Research projects of Urmila Goel

Publications in English by Urmila Goel

If you want to quote the texts please give the full bibliography.

2023

• "Recruiting Nurses from Kerala: On Gender, Racism, and the Nursing Profession in West Germany", in: Maya John and Christa Wichterich (Eds.), Who Cares? Care Extraction and the Struggles of Indian Health Workers, New Delhi: Zubaan, 247-266.

2016

• "The Indernet: From Internet Portal to the Social Web", in: International Journal of E-Politics, Vol. 7, Issue 3, July-September 2016, 1-14.

2015

• "From methodology to contextualisation. The politics and epistemology of intersectionality", in: Raisons politiques, 58, Mai 2015, 25-38.
• "The Delhi rape case and international attention - An interview with Urvashi Butalia", in: Nadja-Christina Schneider und Fritzi-Marie Titzmann (Hrsg.)(2015), Studying Youth Media and Gender in Post-Liberalisation India, Berlin: Frank & Timme, 133-139.

2014

• "Heteronormativity and intersectionality as perspective of analysis of gender and migration: Nurses from India in West Germany", in: Sara Poma Poma and Katharina Pühl (eds.) (2014), Perspectives on Asian Migration - Transformations of Gender and Labour Relations, Berlin,77-82.
• "‘Indian’ clubbing in Germany – on the constructions of natio-ethno-cultural belongingness and otherness", in: Sylvia Hahn and Stan Nadel (eds., 2014), Asian Migrants in Europe - Transcultural Connections, Göttingen: V&R unipress.
• "‘From the German Periphery – On Ethnographic Explorations of Indian Transnationalism Online’, in Ajaya K. Sahoo & Johannes G. de Kruijf, eds. Indian Transnationalism Online: New Perspectives on Diaspora (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 63–80.

2012

• "The virtual space of belongingness Indernet - A long-term observation", Paper presented at Digital Crossroads, Utrecht, 29.06.12.

2010

• "Religion, Women and Politics - An Observer's Analysis", in: Claudia Derichs and Andrea Fleschenberg (eds.), Religious Fundamentalisms and Their Gendered Impacts in Asia (as pdf), Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 107-130.

2009

• "West German Privileges in United Germany" (pdf in Korean and German), FES-Information-Series, Seoul, 2009.
• “The German internet portal Indernet – A space for multiple belongingness”, Gerard Goggin and Mark McClelland (eds., 2009), Internationalizing Internet Studies, New York: Routledge, 128-144.

2008

• The 70th anniversary of John Matthew - On Indian Christians in Germany, in: Knut A. Jacobsen and Selva J. Raj (eds., 2008), South Asian Christian Diaspora: Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America, Farnham: Ashgate, 57-74 (as pdf.
• "The Indernet - A German network in a transnational space" in: Remus Gabriel Anghel, Eva Gerharz, Gilberto Rescher und Monika Sazlbrunn (2008, Hrsg.), The Making of World Society - Perspectives from Transnational Research, Bielefeld: transcript, 291-309
• "Imagining India Online: Second-Generation Indians in Germany" (as pdf), in: Jörg Esleben, Christina Kraenzle and Sukanya Kulkarni (eds., 2008), Mapping Channels between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 210-232.
• "Of Asians and Indians in Germany - Some thoughts on racism and the interdependencies of power inequalities" (paper as pdf), International Workshop: Imagining 'Race' and Hegemony in (Inter)Asia, Seoul, 20.07.08. 
• "Migration in movies - An impuls for a new cultural dimension" (documentation of a plenary discussion), in: European Film Academy (2008), EFA Conference 2007: Europe on the move - Migration in movies, Berlin: EFA, 37-48.
• "'Half Indians', Adopted 'Germans' and 'Afghan Indians' - On claims of 'Indianness' and their contestations in Germany" (as pdf), in: Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol. 3, No. 1, February.

2007

• "Indians in Germany’ - The imagination of a community" (as pdf) in:UNEAC Asia Papers, No. 20, 2007.

2006

• "I'm a poet, I'm a feminist, and I'm Muslim" - An interview with the Pakistani poet Kyla Pasha, on: suedasien.info, November  2006.
• "Germany", in: Brij Lal (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora, Singapore: Edition Didier Millet, 358-360.
  Disclaimer: The published version contains changes to my original version, which were not authorised by me and from which I distance myself.
• "The virtual second generation - An own space on the internet" (as pdf), in: Klaus Voll and Doreen Beierlein (Hrsg. 2006), Rising India - Europe's Partner?, Berlin: Weißensee Verlag, 1154-1160 (also on: http://www.migrationeducation.org/).

2005

• "The virtual second generation: negotiating ethnicity on the internet" (as pdf), in: IIAS Newsletter, 39, December 2005, 19.
• "Fatima and theinder.net - A refuge in virtual space" (as pdf), in: Angelika Fitz, Merle Kröger, Alexandra Schneider und Dorothee Wenner, Import Export - Cultural Transfer - India, Germany, Austria, Parthas Verlag, Berlin, 201-207.
• "Tour de Queer India - A German's fascination with strong women", in: Scripts 7/ Juni 2005, 25-26 (as pdf).

2004

• "Living without a television", in: Outlook (Hindi), 29.11.04, 49 (as pdf).

2003

• Asia after the Iraq war - Realpolitik rules, (together with Anja Dargatz and Marei John), in: Dialogue + Cooperation, Occasional Papers on Southeast Asia and Europe, 2/2003, 65-70.

1998

• Citizenship and identity among second generation South Asians in Western European Countries (as pdf), M.A. dissertation, SOAS, London (unpublished).
• The Malayali community in Germany – An analysis of the magazine Wartha, M.A. essay, SOAS, London (unpublished).
• ‘Foreigner policy’ and applied law in Germany – Attempts to prevent the naturalisation of an Indian. A case study (as pdf), M.A. essay, SOAS, London (unpublished).

1997

• South Asians in Germany and the law (as pdf), M.A. essay, SOAS, London (unpublished).
• Economists, Entrepreneurs and the Pursuit of Economics, Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt/Main.

1992

• Thoughts on Stylized Facts, M.Sc. Dissertation, University of Southampton (unpublished).

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