Thomas Bierschenk

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Thomas Bierschenk

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Thomas Bierschenk's Degrees

PhD Ethnology University of Cologne
Masters Ethnology University of Cologne
Bachelors Ethnology University of Cologne

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Bierschenk is a German ethnologist and sociologist. He is Professor of African Cultures and Societies at the Institute for Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Mainz. Biography Bierschenk passed his Abitur at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in 1970. In 1977 he completed his studies in history and sociology at the University Bielefeld and received his doctorate in sociology in 1983, also at this university. This was followed by his post-doctoral thesis at the Free University of Berlin . He studied at the University of Trier, St Peter's College, Oxford , the London School of Economics, the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, the Bordeaux Montaigne University and the University Bielefeld.

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Thomas Bierschenk's Published Works

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States at work : dynamics of African bureaucracies (2014) (169)
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AS ARENAS OF NEGOTIATION FOR STRATEGIC GROUPS: A case study from Bénin (1988) (144)
Local Powers and a Distant State in Rural Central African Republic (1997) (137)
Local Development Brokers in Africa The rise of a new social category (2003) (128)
Powers in the Village: Rural Benin Between Democratisation and Decentralisation (2003) (126)
ECRIS: Rapid Collective Inquiry for the Identification of Conflicts and Strategic Groups (1997) (89)
Transitions Between Cultivation and Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa [and Comments and Reply] (1993) (68)
Benin (1985) (62)
Studying the Dynamics of African Bureaucracies. An Introduction to States at Work (2014) (62)
The Everyday Functioning of an African Public Service: Informalization, Privatization and Corruption in Benin’s Legal System (2008) (53)
States at Work in West Africa: Sedimentation, Fragmentation and Normative Double-Binds (2010) (48)
DEVELOPMENT AID AS AN INTERVENTION IN DYNAMIC SYSTEMS: An Introduction (1988) (45)
The local appropriation of democracy: an analysis of the municipal elections in Parakou, Republic of Benin, 2002–03 (2006) (44)
Synthesis of trifluorosilyl organometallic complexes from trifluorosilyl radicals and metal atoms (1987) (39)
Sedimentation, Fragmentation and Normative Double-Binds in (West) African Public Services (2014) (39)
Democratization without Development: Benin 1989–2009 (2009) (36)
THE SECOND DIMENSION IN METAL VAPOR CHEMISTRY. A NEW GENERAL SYNTHESIS FOR METAL ALKYLS (1979) (28)
Ethnographies of Public Services in Africa: An Emerging Research Paradigm (2014) (28)
The Long-Term Effects of Development Aid: Empirical Studies in Rural West Africa (2006) (28)
The preparation of new perfluoro ether fluids exhibiting excellent thermal-oxidative stabilities (1988) (27)
Group IIB (12) metal alkyls: the synthesis of trifluorosilyl and trifluoromethyl alkyls of cadmium and zinc (1986) (23)
How to study bureaucracies ethnographically? (2019) (21)
Police and State (2016) (16)
The generality of metal atom-free radical reactions and synthesis of new trifluoromethylalkyls of gold(III) and silver (1986) (16)
The Ethnicisation of Fulani Society in the Borgou Province of Benin by the Ethnologist. (1992) (13)
Local Development Brokers in Africa (2002) (13)
Synthesis of the first homoleptic trifluorosilyl .sigma.-bonded metal compounds by cocondensation of metal vapor with trifluorosilyl radicals (1981) (12)
Religion and political structure: remarks on Ibadism in Oman and the Mzab (Algeria) (1988) (11)
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AS ARENAS O F NEGOTIATION FOR STRATEGIC GROUPS (2007) (11)
A NEW SYNTHESIS FOR (TRIFLUOROMETHYL)THIO ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS BY LOW-TEMPERATURE COCONDENSATION OF (TRIFLUOROMETHYL)THIO RADICALS AND METAL VAPOR (1983) (10)
Introduction: Continuities, Dislocations and Transformations: 50 Years of Independence in Africa (2010) (8)
Metal vapor synthesis of trifluoromethyl-Group III compounds (1984) (8)
The Creation of a Tradition: Fulani Chiefs in Dahomey/Benin From the Late Nineteenth Century (1993) (8)
Democratization without Development (2009) (7)
Institutionalising the PRSP approach in Benin (2001) (7)
The development of new, low-cost perfluoroalkylether fluids with excellent low and high-temperature properties (1988) (7)
Democratization without Development: Benin (2009) (6)
Synthesis of new cadmium alkyls by cocodensation of cadmium vapour with trifluorosilyl and trifluoromethyl radicals (1985) (6)
Group IIB (12) Metal Alkyls: The Synthesis of Trifluorosilyl and Trifluoromethyl Alkyls of Cadmium and Zinc. (1986) (4)
World Anthropology with an Accent: The Discipline in Germany since the 1970s (2016) (3)
Commentary: ethnography, critique and the state. Some thoughts on “fiscal anthropological insights into the heart of contemporary statehood”1 (2018) (3)
The Preparation of New Perfluoro Ether Fluids Exhibiting Excellent Thermal-Oxidative Stabilities. (1989) (3)
Le développement négocié : courtiers, savoirs, technologies = Negotiated development : brokers, knowledge, technologies (1997) (3)
Islam in Africa (2002) (3)
A New Synthetic Procedure for the Preparation and Manufacture of Perfluoropolyethers (1993) (2)
Liquid-phase fluorination (1998) (2)
Afterword: Brokerage as social practice (2021) (2)
The Anthropology of Bureaucracy and Public Administration (2021) (2)
Degradation mechanism and materials for 157-nm pellicles (2004) (2)
Bureaucrats as Para-Ethnologists: The Use of Culture in State Practices (2020) (2)
Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey (2022) (1)
Further developments of the metal vapor/alkyl radical reaction. Synthesis of tris(trifluoromethyl)indium and bis(trifluorosilyl)cobalt and their base adducts (1986) (1)
A general laboratory synthesis and new manufacturing technology for perfluoropolyethers (1991) (1)
Review: Pierre Englebert, Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow (2009) (2010) (1)
Physical and chemical properties of some new perfluoropolyalkylether lubricants prepared by direct fluorination (1993) (1)
Ethnographies of entrepreneurs, business associations and rentier capitalism in Africa (2021) (1)
Alberto Arce, Negotiating agricultural development : Entanglements of bureaucrats and rural producers in Western Mexico (Wageningen Studies in Sociology. 34), Wageningen : Agricultural University 1993.ISBN 9047‑54‑283‑0 ; 187 pp. (1995) (0)
Islam and contemporary social change in Africa (introduction) (2002) (0)
The Political Anthropology of Internationalized Politics (2022) (0)
Synthesis of transition metal alkyls and σbonded metal compounds by the cocondensation of metal vapor and free radicals: A general synthetic technique (1982) (0)
Business associations in Benin “at work”. The paradoxes of private sector development (2021) (0)
Development aid and its effects: results of empirical investigations in Africa. (1993) (0)
Performance Of Perfluoropolyalkylether Lubricant System (1995) (0)
Review: Robert H. Bates: When Things Fell Apart. State Failure in Late-Century Africa (2008) (2010) (0)
Endangering Development: politics, projects, and environment in Burkina Faso (review) (2006) (0)
Anthropology and development in Germany (2021) (0)
Book Review: Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow (2010) (0)
Better PFAE's From Direct Fluorination (1989) (0)
Thomas Bierschenk and Eva Spies Africa since 1960 Continuities , Dislocations , Perspectives (2016) (0)
Book Review: When Things Fell Apart. State Failure in Late-Century Africa (2009) (0)
Lars Engberg-Pedersen, Endangering Development: politics, projects, and environment in Burkina Faso. Westport, Conn. and London: Praeger (hb US$76.95 – 0275979105). 2003, 184 pp. (2006) (0)
Institutionalisation Study : Final Report Chapter 2 : Institutionalising the PRSP approach in Benin (2001) (0)
Synthesis of Trifluorosilyl Organometallic Complexes from Trifluorosilyl Radicals and Metal Atoms. (1987) (0)
Improved Method for Synthesis of Difunctional Fluoroalcohols. (1991) (0)
Empirical studies in rural West Africa. (2007) (0)
BIS(TRIFLUOROSILYL)MERCURY, BIS(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)MERCURY AND BIS(TRIFLUOROMETHYL)TRIS(TRIMETHYLPHOSPHINE)NICKEL (1986) (0)
Obtaining Problem Statements and Transformation into Ideas - Workshop Data Set (2020) (0)

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