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Annika Strauss ist Ansprechpartnerin für das DAAD-Austauschprogramm "A New Passage to India".
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Sprechstunde im Sommersemester 2013:
Do 16.30 Uhr -18 Uhr ab dem 4.4.2013

Voranmeldung persönlich oder telefonisch im Sekretariat, Tel.: 83-27311

CURRICULUM VITAE

Studium:

WiSe 2003/04
Aufnahme eines Magisterstudiums an der Westfälischen Wilhelms- Universität Münster mit der Fächerkombination Ethnologie (Hauptfach), Politikwissenschaften (1. Nebenfach), Philosophie (2. Nebenfach)

Im WS 04/05
Wechsel zu Wirtschaftspolitik im zweiten Nebenfach

10/2010
Magistra Artium in Ethnologie, Politikwissenschaften und Wirtschaftspolitik, Thema der Magisterarbeit: „Die heimatlosen Verrückten“ – Ethnographie eines Rehabilitationsprojektes für psychisch kranke Obdachlose im westl. Indien

seit 11/2010
Promotionsstudentin der Ethnologie am Institut für Ethnologie/ WWU Münster

Feldforschung:

01.03 bis 31.3.2007
Praktikum im Zentrum für Transkulturelle Psychiatrie und Psycho-therapie (ZIPP): Durchführen einer Kurzforschung zur „Wahrnehmung von Besessenheit unter in der Klinik für Psychotherapie und Psychiatrie beschäftigten PsychiaterInnen und PsychotherapeutInnen“

09/2008 bis 12/2008
Forschungspraktikum in einer psychiatrischen NGO in Maha-rashtra/Indien zum Thema „Management von Verrücktheit in Westindien“, das Praktikum wurde betreut von Katy Gandevia, Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai und wurde mit einem Stipendium der Heinrich Hertz-Stiftung NRW gefördert

03/2011 bis 02/2012
Forschungsaufenthalt am Tata Institute of Social Sciences Mumbai zum Thema „Gender and Psychiatry in Mumbai“, gefördert vom Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD)

Publikationen:

Strauss, A. (2008): Vom Ex verhext. Ein Fallbeispiel aus der Interkulturellen Psychiatrie. In: Ethmundo (6) Im Internet: http://www.ethmundo.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=240&Itemid=75.

Strauss, A. (2010): ''We are like a Family''. Selbst und Person in einer indischen Psychiatrie. In: Ethmundo (16) Im Internet: http://www.ethmundo.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=546&Itemid=1.

Strauss, A. (2011): Ethnografie eines Rehabilitationsprojekts für psychisch kranke Obdachlose im westlichen Indien. Die heimatlosen Verrückten. Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac

Interessen und Schwerpunkte:

Transkulturelle Psychiatrie und Medizinethnologie, Konzept von Person und Selbst, Public Health, Geschlechterforschung, Institutionenethnologie, Ethnologie der Biomedizin, wirtschaftsethnologische Fragestellungen

TEACHING

Sommersemester 2013

088729 Lektürekurs zur Vorlesung Wissens- und Anwendungsbereiche der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie (Prof. Dr. Helene Basu; Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Timm)
09.04.-16.07.13, Di 16-18
Veranstaltungsbeschreibung und Seminarplan zum Herunterladen

088843 Sex and Gender in Medicine and Psychiatry
17.04.-17.07.13, STU 105 (2.10)
Description of Class and Readings

Wintersemester 2012/13

088720 Begleitseminar zur Vorlesung
15.10.12, Mo 14-16, ULB 202

088740 Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten

16.10.12, Di 16-18, ULB 201

Sprechstunde im Wintersemester 2012/13:

Mo: 16-18 mit Voranmeldung ab dem 22.10.2012

Letzte Sprechstunde am 05.02.2013

Feldforschung vom 13.02. bis einschl. 02.04.2013

Per E-Mail erreichbar, wird jedoch unregelmäßig abgerufen.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Annika Strauss graduated (Magistra Artium) in Social Anthropology (Main Subject), Political Science (1st Subsidiary) and Economic Policy (2nd Subsidiary) in October 2010. Her final thesis is titled “Homeless Madmen/women – Ethnography of a Rehabilitation Project for Mentally Ill Roadside Destitutes in Western India” and is based on a field research conducted from September 2008 till February 2009 in an NGO near Mumbai/India. Since November 2010 she is doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at the Institut für Ethnologie/Westfaelische-Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (doctoral adviser: Prof. Dr. Helene Basu). Her research project "Sex-Gender and Psychiatry in Mumbai" is once more placed in the field of Transcultural Psychiatry. It focuses on the question how the category "sex-gender" moulds biomedical practice in two cosmopolitan (public and private) psychiatric institutions in Mumbai/India.

Summary Magister (Master) Project

“Homeless Madmen/women – Ethnography of a Rehabilitation Project for Mentally Ill Roadside Destitutes in Western India”

Up to now the local construction of biomedicine outside western cultures was discussed only in a minority of anthropological studies. This paper takes a close look at the cultural and social structures of a biomedical NGO in Western India which deals with the rehabilitation of mentally ill roadside destitutes. It is based on field data collected during a research which was carried out in 2008/9 in a psychiatric NGO located near Mumbai/Maharashtra.
The ailment of patients, which is treated in this NGO, becomes manifest in psychiatric symptoms on the one hand and in the loss of and separation from their families on the other. Accordingly the ideology of a successful treatment present in this organisation stresses the reduction of symptoms of the mental illness as well as the reunion of the patient with his/her family. This ideology has a major impact on the patterns of action within the organisation.
The ideal of a ‘healed’ mentally ill roadside destitute refers significantly to the Indian concept of a complete, ‘normal’ person: in the Indian context ‘thinking’ of a person without thinking of his/her social relations is almost impossible. Due to a lack of resources in the Indian health system – above all concerning mental health, a reunion with the family is mostly the only chance for the patient to get appropriate (long-term) care and treatment. India suffers from a shortage of public psychiatric institutions – in particular facilities taking care of long-term patients are less. So taking care of chronically ill patients is mainly reflected back on families.

Summary PHD-Project

“Sex-Gender and Psychiatry in India: A Comparative Study of Biomedical Practice in Public and Private Psychiatry in Mumbai Concerning its Engendered/Sexed and Gendering/Sexing Aspects”

The research project "Sex-Gender and Psychiatry in India" is placed in the field of Transcultural Psychiatry. It focuses on the question how the category "sex-gender" moulds biomedical practice in cosmopolitan psychiatric institutions in India. Currently only fragmentary anthropological observations concerning sex/gender aspects in the Indian biomedical psychiatry exist. Psychological and psychiatric studies which examined biomedical practice in connection with sex/gender considered latter primarily as a social variable which influences the biological core symptoms of mental illnesses. Different from these approaches this study considers "sex-gender" as a/n emic category/ies. Adopting Bourdieus theory of habitus the embodied, engendered/sexed and at the same time due to practices gendering/sexing aspects of clinical every day life should be described and analyzed. Here in particular (gendered/sexed) space in psychiatric institutions, gender/sex aspects of diagnosis (in particular addiction and the psychiatric view of “disorders” of gender identity/sexual orientation) and the role of (gendered/sexed) bureaucracy are focused on. Additionally the study compares the aspects of sexed/gendered and sexing/gendering psychiatric habitus in public and private institutions.