Philipp Zehmisch is Senior Academic Staff of Anthropology at the South Asia Institute. His research combines Political Anthropology, Subaltern, Borderland, and Migration Studies in order to understand the long-lasting legacies of the Partition of British India. His postdoctoral project “Dialectics of Partition: Ethics of Collaboration and Resistance in Postcolonial Pakistan” started off with a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich (2015 until 2017). It developed further while teaching Anthropology and Sociology as Assistant Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (2018 until 2020). Philipp earned his M.A. (2007) and Ph.D. (2015) at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, LMU Munich. His doctoral thesis “Mini-India: The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands” (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2017) won two dissertation awards. Further, Philipp published several book chapters and journal articles and co-edited “Manifestations of History: Time, Space, and Community in the Andaman Islands” (with Frank Heidemann, Delhi: Primus, 2016) as well as “Soziale Ästhetik, Atmosphäre, Medialität: Beiträge aus der Ethnologie (with Ursula Münster, Jens Zickgraf, and Claudia Lang, Lit: Berlin, 2018).
2020: “Patriots in Kala Pani: Writing Subaltern Resistance into the National Memory”, in: Banerjee, Rita (ed.): Cultural Histories of India: Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography. London/ New York: Routledge. 67–88.
2018b (with Jens Zickgraf, Claudia Lang, and Ursula Münster): “Einleitung“ (Introduction), In: Zehmisch, Philipp et al. (eds): Soziale Ästhetik, Atmosphäre, Medialität: Beiträge aus der Ethnologie. Berlin: Lit Verlag. 7–17.
2018c: “Andaman Loves: Marriage Practices, Secularism, and Alternative Modernities in the Age of Globalization”, In: Zehmisch, Philipp et al. (eds):Soziale Ästhetik, Atmosphäre, Medialität: Beiträge aus der Ethnologie. Berlin: Lit Verlag. 175–185.
2018d: “Between Mini-India and Sonar Bangla: Memorialisation and Place-Making Practices of East Bengal Hindu Refugees in the Andaman Islands”. In: Mahn, Churnjeet and Anne Murphy (eds): Partition and the Practice of Memory. Cham: Palgrave McMillan. 63–88.
2017b: “Anarchie auf den Andamanen? Ethnographische Reflexionen zum Spannungsfeld von autoritärer Staatlichkeit und Strategien der Herrschaftsvermeidung im Indischen Ozean“. Paideuma: Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde, 63. 231–250.
2017d: “Fluid Indigeneities in the Indian Ocean: A small history of the State and its Other.” In: Uddin, Nasir, Eva Gerharz, and Pradeep Chakkarath (eds): Indigeneity on the Move: Varying Manifestations of a Contested Concept. Oxford/ New York: Berghahn. 270–293.
2016b (with Frank Heidemann): “Introduction.” In: Heidemann, Frank and Philipp Zehmisch (eds): Manifestations of History: Time, Space and Community in the Andaman Islands. New Delhi: Primus. 1–17.
2016c: “The Invisible Architects of Andaman: Manifestations of Aboriginal Migration from Ranchi.” In: Heidemann, Frank and Philipp Zehmisch (eds): Manifestations of History: Time, Space and Community in the Andaman Islands. New Delhi: Primus. 122–138.
2016d: “Undoing Subalternity? Anarchist Anthropology and the Dialectics of Participation and Autonomy.” In: Dhawan, Nikita/ Fink, Elisabeth/ Leinius, Johanna/ Mageza-Barthel, Rirhandu (eds): Negotiating Normativity: Postcolonial Appropriations, Contestations and Transformations. New York: Springer. 95–109.
2009 (with Lisa Riedner): “Widerstand auf der Baustelle: Ein ethnographisches Fallbeispiel zur Aushandlung transnationaler Realitäten der Werkvertragsarbeit in München und Istanbul.“ In: Bayer, Nathalie, Andrea Engl, Sabine Hess, Johannes Moser (eds): Crossing Munich: Beiträge zur Migration aus Kunst, Wissenschaft und Aktivismus. Munich: Silke Schreiber. 162–66.
Submitted, Revised, Forthcoming
In Print: “Moral Challenges at the Intersection of Religion, Politics, and COVID-19 in Pakistan.” in: CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age, edited by Carola Lorea, Natalie Lang, Emily Hertzman, Erica Larson. University of Hawai’i.
In Print: “Can migrants be indigenous? Affirmative action, space and belonging in the Andaman Islands.” Modern Asian Studies, Special Issue “Many Worlds of the Adivasi”, edited by Sangeeta Dasgupta and Vineeta Damodaran.
Forthcoming: “Bringing Subalterns into Speech? Investigating Anarchic Resistance to Hegemonic Modernity” Revista de Antropología y Sociología: Virajes, 24(2)
In Revision after Peer Review: Rethinking regions: Cultural Formations and Circulation through and across Cultural Boundaries, co-edited with Anne Murphy, Special Issue, Asian Ethnology.
