Thomas Stodulka
Biographic Data
| ID | 76140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Stodulka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Stodulka |
| SIGNATURE | STODULKA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9142-0814 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intersecciones entre la antropología y la psicología. Colaboraciones conceptuales, desafíos metodológicos e imposibles interdisciplinarios
Nuestra aproximación a la intersección que propone este dossier surge de las investigaciones antropológicas que hemos venido desarrollando en Argentina respecto de diversos
A sea of anchors
This commentary reflects on the contemporary trajectories and futures of psychological anthropology through the metaphor of a “sea of anchors.” Rather than reproducing binaries of center and margin, we conceptualize “anchors” as temporary and dynamic points of orientation through which theories, methods, collaborations, and infrastructures condense and circulate unevenly across regions and disciplines. Building on contributions to the 2026 Ethos …
Gardens of hope
In Timor-Leste, children now learn to plant vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of a newly revised national school curriculum. In this article, we trace how Timorese permaculture has developed from marginal grassroots activism practiced by a few into a cornerstone of public education. Drawing on long-term collaborative fieldwork with activists, students, and teachers, we discuss how school gardens and Arts and Cult…
Knowledge of/Through the Senses
Human sensing, when taken as a conceptual tool, allows us to acquire wisdom in the sense that we are able to feel, acknowledge, and respond in a variety of ways. Through sensing, sensory interactions and knowledge both condition and configure human interpretation and meaning-making. These forms and processes of sensory interaction, knowledge circulation, and transference have transpired and traversed a vast range of domains analyzed in various di…
Parenting culture
Parenting behaviors are studied through various qualitative and quantitative methods, including observations, interviews, and questionnaires, to identify both culturally specific and universal patterns of parents' interactions with their offspring. However, these methods have rarely been combined to systematically investigate methodological convergence and divergence in capturing parenting dynamics. The present study employs a mixed method approa…
Ethnography, Experience, and Coming of Age at the Margins
Research on severe mental illness in Indonesia
Indonesia is a country of immense socio-cultural and economic diversity in Southeast Asia. Over the past century, Indonesia epitomized a colonial and post-colonial scientific laboratory for developing early interventions in international health, transcultural psychiatry, and Global Mental Health (GMH). Psychological and psychiatric anthropology have greatly benefited from research on the interplay between culture, mental health, and illness in In…
Sensory endurances
This thematic section explores how sensory and affective experiences mediate social hierarchies, marginality, and belonging across Asia. The papers bridge affect theory, sensory anthropology, and sociological studies of the senses to examine how smell, sound, touch, and other sensory registers become sites of social differentiation, endurance, and resistance. Introducing the concept of sensory endurance, the collection theorizes how derogatory se…
Combining remote and collaborative research
This paper examines the methodological and ethical challenges of conducting remote research on child-animal relationships across thirty communities in 17 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. It critically assesses remote research as a mode of collaboration informed by decolonial aspirations, highlighting the complexities of navigating temporal and geographical distances, mitigating global inequalities, and addressing political and methodologic…
Anthropologists rarely walk alone
Article
Tasting the Soil and Mobilizing the Future
This article localizes the traveling concept of permaculture in Timor-Leste as a pathway into studying the juventude permakultura (permaculture youth) movement, its pedagogies of hope, sensory learning, and emotional mobilization. Focusing on permaculture-based community gardening and water conservation projects in Timor-Leste in relation to projects implemented by the nation's significant government-NGO nexus opens up anthropological inquiries i…
Anthropologie der Emotionen
Emotionen, Gefühle, affektive Dynamiken: Die Anthropologie der Emotionen hat sich als ein Forschungsfeld etabliert, in dem interdisziplinär gearbeitet wird und das transnational verankert ist. 27 Autor:innen aus Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Philosophie, Psychologie, Soziologie, den Neurowissenschaften und der Theaterwissenschaft skizzieren die Genese sowie gegenwärtige Entwicklungen dieser Forschung. Dieses Buch ist eine Einladung an Sozial- …
Special section
Cultural Diversity!? A Roundtable
In the context of a roundtable held at the international conference ›Diversity Affects – Troubling Institutions‹ organized by the CRC Affective Societies in May 2021 at Freie Universität Berlin four social and cultural scientists critically discussed the
Reflexivity, Engagement, Decoloniality
Envy and Culture – An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Research on envy across cultures is scarce. Existing studies are predominantly limited to Eurocentric experimental snapshots. As a careful suggestion to diversify methods, samples and theory in envy-related studies, this essay presents a review and an interdisciplinary methodological suggestion to analyse semi-structured interviews of persons with diverse socialisation backgrounds. The essay illustrates that the triggers and objects of envy, its …
Emotive Banners and Billboards
This paper analyses the affective ramifications at the onset of the emerging Corona pandemic in Kupang, Indonesia. Steering towards now established social and political orders of public conduct outside one’s home and neighbourhood, public billboards and warning signs became early visible manifestations of worlding Covid-19 into the city’s infrastructure. Rapidly emerging governmental and entrepreneurial banners communicated new orders of personal…
Worlding Permaculture School Gardens
In times of accelerated globalization, with the overheated circulation of lifestyle desires and future imaginaries of the good life, children's education has become a site of contested governmental, activist, and entrepreneurial assemblages that connect translocal actors and communities. The literature on transnational education has demonstrated that knowledge circulation prompts the production of "mobile worlds"-the movement of bodies, ideas, an…
Emotionen auf Expeditionen
Gefühle beeinflussen unser Verhalten überall – auch in der Wissenschaft. Aber bei Forscher_innen sind Affekte suspekt: Sie werden als Störungen betrachtet, die eine objektive Arbeit gefährden. Dabei beeinflussen sie zwangsläufig den Forschungsprozess, weshalb ihre kritische Analyse ein fester Bestandteil wissenschaftlicher Tätigkeit sein sollte. Insbesondere die Feldforschung löst regelmäßig emotionale Reaktionen (etwa zu Kriegsgräuel, Diskrimini…
Fieldwork, ethnography and the empirical affect montage
This contribution discusses an affectively aware methodology of ethnographic research. It highlights fieldwork as relational processes of encountering the so-called ‘other’ and discusses the methodological dilemma of ethnographers’ immersion and detachment during participant observation. We illustrate that epistemological potentials of fieldworkers’ affects, empathy, and emotion have been insufficiently discussed as a systematic methodological he…
Introduction
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography
Affective Scholarship
This article discusses the potential of fieldworkers' affects as epistemic processes. It showcases lessons from long-term fieldwork in diverse geographical locations (Indonesia, Germany, and Tanzania) and insights from our affective inquiries into coming of age on the streets, Sufism, and antiretroviral HIV-therapy. Inspired by ethnographic writings relating to psychological anthropology and the "affective turn," we propose epistemic affects as a…
Coming of Age on the Streets of Java
This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of resorting to a dreadful discourse of pity and despair. The ethnography's multi-vocal narrative couples vivid accounts of ethnographic case studies and life …
Emotion Work, Ethnography, and Survival Strategies on the Streets of Yogyakarta
Anthropological research with street-related children, adolescents, and young adults raises epistemological, methodical, and ethical predicaments. In this article, I illustrate the advantages of an anthropology that acknowledges the ethnographer's emotions as valuable data when conducting research with marginalized communities. By drawing on my own experiences when conducting long-term fieldwork, I argue that systematic self-reflexivity and an em…
Affective Scholarship
This article discusses the potential of fieldworkers' affects as epistemic processes. It showcases lessons from long-term fieldwork in diverse geographical locations (Indonesia, Germany, and Tanzania) and insights from our affective inquiries into coming of age on the streets, Sufism, and antiretroviral HIV-therapy. Inspired by ethnographic writings relating to psychological anthropology and the "affective turn," we propose epistemic affects as a…
Emotion Work, Ethnography, and Survival Strategies on the Streets of Yogyakarta
Anthropological research with street-related children, adolescents, and young adults raises epistemological, methodical, and ethical predicaments. In this article, I illustrate the advantages of an anthropology that acknowledges the ethnographer's emotions as valuable data when conducting research with marginalized communities. By drawing on my own experiences when conducting long-term fieldwork, I argue that systematic self-reflexivity and an em…
Worlding Permaculture School Gardens
In times of accelerated globalization, with the overheated circulation of lifestyle desires and future imaginaries of the good life, children's education has become a site of contested governmental, activist, and entrepreneurial assemblages that connect translocal actors and communities. The literature on transnational education has demonstrated that knowledge circulation prompts the production of "mobile worlds"-the movement of bodies, ideas, an…
Emotive Banners and Billboards
This paper analyses the affective ramifications at the onset of the emerging Corona pandemic in Kupang, Indonesia. Steering towards now established social and political orders of public conduct outside one’s home and neighbourhood, public billboards and warning signs became early visible manifestations of worlding Covid-19 into the city’s infrastructure. Rapidly emerging governmental and entrepreneurial banners communicated new orders of personal…
Feldforschung als Begegnung - Zur pragmatischen Dimension ethnographischer Daten
In diesem Beitrag erläutere ich am konkreten Beispiel meiner Langzeitforschung mit ‘Straßenjugendlichen‘ in Yogyakarta, Indonesien, den epistemischen Wert von Emotionen, wie sie in der Begegnung zwischen Forschern und Erforschten entstehen und verhandelt werden. Auf der Basis einer Fallstudie von Begegnungen mit dem Protagonisten meiner ethnographischen Forschung argumentiere ich, dass eine systematische und empirisch-gestützte Selbstreflexivität…
A Breakthrough Journey for the Top End
Feldforschung als Begegnung - Zur pragmatischen Dimension ethnographischer Daten
In diesem Beitrag erläutere ich am konkreten Beispiel meiner Langzeitforschung mit ‘Straßenjugendlichen‘ in Yogyakarta, Indonesien, den epistemischen Wert von Emotionen, wie sie in der Begegnung zwischen Forschern und Erforschten entstehen und verhandelt werden. Auf der Basis einer Fallstudie von Begegnungen mit dem Protagonisten meiner ethnographischen Forschung argumentiere ich, dass eine systematische und empirisch-gestützte Selbstreflexivität…
Emotion Work, Ethnography, and Survival Strategies on the Streets of Yogyakarta
Anthropological research with street-related children, adolescents, and young adults raises epistemological, methodical, and ethical predicaments. In this article, I illustrate the advantages of an anthropology that acknowledges the ethnographer's emotions as valuable data when conducting research with marginalized communities. By drawing on my own experiences when conducting long-term fieldwork, I argue that systematic self-reflexivity and an em…
Coming of Age on the Streets of Java
This book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of resorting to a dreadful discourse of pity and despair. The ethnography's multi-vocal narrative couples vivid accounts of ethnographic case studies and life …
Affective Scholarship
This article discusses the potential of fieldworkers' affects as epistemic processes. It showcases lessons from long-term fieldwork in diverse geographical locations (Indonesia, Germany, and Tanzania) and insights from our affective inquiries into coming of age on the streets, Sufism, and antiretroviral HIV-therapy. Inspired by ethnographic writings relating to psychological anthropology and the "affective turn," we propose epistemic affects as a…
Emotionen auf Expeditionen
Gefühle beeinflussen unser Verhalten überall – auch in der Wissenschaft. Aber bei Forscher_innen sind Affekte suspekt: Sie werden als Störungen betrachtet, die eine objektive Arbeit gefährden. Dabei beeinflussen sie zwangsläufig den Forschungsprozess, weshalb ihre kritische Analyse ein fester Bestandteil wissenschaftlicher Tätigkeit sein sollte. Insbesondere die Feldforschung löst regelmäßig emotionale Reaktionen (etwa zu Kriegsgräuel, Diskrimini…
Fieldwork, ethnography and the empirical affect montage
This contribution discusses an affectively aware methodology of ethnographic research. It highlights fieldwork as relational processes of encountering the so-called ‘other’ and discusses the methodological dilemma of ethnographers’ immersion and detachment during participant observation. We illustrate that epistemological potentials of fieldworkers’ affects, empathy, and emotion have been insufficiently discussed as a systematic methodological he…
Introduction
Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography
Worlding Permaculture School Gardens
In times of accelerated globalization, with the overheated circulation of lifestyle desires and future imaginaries of the good life, children's education has become a site of contested governmental, activist, and entrepreneurial assemblages that connect translocal actors and communities. The literature on transnational education has demonstrated that knowledge circulation prompts the production of "mobile worlds"-the movement of bodies, ideas, an…
Envy and Culture – An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Research on envy across cultures is scarce. Existing studies are predominantly limited to Eurocentric experimental snapshots. As a careful suggestion to diversify methods, samples and theory in envy-related studies, this essay presents a review and an interdisciplinary methodological suggestion to analyse semi-structured interviews of persons with diverse socialisation backgrounds. The essay illustrates that the triggers and objects of envy, its …
Emotive Banners and Billboards
This paper analyses the affective ramifications at the onset of the emerging Corona pandemic in Kupang, Indonesia. Steering towards now established social and political orders of public conduct outside one’s home and neighbourhood, public billboards and warning signs became early visible manifestations of worlding Covid-19 into the city’s infrastructure. Rapidly emerging governmental and entrepreneurial banners communicated new orders of personal…
Anthropologie der Emotionen
Emotionen, Gefühle, affektive Dynamiken: Die Anthropologie der Emotionen hat sich als ein Forschungsfeld etabliert, in dem interdisziplinär gearbeitet wird und das transnational verankert ist. 27 Autor:innen aus Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Philosophie, Psychologie, Soziologie, den Neurowissenschaften und der Theaterwissenschaft skizzieren die Genese sowie gegenwärtige Entwicklungen dieser Forschung. Dieses Buch ist eine Einladung an Sozial- …
Special section
Cultural Diversity!? A Roundtable
In the context of a roundtable held at the international conference ›Diversity Affects – Troubling Institutions‹ organized by the CRC Affective Societies in May 2021 at Freie Universität Berlin four social and cultural scientists critically discussed the
Reflexivity, Engagement, Decoloniality
Anthropologists rarely walk alone
Article
Tasting the Soil and Mobilizing the Future
This article localizes the traveling concept of permaculture in Timor-Leste as a pathway into studying the juventude permakultura (permaculture youth) movement, its pedagogies of hope, sensory learning, and emotional mobilization. Focusing on permaculture-based community gardening and water conservation projects in Timor-Leste in relation to projects implemented by the nation's significant government-NGO nexus opens up anthropological inquiries i…
Ethnography, Experience, and Coming of Age at the Margins
Research on severe mental illness in Indonesia
Indonesia is a country of immense socio-cultural and economic diversity in Southeast Asia. Over the past century, Indonesia epitomized a colonial and post-colonial scientific laboratory for developing early interventions in international health, transcultural psychiatry, and Global Mental Health (GMH). Psychological and psychiatric anthropology have greatly benefited from research on the interplay between culture, mental health, and illness in In…
Sensory endurances
This thematic section explores how sensory and affective experiences mediate social hierarchies, marginality, and belonging across Asia. The papers bridge affect theory, sensory anthropology, and sociological studies of the senses to examine how smell, sound, touch, and other sensory registers become sites of social differentiation, endurance, and resistance. Introducing the concept of sensory endurance, the collection theorizes how derogatory se…
Combining remote and collaborative research
This paper examines the methodological and ethical challenges of conducting remote research on child-animal relationships across thirty communities in 17 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. It critically assesses remote research as a mode of collaboration informed by decolonial aspirations, highlighting the complexities of navigating temporal and geographical distances, mitigating global inequalities, and addressing political and methodologic…
Intersecciones entre la antropología y la psicología. Colaboraciones conceptuales, desafíos metodológicos e imposibles interdisciplinarios
Nuestra aproximación a la intersección que propone este dossier surge de las investigaciones antropológicas que hemos venido desarrollando en Argentina respecto de diversos
A sea of anchors
This commentary reflects on the contemporary trajectories and futures of psychological anthropology through the metaphor of a “sea of anchors.” Rather than reproducing binaries of center and margin, we conceptualize “anchors” as temporary and dynamic points of orientation through which theories, methods, collaborations, and infrastructures condense and circulate unevenly across regions and disciplines. Building on contributions to the 2026 Ethos …
Gardens of hope
In Timor-Leste, children now learn to plant vegetables, conserve water, and design permaculture gardens as part of a newly revised national school curriculum. In this article, we trace how Timorese permaculture has developed from marginal grassroots activism practiced by a few into a cornerstone of public education. Drawing on long-term collaborative fieldwork with activists, students, and teachers, we discuss how school gardens and Arts and Cult…
Sociology (16 works) · Anthropology (14 works) · Ethnography (12 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Reflexivity (4 works)