I have been a member of the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment I Human Relations since 2014. Since 2024, I have remained affiliated with the lab as an associate member.
I completed my Ph.D. at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Philosophische Fakultät), Institute for European Ethnology, at Humboldt University of Berlin. My dissertation will be published in 2026 under the title: “Fluide Ökosysteme. Eine Ethnographie selbstorganisierter Netzwerke von der Bay Area über Berlin bis zum Mond”.
In my dissertation, I critically examined the concept of the ecosystem, which was first coined at the beginning of the 20th century. I experimented with applying the concept to technology-driven economic and social practices that today connect urban regions such as San Francisco and Berlin, as well as to speculative imagination of outer space.
During my field studies, I served as a Fulbright visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Before that, I earned a bachelor’s degree in History and European Ethnology and a master’s degree in European Ethnology from Humboldt University of Berlin, which included studying anthropology at the University of Copenhagen.
My current research interests include socio-cultural anthropology, economic anthropology/sociology, history of science, social studies of outer space, urban studies, and science & technology studies.
Contact: jonnaantonia.josties@alumni.hu-berlin.de
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Publications
2024
Beyond Fun: Experiments in Epistemic Dizziness Journal Article
In: EASST Review , vol. 43, iss. 1, 2024.
2023
“Spatial Figures in the Anthropocene” – The CRC 1265’s 5th international conference. Online
2023, visited: 17.11.2023.
2021
Ethnografische Theorie ko-laborativ fügen Journal Article
In: Hamburger Journal für Kulturanthropologie (HJK), vol. 13, pp. 522-555, 2021.
2019
After Practice. Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally. Volume I Collection
Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2019.
After Practice. Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally. Volume II Collection
Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2019.
Current work in the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations: Doing research in a more-than-thought collective Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
From the Collaboratory Social Anthropology & Life Sciences to the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
2018
Assembling Comparators – Assembling Reflexivities Journal Article
In: Science as Culture, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 563-568, 2018.