Claudia Derichs
Institute of Asian and African Studies Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
E-mail: claudia.derichs@hu-berlin.de
Institute for Asian and African Studies (IAAW)
Invalidenstr. 118
10115 Berlin
Research Interests
- Critical knowledge production
- New Area Studies
- Transregional Studies
Vita
Claudia Derichs, PhD is professor of Transregional Southeast Asian Studies at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany. She has studied Japanese and Arabic in Bonn, Tokyo and Cairo and holds a PhD in Japanology (1994, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany). She is a member of various editorial boards, advisory boards, selection and evaluation committees, and was awarded a Heisenberg scholarship by the German Science Foundation. Her research covers Southeast Asia and the Middle East and is committed to the practical implementation of epistemic decolonization. She specializes in transregional political movements and works towards new orientations in Area Studies.
Selected Publications
- 2022. Derichs, Claudia & Kevin Coogan: Tracing Japanese Leftist Political Activism (1957-2017). The Boomerang Flying Transnational. London & New York: Routledge
- 2022. Knorr, Lina/Andrea Fleschenberg/Sumrin Kalia and Derichs, Claudia (eds): Local Responses to Global Challenges in Southeast Asia. A Transregional Reader. Singapore: World Scientific
- 2022. The long sixties and Islamist activism: radical transregional solidarities; in: Maasri, Zeina, Cathy Bergin & Francesa Burke (eds): Transnational Solidarity. Anti-colonialism in the global sixties. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, pp. 279-299.
- 2022. Translating the Family; in: Alber, Erdmute et al. (eds): The Politics of Making Kinship. Historical and Anthropological Perspectives. New York & Oxford: Berhahn Books
- 2021. Pathways of local knowledge; in: Schneider, Irene/Holger Warnk (eds): Knowledge, Science, and Local Tradition. Multiple Perspectives on the Middle East and South East Asia in Honor of Fritz Schulze. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp.13-28
- 2021. (with Amanda tho Seeth) Introduction: Religion in Transregional Connections: Indonesia and Malaysia; in: TRaNS. Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia. Vol. 9(2021)2: 113-115
- 2021. Area Studies and Disciplines: What Areas and What Disciplines?; in: International Quarterly for Asian Studies 51(2020)3-4: 35-41
- 2020. Global Sixties in the Non-Western World; in: Southeast Asian Social Science Review 5(2020)1: 5-26
- 2017. Derichs, Claudia: Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation. London & New York: Routledge
- 2014. Derichs, Claudia (ed.): Women’s Movements and Countermovements. The Quest for Gender Equality in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing