Dr. Philipp Schröder Lecturer Course taught: Mixed Methods to Understand Economic and Other Human Behavior p.schroeder@osce-academy.net

Philipp Schröder studied Cultural/Social Anthropology and Political Sciences at the University of Tübingen, the Free University Berlin and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From 2006 until 2011, he was a member of the research group on ‘Integration and Conflict’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale. From 2012 to 2017, he conducted his postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Asian and African Studies of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and also served as an interim professor for the cross-section "Islam in Asian and African Societies” (2016-2017). In October 2017, Philipp Schröder joined the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg as a postdoctoral researcher, lecturer and coordinator of the BA program.

Philipp Schröder has also taught at the American University of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan), the University of Hamburg, the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg as well as during various summer schools funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He is an associate researcher at the "Institute for Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies" (ISEK) of the University Zurich, and an associate member of CASCA (Halle-Zurich Centre for the Anthropological Study of Central Asia). Furthermore, he is a research affiliate at the "International Security and Development Center" (ISDC, Berlin).

Philipp Schröder has consulted on various projects of development cooperation in Central Asia on behalf of the German Federal Foreign Office (AA), Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the World Bank, UN Women, UNICEF, the University of Central Asia (UCA), and 'The Hague Institute for Global Justice'. He is a Country of Origin Information (COI) expert for the ‘Rights in Exile Programme’. ‘Rights in Exile Programme

Philipp Schröder co-teaches the course Mixed Methods to Understand Economic and Other Human Behavior together with Dr Damir Esenaliev at the OSCE Academy.

Research interests

Philipp Schröder's research interests are identity, integration and conflict; translocal mobilities and entrepreneurialism; urban spaces, youth (cultures) and masculinities. His research areas are Central Asia and Eurasia (in particular Kyrgyzstan, Russia and China).

Recent publications

Monographs

- Schröder, Philipp in preparation. From Pioneers to New Entrepreneurs: Kyrgyzstan's First Capitalists and the Evolution of Eurasian Economies
(Working Title for manuscript related to habilitation project).
- Schröder, Philipp 2017. Bishkek Boys: Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan's Capital. New York and Oxford: Berghahn.
Awarded with the 'Research Award Ethnography 2019' by the Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Interview here; reviewed here & here & here

Edited Volumes / Special Issues

- Stephan-Emmrich, Manja and Philipp Schröder (eds.) 2018. Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers. Reviewed here
- Nasritdinov, Emil and Philipp Schröder (eds.) 2017. Re/Claiming Bishkek. Central Asian Affairs 4 (2).
Schröder, Philipp (ed.) 2017. Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond. London and New York: Routledge.
- Republished from 2016: Central Asian Survey, 35 (2).
Habeck, Joachim Otto and Philipp Schröder (eds.) 2016. Angst in the City? EthnoScripts 18 (1).

Chapters in Edited Volumes

- Schröder, Philipp forthcoming. The dvor and Urban Communities: Socio-Spatial Rhythms in Bishkek and other Cities of Central Asia.
(in: Feaux de la Croix, Jeanne and Madeleine Reeves (eds.). Central Asian Worlds. Handbook on Central Asian Anthropology. London: Routledge.)
- Schröder, Philipp forthcoming. Descendants of Altynay: Education as an opportunity and urban idealisation in present-day Kyrgyzstan
(in: 'Education in Central Asia: A Kaleidoscope of Challenges and Opportunities').
- Stephan-Emmrich, Manja and Philipp Schröder 2018. Introduction - Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus: A Translocal Perspective. In: Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (eds.): Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 27-57.
- Schröder, Philipp 2018. The Economics of Translocality - Epistemographic Observations from Fieldwork in(-between) Russia, China, and Kyrgyzstan. In: Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (eds.): Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 263-288.
- Schröder, Philipp  2017. Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond: An Introduction. In: Philipp Schröder (ed.): Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond. London and New York: Routledge, 1-12.
- Schröder, Philipp 2017. Avoidance and Appropriation in Bishkek: Dealing with Time, Space and Urbanity in Kyrgyzstan's Capital. In: Philipp Schröder (ed.): Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond. London and New York: Routledge, 74-92.