Dr. Johannes Becker
Affiliated Researcher
Positions
Degrees
Scholarships and Awards
Field Research Archival Research
2017–2019 Amman (Jordan), 6 months
2010–2014 Jerusalem/West Bank, 10 months
2007–2008 Archival research Bonn/Berlin, 2 months
Language Skills
- German
- Englisch: fluent
- Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic); conversation level
Publications
Becker J. (2017). Verortungen in der Jerusalemer Altstadt: Lebensgeschichten und Alltag in einem engen urbanen Raum. Bielefeld: transcript.
Bahl, E./ Becker, J. (Hrsg., erscheint im Sommer 2020). Global processes of flight and migration: The explanatory power of case studies. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
Becker, J./ Weidenhaus, G./ Witte, N. (Hrsg., erscheint im Herbst 2020). Raum und Biographie. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.
Becker, J./ Belkind, N./ Karkabi, N./ Wood, A. (Hrsg., 2013). Special issue: Geographies of identity: (Per)forming space in Palestine and Israel. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 6(3).
Becker, J. (under review): Kooptierungsverläufe, Modernität und familiale Mobilität in Jordanien: „You are the top man in the country with your family and the King drops you just like this“
Becker, J. (in print). Refugees, migration and the tightening borders in the Middle East: Perspective from biographical research on the re-figuration of spaces and cross-cultural comparison. In: Baur, N./ Mennell, S./ Million, A. (eds.), The re‐figuration of spaces and cross‐cultural comparison. Forum: Qualitative Social Research.
Becker, J./ Hinrichsen, H. (in print): Transformatorische Fluchtverläufe:
Migration aus lokalisierten Milieus und Etablierung in einem neuen Kontext am Beispiel irakischer Geflüchteter in Jordanien. In: Bahl, E./ Becker, J. (eds.). Global processes of flight and migration: The explanatory power of case studies. Göttingen: University Press.
Bahl, E./Becker, J. (in print): Global processes of flight and migration: How case studies help to understand their complex and heterogeneous character. In: Bahl, E./ Becker, J. (eds.). Global processes of flight and migration: The explanatory power of case studies. Göttingen: University Press.
Becker, J./ Hinrichsen, H./ Worm, A. (in print). Fluchtmigration von Syrien nach Jordanien im familiengeschichtlichen und regionalhistorischen Kontext: Zum Nutzen einer biographietheoretischen und figurationssoziologischen Forschungsperspektive. In: Köttig, M./ Witte, N. (eds.), Biographien in Gesellschaft. Weinheim: Beltz/Juventa.
Becker, J./ Rosenthal, G. (in print). Ethnographie und Biographieforschung. In: Poferl, A./ Schröer, N. (eds.), Handbuch soziologische Ethnographie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.
Becker, J. (2020). Past Neighbourhoods: Palestinians and Jerusalem’s ‘enlarged Jewish Quarter’. In: Maksudyan, N./ Alkan, H. (eds.), Urban neighbourhood formations: Boundaries, narrations and intimacies. London: Routledge, 99-118.
Becker, J. (2019). Die analytische Herausforderung mobiler Familien- und Lebensgeschichten von Flüchtlingen in Amman (Jordanien). In: Burzan, N. (ed.), Komplexe Dynamiken globaler und lokaler Entwicklungen. Verhandlungen des 39. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Göttingen 2018, https://publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2018/article/view/1018
Becker, J. (2019). Orte und Verortungen als raumsoziologische Perspektive zur Analyse von Lebensgeschichten. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/ Forum: Qualitative Social Research 20(1), Art. 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.1.3029.
Becker, J. (2017). A mixed family of long-time residents and internal migrants in East Jerusalem: The established-outsider figuration of ‘Hebronites’ and ‘Jerusalemite families’ in the context of the Israeli occupation In: Bogner, A./ Rosenthal, G. (eds.), Biographies in the Global South: Embedded in figurations and discourses. Frankfurt: Campus, 209-235.
Hinrichsen, H./ Becker, J./ Rosenthal, G. (2016). On the brittleness of the homogenizing we-discourse: Christians in Bethlehem and Ramallah. In: Rosenthal, G. (ed.), Established and outsiders at the same time: Self-images and we-images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 31-44.
Becker, J. (2016). Commitment to the Old City and ambivalent emplacement. In: Rosenthal, G. (ed.), Established and outsiders at the same time: Self-images and we-images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 125-146.
Becker, J./ Worm, A. (2016). Palestinians in East Jerusalem. In: Rosenthal, G. (ed.), Established and outsiders at the same time: Self-images and we-images of Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press, 111-123.
Becker, J. (2015). Bekenntnisse zur Altstadt und widerstrebendes Erleben. In: Rosenthal, G. (ed.), Etablierte und Außenseiter zugleich: Selbst- und Fremdbilder in den palästinensischen Communities im Westjordanland und in Israel. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 167-194.
Becker, J./ Worm, A. (2015). PalästinenserInnen in Ostjerusalem. In: Rosenthal, G. (ed.), Etablierte und Außenseiter zugleich: Selbst- und Fremdbilder in den palästinensischen Communities im Westjordanland und in Israel. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 149-165.
Hinrichsen, H./ Becker, J./ Rosenthal, G. (2015). Zum Brüchig-Werden des homogenisierenden Wir-Diskurses: Christen in Bethlehem und Ramallah. In: Rosenthal, G. (ed.), Etablierte und Außenseiter zugleich: Selbst- und Fremdbilder in den palästinensischen Communities im Westjordanland und in Israel. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 43-61.
Rosenthal, G./ Hinrichsen, H./ Becker, J. (2015). Zur interaktiven und kollektiven (Selbst-) Vergewisserung eines brüchig werdenden Wir-Bildes. In: Griffith, S.H./ Grebenstein, S. (eds.), Christsein in der islamischen Welt. Festschrift für Martin Tamcke zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 567-586.
Becker, J. (2013). Old men’s truth: The ‘poverty generation’ of neighborhood men talk about life in Jerusalem's Old City. In: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 6(3), 264-285.
Becker, J./ Belkind, N./ Karkabi, N./ Wood, A. (2013). Introduction: Geographies of identity: (Per)forming space in Palestine and Israel. In: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 6(3), 259-263.
Memberships
International Sociological Association (ISA) – RC 38 Biography & Society, Secretary and Treasurer, Board Member
International Sociological Association (ISA) – RC 09 Social Transformations and Sociology of Development
International Sociological Association (ISA) – RC 56 Historical Sociology
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) – Sektion Biographieforschung
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) – Sektion Migration und ethnische Minderheiten
Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient (DAVO)
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Conferences and Guest Lectures
Presentations in conferences and guest lectures
Reconstructing Processes of Settlement and Urbanization in Jordan: Advantages of Multigenerational Research. Fourth ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, 23.-27. Feb. 2021.
Speaking from an Oil Platform in the Sea: Analyzing the Interrelation of “Narrated Life”, Present Life Situation and “Experienced Life”. Fourth ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, 23.-27. Feb. 2021.
Zur Wechselwirkung von Altansässigkeit und Migration im Kontext postkolonialer Staatsbildung. 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Berlin, 14.-25. Sept. 2020.
Places and emplacement in the reconstruction of arrival contexts: Socio-historical processes and the analysis of everyday practices and life histories. 40. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Berlin, 14.-25. Sept. 2020.
Abendvorlesung: Perspektiven der Biographieforschung. Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, 12. Dec. 2019.
Making it to Amman: Exile and forced migration in the Levant (with H. Hinrichsen). Exile-Flight-Migration. Jahrestagung der Sektion Biographieforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Göttingen, 28.-30. Nov. 2019.
Arabische Dialekte, Panarabismus und Geflüchteten-Altansässigen-Figurationen in Jordanien (with H. Hinrichsen). Exile-Flight-Migration. Jahrestagung der Sektion Biographieforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Göttingen, 28.-30. Nov. 2019.
Fluchtforschung: Die analytische Herausforderung mobiler Familien- und Lebensgeschichten von Geflüchteten in Amman (Jordanien). 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Göttingen, 24.-28. Sept. 2018.
Die Allgegenwart von Flucht und Migration in der Stadtgeschichte Ammans. Zur Figuration von Altansässigen, Rückkehrern und Zugezogenen (with H. Hinrichsen). 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Göttingen, 24.-28. Sept. 2018.
Understanding dynamics of belonging through complex migration processes and intertwined experiences of violence. XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, 15.-21. July 2018.
Perspektive der Biographieforschung auf die Re-Figuration von Räumen. „Die Re-Figuration von Räumen und der Kulturvergleich“. Eröffnungskonferenz des SFB „The re-figuration of spaces”, Berlin, 14.-15. June 2018.
Palestinians in Jerusalem’s ‘enlarged’ Jewish Quarter and the question of neighbourhood belonging. Workshop: Neighbourhoods at times of change and crisis, Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 17.-18. May 2018.
Intertwined experiences of violence and migration and their relevance for everyday lives (with D. Abdul Karim). Biography and violence. Violent dynamics and agency in collective processes and individual life histories. Center of Methods in Social Sciences, Göttingen, 9.-10. Feb. 2018.
Analysing places with reconstructive biographical methods. 9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology, Leicester, 11.-16. Sept. 2016.
Outsiders' silence about their past in the city. Third ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna, 10.-14. July 2016.
Talking about the Old City of Jerusalem from the outside and from within: Devaluing discourses and the self-images of the inhabitants. International graduate conference: Why discourse matters, Frankfurt, 17.-18. Oct. 2014.
Biographical narrations, discourses and collective history of Palestinians in Jerusalem's Old City and in a Palestinian refugee camp (with A. Worm). XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, 13.-19. July 2014.
Jonah in the ‘Holy City’: Life stories of monks in Jerusalem – affirmation and ambivalent experiences. ‘The making of Jerusalem: Constructed spaces and historic communities’. Library of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem. Jerusalem, 3.-4. July 2014.
Palestinian men in the Old City of Jerusalem: Intergenerational negotiations. Middle Eastern Studies Association of North America (MESA), 2013 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 10.-13. Oct. 2013.
Why Hafez fought for (and narrated about) establishing parking lots for his neighbors. Second ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, 1.-4. Aug. 2012.
Materialities of (urban) space: Emergence and sensory perception in social processes. Second ISA Forum of Sociology, Buenos Aires, 1.-4. Aug. 2012.
Localising collective belongings: Palestinians in the Old City of Jerusalem. 12th EASA Biennial Conference, Nanterre, 10.-13. July 2012.
Localising collective belongings in the Old City of Jerusalem. Workshop: Recent ethnography on Palestine/Israel, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, March 2012.
Organisation of sessions and conferences
Organisation and Chair: Biography and ‘middle class’ in the Global South (with H. Hinrichsen). Fourth ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, 23.-27. Feb. 2021.
Organisation and Chair: The individual and the city: Urban life (stories) a neglected area of biographical research (with N. Witte). Fourth ISA Forum of Sociology, Porto Alegre, 23.-27. Feb. 2021.
Organisation and Chair: Ad-hoc-Gruppe Biographie und Raum (with G. Weidenhaus and N. Witte). 39. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS), Göttingen, 24.-28. Sept. 2018.
Organisation and Chair: Ethnography and biographical research (with G. Rosenthal). XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, 15.-21. July 2018.
Organisation and Chair: Biography and city (with N. Witte). XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, 15.-21. July 2018.
Organisation and Chair: Ethnography and biographical research (with G. Rosenthal). XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, 15.-21. July 2018.
Organisation and Chair: Experiences and narratives of travel and mobility (with S. Laux). XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, 13.-19. July 2014.
Organisation: Creating knowledge – a theory-building workshop in case-reconstructive research in the social sciences (in cooperation with a group of Göttingen PhD-students). University of Göttingen, 19.-20. Nov. 2010.