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Johannes Wilm
Johannes Wilm (1980-) is the son of Danish Pia Wilm and German Gero Wilm. He grew up in the Danish minority with its kindergardens, schools and youth clubs on the German side of the German-Danish border.
In high school he discovered socialist ideas as an alternative to the nationalist ideologies many of those around him believed in. And around the time of the Kosovo war, he turned into an activist with the German socialist party Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS). He ran for the Schleswig-Holstein state assembly in early 2000.
After graduating, he moved to Oslo, Norway in order to avoid the draft of both Germany and Denmark. He has been an activist in Norway since.
In 2005 he earned his M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo.
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On the Margins - US Americans in a border town to Mexico
Johannes Wilm, an organizer and activist from Oslo, Norway, goes off to live in and study Douglas, AZ, a border town to Mexico, for half a year. At first sight, Douglas looks like nothing but a run down company town - after the Phelps Dodge smelter left in the 1980s. Interestingly though, Wilm discovers that old modes of social stratification disappeared together with the jobs. This book has to be seen as a tribute to the progressive sides of the lumpenproletariat.
"This is a well written, experience-near ethnography of marginality in every sense of the word: Douglas is literally on the margins between the USA and Mexico, it is geographically marginal, economically marginal and culturally marginal in the US context. Wilm weaves a convincing and compelling picture of the precarious, reckless and often paradoxical lives led by people in Douglas."
—Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology
(Oslo/Amsterdam)
Print: $15.45
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