Publications
Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity
Language, Culture, Identity
co-edited with W. Trajano Filho
This book deals with creolization and pidginization of language, culture and identity and makes use of interdisciplinary approaches developed in the study of the latter. Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed under distinct social and political conditions and in different historical and local contexts of diversity. The contributions show that creolization and pidginization are important strategies to deal with identity and difference in a world in which diversity is closely linked with inequalities that relate to specific group memberships, colonial legacies and social norms and values.
Monographs & edited Books
Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity
(co-edited with W. Trajano Filho). Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Politics and Policies in Contemporary Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity
(co-edited with C. K. Højbjerg and W. P. Murphy). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
(co-edited with C. Kohl). Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. (Open Access)
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Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia
Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2014 (hardcover), 2018 (paperback).
The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast
(co- edited with Wilson Trajano Filho). Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Kreolität und postkoloniale Gesellschaft: Integration und Differenzierung in Jakarta
Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus Verlag, 2007.
Childhood and Migration: From Experience to Agency
(editor). Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers, 2005.
Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives
(co-edited with B. Meier). Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus Verlag and St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Kreolisierung versus Pidginisierung als Kategorien kultureller Differenzierung: Varianten neoafrikanischer Identität und Interethnik in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 10, SFB 214: Identität in Afrika, University of Bayreuth, Münster and Hamburg: LIT-Verlag, 1995.
Zwischen goldenem Ghetto und Integration: Ethnologische Autobiographie und Untersuchung über das Aufwachsen deutscher und Schweizer Kinder in der 3. Welt am Beispiel Ghanas und ihre anschließende Eingliederung in Europa
Frankfurt/M. and New York: Verlag Peter Lang, 1990.
Articles & Book Chapters
Creolization in Atlantic West Africa: the example of Sierra Leone
In: Lüpke, F. (ed.) Oxford Guide to the World’s Languages: Atlantic. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press.
Transnationalism
In: Callan, H. (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2018.
Global and local models of governance in interaction: Configurations of power in Upper Guinea Coast societies
(with C. K. Højbjerg and A. Schroven). Journal for Contemporary African Studies, 2018.
Creolization and pidginization as identity-related concepts of language, culture and identity
In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: language, culture, identity, pp. 15-35. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Creolization and pidginization in contexts of postcolonial diversity: Content, context, structure
(with W. Trajano Filho). In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: language, culture, identity, pp. 3-14. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Research group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”
In: MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2013-2016, Department Integration and Conflict, pp. 31-41. Halle/S., 2017.
A war and after: Sierra Leone reconnects, within itself and with the world
In: Hannerz, U. and A. Gingrich (eds.) Small Countries. Structures and sensibilities, pp. 250-264. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
Deconstructing tropes of politics and policies in Upper Guinea Coast societies
(with C. K. Højbjerg and W. P. Murphy). In: Højbjerg, C. K., Knörr, J. and W. P. Murphy (eds.) Politics and Policies in Contemporary Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity, pp. 1-26. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Female Genital Cutting in context: The example of Sierra Leone
The Expert Witness 16, 2016: 36-42.
The Upper Guinea Coast in global perspective
(with C. Kohl) (2016). In: Knörr, J. and C. Kohl (eds.) The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective, pp. 1-18. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.
Sprachliche Diversität und die Konstruktion gemeinsamer Identität in postkolonialen Kontexten / Linguistic diversity and the construction of common identity in postcolonial contexts
In: Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 2014/ Max Planck Society Yearbook 2014.
The interaction of global and local models of governance in articulations of traditional authority and local leadership in contemporary Upper Guinea Coast societies
(with C. K. Højbjerg and A. Schroven). MPI for Social Anthropology Working Papers 149, 2013.
Einheit in Vielfalt? Zum Verhältnis ethnischer und nationaler Identität in Indonesien
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) 11-12, 2012: 16-23. http://www.bpb.de/files/2UWAUR.pdf
Childhood and migration in the context of globalization
In: Ritzer, G. (ed.) (2012) Wiley- Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, pp 177-179. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Creolization
In: Ritzer, G. (ed.) (2012) Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, pp. 335-342. Wiley-Blackwell.
National, ethnic and creole identities in contemporary Upper Guinea Coast societies
(Knörr et al.). MPI for Social Anthropology Working Paper 135, 2012.
Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)”
In: MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2010-2011, Vol. I, pp. 27-32. Halle/S., 2012.
Some comparative notes on local leadership and traditional authority in the Upper Guinea Coast region
(with C. Højbjerg and A. Schroven) In: MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2010-2011, Vol. I. Halle/S., 2012.
Das Coming-out der Diaspora als Heimat? Kreolische Identität in Sierra Leones Nachkriegsgesellschaft Sierra Leones
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 136, 2011: 331-356.
Mardijker: Creoles in Batavia
In: Andrea, A. J. (ed.) World History Encyclopedia, Era 6: The First Global Age, 1450-177, pp. 184-185. ABC-CLIO 2011.
Nationaler Zusammenhalt in schwachen Staaten/National Unity in Weak States
Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 2011 / Max Planck Society, Yearbook 2011.
Contemporary creoleness, or: The world in pidginization?
Current Anthropology, Vol. 51, No. 6, December 2010: 731-759.
Introduction
(with Trajano Filho). In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) (2010) The Powerful Presence of the Past. Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast, pp. 1-23. Leiden: Brill.
Out of hiding? Strategies of empowering the past in the reconstruction of Krio identity
In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) (2010) The Powerful Presence of the Past. Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast, pp. 205-228. Leiden: Brill.
From ‘Expat Brat’ in Africa to ‘Third Culture Kid’ in Germany.
In: Karentsos, A., A. E. Kittner and J. Reuter (eds.) (2010) Topologies of Travel. Tourism, Imagination, Migration, pp. 229-236.
Creolization and nation-building in Indonesia
In: Cohen, R. and P. Tonninato (eds.) (2009) The Creolization Reader. Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures, pp. 353-363. London: Routledge.
‘Free the Dragon’ versus ‘Becoming Betawi’: Chinese identity in contemporary Jakarta
Asian Ethnicity 10 (1), 2009: 71-90.
Postkoloniale Kreolität versus koloniale Kreolisierung
Paideuma 55, 2009: 93-115.
Towards a more comprehensive and comparative approach in the study of migrant children
Report of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Changing Childhood in a Changing Europe, European Science Foundation, February 2009, pp. 23-28.
Indigenisierung vs. Re-Ethnisierung: Chinesische Identität in Jakarta
Anthropos 1, 2008: 159-177.
Towards conceptualizing creolization and creoleness
MPI for Social Anthropology Working Papers, No. 100, 2008.
(Re-)Constructions of national identity in the Upper Guinea Coast
In: MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2006/07, pp. 30-40. Halle/S. 2008.
Creole identity and postcolonial nation-building. Examples from Indonesia and Sierra Leone
Série Antropologia, No. 416, Departamento Antropologia, Universidade Brasília, Brasília 2007.
Integration und Konflikt im Verhältnis von Nation, Staat und Ethnie
In: Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Abteilung Integration und Konflikt, Bericht 2007, pp. 82-83. Halle/S. 2007.
Max-Planck-Forschungsgruppe ‘Integration und Konflikt an der Upper Guinea Coast (Westafrika)’
In: MPI für ethnologische Forschung, Sonderausgabe, pp. 83-87. Halle/S. 2005.
Research Group ‘Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)’
In: MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2004-2005, pp. 111-115. Halle/S. 2005.
Introduction
In: Knörr, J. (ed.) (2005) Childhood and Migration, pp. 9-21. Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers.
When German children come ‘home’: Experiences of (re-)migration to Germany – and some remarks about the ‘TCK’-issue
In: Knörr, J. (ed.) (2005) Childhood and Migration. From Experience to Agency, pp. 51-66. Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers.
Freetown
In: Ember, M. and C. R. Ember (eds.) (2002) Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. Cities and Cultures around the World, pp. 212-219. Danbury: Grolier: Vol. II.
Im Spannungsfeld von Traditionalität und Modernität: Die Orang Betawi und Betawiness in Jakarta
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 128, 2002, 2: 203-221.
Women and migration: Anthropological perspectives (with B. Meier)
In: Knörr, J. and B. Meier (eds.) (2000): Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 9-17. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus and St. Martin’s Press.
Female secret societies and their impact on ethnic and transethnic identities among migrant women in Freetown, Sierra Leone
In: Knörr, J. and B. Meier (eds.) (2000): Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 62-80. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus and St. Martin’s Press.
Kulturelle Transformationsprozesse in Jakarta im Spannungsfeld von Ethnisierung und Transethnisierung
In: Krasberg, U. and B. Schmidt (eds.) (2000): Stadt in Stücke: Entstehungsprozesse neuer urbaner Traditionen, pp. 247-270. Marburg: Curupira.
Definitionen und Erklärungsansätze von Prostitution (with Holter, U. and E. Heinser-Ueckert)
In: Holter, U. (ed.) (1995) Bezahlt, geliebt, verstoßen. Prostitution und andere Sonderformen institutionalisierter Sexualität in verschiedenen Kulturen, pp. 9-16. Bonn: Holos.
Creolization and pidginization as categories of cultural differentiation: Varieties of cultural identity and interethnic relations in Freetown
In: Riesz, J. (ed.) (1994) Échange Franco-Allemands sur l´Afrique: Bayreuth African Studies: 115-131.
Kreolisierung versus Pidginisierung auf kultureller Ebene
In: Laubscher, S. and B. Turner (eds.) (1994) Regionale Völkerkunde, Band 2, 15-25. Munich: edition anacon.
Reviews
Cole, Gibril R. (2013) The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century
Athens: Ohio University Press. Comparativ 2, 2016.
Kelley, Carol E. (2013) Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home
Philadelphia: Temple University Press. American Anthropologist 117, 4 (2015).
Hoffman, Danny (2012): The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Durham and London: Duke University Press. Critique of Anthropology 34: 124 (2014).
Bolten, Catherine E. (2012) I Did It to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone
Berkeley: University of California Press. Anthropos 108, 2: 636-637 (2013).
Jackson, Michael (2011) Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want
Durham and London: Duke University Press. Anthropos 107, 1: 268-269 (2012).