Research: Our Publications and Conference Contributions
Publications/Congress Contributions
Here you can find publications on Afghanistan, which have been produced by the members of the working group or within the Afghanistan projects.
Publications
Salehi, Mohammad Javad; Zaki, Mohammad Baqer; Harsch, Stefanie; Bittlingmayer, Uwe H. (2024): Modern education and its enemies in Afghanistan – an analytical, historical review to inform the future. In: Gutman, Mary (eds.): Education Leadership in the Shadow of Wars. Wiesbaden: Springer (submitted).
Bittlingmayer, U. H., Islertas, Z., Sahrai, E., Harsch, S., Bertschi, I., & Sahrai, D. (2024). Health Literacy from a Health Ethnology Perspective: An Analysis of Everyday Health Practices of Migrant Youth and Families. Springer.
Krafft, M (2023). Welche Friedens- und Gewaltbegriffe finden sich in Texten afghanischer Studentinnen. Hausarbeit an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Freiburg
Harsch, S. (2022). Health Literacy as a Situational, Social Practice in Context-Insights from Three Research Projects among” Vulnerable Groups” (Doctoral dissertation, University of Education Freiburg).
Harsch, S; Bittlingmayer, UH (2021): Determinanten von wahrgenommener Lebensqualität sowie der Zusammenhang von Lebensqualität und Dimensionen von Gesundheit und Gesundheitskompetenz von Menschen in Zentralafghanistan. In Martin Staats (Ed.): Lebensqualität. Ein Metathema. Weinheim, München: Beltz Juventa, pp 578-588.
Harsch, S; Jawid, A; Jawid, ME; Saboga-Nunes, L; Bittlingmayer, UH.; Sahrai, D; Sørensen, K (2021): Health Literacy and Health Behavior Among Women in Ghazni, Afghanistan. In: Frontiers in Public Health 9, S. 629334. DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.629334.
Bittlingmayer, UH,; Sahrai, OK.; Harsch, S.; Jawid, A.; Shojaee, N.; Martin, F.; Sahrai, D. (2020) “Located Captialism in Afghanistan” English translation of “Capitalismo situado no Afeganistão“. In: /Terceiro Milênio./ /Revista crítica de sociologia e política, /V. 12, nº 1, 2019. (Herausgegeben von Edson Farias und Fabrício Maciel).
Bittlingmayer, UH., Islertas, Z., Sahrai, E., Harsch, S., Bertschi, I., & Sahrai, D. (2020). Health Literacy von geflüchteten, männlichen Jugendlichen aus Afghanistan und die Auslotung vorhandener Handlungsspielräume. In Health Literacy aus gesundheitsethnologischer Perspektive. Springer VS, Wiesbaden, pp. 185-218.
Harsch, S; Jawid, A; Jawid, ME; Sahrai, D; Bittlingmayer, UH (2020): The Relationship of Health Literacy, Wellbeing and Religious Beliefs in Neglected and Unequal Contexts – Results of a Unique Study in Central Afghanistan. In Health Promotion Journal of Australia 32, S. 80–87. DOI: 10.1002/hpja.419.
Harsch, S; Jawid, A; Jawid, ME; Saboga-Nunes, L; Bittlingmayer, UH.; Sahrai, D; Sørensen, K (2020): Health without formal Education? Health Literacy, Quality of Life and Health behavior among Male Household Leaders in Four Districts of the Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. In Luis Saboga-Nunes, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Okan Orkan, Diana Sahrai (Eds.): New Approaches to Health Literacy. Linking Different Perspectives. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 261-287.
Harsch, S; Jawid, A; Jawid, M. Ebrahim; Bittlingmayer, UH (2020): Health literacy in Afghanistan – astonishing insights provoke a reconsideration of the common concept and measures of health literacy. In Luis Saboga-Nunes, Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Orkan Okan, Diana Sahrai (Eds.): New Approaches to Health Literacy. Linking Different Perspectives. Wiesbaden: Springer, pp. 261-287.
Bittlingmayer UH, Grundmeier, AM; Kößler, R; Sahrai, D; Sahrai, F (2019): Education and Development in Afghanistan. Challenges and Prospects. Bielefeld: transcript.
Bittlingmayer, UH; Grundmeier, A-M; Kößler, R.; Sahrai, F.; Sahrai, D. (2019): Introduction: Education and Development in Afghanistan between History, Expansion, Hope and Disillusions. In: Dies (eds): Education and Development in Afghanistan. Challenges and Prospects, Bielefeld: transcript, pp. 15-44.
Harsch, S; Bittlingmayer, UH (2019): Highly Motivated, Transnational, Heterogeneous, and Barely Interconnected: An Explorative Online Survey among German Organizations. In: Bittlingmayer, Uwe H. et al. (eds): Education and Development in Afghanistan. Challenges and Prospects, Bielefeld: transcript, pp.79-101.
Sahrai, Omar-Khaled (2018): Ethnizität, Widerstand und politische Legitimation in pashtunischen Stammesgebieten Afghanistans und Pakistans. Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften.
Harsch, S (2017): Health and Health Promotion in Developing Countries. A Case-Study on community-based Health Promotion Approaches in Afghanistan. Freiburg: University of Education Freiburg (Master Thesis).
Grundmeier, A-M; Sahrai, D; Sahrai, F (2015): Teacher Education in Afghanistan- Challenges and Prospects (Tagungsbericht). In: International Quaterly for Asian Studies, Vol. 46 3-4/2015, pp. 434-437.
Sahrai, D; Bittlingmayer, UH (2015) Entwicklung durch Bildung? Anmerkungen zur Idee, Afghanistan durch Bildungsexpansion nachholend zu entwickeln, in: Hauck, G; Lenz, I; Wienold, H (Hrsg.): Entwicklung, Gewalt, Gedächtnis. Festschrift für Reinhart Kößler, Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, pp. 215-233.
Congress Contribution
Afghan-Academic-Association (AGA), 14thAGA meeting; Berlin, Germany; February 2018: Harsch, S; Bittlingmayer, UH; Sahrai, D, Sahrai, E: Health Literacy in Afghanistan. Überraschende Einblicke in den Bereich Gesundheit, Gesundheit Handeln. Befunde eines multi-sample survey in Ghazni, Afghanistan.
HLCA Consortium’s meeting Bielefeld, Germany; Februar 2018: Sahrai, E; Projekt ELMi: Sinnsetzungsprozesse von jungen Geflüchteten mit afghanischem Migrationshintergrund – eine ethnographische Jugendgesundheitsstudie.
European Public Health Association (EUPHA), 10th European Public Health Conference; Stockholm, Sweden; November 2017: Harsch, S; Jawid, A; Jawid, M. E.; Bittlingmayer, UH: Health Literacy in crisis-affected Afghanistan: a quantitative study on beliefs and barriers.
City Health Conference; Basel, Schweiz; November 2017: Bittlingmayer, UH: The Limits of Evidence-Based Public Health and the Need for an Ethnological Approach to Research in Health Promotion and Prevention.
9th European Public Health Conference; Wien, Österreich; November 2016: Sahrai, D; Bittlingmayer, UH; Saboga Nunes, L. (2016): Health literacy – the necessity for an ethnological perspective.
23rd International Congress of DAVO; Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany; October 2016: Workshop: Education, Health, Peace and Development in Afghanistan. Beiträge:
- Bittlingmayer, UH.: Educational Development Programmes for Germany between Human Rights and Human Capital;
- Sahrai, F & Grant-Hayford, N: The Transcend Method – Solution-oriented Peace and Conflict Transformation in Afghanistan;
- Harsch, S: Health Promotion in Crisis-affected Fragile Countries: Between Harming, Immediately Curing and Sustainably Promoting Health? A Case Study of Afghanistan.
1st Summer School on Health Literacy; Freiburg, Germany, University of Education Freiburg; September 2016: Workshop: Sahrai, E; Harsch, S; Jawid, A: Health Literacy in Afghanistan.
3rd Health Literacy in Childhood and Adolescence Consortium Meeting; Bielefeld, Deutschland; Oktober 2015: Islertas, Z., Sahrai E, Bittlingmayer UH: ELMi EHealth Literacy and Minority health: An ethnographic study on health-related use of new media among disadvantaged adolescents with Turkish and Afghan migration background.