Tabea Chaudhri
Research Associate | Economy and Civil Society
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Since April 2024 Tabea Chaudhri has been a research associate in the research area “Economy and Civil Society” at the IRS. As a member of the Emmy Noether Programme she contributes to the “Borders and Memories” project. Her PhD project focuses on the meaning of memories for the removal of the Northern-Irish peace-walls.

Tabea worked as a social worker for several years, both at a drug consumption room for sex-workers and at a day centre for homeless people in Hamburg.

She holds a M.Sc. in Sociology: Ethnic and Migration Studies (University of Amsterdam) and a B.A. in Anthropology (University of Bayreuth). For her master’s thesis she analysed the construction of the (migrant)Other in the medial portrayal of refugees. Her bachelor’s thesis traces the structural barriers and agency of refugees at a relocation centre in Athens.

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Third-party funded project 11/2023 - 10/2026
Das sozial-räumliche Gedächtnis der europäischen Grenzen: Dispositive des Erinnerns und Vergessens

Disruptive events such as the reorganisation of borders after the Second World War have a profound impact on how societies and spaces change. This leads to a fundamental question: how do we remember these borders, and what influence does this memory have on the concept of a borderless Europe? The Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group "The Social-Spatial Memory of European Borders: Dispositifs of Remembering and Forgetting" explores how past disruptive events, such as wars, geopolitical conflicts and political unifications, have influenced the current state of borders. more info