Short bio
Julia Valeska Schröder is research associate and doctoral candidate in the field of Urban Anthropology at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University Berlin. Having a background in Political Theory, she is interested in the intersections of the anthropology of the state, political theory on the one hand and STS and digital anthropology on the other. Her research interests are technopolitics of the digital, political technologies and emancipatory city-making.
Her dissertation project on the phenomenon of digital statecraft shifts attention from the so-called “digital transformation” to digital political transformation practices. Based on the ethnographic research in a “Public Innovation Lab” and other sites, the concept ‘intrastatecraft’ is suggested as analytical lense to foreground different modes of the political enacted through practices of digital statecraft (involving the infrastructuralization of “the state”; more-than-digital governmental technologies targeting administrational ground work and the crafting of material politics).