PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Bredenbröker, Isabel. Rest in Plastic: Death, time and synthetic materials in a Ghanaian Ewe community, Oxford, New York: Berghahn, 2024.

Edited volumes

Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen, Felix Kotzur (Eds.). Cleaning and value: Interdisciplinary investigations. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2020.

Edited special issues

(Autumn 2024) The February Journal: ‘Hope’ to Solve Some ‘Problems’ Here? Investigations into the Agentive Potential of Ambiguous Terms.

Journal articles, peer reviewed, single-authored

• Bredenbröker, Isabel. “'Plastic stays beautiful': Attributing temporal and moral qualities in Ghanaian Ewe funerary contexts”, Journal of Material Culture, SAGE, 2024.
  
  
• Bredenbröker, Isabel. “Queering Alfred Gell’s Art Nexus - Making non-normative relations in the museum context”, Ikonotheka, Special Issue: Queer Heritage - Central Europe and Warsaw: Warsaw UP, 2024.
  
  
• Bredenbröker, Isabel. “On Death, Time, and Moving Images” Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 44, 3-4 (2020): 59–62.

Journal articles, peer reviewed and co-authored

• Bredenbröker, Isabel, Dilara Hadroviç, Frederike Nolte, Sarah Wulbrecht, Sophie Breßler, Josefine Ketelsen, Polina Shablovskaia, Xu Ding, Maria Laurids Lazzarotti, and Meyçem Ceren Ulu. “The Sinking: Speculative Futures Collective.” Etnofoor 36, no. 1 (2024): 53–74. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27314428.
  
  
• Bredenbröker, Isabel, A. Stiegler, and LB. Schürmann. “This House Is Not a Home: Producing Encounter-Based Collective Formats in the Time of COVID-19.” The Garage Journal (2021): Выпуск 2 2021.
  
  
• Bredenbröker, Isabel, and Phila Bergmann „Now I Am Dead”. Journal of Anthropological Film No. 4, 2020.

Book chapters, peer reviewed

• Bredenbröker, Isabel. Advertising the ancestors: Ghanaian funeral banners as image objects. Death's Social Meaning and Materiality Beyond the Human, edited by Natashe Lemos Dekker, Phil Olson, and Jesse Bristol University Press, 2024.
  
  
• Bredenbröker, Isabel. “The Last Bath: Cleaning Practices and the Production of Good Death in an Ewe Community” In Cleaning and value: Interdisciplinary investigations. Edited by Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen and Felix Kotzur, 69–88. Leiden: Sidestone Press, 2020.

Book chapters, peer reviewed and co-authored

• Isabel Bredenbröker and Tajinder Kaur. Giving, taking and receiving care: Fieldwork and dis_ability. Inclusive Ethnography: Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier & More Ethical. Edited by Branwen Spector and Caitlin Procter. SAGE, 2024.
  
  
• Bredenbröker, Isabel, Adam Drazin, Robert Knowles, and Anaïs “Collaboratively Cleaning, Archiving and Curating the Heritage of the Future.” In Design Anthropological Futures: Exploring emergence, intervention and formation. Edited by Rachel C. Smith. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
  
  
• Bredenbröker, Isabel, Felix Kotzur, and Christina Hanzen. “We Have Never Been Clean. Towards an Interdisciplinary Discourse About Cleaning and Value.” In Cleaning and value: Interdisciplinary investigations. Edited by Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen and Felix Kotzur, 23–38. Leiden: Sidestone Press,

Book reviews

• Von Oswald M (2022) Working Through Colonial Collections: An Ethnography of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. Leuven: Leuven University Press. I-SBN 978-94-6270-310-0. In The February Journal, (1) 2024.

Non-peer reviewed texts

• Bredenbröker, Isabel, Adam Drazin, Robert Knowles, and Anaïs Bloch. “Cleaning up after Gropius: An Ethnography of Dirt.” In Auf Reserve: Haushalten!: Historische Modelle und aktuelle Positionen aus dem Bauhaus. Edited by Regina Bittner and Elke Erste Auflage. Edition Bauhaus 49. Leipzig: Spector Books, 2016.
  
  
• Bredenbröker, Isabel.“‘Das Schlimmste für mich ist, wenn der Hund Junkiescheiße frisst...‘ Über meine Love Hate Beziehung zum Görlitzer Park, Racial Profiling und Ethnographie vor der eigenen Haustür“. In: <Doku.Argu.Experi.Pig>, Eds. Clara Bausch and Sara Lehn. Catalogue accompanying the exhibition <Doku.Argu.Experi.Pig>, Berlin: Published by the editors, 2021.
  
  
• Bredenbröker, Isabel. „Tote leben länger oder über die Forschung zum Umgang mit Tod in einer südghanaischen Kleinstadt“. In Charlotte Trümpler, Hans Peter Hahn et. al. Faszination der Dinge. Werte weltweit in Archäologie und Ethnologie. Peteresburg Kreis Fulda: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2018.
  
  
• Bredenbröker, Isabel. „Individuelle Mythologie: Objekt, Bild und Schrift in Werken von Tracey Emin“. MA dissertation. OA online publication via Free University Berlin repository:
  fu-berlin.de/docs/receive/FUDOCS_document_000000019205, 2013.