Danielle Isler

Danielle Isler is a social scientist, researcher and activist. She holds an M.A. in African Studies at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and is a doctoral student at the University of Bayreuth (Germany). She is a BIGSAS (Bayreuth International School of African Studies) Junior Fellow and part of the working group ‘Anthropology of Global Inequalities’ led by Prof. Dr. Schramm. In her doctoral project, she investigates Whitened spaces in South Africa. Among other things, she aims to find out how such spaces are constructed, how they produce exclusions and how political subjectivities, embodiment, trauma and memory (can) influence Whitened spaces and vice versa.

Her research interests include Anthropology of Global Inequalities, Urban Anthropology, Border Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies, Racism and Racialization, Decolonization, Pigmentocracy, Intersectionality and Embodiment.

Danielle Isler is also a curator, musician, and performer.