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Dr. Mirjam Lücking

Dr. Mirjam Lücking

Postdoc Researcher / Academic Councellor

Areas of research and interest

Mobility and migration (especially mixed migration, labor migration, religious tourism and pilgrimage, transregional South-South connections), the Anthropology of Religion, the Anthropology of Islam, Audiovisual Anthropology

Regional focus: Island Southeast Asia (especially Indonesia), Middle East

Contact

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich

Room: C 032
Phone: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 9624
Fax: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 9602


Office hours:
nach Vereinbarung per E-mail.

Academic Career:

since 8/2023
Postdoc Researcher / Academic Councellor, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich

Okt. 2019 – Juli 2023
Postdoctoral Fellow and lecturer, Martin Buber Society of Fellows and Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Okt. 2019 – Juli 2023
Associate Department Member, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Konstanz

Nov. – Dez. 2021
Visiting Research Fellow, Zukunftskolleg, Universität Konstanz

Okt. 2017 – Sep. 2019
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and I-Core Center for the Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Feb. 2017
PhD (Anthropology), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
PhD Thesis: Indonesians and their Arab World: Guided Mobility among Labor Migrants and Mecca Pilgrims.

Mar. 2013 – Sep. 2017
Lecturer, Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Freiburg

Jan. 2013 – Okt. 2015
Research Fellow, Research cluster: „Grounding Area Studies in Social Practice”, University of Freiburg

Dec. 2012
M.A. (Anthropology), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
M.A. Thesis: Between ‘Good’ and ‘Real’ Governance. An Anthropological Perspective on Public Service Delivery in Indonesia.

Sep. 2010
B.A. (Anthropology, Islamic Studies), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau
B.A. Thesis: Muslimische Predigerinnen in Marokko. Die Mourchidat als Gestalterinnen einer Islamischen Moderne?

Publications

Monograph

Edited Volumes

  • Lücking, Mirjam; Meiser, Anna; Rohrer, Ingo. eds. 2023: In Tandem – Pathways towards a Postcolonial Anthropology. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals

  • 2023: “Cosmopolitan Imagery: Prestigious Connections to the World in Contemporary Muslim and Christian Indonesian Pilgrimage Pictures.” International Journal of Islam in Asia.
  • 2023: “At Home and Afar: Malay-Indonesian Cosmopolitan Muslim Identities in Contemporary and Historical Mobility.” International Journal of Islam in Asia.
  • 2021: “Breaching boundaries in Muslim and Christian transregional tourism from Indonesia to Israel and Palestine.” TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia. 1-16. DOI: 10.1017/trn.2021.12
  • 2021: “‘Food unites us… not anymore!?’ Indonesian Pilgrims Eating Kosher and Halal in Jerusalem.” Food, Culture and Society. DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2021.1958188
  • 2019: “Travelling with the Idea of Taking Sides. Indonesian Pilgrimages to Jerusalem.” Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia. 175 (2): 196–224.
  • 2017: “Working in Mecca. How Informal Pilgrimage-Migration from Madura, Indonesia, to Saudi Arabia Challenges State Sovereignty.” European Journal of East Asian Studies. Special Issue: Challenging State Sovereignty: A Multi-level Approach to Southeast and East Asian Migration. 16 (2): 248–274.
  • with Evi Eliyanah, 2017: “Images of Authentic Muslim Selves: Gendered Moralities and Constructions of Arab Others in Contemporary Indonesia,” Social Sciences 6 (3): 1-20.
  • 2016: “Beyond Islam Nusantara and ‘Arabization’: Capitalizing ‘Arabness’ in Madura, East Java.” ASIEN. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 137: 5-24.
  • 2014: “Making ‘Arab’ One’s Own. Muslim Pilgrimage Experiences in Central Java, Indonesia.” International Quarterly for Asian Studies 45 (1-2): 129-152.
  • 2014: “‘Arabness’ as Social Capital in Madura.” Islamika Indonesiana 1 (2): 37-46.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

  • Lücking, Mirjam; Meiser, Anna; Rohrer, Ingo (2023): “Pathways towards a Postcolonial Anthropology – Introduction”, In Tandem – Pathways towards a Postcolonial Anthropology, edited by Lücking, Mirjam; Meiser, Anna; Rohrer, Ingo. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Lücking, Mirjam; Mayasari, Nuki (2023): “Indonesian Selfie Tourism Abroad and at Home”, In Tandem – Pathways towards a Postcolonial Anthropology, edited by Lücking, Mirjam; Meiser, Anna; Rohrer, Ingo. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
  • Lücking, Mirjam (2020): “Israeli Dead Sea Cosmetics and Charity for Palestinian Children: Indonesian Women’s Shopping Activities on Pilgrimages to Jerusalem,” Reconfiguring Muslim Pilgrimage through the Lens of Women’s New Mobilities, edited by Buitelaar, Marjo; Stephan-Emmrich, Manja; Thimm, Viola. London: Routledge. pp: 91-110.
  • Lücking, Mirjam (2019): “Reciprocity in Research Relationships: Learning from Imbalances”, Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography, edited by Stodulka, Thomas; Dinkelaker, Samia; Thajib, Ferdiansyah. New York: Springer. pp: 109-121.

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