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Anthropologist Hilal Alkan looks at plants from an angle of displacement and care. She works with Turkish migrants who have come to Germany from the 1960s until now. What do their plants mean to them? How do they care for them? How does planting influence migrants' experiences of making Berlin their home? Through her ethnographic fieldwork, she wants to find out whether the relationships between people and their plants have any effects on their sense of belonging.

This monthly podcast is produced by ZMO members and alumni. In each episode, a ZMO-fellow and one of our hosts meet in our institute’s kitchen – the heart of ZMO – to talk about their academic fieldwork, methodology, and the most recent research trends at our institute.

Meet Noura Chalati and Lena Herzog-Sounaye, the hosts of the first episodes and stay tuned for more!