Thesis subject

Thesis topics Stephanie Hobbis

I am a political anthropologist with a geographic focus on coastal, marine, small island environments and a thematic interests in the essentially messy, awkward and often frictional everyday dimensions of global order-making in weak states and (post) conflict environments. My current work explores the material dimensions of foreign state-building and development, ranging from the politics of fashion to road infrastructures to electoral technologies

Fields of expertise

• Anthropology
• The Everyday
• Peace and Reconciliation
• Stuctural and Cultural Violence
• State Formation
• Infrastructures
• Gender
• Food & Identity
• Digital Cultures and Development
• Antrhopology of Religion (esp. Christianity)

Geograhical area

• Solomon islands
• Papua New Guinea
• Oceania
• Small Island States
• East Asia: Japan
• North America, especially settler colonialism, Canada