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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

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

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)

2014

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