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Anselma Gallinat (Newcastle University)

Department: School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
Nationality: German
Country: United Kingdom
Interests (keywords): East Germany, postsocialism, fundamental regime-change, narrative and discourse, memory and history-writing, notions of the self and belonging, theopolitics, Christianity, protestantism
Highest Degree: PhD
Degree Awarding Institution: University of Durham

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Panels

• PeopleFest2026: What is a public secret and why does it matter? A film screening and workshop on researching East Germans’ knowledge about the infamous Stasi
• EASA2016: Postsocialism and anthropology: theoretical legacies and European futures
• EASA2010: Envisioning the future, and hope
• EASA06: The self as ethnographic resource

Papers

• ASA2022: Looking from West to East: What can postsocialism tell us about the limits of worlding?
• Shifting States: Senses of the past: ritual, embodiment and ethics in the government of the East German 'dictatorship'
• EASA2016: The anthropology of fundamental regime-change: notes on 'postsocialism'
• EASA2014: 'Why don't you interview him?' Reflections on why seemingly highly relevant life-stories are only significant to a degree in research on the East German past
• ASA08: Structures of controlling the uncontrollable? An ethnography of a newspaper editorial office
• EASA06: 'Playing the native card?' The anthropologist as informant in eastern Germany