Publications of Tatjana Thelen

Journal Article (15)

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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana, André Thiemann, and Duška Roth. 2014. State kinning and kinning the state in Serbian elder care programs. Social Analysis 58(3): 107–123.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann. 2014. Introduction to stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. Social Analysis 58(3): 1–19. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2014.580302.
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Journal Article
Gingrich, Andre and Tatjana Thelen. 2012. Comparative anthropology: achievements, failures and future. Ethnologie Française 42(2): 395–401.
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Journal Article
Kay, Rebecca, Sergei Shubin, and Tatjana Thelen. 2012. Rural realities in post-socialist space. Journal of Rural Studies 28(2): 55–62.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana. 2012. Economic concepts, common grounds and 'new' diversity in the anthropology of post-socialism: reply to Dunn and Verdery. Critique of Anthropology 32(1): 87–90.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana. 2012. "The natural order of things" and state policies: parenting in eastern Germany after 1989. Ethnologie Française 42(1): 45–54.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana. 2011. Shortage, fuzzy property and other dead ends in the anthropological analysis of (post)socialism. Critique of Anthropology 31(1): 43–61.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana, Stefan Dorondel, Alexandra Szöke, and Larissa Vetters. 2011. 'The sleep has been rubbed from their eyes': social citizenship and the reproduction of local hierarchies in rural Hungary and Romania. Citizenship Studies 15(3/4): 513–527.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana. 2010. Modernität, Mangelwirtschaft und Postsozialismus: Probleme ethnologischer und soziologischer Theoriebildung angesichts gesellschaftlicher Veränderung. Sociologus 60(1): 15–40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/soc.60.1.15.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits. 2010. Self sacrifice or natural donation? A life course perspective on grandmothering in New Zagreb (Croatia) and East Berlin (Germany). Horizontes Antropologicos 16(34): 427–452. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-71832010000200018.
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Journal Article
Read, Rosie and Tatjana Thelen. 2007. Introduction: social security and care after socialism; reconfigurations of public and private. Focaal 50: 3–18.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana. 2007. "Veteran care": shifting provision, needs and meanings of enterprise-centered pensioner care in eastern Germany. Focaal 50: 35–50.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana. 2006. Lunch in an East German enterprise: differences in eating habits as symbols of collective identities. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 131(1): 51–70.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana. 2005. Violence and social (dis-)continuity: comparing collectivization in two East European villages. Social History 30(1): 25–44.
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Journal Article
Thelen, Tatjana. 2003. The new power of old men: privatisation and family relations in Mesterszállás (Hungary). Anthropology of East Europe Review 21(2): 15–21.

Book Chapter (22)

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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana, André Thiemann, and Duška Roth. 2018. State kinning and kinning the state in Serbian elder care programs. In: Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (eds.). Stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. Studies in Social Analysis 4. New York: Berghahn, pp. 107–123.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann. 2018. Introduction to stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. In: Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (eds.). Stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. Studies in Social Analysis 4. New York: Berghahn, pp. 1–19.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana, Cati Coe, and Erdmute Alber. 2013. Anthropology of sibling relations: explorations in shared parentage, experience, and exchange. In: Erdmute Alber, Cati Coe, and Tatjana Thelen (eds.). Anthropology of sibling relations: shared parentage, experience, and exchange. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1–26.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2010. Introduction. In: Patrick Heady and Peter Schweitzer (eds.). Family, kinship and state in contemporary Europe: vol. 2; the view from below 2. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, pp. 227–231.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2010. Kinning im Alter: Verbundenheit und Sorgebeziehungen ostdeutscher Senior/Innen. In: Erdmute Alber (ed.). Verwandtschaft heute: Positionen, Ergebnisse und Perspektiven. Berlin: Reimer, pp. 225–248.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2010. Privatizing parenthood: modernizing childhood? Paradoxes of school reform in Eastern Germany. In: Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes (eds.). Parenting after the century of the child: travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses. Burlington: Ashgate, pp. 141–162.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana and Astrid Baerwolf. 2010. Navigating kinship relations in Eastern Germany: love, care and limits. In: Patrick Heady and Peter Schweitzer (eds.). Family, kinship and state in contemporary Europe: vol. 2; the view from below 2. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, pp. 232–267.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana and Astrid Baerwolf. 2010. Two German localities. In: Patrick Heady and Peter Schweitzer (eds.). Family, kinship and state in contemporary Europe: vol. 2; the view from below 2. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, pp. 225–267.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana and Haldis Haukanes. 2010. Parenthood and childhood: debates within the social sciences. In: Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes (eds.). Parenting after the century of the child: travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses. Burlington: Ashgate, pp. 11–32.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana and Haldis Haukanes. 2010. Parenting after the century of the child: introduction. In: Tatjana Thelen and Haldis Haukanes (eds.). Parenting after the century of the child: travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses. Burlington: Ashgate, pp. 1–9.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2009. Social security, life courses and religious norms: ambivalent layers of support in an Eastern German Protestant network. In: Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, Anja Peleikis, and Tatjana Thelen (eds.). Social security in religious networks. New York: Berghahn, pp. 62–80.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana, Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, and Anja Peleikis. 2009. Social security in religious networks: an introduction. In: Carolin Leutloff-Grandits, Anja Peleikis, and Tatjana Thelen (eds.). Social security in religious networks. New York: Berghahn, pp. 1–22.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana and Astrid Baerwolf. 2008. Traditionalisierung in der Flexibilisierung: familiäre Arbeitsteilung in Ostdeutschland. In: Marc Szydlik (ed.). Flexibilisierung: Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 275–294.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2007. Partition and partings: the paradox German kinship ties. In: Smita Tewari Jassal and Eyal Ben-Ari (eds.). Memory and the partition motif in contemporary conflicts. London: SAGE, pp. 221–242.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2006. Law and mutual assistance in families: a comparison of socialist legacies in Hungary and Eastern Germany. In: Franz von Benda-Beckmann (ed.). Dynamics of plural legal orders. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. Special issue 53/54. Berlin: LIT, pp. 177–207.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana and Astrid Baerwolf. 2006. Familienbeziehungen in Ostdeutschland: ein Forschungsbericht. In: Rüdiger Fikentscher (ed.). Europäische Gruppenkulturen: Familie, Freizeit, Rituale. mdv aktuell 2. Halle/Saale: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, pp. 69–84.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2005. Caring grandfathers: changes in support between generations in East Germany. In: Haldis Haukanes and Frances Pine (eds.). Generations, kinship and care: gendered provisions of social security in Central Eastern Europe. Skriftserien 17. Bergen: University of Bergen, pp. 163–188.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2004. Gewalt und soziale Reproduktion: ein Vergleich der Kollektivierungspraxis in zwei Dörfern. In: Julia Eckert (ed.). Anthropologie der Konflikte: Georg Elwerts konflikttheoeretische Thesen in der Diskussion. Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 136–154.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2003. Are the Kuláks back?: inherited capital and social continuity in Mesterszállás, Hungary. In: Patrick Heady and Hannes Grandits (eds.). Distinct inheritances: property, family and community in a changing Europe. Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia: HSAE 2. Münster: LIT, pp. 329–346.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2003. The son of a fox is a fox, the son of a dog is a dog: forms of capital and local perception of success in a Hungarian village. In: Viorel Anastasoaie (ed.). Breaking the wall: representing anthropology and anthropological representations in post-communist Eastern Europe. Cluj-Napoca: EFES, pp. 205–228.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2002. Gewinner und Verlierer in der postsozialistischen Landwirtschaft: das Beispiel einer ländlichen Gemeinde in Ungarn. In: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde (ed.). Gewinner und Verlierer post-sozialistischer Transformationsprozesse: Beiträge für die 10. Brühler Tagung junger Osteuropa-Experten. Arbeitspapiere und Materialien 36. Bremen: Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, pp. 68–71.
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Book Chapter
Thelen, Tatjana. 2002. Bodenbindung und soziale Kontinuität in Mesterszállás (Ungarn) und Kisiratos (Rumänien). In: Hans Gehl (ed.). Regionale Volkskulturen in Ostmitteleuropa: Abgrenzung - Nachbarschaft - Interethnik. Materialien/Institut für Donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde 13. Tübingen: Institut für Donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde, pp. 155–180.

Thesis - Habilitation (1)

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Thesis - Habilitation
Thelen, Tatjana. 2012. Care: Konstruktion, Reproduktion und Auflösung bedeutsamer Bindungen. Habilitation Thesis, Philosophische Fakultät I, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale.

Working Paper (4)

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Working Paper
Thelen, Tatjana, Andrew Cartwright, and Thomas Sikor. 2008. Local state and social security in rural communities: a new research agenda and the example of postsocialist Europe. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 105. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-959A-E.
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Working Paper
Thelen, Tatjana. 2006. Experiences of devaluation: work, gender and identity in Eastern Germany. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 85. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-99AF-B.
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Working Paper
Thelen, Tatjana, Astrid Baerwolf, and Tilo Grätz. 2006. Ambivalenzen der Flexibilisierung: Traditionalisierung in Familien- und Geschlechterbeziehungen in Ostberlin und Brandenburg. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 89. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-9A84-1.
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Working Paper
Thelen, Tatjana. 2005. The loss of trust: changing social relations in the workplace in Eastern Germany. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 78. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0011-9BAD-0.

Issue (3)

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Issue
Thelen, Tatjana, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (eds.). 2014. Stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. Social Analysis 58(3).
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Issue
Kay, Rebecca, Sergei Shubin, and Tatjana Thelen. 2012. Rural realities in post-socialist space. Journal of Rural Studies 28(2).
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Issue
Thelen, Tatjana and Rosie Read. 2007. Social security and care after socialism: reconfigurations of public and private. Focaal 50.

Other (3)

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Other
Thelen, Tatjana and Agnieszka Pasieka. 2012. Local State and Social Security in Rural Hungary, Romania, and Serbia. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Report 2010/2011(1). http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-000E-DE5E-D.
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Other
Eidson, John R., Tilo Grätz, Gordon Milligan, Boris Nieswand, and Tatjana Thelen. 2005. Deutschlandforschung am Max-Planck-Institut. Bericht/Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung: Sonderausgabe 2005. https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-sonderausgabe-2005-de#page=32.
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Other
Thelen, Tatjana. 2005. Wandel sozialer Sicherung in Ostdeutschland: funktionale Transformation sozialer Netzwerke. Bericht/Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung: Sonderausgabe 2005. https://www.eth.mpg.de/pubs/institute-reports/pdf/mpi-eth-institute-report-sonderausgabe-2005-de#page=200.

Book Review (1)

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Book Review
Thelen, Tatjana. 2005. 'Privatizing Poland - baby food, big business, and the remaking of labor' by Elizabeth C. Dunn. British Journal of Industrial Relations 43(3): 552–554.

Collected Edition (4)

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Collected Edition
Thelen, Tatjana, Larissa Vetters, and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann (eds.). 2018. Stategraphy: toward a relational anthropology of the state. Studies in Social Analysis 4. New York: Berghahn.
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Collected Edition
Alber, Erdmute, Cati Coe, and Tatjana Thelen (eds.). 2013. Anthropology of sibling relations: shared parentage, experience, and exchange. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Collected Edition
Thelen, Tatjana and Haldis Haukanes (eds.). 2010. Parenting after the century of the child: travelling ideals, institutional negotiations and individual responses. Burlington: Ashgate.
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Collected Edition
Leutloff-Grandits, Carolin, Anja Peleikis, and Tatjana Thelen (eds.). 2009. Social security in religious networks. New York: Berghahn.

Monograph (1)

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Monograph
Thelen, Tatjana. 2003. Privatisierung und soziale Ungleichheit in der osteuropäischen Landwirtschaft: zwei Fallstudien aus Ungarn und Rumänien. Frankfurt/Main: Campus.
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