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Selected articles


Selected book chapters

  • 2023     “Memory Activism between Ownership and Appropriation.” Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism, Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg, eds., New York: Routledge.

  • 2022     “Material Culture and the Socialist Uncanny in Mao’s China.” In Material Contradictions in Mao’s China, Jennifer Altehenger and Denise Y. Ho, eds., University of Washington Press.

  • 2021 “Material Culture and the Emergence of Ostalgie” (“Materielle Kultur und die Entstehung der „Ostalgie“: Die Bedeutung von Alltagsobjekten in der Erinnerung an der DDR”) (In German). In Monica Rüthers, editor, “Gute Erinnerungen an böse Zeiten – Nostalgie in ‘posttotalitären’ Erinnerungsdiskursen nach 1945 und 1989,” Munich: Walter de Gruyter, Schriften des Historisches Kollegs 6, 117-126.

  • 2020     “Merit, Morality, and Market: The Chinese Social Credit Experiment” in David Stark, ed., The Performance Complex: Competitions and Valuations in Social Life. Oxford University Press.

  • 2020     “Spaces of Informal Production in China” (with Stefan Al). In Nina Rappaport and Robert Lane, eds., The Design of Urban Manufacturing. Routledge, pp. 151-160.

  • 2020     “Berlin’s Empty Centre: A Double Take.” In Jonathan Bach and Michal Murawski, eds., Re-Centring the City: Urban Mutations, Socialist Afterlives, and the Global East, University College London Press, pp. 79-89.

  • 2020     “Introduction: Notes towards a political morphology of undead urban forms” (with Michal Murawski). In Jonathan Bach and Michal Murawski, eds.,Re-Centring the City: Urban Mutations, Socialist Afterlives, and the Global East, University College London Press, pp.1-14.

  • 2017     “Objects” (with Cristina Cuevas-Wolf and Dani Kranz). In Andrew S. Bergerson and Leonard Schmieding et al., Ruptures in the Everyday: Views of Modern Germany from the Ground. Berghahn Publishers, pp. 113-142.

  • 2015     “Object Lessons: Tactility and Visuality in Museums of the Socialist Everyday.” In Peter McIssac and Gabriele Muller, eds., Exhibiting the German Past: Museums, Film, and Musealization. University of Toronto Press, pp. 123-137.

  • 2014     “Consuming Communism: Material Cultures of Nostalgia in former East Germany.” In Olivia Ange and David Berliner, eds., Anthropology and Nostalgia. Berghahn Publishers, pp. 123-138.

  • 2010     “Remittances, Gender, and Development.” In Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan, eds., Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites, and Resistances. Second Edition, Routledge, pp. 129-142.

    Please see the individual entries in the Research section for more publications.