Dr. Julten Abdelhalim
Julten Abdelhalim holds a doctorate in Political Science from Heidelberg University where she worked at the Cluster of Excellence »Asia and Europe in a Global Context« from 2009 until 2013.
Earlier, she obtained her master’s degree in Global Studies from Freiburg University after studying in Freiburg, New Delhi, Durban, and Cairo.
Funded by the Excellence Initiative at Humboldt Graduate School, she pursued her postdoctoral research from 2013 until 2018 in interdisciplinary Social Sciences at the institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She carried out her fieldwork-based project on gender and revivalist Islamic movements in India and the Arab world.
She has a wide experience in submitting funding applications to HU Berlin, DFG, DAAD, and German political foundations.
Together with Anna Arbuzova, she worked as a Research Support Officer from April 2020 to July 2021, filling in for Anne Hattwich during her parental leave.
Monographs & Books
Abdelhalim, J. 2015. Indian Muslims and Citizenship: Spaces for Jihād in Everyday Life. London: Routledge.
Edited Volumes & Exhibition Catalogues
Marks, M., Abdelhalim, J. eds. 2019. Identity, Agency and Fieldwork Methodologies in Risky Environments. London: Routledge.
Articles in Edited Volumes
Abdelhalim, J. 2021. »›Why don’t you study your own country?‹ Situating the Semi-self, amongst Hybrid Identities.« In Global South Scholars in the Western Academy. Harnessing Unique Experiences, Knowledges, and Positionality in the Third Space, edited by Martin, S. B., Dandekar, D. Routledge Research in Decolonizing Education. London: Routledge, 10.
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003109808-3
Abdelhalim, J. 2015. »Muslim Citizens versus Citizen Muslims: A Study of Discursive Strategies in Contemporary India.« In Politics of the Other in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts, edited by Koenig, L., Chaudhuri, B. London: Routledge, 48-60.
Articles
Marks, M., Abdelhalim, J. 2018. »Introduction: identity, jeopardy and moral dilemmas in conducting research in ‘risky’ environments.« Contemporary Social Science, 13 (3-4): 305-322.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2017.1388463
Abdelhalim, J. 2017. »Accommodating fieldwork to irreconcilable equations of citizenship, authoritarianism, poverty and fear in Egypt.« Contemporary Social Science, 13 (3-4): 397-411.
https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2017.1393552
Abdelhalim, J. 2017. »Reviving Islam: Neo-Salafism Traversing Saudi Arabia and Egypt.« Northeast African Studies, 17 (1): 51.
https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.17.1.0051
Abdelhalim, J. 2015. »The Egyptian Case: Can Subjects become Citizens?« Transcience, 6 (1): 60-68.
https://www2.hu-berlin.de/transcience/Vol6_No1_2015_60_68.pdf
Abdelhalim, J. 2013. »ISO certified pardahs and agency mechanisms among Muslim women in Kerala.« The South Asianist Journal, 2 (2): 10-27.
http://www.southasianist.ed.ac.uk/article/view/64
Abdelhalim, J. 2012. »Being a Governed Muslim in a Non-Muslim State: Indian Muslims and Citizenship.« In Discourses of Transculturality: Ideas, Institutions and Practices in India and China, special issue. Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, No.67
http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/13356/1/Heidelberg_Papers_67_ChaudhuriKoenig.pdf
Abdelhalim, J. 2010. »Cosmopolitanism and the Right to be Legal: The Practical Poverty of Concepts.« Transcience, 1 (1): 63-86.
https://www2.hu-berlin.de/transcience/Vol1_Issue1_2010_63_86_abdelhalim.pdf