Team > PD Dr. Jeannett Martin
PD Dr. Jeannett Martin
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology
Scientific career
- 2022-23: Postdoc, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Justus-Liebig-Universität Göttingen
- 2021-22: Postdoc, DFG-Project "COVID-19 and pastoralism in a context of rupture and structural reforms in Benin: Learning from uncertainty management from below", Institut für Ethnologie, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- 2019-20: Deputy Professorship "Gesellschaft, Politik und Wirtschaft in Afrika", Institute of African Studies, Universität Leipzig
- 2018-19: Deputy Professorship "Ethnology of Africa", University of Bayreuth
- 2017-18: Scholarship holder for the completion of her habilitation thesis (funded by the Bavarian Programme for the Promotion of Equal Opportunity for Women in Research and Teaching 2017, Equal Opportunities Department), University of Bayreuth
- 2016-17: Research Fellow of the interdisciplinary research unit "Kinship and Politics. Rethinking a Conceptual Split and its Epistemic Implications in the Social Sciences" (Lead: Prof. Dr. E. Alber, Prof. Dr. David Sabean, Prof. Dr. Simon Teuscher, Prof. Dr. Tatjana Thelen), Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZIF), Bielefeld University
- 2015-16: Deputy Professorship of Social Anthropology (Prof. E. Alber), University of Bayreuth
- 2014-15: Postdoctoral researcher, deputy scientific assistant, Cultural & Social Anthropology research group, University of Bayreuth
- 2013: Postdoc (temporary position, funding year 3)
- 2012: Postdoctoral researcher, Cultural & Social Anthropology research group, University of Bayreuth
- 2011-12: Postdoctoral researcher (temporary position, funding year 2)
- 2010-11: Contributing to the coordination of Bayreuth Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)
- 2009-10: Postdoctoral researcher (temporary position, funding year 1), DFG project "Child care in the context of ethnic heterogeneity (Borgu/ Republic of Benin)" incl. field research (ten months)
- 2007-09: Postdoctoral researcher, Bayreuth Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth
- 2005-06: Postdoctoral researcher, DFG-Project "Transformations in Social Parenthood in the north of the Republic of Benin"; Head: Prof. Dr. E. Alber, JP Ethnosociology, University of Bayreuth
- 2002-2005: Research associate, research project "Ritual, everyday life design and meaning in the modern world" (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christoph Bochinger), Institute for the Study of Contemporary Religious Culture (IrG), University of Bayreuth
- 2004: Doctorate, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth (topic: "Between 'Been-To' and 'Burger' - On the Return of Ghanaian Educational Migrants from the Federal Republic of Germany", assessors: Prof. Dr. Gerd Spittler and Prof. Dr. Dieter Neubert
- 2001-02: Research associate, DFG project "The invisible religion in the visible religion" (Project leader: Prof. Dr. Christoph Bochinger), Institute for the Study of Contemporary Religious Culture (IrG), University of Bayreuth
- 1996-99: Doctoral studies, “Intercultural Relations in Africa” graduate school, University of Bayreuth
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology
Research areas
- Pastoralism & COVID-19
- Social belonging
- Kinship
- Childhoot and adolescence in West Africa
- Religious everyday culture
- Mobility
Regional focus
Benin, Ghana, Germany
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology
Publications
2023
Martin, Jeannett
How ‘Enduring Family Bonds’ Are Made : Insights from Fulɓe Kinship Enterprises in Northern Beni ...
Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective : Bringing Anthropology Back In
Cham, Schweiz : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023. - page 25-55
doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20525-5_2 ...
2022
Martin, Jeannett; Alber, Erdmute
Familie in Afrika
Handbuch Familiensoziologie
Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2022
doi:10.1007/978-3-658-35215-8_11-1 ...
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
2019
Alber, Erdmute; Martin, Jeannett
Multiplicities of Kinship and Family in Africa
Sozialarbeit des Südens. Band 7. Family Structures in Change - Challenges of Transitional Phenomena
Oldenburg : Paulo Freire Verlag, 2019. - page 17-35 . - (Internationale Sozialarbeit; 7)
2018
Martin, Jeannett
Zugehörigkeit : Vorschlag zu einer theoretischen Konzeption
und empirische Fallstudien zu Kind ...
Bayreuth, 2018. - 312 page
(habilitation, 2018,
)
2017
Martin, Jeannett
Auf der Suche nach dem 'richtigen' Vater : aktuelle Debatten um 'Kuckuckskinder' in Deutschland
in ZIF-Mitteilungen (2017) issue 2. - page 11-20
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/ZIF/Publikatione ...
Alber, Erdmute; Martin, Jeannett
Politik und Verwandtschaft : eine unterschätzte Beziehung und ein weites Feld für die Governanc ...
in Spektrum volume 13 (2017) issue 1. - page 46-49
https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/3365/1/spektrum_ausga ...
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; Martin, Jeannett
Familie in Afrika
Hill, Paul B.; Kopp, Johannes (Hrsg.): Handbuch Familiensoziologie
Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2015. - page 147-178
doi:10.1007/978-3-658-02276-1 ...
Martin, Jeannett
"Ein Kind gehört dir nicht allein" : soziale Elternschaft in Nordbenin
Afrikanische Kindheiten : soziale Elternschaft und Waisenhilfe in der Subsahara
Bielefeld : transcript, 2015. - page 43-57
2014
Alber, Erdmute; Martin, Jeannett
Von 'Rabenmüttern' und Pflegekindern : Familie, Recht und Moral in Westafrika
in Spektrum volume 10 (2014) issue 1. - page 76-78
2013
Martin, Jeannett
Rethinking Care : Anthropological Perspectives on Life Courses, Kin-Work and their Trans-Local ...
in H-Soz-Kult
16. April 2013
https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagung ...
2013
Alber, Erdmute; Martin, Jeannett; Notermans, Catrien
Child Fostering in West Africa : New Perspectives on Theory and Practices
publ: Alber, Erdmute; Martin, Jeannett; Notermans, Catrien
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013. - XII, 250 page . - (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies; 9)
Martin, Jeannett
Experiencing Father's Kin and Mother's Kin : Kinship Norms and Practices from the Perspective o ...
Child Fostering in West Africa : new perspectives on theory and practices
Leiden, Boston : Brill, 2013. - page 111-134 . - (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies; 9)
Alber, Erdmute; Martin, Jeannett; Notermans, Catrien
Introduction
Child Fostering in West Africa : New Perspectives on Theory and Practices
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013. - page 1-19 . - (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies; 9)
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)
Martin, Jeannett
Anthropological research on childhood and adolescence in German-speaking Europe
in AnthropoChildren (2012) issue 1. - page 1-19
https://popups.uliege.be/2034-8517/index.php?id=69 ...
Martin, Jeannett
Children's Work, Child Fostering and the Spread of Formal Schooling in Northern Benin
African children at work : working and learning in growing up for life
Hamburg, Münster, Berlin : Lit, 2012. - page 195-226 . - (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 52)
Martin, Jeannett; Wayaffe, Laetitia
Conference Report: "Thirty Years of German—Beninese Cooperation in Social Science Research on B ...
in Afrika Spectrum volume 47 (2012) issue 2/3. - page 187-193
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23350458?seq=1#metada ...
Martin, Jeannett
Ziele, Handeln und agency von Kindern im Kontext der Pflegschaftspraxis in Nordbenin
in Sociologus volume 62 (2012) issue 2. - page 171-197
2011
Martin, Jeannett
Die 'Perlen' Westafrikas
La Bonne - vom Dienstmädchen zur globalen Dienstleisterin
Nürnberg , 2011. - page 124-140
https://www.frauenindereinenwelt.de/publikationen/ ...
2010
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 ...
2008
Martin, Jeannett
Childhood in Benin
The Greenwood encyclopedia of children's issues worldwide. Band 5. Sub-Saharan Africa
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008
2007
Alber, Erdmute; Martin, Jeannett
Einleitung zum Themenschwerpunkt "Familienwandel in Afrika"
in Africa Spectrum volume 42 (2007) issue 2. - page 151-166
2007
Martin, Jeannett; Alber, Erdmute
Familienwandel in Afrika
Afrika Spectrum
2007
2007
Martin, Jeannett
Mensch - Alltag - Gottesdienst : Bedürfnisse, Rituale und Bedeutungszuschreibungen evangelisch ...
Münster : LIT Verlag, 2007. - 231 page . - (Bayreuther Forum Transit; 7)
Martin, Jeannett; Bochow, Astrid
Sozialer Wandel in Afrika : zur Situation von Frauen, Kindern und Jugendlichen
in Forum (2007) . - page 42-48
https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/read/31025588
Martin, Jeannett
What's new with the 'Been-To'? Educational migrants, return from Europe and migrant's culture i ...
Cultures of migration : African perspectives
Münster : LIT, 2007 (Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung; 32)
Martin, Jeannett
Yakubas neues Leben : Zum Wandel der Kindspflegschaftspraxis bei den ländlichen Fée (Mokollé) i ...
in Afrika Spectrum volume 42 (2007) issue 2. - page 219-249
http://www.jstor.org/stable/40175185
2006
Martin, Jeannett
Aspekte der Rückkehr ghanaischer Bildungsmigranten
in Auszeit volume 41 (2006) issue 1-2. - page 116-132
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
Martin, Jeannett
Been-To, Burger, Transmigranten? : Zur Bildungsmigration von Ghanaern und ihrer Rückkehr aus de ...
Münster, Lit, 2005. - VII, 329 page (dissertation, 2004,
)
2001
Martin, Jeannett
Zwischen 'Entwurzelung' und 'transnationaler Identität' : Perspektiven ghanaischer Akademiker
Interkulturelle Beziehungen und Kulturwandel in Afrika : Beiträge zur Globalisierungsdebatte
Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2001. - page 133-151
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social Anthropology
PD Dr. Jeannett Martin
University of Bayreuth
Universitätsstraße 30
D-95447 Bayreuth
E-mail: jeannett.martin@uni-bayreuth.de
Homepage: Chair for Social Anthropology