Participation in the Cluster of Excellence
- Co-Head of the research collaboration “Contesting Knowledge Formations in a Multi-Polar World"
Professor Dr. Thomas Stodulka
Research Foci
- Affect and Emotion
- Education, Economy, and Environment
- Childhood and Youth
- Ethnographic Methods and Collaborations
- Marginalization, Stigmatization, and Mental Health
- Psychological Anthropology
- Public Anthropology
- Social Inequalities and Mobilities
- Visual Anthropology
Teaching
Seminar
- Seminar: The Anthropology of Community Gardens: Sustainability, Wellbeing, and More-than-human transformation [084885]
- [ – | Wed, – | | STU 102 (2.4)]
Practice
- Practice: Public Anthropology und Ethnographisches Bloggen [084880]
- [ – | Tue, – | | STU 105 (2.10)]
Colloquia
- Colloquium: Colloquium [084893]
- [ – | Thu, – | | STU 105 (2.10)]
- Colloquium: Departmental Colloquium Series [084884]
- [ – | Wed, – | | STU 105 (2.10)]
Lecture
- Lecture: Kultur- und Gesellschaftsvergleich in historischer und aktueller Perspektive [082875]
- [ – | Wed, – | | S 9]
Seminars
- Seminar: Psychological Anthropologies of Mental Health and Illness [082885]
- [ – | Thu, – | | STU 102 (2.4)]
- Seminar: Foundations of Empirical Research [082882]
- [ – | Tue, – | | STU 105 (2.10)]
Colloquia
- Colloquium: Colloquium [082887]
- [ – | Thu, – | | STU 102 (2.4)]
- Colloquium: Departmental Colloquium Series [082881]
- [Wed, – | | STU 105 (2.10)]
Seminars
- Seminar: Affect, Feeling, Emotions: Ethnography as Cultural Critique [080888]
- Seminar: Writing Project Proposal [080886]
- Seminar: Decolonizing Classrooms: Anthropologies of (Un-)Learning and Self-formation [080882]
Colloquia
- Colloquium: Departmental Colloquium Series [080885]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dorothea Schulz) - Colloquium: Colloquium [080891]
Lecture
Seminars
- Seminar: Sensory Anthropologies of Environment and Well-being: Learning from Southeast Asia [088882]
- Seminar: Foundations of Empirical Research [088880]
Colloquia
- Colloquium: Colloquium [088884]
- Colloquium: Institutscolloquium [088879]
(in cooperation with Prof. Dorothea Schulz)
Seminars
- Seminar: Eco-social Movements and Pedagogies of Resistance in Southeast Asia [084882]
- Seminar: Foundations of Empirical Research [084880]
- Seminar: Anthropologie und Artefakt: Dekoloniale Debatten [084876]
Colloquia
- Seminar: The Anthropology of Community Gardens: Sustainability, Wellbeing, and More-than-human transformation [084885]
Publications
Books
Books (Monographs)
- Lubrich, Oliver, and Stodulka, Thomas. . Emotionen auf Expeditionen: Ein Taschenhandbuch für die ethnographische Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
- Liebal , Katja, Lubrich, Oliver, and Stodulka, Thomas. . Emotionen im Feld: Gespräche zur Ethnographie, Primatographie, und Reiseliteratur Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . Coming of Age on the Streets of Java: Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
Books (Edited Collections)
- Stodulka, Thomas, von Poser, Anita, Scheidecker, Gabriel, and Bens, Jonas, eds. . Anthropologie der Emotionen: Affektive Dynamiken in Kultur und Gesellschaft Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag.
- Liebal, Katja, and Lubrich, Oliver Stodulka Thomas. . Emotionen im Feld: Gespräche zur Ethnographie, Primatographie, und Reiseliteratur., edited by Katja Liebal and Oliver Stodulka Thomas Lubrich. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
- Lubrich, Oliver, and Stodulka, Thomas. . Emotionen auf Expeditionen: Ein Taschenhandbuch für die ethnographische Praxis, edited by Oliver Lubrich and Thomas Stodulka. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
- Stodulka, Thomas, Dinkelaker, Samia, and Thajib, Ferdiansyah, eds. . Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography New York: Springer Publishing.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . Coming of Age on the Streets of Java: Coping with Marginality, Stigma and Illness, edited by Thomas Stodulka. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
- Stodulka, Thomas, and Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt, eds. . Feelings at the Margins: Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia Germany: Campus Verlag.
Articles
Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines
Research Articles (Journals)
- Thajib, Ferdiansyah, Stodulka, Thomas, Kanngießer, Patricia, Haun, Daniel, Meng, Tongtong, Sun, Wanting, Masaquiza, Sandra, Garcia, Bernardo Arroyo, Junker, Jana Magie, Petrovic, Ljubica, Striegler, Blanca, Weyrowitz, Janina, Sunderarajan, Jahnavi, Swastyastu, Monika, Taek, Desri J., Abis, Ariana, Tjizao, Disney, Shishala, Dennis, and Liebal, Katja. in Kürze. “No Safe Distance? Reflections on large-scale, remote collaborative research during and beyond Covid-19.” Ethos.
- Stodulka, Thomas, Low, Kelvin E.Y., and Abdullah, Noorman. in Kürze. “Introduction: Sensory Knowledges.” American Behavioral Scientist.
- Stodulka, Thomas. in Kürze. “Tasting the Soil and Mobilizing the Future: Pedagogies of Hope in Timor-Leste’s Permaculture Youth Camps.” American Behavioral Scientist. doi: 10.1177/00027642241246691.
- Stodulka, Thomas, Abdullah, Noorman, and Low, Kelvin E.Y. in Kürze. “Sensory Endurances: Introduction.” International Sociology.
- Cristea, Florin, Stodulka, Thomas, Putu, Aryani, Duchow, Saskia, and Semedi, Pujo. in Kürze. “Severe mental illness research in Indonesia: A scoping review.” Transcultural Psychiatry.
- Stodulka, Thomas, Kajanus, Anni, and Jovicic, Suzana. in Kürze. “Futures of Psychological Anthropology: Islands and Floating Anchors.” Ethos.
- Stodulka, Thomas, and Funk, Leberecht. . “Special section: Psychological Anthropology.” cultura & psyché: Journal of Cultural Psychology 3(2): 147–153. doi: 10.1007/s43638-023-00068-0.
- Bierstedt, Annemarie, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “Envy and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Socioeconomic Inequality.” Emotions: History, Culture, Society 6: 1–25. doi: 10.1163/2208522X-02010143.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Emotive Banners and Billboards: Worlding Covid-19 and Orders of Feeling in Kupang, Indonesia.” European Journal of East Asian Studies 21(1): 143–170. doi: 10.1163/15700615-20220121.
- Lubrich, Oliver, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “Emotion und Wissenschaft: Eine Herausforderung für Forschung und Lehre.” Forschung & Lehre 5(22).
- Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt, Nieswand, Boris, Scheer, Monique, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “Cultural Diversity!?” Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 2(22): 7-19.
- Mashimi, Kristina, Stodulka, Thomas, Dilger, Hansjörg, and von Poser, Anita. . “Introduction: Envisioning Anthropological Futures (and Provincializing Their Origins).” Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 145: 3–26.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Worlding Permaculture School Gardens: Translocal Connectivities and Minor Utopias in Timor Leste.” American Behavioral Scientist 64(10): 1512–1525. doi: 10.1177/0002764220947755.
- Lehmann, Jörg, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “A ‘steady eye’ in ‘a moving world’: Comparative perspectives on travel writing and narrative ethnography.” Journeys 19(2): 23–43. doi: 10.3167/jys.2018.190202.
- Stodulka, Thomas, Selim, Nasima, and Mattes, Dominik. . “Affective Scholarship: Doing Anthropology with epistemic affects.” Ethos 46(4): 519–536. doi: 10.1111/etho.12219.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Yogyakarta Street Careers: Feelings of Belonging and Dealing with Sticky Stigma.” Antropologia 4(2): 145–163.
- Lubrich, Oliver, Stodulka, Thomas, and Liebal, Katja. . “Affekte im Feld: Ein blinder Fleck der Forschung? [Affects in the Field: A blind spot?].” Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie 5: 179–197. doi: 10.1007/978-3-658-19556-4_13.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Emotion work, Ethnography and Survival Strategies on the Streets of Yogyakarta.” Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 34 (1): 84–97. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2014.916706.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Spheres of Passion: fieldwork, ethnography and the researcher’s emotions.” Curare 38(1+2): 103–116.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Feldforschung als Begegnung: Zur pragmatischen Dimension ethnographischer Daten [Fieldwork as Encounter: The pragmatic dimension of ethnographic data].” Sociologus 64(2): 179–206.
- von Scheve, Christian, Stodulka, Thomas, and Schmidt, Julia. . “Guter Neid, schlechter Neid? Von der ‘Neidkultur’ zu Kulturen des Neides.” Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 32/33.
Review (Journals)
- Savu-Cristea, Irina, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “Book review on Bolotta, Giuseppe. 2021. Belittled Citizens: The Cultural Politics of Childhood on Bangkok’s Margins, Copenhagen: NIAS Press.” Anthropological Forum 32(2): 181 –183. doi: 10.1080/00664677.2022.2056952.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Book review on Andrew, Beatty. 2019. Emotional worlds: beyond an anthropology of emotion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 27(4): 1021–1022.
- Stodulka, Thomas, and Walter, Anna-Maria. . “Book review on Smith-Hefner, Nancy. 2019. Islamizing intimacies. Youth, sexuality, and gender in contemporary Indonesia. Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press.” Social Anthropology 28(1): 205–207. doi: 10.1111/1469-8676.12748.
Book Contributions
Research Article (Book Contributions)
- Stodulka, Thomas. in Kürze. “Why does it Stick? Affective Scholarship in Pandemic Times,.” in Affect as Cultural Critique, edited by Daniel White, Andrea De Antoni and Emma Cook. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- Stodulka, Thomas. in Kürze. “Temporality, Experience, and Agency in Politically Marginalized Contexts.” in The Cambridge Handbook of Psychological Anthropology, edited by Edward Lowe. Cambridge University Press.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Die neue globale Normalität.” in Affektive Dynamiken der Gegenwart , edited by Doris Kolesch. Berlin: Neofelis Verlag.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Ethnographie und Feldforschung in Bewegten Welten.” in Kulturpsychologie: Eine Einführung, edited by Uwe Wolfradt, Lars Allolio-Näcke and Peter S. Ruppel. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Die Ökonomie des Humorvollen.” in Ethnographic Encounters - Essays in Honour of Martin Rössler, edited by Michaela Haug and Rosalie Stolz. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Reflexivity, Engagement, Decoloniality – Shifting Emergences of Ethnography and Collaboration.” in Im Tandem: Wege zu einer postkolonialen Ethnologie, edited by Anna Meiser, Ingo Rohrer and Mirjam Lücking. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Methods and the Construction of Knowledge: Fieldwork and Ethnography.” in The SAGE Handbook for Cultural Anthropology, edited by Lene Pedersen and Lisa Cliggett. London: SAGE Publications.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Zauberformel, Scharlatanerie, Projektion? Empathie als Methode und Emotion als Erkenntnis ethnographischer Forschung.” in Empathie und Sprache, edited by Katharina Jacob, Klaus-Peter Konerding and Wolf-Andreas Liebert. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110679618-004.
- Stodulka, Thomas, Thajib, Ferdiansyah, and Dinkelaker, Samia. . “Fieldwork, Ethnography, and the Empirical Affect Montage.” in Analyzing Affective Societies: Methods and Methodologies , edited by Antje Kahl. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429424366.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Orders of Feeling.” in Affective Societies: Key Concepts, edited by Jan Slaby and Christian von Scheve. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781351039260.
- Thomas, Stodulka, Thajib, Ferdiansyah, and Dinkelaker, Samia. . “Introduction: Advancing Affective Scholarship.” in Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography, edited by Stodulka Thomas, Ferdiansyah Thajib and Samia Dinkelaker. New York: Springer Publishing.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Towards an integrative anthropology of emotion: A case study from Yogyakarta.” in Consensus and Dissent: Negotiating emotion in the public space, edited by Anne Storch. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/clu.19.02sto.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Storms of Slander: Relational dimensions of envy in Java, Indonesia.” in Envy at Work and in Organizations , edited by Richard H. Smith, Ugo Merlone and Michelle K. Duffy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190228057.003.0013 .
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Coming of Age on the Streets.” in The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology in the 21st Century, edited by Lenore Manderson, Elizabeth Cartwright and Anita Hardon. New York: Routledge.
- Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “The Emotional Make-up of Marginality and Stigma.” in Feelings at the Margins – Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia, edited by Thomas Stodulka and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler. Germany: Campus Verlag.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “‘Playing it Right’: Empathy and Emotional Economies on the Streets of Java.” in Feelings at the Margins – Dealing with Violence, Stigma and Isolation in Indonesia, edited by Thomas Stodulka and Birgitt Röttger-Rössler. Germany: Campus Verlag.
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “‘Beggars’ and ‘Kings’: Emotional Regulation of Shame Among Street Youths in a Javanese City in Indonesia.” in Emotions as Bio-cultural Processes, edited by Birgitt Röttger-Rössler and Hans J. Markowitsch. New York: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-0-387-09546-2_15.
Pre- / Postfaces in Monographs
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Foreword: Of fat white buffalos, dirty dogs, and sleazy machos: A tender hoo-ha on swearing, mocking and belonging.” in Swearing and Cursing: Contexts and Practices in a Critical Linguistic Perspective, edited by Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9781501511202-203.
- Stodulka, Thomas, and Davies, James. . “Foreword: Pathways of Affective Scholarship.” in Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography, edited by Thomas Stodulka , Ferdiansyah Thajib and Samia Dinkelaker. New York: Springer Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-20831-8_1.
Special Issues of Journals
- Kajanus, Anni, Jovicic, Suzana, and Stodulka, Thomas, eds. in Kürze.“Futures of Psychological Anthropology.” Special Issue Ethos.
- Stodulka, Thomas, Low, Kelvin E.Y, and Abdullah, Noorman, eds. in Kürze.“Sensory Endurances: Feeling, Sensing, and Resisting the Margins.” Special Issue International Sociology.
- Stodulka, Thomas, Low, Kelvin E.Y., and Abdullah, Noorman, eds. in Kürze.“Knowledge Of/Through the Senses: Learning, Doing, Maneuvering.” Special Issue American Behavioral Scientist.
- Funk, Leberecht, and Stodulka, Thomas, eds. .“Psychological Anthropology and Decolonization of the Mind.” Special Issue cultura & psyché: Journal of Cultural Psychology.
- Göpfert, Mirco, Behrends, Andrea, Nguyen, Minh, Kirsch, Thomas G., Ramella, Anna Lisa, Stodulka, Thomas, Treiber, Magnus, and Vonderau, Astaeds. .“Fieldwork meets Crisis.” Special Issue Zeitschrift für Ethnologie.
- Mashimi, Kristina, Stodulka, Thomas, Dilger, Hansjörg, von Poser, Anita, Mattes, Dominik, and Röttger-Rössler, Birgitt, eds. . “Envisioning Anthropological Futures.” Special Issue Zeitschrift für Ethnologie.
Objective, Multimedia-based or Online Publications
Web Publications (Blog Articles)
- Stodulka, Thomas. . “Mobilizing the Future: Timor-Leste’s Permaculture Youth Camps.” Heinrich Boell Foundation Southeast Asia
- Nguyen, Minh, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “Field of Exceptional Uncertainty: The Challenges of Early-Career Anthropologists in the Wake of the Corona Pandemic.” boasblog
- Stodulka, Thomas, Thajib, Ferdiansyah, and Dinkelaker, Samia. . “Behind the Scenes: Reflective Accounts on Ethnolab.” Ethnolab
Websites (Publicly Available)
- convened by: Stodulka, Thomas, and Thajib, Ferdiansyah. . “Bearing Witness to Slow Violence.”
- Stodulka, Thomas, and Schäfer, Saskia. . “Democracy and Interfaith Initiatives.”
Working Paper, Reports, Expertises or Manuals
Project Report
- Lehmann, Jörg, Stodulka, Thomas, and Huber, Elisabeth. . “H2020 Project K-PLEX: WP4 Report on Data, Knowledge Organisation and Epistemics.” Berlin: Selbstverlag / Eigenverlag.
Expertise or WorkExperience Statement
- Edmond, Jennifer, Horsley, Nicola, Huber, Elisabeth, Kalnins, Rihards, Lehmann, Jörg, Priddy, Mike, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “Big Data and Complex Knowledge: Observations and Recommendations for Research from the Knowledge Complexity Project.” Dublin: Trinity College Dublin.
ePapers or Preprints in Digital Collections
Research Articles in a Digital Collection
- Davies, James, and Stodulka, Thomas. . “Emotions in Fieldwork.” SAGE Research Methods - Social and Personal Aspects on Qualitative Research London: SAGE Publications. doi: 10.4135/9781526421036783199.
Editorial in a Digital Collection
- Dinkelaker, Samia, Stodulka, Thomas, and Thajib, Ferdiansyah. . “Editorial.” Ethnolab
Other Scientific Publications
- Nguyen, Minh, and Stodulka, Thomas. . Exceptional Uncertainty: Early-Career Anthropologists in the Corona Pandemic
- Cordula, Weißköppel, and Stodulka, Thomas. . Feldforschen lernen in Zeiten der Pandemie
- Stodulka, Thomas. . A Proposition: Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and the Empirical Affect Montage