Welcome Dr. Jon Schubert!
The working group Social and Political Anthropology of Prof. Dr. Judith Beyer welcomes Dr. Jon Schubert as a new member. Dr Schubert is an expert in political and economic anthropology. He works on political authority, infrastructures, sustainable urban development, the experience and memory of political violence, the impact of extractive industries and on transnational African trade. His regional expertise is in Angola and Mozambique.
Find out more about Dr Jon Schubert.
His most recent article “The work-intensive fiction of frictionless trade in the Angolan port of Lobito” was published in Focaal. Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology in March 2021.
In the summer term 2021 he will teach the BA-seminar “Introduction to political anthropology” and the MA-seminar “Introduction to urban anthropology”.