Dr. Primus M. Tazanu
E-Mail: tazanu@yahoo.co.uk
Primus finished his PhD in the Institute in December 2011. His thesis (now a book) is titled Being Available and Reachable: New Media and Cameroonian Transnational Sociality.
He demonstrates that although the new media (especially the mobile phone) guarantee and facilitate instant sociality across borders, they do not necessarily lead to understanding or help in gluing transnational social ties for many Cameroonians. This is the main finding of his multi-sited fieldwork conducted in Freiburg (Germany and Buea (Cameroon) on the meaning and uses of the new media in Cameroonian transnational social ties.
Thematic interests
New communication media, media and imaginations, transnationalism, migration, mediated relationships, youths, urban anthropology, German colonial history, religion.
Regional interests
- Cameroon, the Cameroon Grassfields
Recent Publications
“They behave as though they want to bring heaven down: Some Narratives on the Visibility of Cameroonian Migrant Youths in Cameroon Urban Space.” In Hans Peter Hahn and Kristin Kastner (eds) Urban Life-worlds in Motions: African Perspectives, Bielefed, Transcript.
‘Border Transgression and the Reordering of Social Relations: The Case of Cameroonian Migrants in Germany.’ Freiburger universitätsblätter Heft 188. Pp 81-92.
Other
2011
2008-2008 International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), University of Malmo, Sweden.
2001-2004 MA in Development Studies and International Relations. University of Aalborg, Denmark.
1996-1999 B.Sc in Sociology and Anthropology, University of Buea, Cameroon