Books
Forthcoming
Nasima Selim and Judith Albrecht, eds. Ways of Breathing and Knowing: The Politics and Poetics of Air, Atmosphere, and the Body. Book Series: Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing. London and New York: Routledge.
2024
Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany. New York and Oxford: Berghahn. Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.
Special Issues, Articles, and Other Texts
Forthcoming, Nasima Selim, Samata Biswas and Debalina Majumder. “Tamarind Tunes: Radical Breathing Space as Resistance Design for Conspiration.” Resistance: Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities.
2025, Judith Albrecht, Tomás S. Criado, Ignacio Farías, Andrew Gilbert, Carla J. Maier, and Nasima Selim. “Multimodales Arbeiten in der Public Anthropology. A Map of Interventions und kein Territorium. Ein Manifest.” In Public Anthropology. Wissenspraktiken und gesellschaftliche Interventionen der ethnologischen Fächer, eds. Hansjörg Dilger, Gisela Welz, Beate Binder, Thomas G. Kirsch, 479–496. Frankfurt and New York: Campus.
2023a, Nasima Selim. “The Companions of Breath for Planetary Health: Vegetal Lessons from Plants and The Botanical City.” Resistance: A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities 11(1): 48–68.
2023b, Nasima Selim. “Doing Public Anthropology in the Classroom: (Un)Learning ‘Race,’ White Fragility, and Mobilizing Antiracist Pedagogy in Germany.” boasblogs, 21 February.
2023c, Judith Albrecht and Nasima Selim. “Multilingual Encounters Beyond (Research) Collaboration: Public Anthropology and ‘Linguistic Others’ in Post-2015 Germany.” Public Anthropologist 5(2): 153–182.
2022, Nasima Selim. “The Politics of Breathing Troubles in COVID-19: Pandemic Inequalities and the Right to Breath Across India and Germany.” Medicine Anthropology Theory 9(3): 1–15.
2021a, Nasima Selim. “Pandemic Affects, Planetary Specters, and the Precarious Everyday: Encountering COVID-19 as a Nomad with (Half)Grown Roots.” Blog Medizinethnologie. Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt, 11 February.
2021b, Sarah Willen, Nasima Selim, Emily Mendenhall, Shahanoor Akter Chowdhury, Miriam Magaña Lopez, and Hansjörg Dilger. “Flourishing: Migration and Health in Social Context.” BMJ Global Health 6: e005108.
2020a, Nasima Selim. “Letter from the (Un)seen Virus: (Post)Humanist Perspectives in Corona Times.” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 28(2): 353–355.
2020b, Nasima Selim. “Learning the Elsewhere of ‘Inner Space’: The Affective Pedagogy of Post/Secular Sufi Healing in Germany.” Religion and Society: Advances in Research 11: 105–119.
2020c, Omar Kasmani, Nasima Selim, Hansjörg Dilger, and Dominik Mattes. “Introduction | Elsewhere Affects and the Politics of Engagement across Religious Life-Worlds.” Religion and Society: Advances in Research 11: 92–104.
2020d, Nasima Selim and Judith Albrecht on behalf of AG Public Anthropology. “In Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and Call for Dismantling Structural Racism in Germany. Public Statement Issued by the Working Group Public Anthropology, German Anthropological Association.” Public Anthropologist Blog, 21 June.
2019a, Nasima Selim. Learning the Ways of the Heart in Berlin: Sufism, Anthropology, and the Post-Secular Condition. Dr. Phil. Dissertation, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin.
2019b, Nasima Selim. “Spirit and Mind: Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion and Psychiatry.” Medicine Anthropology Theory 6(2): 138–141. (Book Review)
2018a, Nasima Selim, Mustafa Abdalla, Lilas Alloulou, Mohamed Alaedden Halli, Seth M. Holmes, Maria Ibiß, Gabi Jaschke, and Johanna Gonçalves Martín. “Coming Together in the so-called ‘Refugee Crisis:’ A Collaboration among Refugee Newcomers, Migrants, Activists, and Anthropologists in Berlin.” Anthropology in Action 25(3): 34–44.
2018b, Thomas Stodulka, Nasima Selim, and Dominik Mattes. “Affective Scholarship: Doing Anthropology with Epistemic Emotions.” Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 46(4): 519–536.
2018c, Nasima Selim. “Transfiguring Psychoanalysis and Culture: Review of Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir: Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood (Edited by Manasi Kumar, Anup Dhar, and Anurag Mishra; Foreword by Erica Burman).” Blog Medizinethnologie. Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt, 13 August. (Book Review)
2017, Kristina Dohrn, Britta Rutert, Judith Schühle, Nasima Selim, and Mechthild von Vacano. “Weaving the World in Conversation with Paul Stoller: From Sensuous Scholarship to Public Anthropology.” Blog Medizinethnologie. Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt, 24 April.
2015a, Nasima Selim. “Sufi Body Practices and Therapeutic Politics in Berlin.” In Gritt Klinkhammer and Eva Tolksdorf, eds., Somatisierung des Religiösen. Empirische Studien zum rezenten religiösen Heilungs- und Therapiemarkt, 237–282. Bremen: Universität Bremen.
2015b, Nasima Selim. “Healing the City: Sufi Prayers in Berlin's Towers.” Blog Medizinethnologie. Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt, 26 May.
2015c, Nasima Selim. “Mental Health Care.” In Syed M. Ahmed et al., Bangladesh Health Systems Review. Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies 5(3): 120–122. Geneva: WHO Press.
2014a, Nasima Selim. “What does Sitting have to do with the Self? Body Techniques, Personhood, and Well-being in Vipassana Meditation.” In Sjaak van der Geest, Trudie Gerrits, and Julia Challinor, eds., Medical Anthropology: Essays and Reflections from an Amsterdam Graduate Program, 265–282. Diemen: AMB.
2014b, Tanvir Hasan, Tisa Muhaddes, Suborna Camellia, Nasima Selim, and Sabina Faiz Rashid. “Prevalence and Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women with Disabilities in Bangladesh: Results of an Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Method Study.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence 29(17): 3105–3126.
2014c, Nasima Selim. “Patients and Agents: Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh.” Medicine Anthropology Theory 1(1): 213–214. (Book Review)
2013, Zaman, Shahaduz, Nasima Selim, and Taufique Joarder. “McDonaldization without a McDonald's: Globalization and Food Culture as Social Determinants of Health in Urban Bangladesh.” Food, Culture & Society 16(4): 551–568.
2011a, Nasima Selim. Doing Body, Doing Mind, Doing Self: Vipassana Meditation in Everyday Life. MSc Dissertation, Medical Anthropology, University of Amsterdam.
2011b, Nasima Selim. “Friendship (and Healing) in the ‘Intersubjectivity of Silence:’ A Case Illustration.” In M. Tankink and M. Vysma, eds., Roads and Boundaries: Travels in Search of (Re-)connection, 195–206. Diemen: AMB.
2011c, Mann, Anna M., Annemarie Mol, Priya Satalkar, Amalinda Savirani, Nasima Selim, Malini Sur, and Emily Yates-Doerr. “Mixing Methods, Tasting Fingers: Notes on an Ethnographic Experiment.” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 1(1): 221–243.
2011d, Goudet, Sophie M., Paula L. Griffiths, Barry A. Bogin, and Nasima Selim. “Impact of Flooding on Feeding Practices of Infants and Young Children in Dhaka, Bangladesh Slums: What are the Coping Strategies?” Maternal & Child Nutrition 7(2): 198–214.
2010a, Nasima Selim. “An Extraordinary Truth? The Ādam Suicide Notes from Bangladesh.” Mental Health, Religion & Culture 13(3): 223–244.
2010b, Nasima Selim. “Cultural Dimensions of Depressive Episode: A Qualitative Study in Two Villages of Matlab.” Journal of Population, Health & Nutrition 28(1): 95–106.
2008a, Sjaak van der Geest and Nasima Selim. “Introduction.” In Sjaak van der Geest, Nasima Selim, and Shahaduz Zaman, eds., Daily Health Concerns in Kakabo: Anthropological Explorations in a Bangladeshi Village, 11–14. Dhaka: James P Grant School of Public Health, Brac University.
2008b, Sjaak van der Geest, Nasima Selim, and Shahaduz Zaman, eds. Daily Health Concerns in Kakabo: Anthropological Explorations in a Bangladeshi Village. Dhaka: James P Grant School of Public Health, Brac University.
2008c, Nasima Selim and Priya Satalkar. “Perceptions of Mental Illness in a Bangladeshi Village.” Brac University Journal 5(1): 47–57.
2006, Choudhury, S.R., Mullick, M.S.I., Rahman, S., Selim, Nasima, and Huq, Nafisa. “Psychiatric Morbidity in the Cardiac Emergency Set-Up.” Sir Salimullah Medical College Journal 14(2): 86–91.
2002, Nasima Selim. “The Man Who Would Marry God: A Case of Schizophrenia with Bizarre Delusion.” Bangladesh Journal of Psychiatry 16(1): 48–54.
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