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Biographical Info

Thomas Stodulka is Professor of Social Anthropology, Visual and Media Anthropology at the University of Münster. His work focuses on the interplay between affect, emotion, alternative economies and eco-social movements, mental health and illness, and  at the margins. He conducted long-term fieldwork with street-related communities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and he has directed international research projects on the role of affect and emotion in fieldwork and ethnography, travelling concepts in mental health, illness, and learning, critical perspectives on big data. He is currently working on permaculture, learning and shaping futures at the margins. He is co-founder of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA) at EASA, member of the Working Group Psychological Anthropology at the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA), was associate editor of Ethos, and is currently Brill book series co-editor of Social Sciences in Asia, and co-editor of the public anthropology blog anthrometronom. Thomas is member of the organizing team of the Annual Transdisciplinary Winter School Culture, Psychology, and Qualitative Research, and member of the editorial board at cultura & psyché – Journal of Cultural Psychology.

His books include Feelings at the Margins (2014), Coming of Age on the Streets of Java (2017), Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography (2019), and Emotionen auf Expeditionen (2019), Emotionen im Feld (2019), and Anthropologie der Emotionen (2023), which were published in German.