Publications
Monographs & Edited Books
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective
berghahnbooks.com
Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity: Language, Culture, Identity
degruyterbrill.com
Creole Identity in Postcolonial Indonesia
berghahnbooks.com
Politics and Policies in Contemporary Upper Guinea Coast Societies: Change and Continuity
brill.com
Kreolität und postkoloniale Gesellschaft: Integration und Differenzierung in Jakarta
Childhood and Migration: From Experience to Agency
transcript-verlag.de
Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives
Kreolisierung versus Pidginisierung als Kategorien kultureller Differenzierung: Varianten neoafrikanischer Identität und Interethnik in Freetown, Sierra Leone
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
Articles & Book Chapters
Creole Identity. In: Chapelle, C. A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (World Englishes). In: C.A. Chapelle and E. A. Anchimbe (eds.).https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal20135
Creolization in Atlantic West Africa: the example of Sierra Leone. In: Lüpke, F. (ed.) The Oxford Guide to the Atlantic Languages of West Africa, pp. 595-604. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Global and local models of governance in interaction: Configurations of power in Upper Guinea Coast societies (with A. Schroven). Journal of Contemporary African Studies 37, 1: 57-71, 2019.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02589001.2019.1633012?needAccess=true
Transnationalism. In: Callan, H. (ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, pp. 6179-6189. New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2018.
On academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/84007566/Transnationalism
On academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/84007566/Transnationalism
Creolization and pidginization as 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.https://brill.com/display/book/9789004363397/B9789004363397_003.xml
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.
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, 2017.
Female Genital Cutting in context: The example of Sierra Leone. The Expert Witness 16: 36-42, 2016.
On academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/27076546/Female_Genital_Cutting_in_context_the_example_of_Sierra_Leone
On academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/27076546/Female_Genital_Cutting_in_context_the_example_of_Sierra_Leone
The Upper Guinea Coast in global perspective (with C. Kohl). In: Knörr, J. and C. Kohl (eds.) The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective, pp. 1-18. Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2016.https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KnoerrUpper
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.https://www.mpg.de/7920795/JB_2014.pdf
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.https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/publications/working_papers/wp0149
Einheit in Vielfalt? Zum Verhältnis ethnischer und nationaler Identität in Indonesien. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) 11-12: 16-23, 2012.http://www.bpb.de/files/2UWAUR.pdf
Childhood and migration in the context of globalization. In: Ritzer, G. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Globalization, pp. 177-179. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Creolization. In: Ritzer, G. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Globalization, pp. 335-342. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
National, ethnic and creole identities in contemporary Upper Guinea Coast societies (Knörr et al.). MPI for Social Anthropology Working Paper 135, 2012.https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/publications/working_papers/wp0135
Some comparative notes on local leadership and traditional authority in the Upper Guinea Coast region (with C. K. Højbjerg and A. Schroven). MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2010-2011, Vol. I. Halle/S., 2012.https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2010-2011-vol1-de
Das Coming-out der Diaspora als Heimat? Kreolische Identität in Sierra Leones Nachkriegsgesellschaft Sierra Leones. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 136: 331-356, 2011.
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 / Yearbook of the Max Planck Society 2011.https://www.eth.mpg.de/41253/research_report_1227866?c=2923387&force_lang=de
Contemporary creoleness, or: The world in pidginization? Current Anthropology 51, 6: 731-759, 2010.
The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast (with W. Trajano Filho). In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast, pp. 1-23. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
Out of hiding? Strategies of empowering the past in the reconstruction of Krio identity. In: Knörr, J. and W. Trajano Filho (eds.) The Powerful Presence of the Past: Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast, pp. 205-228. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
From ‘Expat Brat’ in Africa to ‘Third Culture Kid’ in Germany. In: Karentsos, A., A. E. Kittner and J. Reuter (eds.) Topologies of Travel: Tourism, Imagination, Migration, pp. 229-236, 2010.
Creolization and nation-building in Indonesia. In: Cohen, R. and P. Tonninato (eds.) The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures, pp. 353-363. London: Routledge, 2009.
‘Free the Dragon’ versus ‘Becoming Betawi’: Chinese identity in contemporary Jakarta. Asian Ethnicity 10, 1: 71-90, 2009.
Postkoloniale Kreolität versus koloniale Kreolisierung. Paideuma 55: 93-115, 2009.
Towards a more comprehensive and comparative approach in the study of migrant children. In: 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: 159-177, 2008.
Towards conceptualizing creolization and creoleness. MPI for Social Anthropology Working Papers 100, 2008.https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/en/publications/working_papers/wp0100
Language and identity (with G. Schlee). MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2008-2009, Vol. I, pp. 29-33.https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2008-2009-vol1-de
Creole identity and postcolonial nation-building: Examples from Indonesia and Sierra Leone. Série Antropologia, Departamento Antropologia Universidade Brasília 416, Brasília, 2007.http://www.dan2.unb.br/images/doc/Serie416empdf.pdf
Introduction. In: Knörr, J. (ed.) Childhood and Migration: From Experience to Agency, pp. 9-21. Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers, 2005.https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-89942-384-6/childhood-and-migration/
When German children come ‘home’: Experiences of (re-)migration to Germany – and some remarks about the ‘TCK’-issue. In: Knörr, J. (ed.) Childhood and Migration: From Experience to Agency, pp. 51-66. Bielefeld and Somerset, N.J.: Transcript and Transaction Publishers, 2005.https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-89942-384-6/childhood-and-migration/
Freetown. In: Ember, M. and C. R. Ember (eds.) Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures: Cities and Cultures around the World (Vol. II), pp. 212-219. Danbury: Grolier, 2002.
Im Spannungsfeld von Traditionalität und Modernität: Die Orang Betawi und Betawi-ness in Jakarta. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 128, 2: 203-221, 2002.
Women and migration: Anthropological perspectives (with B. Meier). In: Knörr, J. and B. Meier (eds.) Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 9-17. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus and St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
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.) Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives, pp. 62-80. Frankfurt/M. and New York: Campus and St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Kulturelle Transformationsprozesse in Jakarta im Spannungsfeld von Ethnisierung und Transethnisierung. In: Krasberg, U. and B. Schmidt (eds.) Stadt in Stücke: Entstehungsprozesse neuer urbaner Traditionen, pp. 247-270. Marburg: Curupira, 2000.
Definitionen und Erklärungsansätze von Prostitution (with U. Holter and E. Heinser-Ueckert). In: Holter, U. (ed.) Bezahlt, geliebt, verstoßen: Prostitution und andere Sonderformen institutionalisierter Sexualität in verschiedenen Kulturen, pp. 9-16. Bonn: Holos, 1995.
Creolization and pidginization as categories of cultural differentiation: Varieties of cultural identity and interethnic relations in Freetown. In: Riesz, J. (ed.) Échange Franco-Allemands sur l’Afrique: Bayreuth African Studies, pp. 115-131, 1994.
Kreolisierung versus Pidginisierung auf kultureller Ebene. In: Laubscher, S. and B. Turner (eds.) Regionale Völkerkunde, Band 2, pp. 15-25. Munich: edition anacon, 1994.
(Re-)Constructions of national identity in the Upper Guinea Coast. MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2006-2007, pp. 30-40. Halle/S.https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/de/publications/institute-reports/institute_report_2006-2007
Integration und Konflikt im Verhältnis von Nation, Staat und Ethnie. MPI für ethnologische Forschung, Bericht 2007, pp. 82-83. Halle/S., 2007.
Reports: Research Group “Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast of West Africa”
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2020-2022, pp. 125-128. Halle/S., 2022.https://www.eth.mpg.de/6364698/mpi-eth-institute-report-2020-2022.pdf
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2017-2020, pp. 37-58. Halle/S., 2020.https://www.eth.mpg.de/5604353/mpi-eth-institute-report-2017-2019-schlee-remep.pdf#page=49
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2013-2016, pp. 31-41. Halle/S., 2017.https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2014-2016-integration-and-conflict-de
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2010-2011, Vol. I, pp. 33-35. Halle/S., 2012.https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2010-2011-vol1-de
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2008-2009, Vol. I, pp. 34-38. Halle/S., 2012.https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-2008-2009-vol1-de
MPI für ethnologische Forschung, Sonderausgabe, pp. 83-87. Halle/S., 2005.
MPI for Social Anthropology, Report 2004-2005, pp. 111-115. Halle/S., 2005.https://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/de/publications/institute-reports/institute_report_2004-2005
Reviews (selection)
Beoku-Betts, J. and M’Cormack-Hale, F. (eds.) War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone. London: Zed Books, 2022. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (in press).
Legêne, S., Purwanto, B. and Schulte, H. (eds.) Sites, Bodies and Stories: Imagining Indonesian History. Singapore: NUS Press, 2015. Journal of Historical Geography 55: 126-127, 2016.
Cole, Gibril R. The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. Comparativ 2: 108-110, 2016.
Kelley, Carol E. Accidental Immigrants and the Search for Home. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2013. American Anthropologist 117, 4: 842-843, 2015.
Hoffman, Danny. The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2012. Critique of Anthropology 34: 124, 2014.
Bolten, Catherine E. I Did It to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Anthropos 108, 2: 636-637, 2013.
Jackson, Michael. Life Within Limits: Well-being in a World of Want. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2011. Anthropos 107, 1: 268-269, 2012.