Publications of Julia Vorhölter

Becka, Hynek, Samiksha Bhan, Desirée Kumpf, Claudia Lang, Hanna Nieber, Julia Vorhölter, and Hanna Werner. 2024. Universality in pieces? Mobilizations of science in a fractured world; introduction. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 149(1): 1–12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60827/zfe/jsca.v149i1.1874 .

Vorhölter, Julia. 2024. (Mis)Perceiving Apnea and Insomnia in Germany: a tale of two disorders. Medical Anthropology 43(1): 46–60. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2023.2266858.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2024. Rethinking psychology in Africa: from decolonizing to universalizing knowledge in an emerging field. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 149(1): 33–52. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60827/zfe/jsca.v149i1.1876.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2023. Ethical Endeavours. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 31(4): 182–202. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/saas.2023.310412.

Harms, Arne, Hans-Michael Mingenbach, Julia Vorhölter, and Tom Renner. 2023. Kohlekraftwerk am Nationalpark? Ein Rollenspiel zu Interessenskonflikten von Umweltschutz und Entwicklung in Bangladesch. Geographie heute 44(363): 34–37.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2023. Sleeping with strangers: techno-intimacies and side-affects in a German sleep lab. Historical Social Research 48(2): 23–40. DOI: https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.48.2023.14.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2022. Psychotherapy as care in Uganda: envisioning a 'more-than-critique-anthropology'. cultura & psyché. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43638-022-00041-3.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2021. A pioneer of psy: the first Ugandan psychiatric nurse and her (different) tale of psychiatry in Uganda. Transcultural Psychiatry 58(4): 460–470. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1363461520901642.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2021. Anthropology anonymous? Pseudonyms and confidentiality as challenges for ethnography in the twenty-first century. Ethnoscripts 23(1): 15–33.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2021. Family trouble: changing (dis)orders and psychotherapeutic interventions in Uganda. Ethos 49(4): 379–400. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12309.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2019. Struggling to be a "happy self"? Psychotherapy and the medicalization of unhappiness in Uganda. Current Anthropology 60(2): 194–223. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/702337.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2017. Homosexuality, pornography, and other 'modern threats': the deployment of sexuality in recent laws and public discourses in Uganda. Critique of Anthropology 37(1): 93–111. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X16682601.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2017. Class-based chronicities of suffering and seeking help: comparing addiction treatment programs in Uganda. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 41: 564–589. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-017-9541-z.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2016. Beyond dichotomies: complexifying intergenerational debates and discourses on post-war society in northern Uganda. Journal of Peace and Security Studies 2(1): 4–19.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2012. Negotiating social change: Ugandan discourses on westernisation and neo-colonialism as forms of social critique. Journal of Modern African Studies 50(2): 283–307. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X12000055.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2012. Studying development organizations: towards a culture of participation? Journal of Organizational Ethnography 1(2): 178–194. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/20466741211248840.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2018. Youth as 'identity entrepreneurs': emerging neoliberal subjectivities in Uganda. In: Jörg Wiegratz, Giuliano Martiniello, and Elisa Greco (eds.). Uganda: the dynamics of neoliberal transformation. Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa. London: Zed, pp. 318–333.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2018. Changing dynamics of gender roles and norms in post-war Northern Uganda: a question of girls' empowerment? In: Muriel Gomez-Perez (ed.). Femmes d’Afrique et émancipation: entre normes sociales contraignantes et nouveaux possibles. Hommes et Sociétés. Paris: Karthala, pp. 149–172.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2021. Pioneering psychotherapy: knowledge-, class- and meaning-making in Uganda. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Working Papers 207. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2016. Word wars: competing interpretations of the armed conflict between the LRA and the NRM government in Northern Uganda (1986-2006). GISCA Occasional Paper Series 5. Göttingen: Göttingen Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology; Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2024. The insomniac’s stubborn hope. Living in a Mode of Despite. https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/living-in-a-mode-of-despite/the-insomniacs-stubborn-hopeby-julia-vorholter/.

Raghavan, Rishabh, Mascha Schulz, and Julia Vorhölter. 2024. Living in a mode of despite. Living in a Mode of Despite. https://americanethnologist.org/online-content/collections/living-in-a-mode-of-despite/living-in-a-mode-of-despiteby-rishabh-raghavan-mascha-schulz-and-julia-vorholter/.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2024. Agency. Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29164/24agency.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2012. Jugend und Identität: auf der Suche nach dem Lokalen in einer globalen Welt. Hannover: Stiftung Niedersachsen.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2020. Contingent citizens: professional aspirations in a South African hospital; Elizabeth Hull, Bloomsbury, 2017. Anthropology in Action 27(1): 55–56. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2020.270106.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2020. An impossible inheritance: postcolonial psychiatry and the work of memory in a West African clinic by Katie Kilroy-Marac, University of California Press, 2019. Ethos 48(1): e1–e2. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12274.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2017. Neoliberal moral economy: capitalism, socio-cultural change and fraud in Uganda; London: Rowman & Littlefield 2016, 375 pp. Forum for Development Studies 44(3): 517–519. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2017.1384170.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2014. 50 years of independence in Africa: continuities, ruptures, perspectives (50 Jahre Unabhängigkeit in Africa: Kontinuitäten, Brüche, Perspektiven), edited by Thomas Bierschenk and Eva Spies. Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2012. 572 pp. African Affairs 113(452): 479–480. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adu041.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2014. Youth at the crossroads: discourses on socio-cultural change in post-war Northern Uganda. Göttingen Series in Social and Cultural Anthropology 7. Göttingen: Göttingen University Press.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2009. Towards a culture of participation? The influence of organizational culture on participation and empowerment of "beneficiaries"; a case study of a social organization in Pretoria. Interethnische Beziehungen und Kulturwandel 65. Münster: LIT.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2025. Der Schlaf der Anderen. Halle (Saale): Mediengruppe Mitteldeutsche Zeitung. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-E0AC-F.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2025. Sleeping with strangers. Interview by Christoph Brumann. Talk On. Halle/Saale: Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/en/podcasts/talk-on/julia-vorhoelter/sleeping-with-strangers.

Vorhölter, Julia. 2022. Sleep and sleeplessness in Germany. Interview by Stefan Schwendtner and Carlo Diesterbeck-Roll. Spot On. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/en/spot-on/julia-vorhoelter-sleep-and-sleeplessness-in-germany.