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2022_Weiland_500px_Selim-Nasima Dr. Nasima Selim
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology


Dr. Nasima Selim is is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in medicine, public health and anthropology. She is a breathworker, writer, researcher, and educator currently working as a postdoctoral research associate of anthropology at the University of Bayreuth and a visiting researcher at the James P Grant School of Public Health, Brac University. Her work intersects critical global and planetary health, medical, environmental, and public anthropology, and the anthropology of Islam.

Dr. Selim’s breathing-related publications include her recent book Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany (Berghahn, 2024), The Politics of Breathing Troubles in Covid-19 (Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2022), and Companions of Breath for Planetary Health (Resilience, forthcoming). Her current research project is titled "Breathability: The Politics and Poetics of Respiration in/across South Asia and Western Europe”. She has offered lecture performances about breathing in Berlin (“Who has the Right to Breathe? Companions of Breath – A Tale of Two Trees” at Savvy Contemporary, 2022; “Sufi Breathwork and the Sounds of Islam” at Martin-Gropius Bau, 2023).

Dr. Selim is a founding member of the Bangladesh Mental Health Network, a lifetime member of the Public Health Association of Bangladesh, a founding member of the working group Public Anthropology, a member of the working groups Anti-Racism and Medical Anthropology of the German Anthropological Association, and a member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Instagram @nasima_selim Personal website: https://nasimaselim.com/

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2022_Weiland_500px_Selim-Nasima

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology


RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Medical Anthropology and Global Health
  • Public and Applied Anthropology
  • Politics and Poetics of Breathing
  • Anthropology of Islam and Sufism
  • Postsecular and Postcolonial Theory
  • Ethnographic Methods and Creative Writing

REGIONAL INTERESTS

South Asia (India and Bangladesh) and Western Europe (Germany and the Netherlands)

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

  • Selim, Nasima. “Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Berlin.” New York: Berghahn, forthcoming.
  • Selim, Nasima. "The Companions of Breath for Planetary Health: Vegetal Lessons from Plants and the Botanical City." Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, forthcoming.
2022_Weiland_500px_Selim-Nasima

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology


Publications

2022

Selim, Nasima
The Politics of Breathing Troubles in COVID-19 : Pandemic Inequalities and the Right to Breathe ...
in Medicine Anthropology Theory volume 9 (2022) issue 3. - page 1-15
doi:10.17157/mat.9.3.5750 ...

2021

Selim, Nasima
Pandemic Affects, Planetary Specters, and the Precarious Everyday : Encountering COVID-19 as a ...
in Medizinethnologie : Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt
11. Februar 2021
https://www.medizinethnologie.net/pandemic-affects ...

Willen, Sarah S.; Selim, Nasima; Mendenhall, Emily; Magaña Lopez, Miriam; Chowdhury, Shahanoor Akter; Dilger, Hansjörg
Flourishing : migration and health in social context
in BMJ Global Health volume 6 (2021) issue Suppl 1
doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005108 ...

2020

Selim, Nasima; Albrecht, Judith
In Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and Call for Dismantling Structural Racism in Germany : Pu ...
in Public Anthropologist
21. Juni 2020
https://publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2020/06/21/in- ...

Kasmani, Omar; Selim, Nasima; Dilger, Hansjörg; Mattes, Dominik
Introduction : Elsewhere Affects and the Politics of Engagement across Religious Life-Worlds
in Religion and Society volume 11 (2020) issue 1. - page 92-104
doi:10.3167/arrs.2020.110107 ...

Selim, Nasima
Learning the Elsewhere of "Inner Space" : The Affective Pedagogy of Post-Secular Sufi Healing i ...
in Religion and Society volume 11 (2020) issue 1. - page 105-119
doi:10.3167/arrs.2020.110108 ...

Selim, Nasima
Letter from the (un)seen virus : (post)humanist perspective in corona times
in Social Anthropology volume 28 (2020) issue 2. - page 353-355
doi:10.1111/1469-8676.12851 ...

Selim, Nasima; Trestikova, Jana; Muhamad, Nazli
Mehr als Deutsch = More than German
in Encounter Begegnung volume 2 (2020) . - page 6-8

2019

Selim, Nasima
reviewed by: Basu, Helene ; Littlewood, Roland ; Steinforth, Arne S. (Eds.): Spirit & Mind : Mental health a ...
in Medicine Anthropology Theory volume 6 (2019) issue 2. - page 138-141
doi:10.17157/mat.6.2.721 ...

2019

Selim, Nasima
Learning the ways of the heart in Berlin : Sufism, anthropology, and the post-secular condition
Berlin, 2019
(dissertation, , )

2018

Selim, Nasima
reviewed by: Transfiguring Psychoanalysis and Culture
in Medizinethnologie : Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt (2018)
https://www.medizinethnologie.net/psychoanalysis-i ...
reviewed: Kumar, Manasi ; Dhar, Anup ; Mishra, Anurag (Eds.): Psychoanalysis from the Indian Terroir : Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood

Stodulka, Thomas; Selim, Nasima; Mattes, Dominik
Affective Scholarship : Doing Anthropology with Epistemic Affects
in Ethos volume 46 (2018) issue 4. - page 519-536
doi:10.1111/etho.12219 ...

Selim, Nasima; Abdalla, Mustafa; Alloulou, Lilas; Halli, Mohamed Alaedden; Holmes, Seth M.; Ibiß, Maria; Jaschke, Gabi; Martín, Johanna Gonçalves
Coming Together in the So-Called Refugee Crisis : A Collaboration Among Refugee Newcomers, Migr ...
in Anthropology in Action volume 25 (2018) issue 3. - page 34-44
doi:10.3167/aia.2018.250304 ...

2017

Dohrn, Kristina; Rutert, Britta; Schühle, Judith; Selim, Nasima; von Vacano, Mechthild
Weaving the World in Conversation with Paul Stoller : From Sensuous Scholarship to Public Anthr ...
in Medizinethnologie : Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt
24. April 2017
https://www.medizinethnologie.net/weaving-the-worl ...

Selim, Nasima; Knote, Lotte
An Anthropological Becoming

2016

2015

Selim, Nasima
Healing the City : Sufi Prayers in Berlin's Towers
in Medizinethnologie : Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer globalisierten Welt
26. Mai 2015
https://www.medizinethnologie.net/sufi-prayers-in- ...

Selim, Nasima
Mental health care
Bangladesh Health System Review
Geneva : World Health Organization, 2015. - page 120-122 . - (Health Systems in Transition; 5,3)
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/2 ...

Selim, Nasima
Sufi Body Practices and Therapeutic Politics in Berlin
Somatisierung des Religiösen : Empirische Studien zum rezenten religiösen Heilungs- und Therapiemarkt
Bremen : Universität Bremen, 2015. - page 237-281 . - (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik; 7)
https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/3085

2014

Selim, Nasima
reviewed by: Callan, Alyson: Patients and agents : Mental illness, modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh ...
in Medicine Anthropology Theory volume 1 (2014) issue 1. - page 213-214
doi:10.17157/mat.1.1.230 ...

Hasan, Tanvir; Muhaddes, Tisa; Camellia, Suborna; Selim, Nasima; Rashid, Sabina Faiz
Prevalence and Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women With Disabilities in Bang ...
in Journal of Interpersonal Violence volume 29 (2014) issue 17. - page 3105-3126
doi:10.1177/0886260514534525 ...

Selim, Nasima
What does sitting have to do with the self? Body techniques, personhood and well-being in Vipas ...
Medical Anthropology : Essays and Reflections from an Amsterdam Graduate Programme
Diemen : AMB, 2014. - page 265-282

2011

Selim, Nasima
Doing Body, Doing Mind, Doing Self : Vipassana Meditation in Everyday Life
Amsterdam, 2011. - 104 page
http://amma.socsci.uva.nl/theses/selim.pdf
(master's thesis, , )

Selim, Nasima
Friendship (and healing) in the "intersubjectivity of silence" : A case illustration
Roads and boundaries : travels in search of (re)connection
Diemen : AMB, 2011. - page 195-206

Goudet, Sophie M.; Griffiths, Paula L.; Bogin, Barry A.; Selim, Nasima
Impact of flooding on feeding practices of infants and young children in Dhaka, Bangladesh Slum ...
in Maternal & Child Nutrition volume 7 (2011) issue 2. - page 198-214
doi:10.1111/j.1740-8709.2010.00250.x ...

Mann, Anna; Mol, Annemarie; Satalkar, Priya; Savirani, Amalinda; Selim, Nasima; Sur, Malini; Yates-Doerr, Emily
Mixing methods, tasting fingers : Notes on an ethnographic experiment
in HAU : Journal of Ethnographic Theory volume 1 (2011) issue 1. - page 221-243
doi:10.14318/hau1.1.009 ...

2010

Selim, Nasima
Cultural Dimensions of Depression in Bangladesh : A Qualitative Study in Two Villages of Matlab
in Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition volume 28 (2010) issue 1. - page 95-106
doi:10.3329/jhpn.v28i1.4528 ...

2008

Daily health concerns in Kakabo : Anthropological explorations in a Bangladeshi village
publ: van der Geest, Sjaak; Selim, Nasima; Zaman, Shahaduz
Dhaka : James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, 2008
https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/4304715/66437_306012. ...

van der Geest, Sjaak; Selim, Nasima
Introduction
Daily health concerns in Kakabo : Anthropological explorations in a Bangladeshi village
Dhaka : James P Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, 2008. - page 11-14
https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/4304715/66437_306012. ...

Selim, Nasima; Satalkar, Priya
Perceptions of mental illness in a Bangladesh village
in BRAC University Journal volume 5 (2008) issue 1. - page 47-57
http://dspace.bracu.ac.bd/bitstream/handle/10361/4 ...

2006

Choudhury, S. R.; Mullick, M. S. I.; Rahman, S.; Selim, Nasima; Huq, Nafisa
Psychiatric Morbidity in the Cardiac Emergency Set-Up
in Sir Salimullah Medical College Journal volume 14 (2006) issue 2. - page 86-91

2002

Selim, Nasima
The Man who would Marry God : A Case of Schizophrenia with Bizarre Delusion
in Bangladesh Journal of Psychiatry volume 16 (2002) issue 1. - page 48-54

2022_Weiland_500px_Selim-Nasima

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Social and Cultural Anthropology


Dr. Nasima Selim
Senior Research Associate

University of Bayreuth
Building: GW II, Room: 00.21
Universitätsstraße 30
​D-95447 Bayreuth

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4169
E-mail: nasima.selim@uni-bayreuth.de

Twitter @NasimaSelim, @AGPublicAnthro

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