
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