Author: Nina Haberland

Nina Haberland studied ‘Culture and Society in Africa’ at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She worked as a research assistant in the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded research project “Inner family resource flows and intergenerational relationships in West Africa”. Currently, she is working as a university assistant at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna. Her dissertation focusses on (re)negotiations of care and the un/doing of significant relations at the intersection of kinship and state.

Nina Haberland

#Failures: Failed to belong – (Re)Negotiations of care in a Tanzanian social welfare office

September, 2020 / By Nina Haberland

Every day, women, men, and children sit on the wonky wooden benches in front of the social welfare office, patiently […]