Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

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Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Monographs

• (2018) The Social Order of Post-Conflict Transition in Cambodia. Insurgent Pathways to Peace, Lanham: Lexington Books.
• (2017) Kambodscha unter den Roten Khmer. Die Erschaffung des perfekten Sozialisten, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.
• (2015) Bürgerkriegstheorien, Konstanz: UVK.
• (2015) Inside Cambodian Insurgency. A Sociological Perspective on Civil Wars and Conflict, Burlington, VT/Farnham, UK: Ashgate.

Habitilationsschrift

• (2022) Soziale Felder, bewaffnete Konflikte und gesellschaftlicher Wandel im globalen Süden, Fakultät I: Philosophische Fakultät, University of Siegen.

Articles (peer-reviewed)

• (2024) The Politics of Representation: Authenticity and Emotion in Tuol Sleng Visitor Books, Transcience 15 (1): pp. 22-38.
• (2023) A Global and Diachronic Approach to the Study of Social Fields, Historical Social Research, Vol. 48 (4), pp. 81-103.
• (2023) Shall androids dream of genocides? How generative AI can change the future of memorialization of mass atrocities (with Mykola Makhortykh, David Simon, Roberto Ulloa and Eve M. Zucker), Discover Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 3 (28), online first.
• (2022): Elite Formation and Conflict in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 11 (1): pp. 17-29.
• (2020) S-21 as a Liminal Power Regime: Violently Othering Khmer Bodies into Vietnamese Minds, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Vol. 14 (3), pp. 11-26.
• (2018) Insurgent Groups During Post-Conflict Transformation: The Case of Military Strongmen in Cambodia, Civil Wars, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 24-44.
• (2014) Analyzing the Cambodian Insurgency as a Social Field, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Vol. 25, Issue 2, pp. 457-478.
• (2012) Irrigating a Socialist Utopia. Disciplinary Space and Population Control under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-1979, Transcience, Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 40-52.
• (2011) Die Revolution frisst ihre Kinder. Mangelnde Legitimation, pädagogische Gewalt und organisierter Terror unter den Roten Khmer, Internationales Asienforum, Vol. 42 (1-2), pp. 73-105.

As Editor

• (2024) Section “Social Organization and Change”, in: Surinder Jodhka and Boike Rehbein (ed.): Handbook of Social Inequality, Berlin: Springer.
• (2024) On the (il)legitimacy and (in)visibilities of torture, Transcience 15 (1).
• (2020) Social Ontology, Sociocultures, and Inequality in the Global South (with Benjamin Baumann), Abingdon: Routledge.
• (2018) The Social Structure of Insurgencies. Reproduction and Change during and after Conflict, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Special Issue, Vol. 29, Issue 4.

Further Articles (Invitations, Special Issues)

• (in print) Das Regime der Listen und die leere Logik der Idee. Terror und Folter im Zentralgefängnis der Roten Khmer, Mittelweg 36.
• (2024) Introduction: On the (il)legitimacy and (in)visibilities of torture, Transcience 15 (1): 1-3.
• (2021) „Wir müssen absolut sein.“ Folter, Reinheit und Verrat unter dem Regime der Roten Khmer, Soziopolis, online publication, June 26.
• (2020) Gewalt und Ordnung unter den Roten Khmer, Zeitschrift für Genozidforschung, pp. 54-70.
• (2020) Evidence and Expert Authority via Symbolic Violence: A Critique of Current Knowledge Production on Perpetrators, Journal of Perpetrator Research, Vol. 3 (1), pp. 207-213.
• (2018) Brüche und Persistenzen in Kambodschas sozialer Ontologie, Zeitschrift für Kollektivwissenschaft, Vol. 4 (2), pp. 29-57.
• (2018) The Social Structure of Insurgencies. Reproduction and Change during and after Conflict, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Introduction to Special Issue, Vol. 29, Issue 4, pp. 607-628.

Book Chapters

• (2024) Purity and Control in Khmer Rouge Interrogators’ Notebooks and Confessions, in: Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier, Anne-Laure Porée und Vicente Sánchez-Biosca (Hg.): Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, Brill: Amsterdam, pp 42-60.
• (2024) “Pierre Bourdieu’s Relational Theory of Social Inequality” (with Lara Hofner), in: Surinder Jodhka and Boike Rehbein (ed.): Global Handbook of Inequality, Berlin: Springer.
• (2024) “Boike Rehbein: Understanding Social Inequality in the Globalized Capitalist World”, in: Surinder Jodhka and Boike Rehbein (ed.): Global Handbook of Inequality, Berlin: Springer.
• (2024) “Michel Foucault and Theories of Inequality”, in: Surinder Jodhka and Boike Rehbein (ed.): Global Handbook of Inequality, Berlin: Springer.
• (2024) “Southeast Asia”, in: Surinder Jodhka and Boike Rehbein (ed.): Global Handbook of Inequality, Berlin: Springer.
• (2023) “Social Conflict“, in: Surinder Jodhka and Boike Rehbein (ed.): Global Handbook of Inequality, Berlin: Springer.
• (2023) Todes- und Umerziehungslager in Kambodscha. Der Vietnamese im Khmer – Statuspassagen in den Lagern der Kommunistischen Partei Kampucheas (1975-1979), in: Annett Bochmann und Felicitas von Weikersthal (ed.): Institution Lager. Theorien, globale Fallstudien und Komparabilität, Campus: Frankfurt/New York, pp. 247-276.
• (2021) Medical experiments, blood and gall: Revolutionary utilization of the body in Khmer Rouge prisons, in: Ben Kiernan and Eve Zucker (eds.): Political Violence in Southeast Asia after 1945, London: Routledge.
• (2021) Die Gewaltorganisation im Zentralgefängnis S-21, in: Jochen Voit (Hrsg.): Zwischen Gewalt und Freundschaft. Kambodscha und die DDR im Zeitalter der Ideologien, Weimar: Stiftung Ettersberg.
• (2020) Clashing Social Ontologies: A Sociological History of Conflict in the Cambodian Political Elite, in: Social Ontology, Sociocultures, and Inequality in the Global South (with Benjamin Baumann), Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 136-156.
• (2020) (with Benjamin Baumann) Introduction, in: Social Ontology, Sociocultures, and Inequality in the Global South, Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 1-5.
• (2018) The Normality of Going to War: Aspects of Symbolic Violence in Participation and Perpetration in Civil Wars, in: Susanne Buckley-Zistel und Timothy Williams (eds.): Perpetrators. Dynamics, motivations and concepts for participating in mass violence, Abingdon, UK: Routledge, pp. 99-116.
• (2017) Die Revolution der Roten Khmer, in: Olaf Glöckner und Roy Knocke (eds.): Jahrhundert der Genozide: Ursprünge, Formen und Folgen politischer Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
• (2016) (with Sok Udom Deth) The Afterglow of Hun Sen’s Cambodia? Socioeconomic Development, Political Change, and the Persistence of Inequalities, in: Chantana Banpasirichote-Wungaeo, Boike Rehbein and Sirichai Wungaeo (eds.): Globalization and Democracy in Southeast Asia, London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 87-110.
• (2008) Moglis Bestimmung im Garten der Arten. Führerlose Massen, Artentrennung und Familienwerte im “Dschungelbuch”, in: Sacha Szabo / Samuel Strehle (eds.): Unterhaltungswissenschaft, Tectum, Marburg

Working Papers

• (2024) Archiving Holocaust Digital Memorialization: The Lublin District Camps. A Digital Archive of Memorialization of Mass Atrocities (DAMMA) Workshop Whitepaper (with Mykola Makhortykh, David Simon, Roberto Ulloa and Eve M. Zucker), Yale University Genocide Studies Program: Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era Working Paper #6.
• (2022) Digital Archive of Memorialization of Mass Atrocities (DAMMA) Workshop Whitepaper (with Mykola Makhortykh, David Simon, Roberto Ulloa und Eve M. Zucker). Yale University Genocide Studies Program: Mass Atrocities in the Digital Era Working Paper #3.
• (2020) Folter und Körperwissen – Notizen aus der laufenden Forschung (with Katharina Inhetveen, Max Breger and Christina Schütz), SWoPS: Siegener Working Papers zur Politischen Soziologie, No. 1.

Reviews

• (2024) Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency: The Routes of Terror in an African Context (Daniel Agbiboa), American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 130 (1), S. 252-254.
• (2021) Asian Alleyways. An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization (edited by Marie Gibert-Flutre and Heide Imai), Asian Studies, Vol. 9 (2), pp. 225-231.
• (2021) Bruchlinien des Sinns. Pierre Bourdieus »Schriften zur kollektiven Anthropologie. Band 1: Tradition und Reproduktion; Band 2: Habitus und Praxis«, Soziopolis.
• (2020) Class after Industry (David Byrne), Soziologische Revue, Vol. 43 (3), pp. 406-410.
• (2019) Chronicles of a People’s War (Nhem Boraden), Pacific Affairs, Vol. 92 (4), pp. 808-810.
• (2018) End of Empire. 100 Days in 1945 that Changed Asia and the World (eds., David P. Chandler, Robert Cribb and Li Narangoa), ASIEN, Vol. 145.
• (2017) The Handbook of Contemporary Cambodia (ed. by Katherine Brickell and Simon Springer), ASIEN, Vol. 142, pp. 103-104.
• (2014) Zwischen Planung und spontaner Ordnung – Stadtentwicklung von Phnom Penh 1860 bis 2010 (Thomas Kolnberger), Internationales Asienforum, Vol. 45 (3), pp. 437-439.
• (2014) Aktuelle Herausforderungen der internationalen (Entwicklungs-)Zusammenarbeit in Südostasien. Nothilfe, Wiederaufbau und Entwicklung im Diskurs (Ed. Rolf Jordan / Gunnar Stange), ASIEN, Vol. 133, pp. 127-129.
• (2013) Cambodia. Progress and Challenges Since 1991 (Ed. Pou Sothirak / Geoff Wade / Mark Hong), Internationales Asienforum, Vol. 44, Special Issue 1-2 (2013), pp. 171-173.
• (2011) Beyond Democracy in Cambodia. Political Reconstruction in a Post-Conflict Society (Ed. Joakim Öjendal / Mona Lilja), Internationales Asienforum, Vol. 42 (3-4), pp. 394-395

Miscellaneous

• (2021) Das Vexierbild Hun Sen (review of Sebastian Strangio’s „Cambodia. From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond“), Stiftung Asienhaus.
• (2020) Wo sind all die Roten Khmer geblieben?, Stiftung Asienhaus, Reihe: Blickwechsel.
• (2019) Winning and losing under Hun Sen‘s win-win policy, Asia Dialogue, online publication.

Lectures and Workshops (most recent)

• (2024) Towards an Analysis of the Cambodian Social Structure, Paragon University, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, July 12.
• (2024) The Cambodian Power Elite – Sociocultures, Ontologies, and Biography in the Formation of Fields of Power, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, May 24.
• (2023) Folter und revolutionäre Reinheit: Terror als Lebensform in den Sicherheitszentren der Roten Khmer, Tagung: „Gewaltbezogene Lebensformen“, Institut für Sozialforschung, Frankfurt, June 8.
• (2023) Workshop in cooperation with David Simon and Eve Zucker (Yale University), Roberto Ulloa (Universität Konstanz) und Mykola Makhorthyk (Universität Bern): Digital Memorialization of Mass Atrocities, CAIS, Bochum, July 25-27.
• (2023) Generating memory or dreaming up distortion? Conceptualizing opportunities and risks of using generative AI for memorialization of mass atrocities, iRights.Lab & Stiftung EVZ, Online Event, May 23.
• (2023) Die Zukunft der Thai-Studien an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universität Hamburg, June 3.
• (2022) Workshop in cooperation with Katharina Inhetveen (Universität Siegen): Torture and Society, Potsdam, June 23 - 25.
• (2022) (Towards) A Post- and Decolonial Approach to the Study of Social Fields, Adhoc Group: Doing Global Sociology in a Polarized World, Annual Conference of the German Sociological Association (DGS), September 28.
• (2022) The Reproduction of Inequalities in the Study of Armed Groups, University of Passau, Februar 10.
• (2021) ) Workshop in cooperation with David Simon and Eve Zucker (Yale University), Roberto Ulloa (Universität Konstanz) und Mykola Makhorthyk (Universität Bern): Workshop on the Digital Archiving of Memorial Activities, Yale University, October 1.
•  (2022) (Towards) A Post- and Decolonial Approach to the Study of Social Fields, Adhoc group: Doing Global Sociology in a Polarized World, Annual Conference of the German Sociological Association (DGS), September 28
• (2022) The Reproduction of Inequalities in the Study of Armed Groups, University of Passau, February 10
• (2021) January 7 on Cambodian Power Elites’ Social Media Accounts, IAGS conference, Barcelona (Online), July 21
• (2021) Bewaffnete Gruppen als soziales Feld, Universität Bayreuth, January 20
• (2019) Clashing Social Ontologies: A Sociological History of Political Violence in the Cambodian Elite, EuroSEAS, Berlin, September 11
• (2019) Tuol Sleng as a Liminal Power Regime, IAGS Conference, Phnom Penh, July 17
• (2019) Workshop on Research Methods, Cambodian Senate, Phnom Penh, April 1 - 5
• (2019) The Social Structure of Political Elites in Dictatorships in Transition: Persistence and Change, Princeton University, March 9 - 10
• (2018) Torture practices and body knowledge under the Khmer Rouge, MacMillan Center Academic Exchanges, Yale University, USA, November 14
• (2018) The Social Order of Post-Conflict Transition in Cambodia, Genocide Studies Program, Yale University, USA, October 4
• (2018) Habitus und Macht in der Soziologie bewaffneter Gruppen, University of Konstanz, May 22
• (2018) Zur Reproduktion sozialer Ordnungen in kambodschanischen Guerillagruppen, Bundeswehr-Universität München, March 13
• (2018) Habitus Hermeneutics and the Cambodian Field of Insurgency, Conference: “Biography and Violence. Violent Dynamics and agency in collective processes and individual life histories”, Center of Methods in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, February 9-10
• (2018) Zur Sozialstruktur bewaffneter Gruppen, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr-University Bochum, January 11
• (2017) Brüche und Persistenzen in Kambodschas kollektiver Ordnung, Forschungsstelle Kultur- und Kollektivwissenschaft, Universität Regensburg, November 10
• (2017) Ebenen symbolischer Gewalt in der Erforschung bewaffneter Gruppen, Workshop: On the Production of Conflict Knowledge in Ethnology, Area Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies, IAAW, Humboldt University of Berlin, April 6-7
• (2017) Organization of Workshop: On the Production of Conflict Knowledge in Ethnology, Area Studies and Peace and Conflict Studies, IAAW, Humboldt University of Berlin, April 6-7
• (2017) Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheiten in bewaffneten Gruppen, University of Marburg, Research Colloquium at the Center for Conflict Studies, February 13

Teaching

• An overview over courses can be found here.

Podcasts

• Stiftung Ettersberg (https://violenceandfriendship.com/erinnerung/)