Selected publications

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  One or the Other: Synecdoche and Representation in Taiwan-Japan Controversies

  2016.09.29

  Postdoc Jens Sejrup contributed to the Berliner China-Hefte - Chinese History and Society with the paper "One or the Other: Synecdoche and Representation in Taiwan-Japan Controversies"

  The paper investigates the rhetorical interconnections between synecdoche and representation in debates, controversies and political protest initiatives following the introduction into Taiwan of two Taiwan-related Japanese publications, one historical revisionist manga cartoon and one Japanese guidebook to prostitution in Taiwan.

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  "Like Sitting Inside a Phone"

  2016.09.06

  Being at the same time intimately connected to everyday lives and places, and yet inaccessible to most people, the radio studio has a paradoxical position in the modern imaginary. Acoustically designed to be inaudible, the studio is barely noticeable to the listener, yet ever-present as a prerequisite for voices, dialogues and situations to enter daily lives, says PhD fellow Sandra Lori Petersen in this audio paper … »

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  Positions & Possibilities in Volunteering for Transnational Medical Research in Lusaka

  2016.08.16

  Volunteering as a study subject in transnational medical research is often understood either as a matter of individual motives or structural inequalities. Based on 12 months of fieldwork with study subjects in Lusaka this chapter by Postdoc Birgitte Bruun concludes that volunteering in transnational medical research projects in Lusaka is a pragmatic search for unspecified possibility in “something bigger” for one self and the people one cares for, including new connections and openings that might outlast time-limited projects in a wider landscape of fickle possibilities in interventions … »

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