Professor Dr. Claudia Derichs

Chair for Comparative Politics / International Development Studies

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Philipps-Universität Marburg
Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Wilhelm-Röpke-Str. 6
35032 Marburg

Office: Room 00 044 (G floor)
Office hours: Thursdays, 10-11h (summer term 2012)

E-Mail: derichs@staff.uni-marburg.de

+49-6421-28-24397
+49-6421-28-28991

Short Bio (complete CV)

Career: Chair for Comparative Politics and International Development Studies at Philipps University of Marburg since March 2010. Chair for Political Science at University of Hildesheim 2007-2010. Previously Assistant professor at the University Duisburg-Essen.

Studies and qualifications: Japanology, Arabic and Social Sciences at the Universities of Bonn, Tokyo and Cairo. Translator (Diploma) for Japanese and Arabic. Worked as science journalist throughout her studies. PhD at the Free University Berlin, afterwards research fellow at the Universities of Potsdam and Duisburg. In Duisburg interim Professor for East-Asian Politics from 1996-1998. Habilitation at the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2004; Venia legendi in Comparative and International Politics.

Research: Acquisition, handling and direction of third-party funded research projects. Focal points are the politics of the Near and Middle East, East and South East Asia as well as political Islam and Gender Studies.

Distinctions: Inclusion in an online portal for distinguished female scientists in German-speaking countries (2010; nominated by DFG). Link.

⇒ Current courses, Office hours and PhD studies ⇐

Latest Publications (complete list)

2013

Derichs, Claudia/Mark R. Thompson (eds.): Dynasties and Female Political Leaders in Asia. Gender, Power and Pedigree. Berlin et al.: LIT. (in print)
Gender and Transition in Southeast Asia: Conceptual Travel?, in: Asia Europe Journal 342 (2013): forthcoming. 'online first' version available.
(with Ursula Birsl): Demokratie, Autokratie und Geschlecht – ein europäisch-asiatischer Vergleich [Democracy, Autocracy and Gender – a European-Asian Comparison]; in: Appelt, Erna/Brigitte Aulenbacher/Angelika Wetterer (Hg.): Gesellschaft. Feministische Krisendiagnosen [Society. Feminist Diagnoses of Crisis]. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 186-202.
Transnationale Netzwerke muslimischer Frauen – Eindrücke am Beispiel von Musawah for Equality in the Family [Transnational Networks of Muslim Women - Impressions from Musawah for Equality in the Family]; in: Ina Wunn/ Mualla Selcuk (eds.): Islam, Frauen, Europa [Islam, Women, Europe]. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, pp. 225-240.

2012

Tools Increasing and Strengthening Women’s Political Participation in the Arab Spring; in: Dürkop, Colin/Suna Güzin Aydemir (eds.): Women’s Empowerment in the Arab Spring. Ankara: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, pp. 7-13.
Islamischer Feminismus und Emanzipation [Islamic Feminism and Emancipation], in: Birkle, Carmen et al. (eds): Emanzipation und feministische Politiken. Verwicklungen, Verwerfungen, Verwandlungen [Emancipation and Feminist Politics. Entanglements, rejections, transformations]. Sulzbach: Ulrike Helmer Verlag, pp. 165-180.
Transnationale muslimische Frauennetzwerke: Impulse aus Südostasien [Transnational Networking of Muslim Women: Impulses From Southeast Asia]; in: Selcuk, Mualla/Ina Wunn/Corrina Gomani/Constantin Klein (Hg.): Islam, Frauen, Europa [Islam, Women, Europe]. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer

2011

Derichs, Claudia/Fleschenberg, Andrea (eds.): Women and Politics in Asia. A Springboard for Democracy? Münster et al./Singapore: LIT/ISEAS
Zur Stellung der Frau in den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas [Women’s Status in North African Societies]; in: Hofbauer, Martin/Thorsten Loch (eds.): Wegweiser zur Geschichte. Nordafrika [Signposts to History. North Africa]. Paderborn et al.: Schöningh, pp. 209-17
(with Daniel Pinéu): Gender and Security; in: Schuck, Christoph (Hg.): Multilevel and Multidimensional Security in the International System. Baden-Baden: Nomos, S. 233-259
Islamische Familiengesetze: Vom Zankapfel zum Reformobjekt [Islamic Family Law: The Bone of Contention Or Object of Reform]; in: Schulze, Fritz/Holger Warnk (Hg.): Islam und Staat in den Ländern Südostasiens [Islam and state in Southeast Asia]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, S. 127-145

2010

Diversity and Female Political Participation. Views on and from the Arab World (ed.). Berlin: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Transnationale Frauennetzwerke in (Südost-)Asien: „Arbeitsteilung“ in der Interessenvertretung [Transnational Womens’ Networking in (Southeast) Asia: „Division of Labour“ within the Representation Of Interests]; in: Leviathan Sonderheft 26/2010 (Globalisierung Süd): 233-248.
Entgrenzte malaiische Welt? [Borderless Malay World?]; in: Schetter, Conrad/Stefan Conermann/Bernd Kuzmits (Hg.): Die Grenzen Asiens zwischen Globalisierung und staatlicher Fragmentierung [Asia’s Borders between Globalization and State Fragmentation]. Berlin: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt, S. 247-263
Religious Fundamentalisms and Their Gendered Impacts in Asia. Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, (Co-Hrsg.: Andrea Fleschenberg).
Europa als Counterpart des “Orient”: Asiatische Perspektiven [Europe as Counterpart of the Orient: Asian Perspectives]; in: Gehler, Michael/Silvio Vietta (Hg.): Europa – Europäisierung – Europäistik: Neue wissenschaftliche Ansätze, Methoden und Inhalte [Europe-Europeanization-European Studies: New scientific approaches, methods, and contents]. Wien et al.: Böhlau, S. 381-394.

Research interests

Development studies; political Islam in Southeast Asia and the Middle East; gender-related political science / gender-related Asian and Middle East studies; Japanese politics.

Research projects

Democracy in 'Unwritten Constitutions' - Asia and Europe in Comparison (2011-2012, funded by the Ministry for Science and Art of Hessen State, HMWK)
Religious pluralism and Contested Religious Authority in Contemporary Indonesian Islam (2011-2013; funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
Policies of Intervention - A Comparison of Portuguese and German Foreign Policy Engagement in South and Central Asia (2011-2013; funded by DAAD)
Transnational Advocacy Networks of Muslim Women: Organisation, objectives and countermovements in the national and transnational arena (2010-2012, funded by Gerda-Henkel Foundation)
Transformation, Democratisation and Islamisation in Southeast Asia and the Middle East from a gender perspective (2009-2011; funded by DFG)
Diversity and social protection among Turkish residents in Germany and Australia (2008-2009; funded by DAAD)
Dynasties and female political top leaders in Asia (2003-2006, funded by DFG)
Discourses on reform and political change in East and Southeast Asia (2000-2003; funded by DFG)
Nation-building in Malaysia (individual project)