

2016

Häberlein, Tabea
Generationen-Bande : Ordnung, Praxis und Geschichte der Generationenbeziehungen bei den Lama (K ...
Berlin, Lit, 2016. - 370 page (dissertation, 2012, )

2016

Images, Imagination, and the Making of Future in Africa : Children, Youth and the Role of Educa ...
publ: Martin, Jeannett; Ungruhe, Christian; Häberlein, Tabea
AnthropoChildren
2016
https://popups.uliege.be/2034-8517/index.php?id=24 ...

Martin, Jeannett; Ungruhe, Christian; Häberlein, Tabea
Young Future Africa : Images, Imagination and its Making ; an Introduction
in AnthropoChildren (2016) issue 6
doi:10.25518/2034-8517.2508 ...

2015

Alber, Erdmute; Drotbohm, Heike; Liebelt, Claudia; Skornia, Anna Katharina; Lidola, Maria; Leinaweaver, Jessaca; Thelen, Tatjana; Häberlein, Tabea; Coe, Cati; Feldman-Savelsberg, Pamela
Anthropological Perspectives on Care : Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course
publ: Alber, Erdmute; Drotbohm, Heike
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - X, 237 page

rev.: Chirinos, Carlos: Lectures sur le Thème, In: Ethnologie francaise 2018/3

Häberlein, Tabea
Intergenerational Entanglements : Insights into Perceptions of Care for the Elderly and Life Co ...
Anthropological Perspectives on Care : Work, Kinship, and the Life-Course
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - page 159-179

2014

Häberlein, Tabea; Schröder, Philipp; Stodulka, Thomas; Spittler, Gerd
Dichte Teilhabe : Erkenntnisse aus sozialen Beziehungen im Feld
publ: Häberlein, Tabea
Sociologus
2014
http://ejournals.duncker-humblot.de/toc/soc/64/2

Häberlein, Tabea; Thiemann, André
Doing Politics – Making Kinship : Back towards a future Anthropology of Social Organisation and ...
2014
http://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungs ...
Doing Politics – Making Kinship: Back towards a future Anthropology of Social Organisation and Belonging, Berlin

Häberlein, Tabea
Einleitung : Teilnehmende Beobachtung weiter gedacht: Erkenntnisgewinne durch Reflexionen zur e ...
in Sociologus volume 64 (2014) issue 2. - page 117-126
doi:10.3790/soc.64.2.117 ...

Häberlein, Tabea
Teilnehmende Beobachtung als dichte Teilhabe : ein Plädoyer zur ethnologischen Forschung über s ...
in Sociologus volume 64 (2014) issue 2. - page 127-154
doi:10.3790/soc.64.2.127 ...

2012

Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea; Martin, Jeannett
Verwandtschaft in Afrika : Transformationsprozesse im 20. Jahrhundert
Bierschenk, Thomas ; Spies, Eva (Hrsg.): 50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Afrika : Kontinuitäten, Brüche, Perspektiven
Köln : Rüdiger Köppe, 2012. - page 141-170 . - (Mainzer Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 29)

Häberlein, Tabea
Über die Klagen der Alten : Ein Nachruf: Dr. Claudia Roth (1955 – 2012)
in Sociologus volume 62 (2012) issue 1. - page 95-97
doi:10.3790/soc.62.1.95 ...

2011

Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea
Attachment and Care in West African Webs of Kinship
Family, Ties and Care : family transformation in a plural modernity ; the Freiberger Survey about family transformation in an international comparison
Opladen : Barbara Budrich, 2011. - page 481-502

Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea
Bindung und Fürsorge als Leitmotive im westafrikanischen Beziehungsgeflecht.
Bertram, Hans ; Ehlert, Nancy (Hrsg.): Familie, Bindungen und Fürsorge : familiärer Wandel in einer vielfältigen Moderne ; Freiberger Studie zum familiären Wandel im Weltvergleich
Opladen : Barbara Budrich, 2011. - page 533-556

2010

Alber, Erdmute; Timm, Elisabeth; Bovensiepen, Judith; Schareika, Nikolaus; Alex, Gabriele; Beer, Bettina; Drotbohm, Heike; Fischer, Gundula; Thelen, Tatjana; Hauser-Schäublin, Brigitta; Häberlein, Tabea; Schnegg, Michael; Pauli, Julia
Verwandtschaft heute : Positionen, Ergebnisse und Perspektiven
publ: Alber, Erdmute; Beer, Bettina; Pauli, Julia; Schnegg, Michael
Berlin : Reimer, 2010. - 335 page

Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea; Martin, Jeannett
Changing Webs of Kinship : Spotlights on West Africa
in Africa Spectrum volume 45 (2010) issue 3. - page 43-67
http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/artic ...

Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea
Ethnologische Generationenforschung in Afrika
Verwandtschaft heute : Positionen, Ergebnisse und Perspektiven
Berlin : Reimer, 2010. - page 281-304

2009

Häberlein, Tabea
Familie
Handbuch Anthropologie : Der Mensch zwischen Natur, Kultur und Technik
Stuttgart : Metzler, 2009. - page 324-328

2008

Häberlein, Tabea
Togo
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children's Issues Worldwide : Sub-Saharan Africa
Westport : Greenwood, 2008. - page 507-523

2007

Häberlein, Tabea
Das abgewandte Gesicht : Konflikt und Meidung in Zuunchangai Sum (Mongolei)
in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie volume 132 (2007) issue 2. - page 287-314
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25843103

Häberlein, Tabea; Ungruhe, Christian
Fosterage and adoption in West Africa reviewed : New theoretical approaches on the basis of emp ...
in Africa Spectrum volume 42 (2007) issue 2. - page 367-372
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40175192

Alber, Erdmute; Häberlein, Tabea
Kultur und Identität – sind Afrikaner anders?
Afrika verstehen lernen : 12 Bausteine für Unterricht und Projekttage
Bonn , 2007. - page 207-240

2006

Häberlein, Tabea; Martin, Jeannett
Sektion Entwicklungssoziologie und Sozialanthropologie : Bericht über die Frühjahrstagung Famil ...
in Soziologie volume 35 (2006) issue 1. - page 98-104
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11617- ...

2005

Häberlein, Tabea
Institutionenwandel in der post-sozialistischen Mongolei am Beispiel der Region Zuunchangai Sum
2005
((magister) thesis, 2005, )