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Dr. Max Kramer

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Persönliche Website: https://maxarnekramer.com/

Forschungsprojekt:

When Anonymity is No Longer Enough: 'Fictionalization' as a New Way of Writing Ethnography in the Age of Digital Surveillance

Max Kramer is currently Co-PI of the project "When Anonymity is No Longer Enough: 'Fictionalization' as a New Way of Writing Ethnography in the Age of Digital Surveillance." His main research area is media practices in India, specifically among religious minorities. In addition to his research, Kramer translates Hindi literature and explores South Asian literary theory.

Positions

Since 2020
Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Volkswagen Freigeistprojekt „The Populism of the Precarious”, Freie Universität Berlin
02/2023 - 04/2023
Academic Visitor at St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford
01/2020 - 03/2020
Scholar in Residence, Georgetown University, Qatar
02/2018 - 10/2020
Postdoctoral Researcher at the ERC-Projekt „ONLINERPOL“, Institut für Ethnologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
10/2016 - 01/2018
Lecturer for Hindi, Institut für Indologie, Universität Leipzig
10/2012 - 10/2015
Member of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS), Freie Universität Berlin

Education

09/2017
PhD at Humboldt Universität Berlin
10/2006 - 07/2011
Magister Artium in New Languages and Literatures of South Asia, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Publications

Monographies, Edited Volumes and Special Issues

Kramer, Max. (positively reviewed by Routledge, awaiting final approval). Digital Agency: The Political-Ethics of Social Media in an Age of Ethno-Nationalism.

Kramer, Max, Salwa Yahya and Britta Ohm, ed. (accepted by Routledge). Muslim Political Agency in India: Imagination, Mobilization and Mediation.

Kramer, Max and Jürgen Schaflechner. 2024. Special Issue of Dialectical Anthropology “The Limits of Visibility”. 48 (1). https://link.springer.com/journal/10624/volumes-and-issues/48-1


Kramer, Max, Judhajit Sarkar, and Heiko Frese, ed. 2020. Muktibodh und andere moderne Hindi Dichter. Heidelberg: Draupadi. (Muktibodh and Other Modern Hindi Poets)

Kramer, Max. 2019. Mobilität und Zeugenschaft: Unabhängige Dokumentarfilmpraktiken und der Kaschmir Konflikt. Bielefeld: Transcript. (Mobility and Testimony: Independent Documentary Film Practices and the Kashmir Conflict)

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

Schaflechner, Jürgen, and Max Kramer. 2024. “Tactics for Becoming Visible”. Dialectical Anthropologym 48, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-024-09719-x

Udupa, Sahana, and Max Kramer. 2023. “Multiple Interfaces: Social media, religious politics, and national (un)belonging in India and the diaspora”. American Ethnologist. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13117.

Kramer, Max. 2022. “Beyond the Identitarian Deadlock: Why Mobile Methods Are Useful for Studying Media in Zones of Conflict.” Studies in Indian Politics, 10(2), 289–297. https://doi.org/10.1177/23210230221135822

Kramer, Max. 2022 “A Bird at my Window”: Communicative Community and Contextual Visibility. In Conference Publication: How to Live Together? Circulatory Practices and Contested Spaces in India. Ed. by Fritzi-Marie Titzmann & Nadja-Christina Schneider. https://doi.org/10.21428/f4c6e600.e29a7d00

Schaflechner, Jürgen and Max Kramer. 2021. "Film, Photo, and Text: Relation-Making, Intensive Genres, and Realism."Dastavezi(3): 4-14.

Kramer, Max. 2021. “The Moral Economy of Extreme Speech: Resentment and Anger in Indian Minority Politics“. In Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Online Extreme Speech, edited by Sahana Udupa, Iginio Gagliardone, and Petter Hervik. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Ettmüller, Eliane, Sarah Ewald and Max Kramer. 2021. "Traveling Tariqa–Ten Years Down the Road into Sufis Entangled."Dastavezi (3): 55-67.

Kramer, Max. 2021. “Plural Media Ethics? Reformist Islam in India and the Limits of Global Media Ethics“. Dialectical Anthropology, 45 (3): 275-96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-021-09626-5.

Kramer, Max, and Jürgen Schaflechner. 2020. “Relation-Making, Time, and Critique: A Slow Theory Approach to Film and Social Science“. Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia 2: 1–11.


Kramer, Max. 2020. “Online Daʿwat, Nation-State and the Language Use of the Jamaat-e-Islami in India“. Zeitschrift für Indologie und Südasienstudien 36: 53–76.

Kramer, Max, and Jürgen Schaflechner. 2019. “Between Documentary and Dastavezi: A Slow-Paced Approach to Theorizing Transnational Film-Practices“. Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia 1: 1–11.

Kramer, Max. 2018. “At the limit of the personal: The Kashmir conflict via explorations in the ethical space of film“. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture 9 (3): 289–301. https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc.9.3.289_1.


Kramer, Max. 2017. “Mobilizing Conflict Testimony: A Lens of Mobility for the Study of Documentary Film Practices in the Kashmir Conflict“. Social Sciences 6 (88): x. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci6030088.

Kramer, Max. 2016. “Skeptical Political Mimesis: Sanjay Kak’s “Series on Indian Democracy” and the Voice of Documentary“. Belgrade Journal of Media and Communications 6 (9): 35–47.

Kramer, Max. 2015. “Filming Kashmir: Emerging Documentary Practices“. In New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World, herausgegeben von Nadja-Christina Schneider und Carola Richter, 345–67. Nomos.

Kramer, Max. 2015. “Verlust, Erinnerung und Versöhnung? Repräsentationen des Kaschmirkonflikts und des Exils der Kashmiri-Pandits in der Megha-Episode von Onirs Film ‚I am‘“. Zeitschrift für Indologie und Südasienstudien 31: 47–68.

Kramer, Max. 2014. Sprachliche Imagination im Film - Tapori Hindi und die Verwendung sprachlicher Register im populären indischen Kino. Working papers in modern South Asian languages and literatures. Heidelberg: Heidelberg, Univ., Magisterarbeit, 2014. http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/3157/.

Reviews and other writings

Bazaz, Abir in conversation with Max Kramer. 2021. "Kashmir Cultural Memory through the Lens of Film: Paradise on a River of Hell revisited."Dastavezi (3):15-21

Kramer, Max. 2021. “Schleiter, M., & de Maaker, E. (eds.) (2020). Media, indigeneity and nation in South Asia. London: Routledge. 298 pp." Communications, https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2021-0043

Kramer, Max. 2020. “Dystopian Futures on Netflix: Converging Genres, Ethics and Narrative in Ghoul“. IAAW Newsletter, 2020.

Kramer, Max. 2015. “Atrocity Images, Archive and Film Form in Sanjay Kak’s Jashn-e-Azadi“. Mediaresearch@IAAW (blog). 17. Februar 2015. https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/mediaiaaw/2015/02/17/atrocity-images-archive-and-film-form-in-sanjay-kaks-jashne-e-azaadi/.

Kramer, Max. 2016. „Azadi ‚von‘ Indien oder ‚in‘ Indien? Kaschmiris posten auf Facebook zur Politik der Postposition“. Mediaresearch@IAAW (blog). 10. März 2016. https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/mediaiaaw/2016/03/10/azadi-von-indien-oder-in-indien-kaschmiris-posten-auf-facebook-zur-politik-der-postposition/.

Kramer, Max. 2016. „Songs to Live By – A Review of a Series of Six Films by Tarun Bhartiya“. Mediaresearch@IAAW (blog). 29. August 2016. https://blogs.hu-berlin.de/mediaiaaw/2016/08/29/songs-to-live-by-review-of-a-series-of-six-films-by-tarun-bhartiya/.

Kramer, Max. 2014. „Qaid – jan ḍijiṭal film ke zamāne meṃ“. Begleitheft des Cinema of Resistance Udaipur, 2014.

Films

Kramer Max and Iqra Hasan (in production). Not yet titled film about the memory of the CAA and NRC protest of 2019 at the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi

Udupa, Sahana. 2023. For Digital Dignity. (I worked for the film as a co-editor and researcher)

Kramer, Max, Sarah Ewald, Sarbani Sharma, and Suveid Yaseen. 2015. All My People.

Kramer, Max, Eliane Ettmüller, und Sarah Ewald. 2011. Sufis Entangled.

Academic Service

Co-Editor in Chief of the journal „Dastavezi: The Audio-Visual South Asia”

Memberships

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
Literaturforum Indien e.V.

Languages

German (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
Hindi (fluent)
Urdu (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
Sanskrit (reading)
French (reading)
Bengali (basic knowledge)
Latin (basic knowledge)