Team > Manfred Stoppok, M.A.

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ethnologie

Scientific career

• since June 20222: Scholarship holder of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
  
• Dec. 2014 - Jul. 2019: University of Bayreuth, research associate
  
• 2014 - 2020: Junior Fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)
  
• Nov. 2013 - Apr. 2014: University of Bayreuth, part-time research assistant at the Cultural & Social Anthropology research group
  
• 2005 - 2011: Studies, Universität Leipzig, Social Anthropology and African Studies
• 2004 - 2005: Studies, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Pharmacy

Conferences / Workshops

• (2017) Household Consumption and Environmental Change in the Twentieth Century (Bologna, 30 - 31 May 2017), University of Bologna. Presentation: Household Energy Consumption in the Global North and South – Comparing Energy Consumption Levels and Standards of Living in Kenya, Spain, and Germany.
• (2017) Energy for Society – 1st International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science (Sitges, 2.-5.4.2017). Poster presented.
• (2016) 3rd Energy and Society conference: Transforming energy for Society (Leipzig, 12.-14.09.2016).
• (2015) Sustainable Tourism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (Berlin, 10./11.07.2105, Haus der Demokratie, Amílcar Cabral Gesellschaft e.V. and Nô Lanta Djunto e.V.)

Memberships

• Amílcar Cabral Gesellschaft e.V. (Chaiman)
• German Society for the African Lusophone States (DASP)
• German Anthropological Association (DGSKA)
• German-Portuguese Association (DPG)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ethnologie

Research areas

Regional

• Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Kenya, Small Island Development States (SIDS)

Topics

• Anthropology of energy; technology transfer, middle classes; social anthropological consumer research

Current research project

• Energy Culture and Consumption among Kenyan Middle Classes
  

Field research

• Aug. 2015 - Oct. 2015: Energy culture and consumption among kenyan middle classes, Mumias, Kenia (3 months)
• Dec. 2014 - Mar. 2015: Energy culture and consumption among kenyan middle classes, Mumias, Kenia (4 months)
• Nov. 2009 - Mar. 2010: Maggi in Guinea-Bissau, master’s thesis, Bissau, Guinea-Bissau (4 months)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ethnologie

Publications

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ethnologie

Manfred Stoppok, M.A.
Scholarship holder of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4659
E-mail: manfred.stoppok@uni-bayreuth.de
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