Institutions of the University of Bayreuth
Junior Professor Social and Cultural Anthropology with a Focus on Social Belonging - Juniorprof. Melina Cassandra Kalfelis

Daniel, Antje ; Echtler, Magnus ; Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Reconsidering Afrotopia: An Introduction.
In: Utopian Studies. Vol. 36 (2025) Issue 2 . - pp. 365-379.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.36.2.0365

Special Issue: Afrotopia.
ed.: Daniel, Antje ; Echtler, Magnus ; Kalfelis, Melina C.
Utopian Studies. Vol. 36 (2025) Issue 2 .

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Trust Inverted : Dynamics of Trust and Power in Transnational NGO Cooperation in Burkina Faso.
In: Kaag, Mayke ; Thiel, Alena ; Tarrósy, István (ed.): Trust and Trust-Making in Africa's Global Connections. - Boston ; Leiden : Brill, 2025 . - pp. 17-36 . - (Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies ; 36 )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004734777_003

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Tricky Violence : Vigilantism as a Moral Experiment in Urban Burkina Faso.
In: Conflict and Society. Vol. 10 (2024) . - pp. 82-96.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2024.100105

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Gewalt : ein Politikum.
In: Afrika-Bulletin. (May 2023) Issue 190 . - pp. 4-5.

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Le "partenariat" - un euphémisme : Sur les Cultures de la Coopération Transnationale en Afrique de l'Ouest.
In: Hahn, Hans Peter ; Sissao, Alain Joseph ; Kaboré, Amado ; Knodel, Kathrin (ed.): L'avenir des ONG en Afrique de l'Ouest. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2023 . - pp. 221-239 . - (Études africaines )

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Beyond Donor Memory : On Time and Power behind the Curtain of Transnational Development in Burkina Faso.
In: Anthropologie & Développement. Vol. 53 (2022) . - pp. 137-153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/anthropodev.1803

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Den Sahel neu denken : Zur Zukunft von Staat, Klimaschutz und Friedensinitiativen ; Briefing.
FriEnt : Working Group on Peace and Development
In: Peacebuilding Forum.
October 2021

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Review of: Degorce, Alice ; Kibora, Ludovic O. ; Langewiesche, Katrin (Hrsg.): Rencontres religieuses et dynamiques sociales au Burkina Faso. Dakar, 2019.
In: Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines. (2021) Issue 241 . - pp. 218-221.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesafricaines.33413

Kalfelis, Melina C. ; Knodel, Kathrin:
Introduction : The Lifeworlds and Trajectories of NGOs in Africa.
In: Kalfelis, Melina ; Knodel, Kathrin (ed.): NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa : Transdisciplinary Perspectives. - New York : Berghahn, 2021

NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa : Transdisciplinary Perspectives.
ed.: Kalfelis, Melina C. ; Knodel, Kathrin
New York : Berghahn , 2021

Kalfelis, Melina C. ; Kabore, Amado:
Le paradoxe de la violence et de la sécurité : L’Avenir de la lutte contre le terrorisme et l'insécurité au Burkina Faso.
In: Rouamba Ouedraogo, Bowendsome C. V. (ed.): Crise sécuritaire dans les pays du G5 Sahel : comprendre pour agir. - Paris : L'Harmattan, 2021

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Vigilantism as a Process : On Knowledge Production, Polarization and Controversy about the Koglweogo Self-Defense Groups.
2021 . - (MIASA Working Papers )

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
With or Without the State : Moral Divergence and the Question of Trust in Security Assemblages in Burkina Faso.
In: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. Vol. 15 (2021) Issue 5 . - pp. 598-613.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2021.1986255

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
NGO als Lebenswelt : Transnationale Verflechtungen im Arbeitsalltag von Entwicklungsakteuren.
Frankfurt am Main : Campus , 2020 . - 348 p.

Kalfelis, Melina C. ; Knodel, Kathrin:
Review of: Lashaw, Amanda ; Vannier, Christian ; Sampson, Steven (Eds.): Cultures of Doing Good : Anthropologists and NGOs. Tuscaloosa, 2017.
In: Anthropos. Vol. 114 (2019) Issue 1 . - pp. 272-273.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2019-1-272

Galindo, David Rex ; Kalfelis, Melina C. ; Nomey, José Luis Paz:
Agency and Asymmetries : Actors and their Access to Resources in Colonial and Developmental Setting.
In: Müller, Christian A. ; Leppin, Hartmut ; Amelung, Iwo (ed.): Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes : Trajectories of a New Research Program. - Frankfurt am Main : Campus, 2018 . - pp. 293-327

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Reflections on Hunger in Burkina Faso.
In: On_Culture : The Open Journal for the Study of Culture. (2016) Issue 1 .

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Experts Fighting Global Poverty : An Alarming Analysis.
(Review of: Easterly, William: The Tyranny of Experts : Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor. New York, 2014)
In: KULT_online. Vol. 42 (2015) .
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2015.892

Kalfelis, Melina C.:
Flexibel aus Armut : Die Lebenswelt von lokalen Entwicklungsakteuren in Burkina Faso vor dem Hintergrund entwicklungspolitischer Erwartungshaltungen.
In: Paideuma. Vol. 61 (2015) . - pp. 143-164.