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Prof. Dr. Anna Lisa Ramella

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C40.528 (5.OG)
Fon +49.4131.677-2295 (Sekr.), anna.ramella@leuphana.de
Junior Professor, Junior professorship of Cultural Studies Methods

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Vita

I am a visual and media anthropologist interested in outer space research, mobility and migration, media practices, rhythm, practice theory, and post-/decolonial theory and practice. Before joining Leuphana University, I was research associate at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Cologne and postdoc in the CRC Future Rural Africa in a project on "Testing Future", for which I did research on future-making, migration, lateral work practices, materialities and ruinations in Kenya. I received my PhD from the University of Siegen, "Locating Media", with a project on the mobility and media practices of touring musicians.

Teaching

At Leuphana, I focus on teaching ethnographic, audiovisual and multimodal methods. Formerly, I have taught on topics such as visual, digital and media Anthropology, postcolonial theory, film practice, ethnographic methods, textual analysis, transculturality and regional seminars on both B.A. and M.A. level in Berlin, Bremen, Amsterdam and Cologne.

Research Interests

Outer Space Research, Mobility and Migration, Rhythm, Media Ethnography, Visual Anthropology, Digital Ethnography, Postcolonial Theory

Projects

  1. Ruins in space, sustainability and outer space imaginaries
    (Project manager, academic)
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    Project: Research

  2. Testing Future: Kesho | Tomorrow
    (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

  3. Postplanetary Futures: Un/knowing outer space ecologies
    (Project manager, academic)

    Project: Research

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Anthropologie der Praxis
    Felix Girke (Editor) , Christian Meyer (Editor) , Anna Lisa Ramella (Editor) , Martin Zillinger (Editor) , 2024 Stuttgart , 350 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

  2. Living with ruins: ruination and future-making in Kenya (and beyond)
    Uros Kovac (Editor) , Anna Lisa Ramella (Editor) , 2024

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

  3. Filming Futures: Future-making and speculative fiction in ethnographic film and multimodal practice
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Editor) , Steffen Köhn (Editor) , Igor Karim (Editor) , 2023 Göttingen

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

  4. Fieldwork meets crisis
    Mirco Göpfert (Editor) , Andrea Behrends (Editor) , Thomas G Kirsch (Editor) , Minh T. N Nguyen (Editor) , Anna Lisa Ramella (Editor) , Thomas Stodulka (Editor) , Magnus Treiber (Editor) , Asta Vonderau (Editor) , 2022 Köln , 250 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

  5. Mit Bands auf Tour: Eine Medienethnographie des Unterwegsseins
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , 2021 Bielefeld , 194 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. From ruins and rubble: promised and suspended futures in Kenya (and beyond)
    Uroš Kovač (Author) , Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , 01.11.2023 , in: Journal of Eastern African Studies, 17, 1-2 , p. 141-164 , 24 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  2. Fieldwork meets crisis: Introduction
    Mirco Göpfert (Author) , Andrea Behrends (Author) , Thomas G Kirsch (Author) , Minh T. N Nguyen (Author) , Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , Thomas Stodulka (Author) , Magnus Treiber (Author) , Asta Vonderau (Author) , 01.01.2022 , in: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 147, 1-2 , p. 1-12 , 12 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research

  3. Material para-sites: lateral future-making in times of fragility
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , 01.01.2020 , in: Etnofoor, 32, 1 , p. 43-60 , 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  4. States of play/ing: Sonic dwellings on a music tour
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , 01.01.2019 , in: World of Music, 8, 1 , p. 65-86 , 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

  5. Deciphering movement and stasis: Touring musicians and their ambivalent imaginings of home and belonging
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , 01.01.2018 , in: International Journal of Tourism Anthropology, 6, 4 , p. 323-339 , 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Mobile Geographie
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , Roger Norum (Author) , 01.06.2026 1 ed. Baden Baden

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  2. Thinking Through Mobilities: A Collaborative Essay on the Entanglements of a Popular Concept
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , Silvia Wojczewski (Author) , Fabiola Mancinelli (Author) , 01.08.2025 , p. 105-113 , 9 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

  3. Socialities of practice: Stuckedness, accountability and mobile imaginaries among Kenyan migrant fisherpeople descendants
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , 02.04.2021 London , p. 320-332 , 13 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  4. Finding one’s rhythm: A ‘tour de force’ of fieldwork on the road with a band
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , 01.01.2018 , p. 71-93 , 23 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review

  5. Medienpraktiken ‚on the road‘: Social Media im Kontext von Musikmarketing
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Author) , 01.01.2017 Siegen , p. 37-54 , 18 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review

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Activities

  1. Filming the future's pasts: Future-making amidst ruination
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Speaker)

    Activity: Conference Presentations › Research

  2. RHYTHMS OF ATTUNEMENT
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Speaker)
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    Activity: Presentations (poster etc.) › Research

  3. CIRCULATING OBJECTS: four stories about bocios
    Anna Lisa Ramella (Speaker)
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    Activity: Presentations (poster etc.) › Research

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Courses

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