Dr. Sophie Strauß
Dr. Strauß is a social anthropologist with a regional interest in Indonesia. She has joined the team as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer associated with the chair of Prof. Dr. Annette Hornbacher. In her current post-doctoral research project, she focuses on nutritional ecology, health and the prevention of and dealing with ‘non-communicable chronic diseases’ like diabetes in Indonesia.
Dr. Strauß has completed her doctoral thesis on the role of landscape concepts in relation to tourism development in Northern Bali at the University of Göttingen (Thesis Wie heilig sind Wald und Wasser? Die Rolle von Landschaftskonzepten im Disput um Tourismusentwicklung in einem Naturschutzgebiet in Nordbali, Indonesien, How Sacred are Forest and Water: the role of landscape concepts in a dispute over tourism development in a nature reserve in Northern Bali, Indonesia). For her dissertation, she joined the Graduate School Society and Culture in Motion at the University of Halle-Wittenberg with a PhD scholarship.
Before that, she has studied Social Anthropology, Biological Anthropology and Environmental Studies/Conservation Biology (Magistra Artium) in Göttingen and Uppsala (Sweden) focusing on conflicts over water resources in South Balinese paddy cultivation. Since then, she has conducted several long-term academic stays in Indonesia.
Research Interests
- Southeast Asia, mainly Indonesia (esp. Bali)
- Anthropology of Landscape and Space
- Environmental Anthropology, Cultural Ecology, Political Ecology esp. of Nature Reserves
- Water Rights and Water Management, Sustainable agriculture in Southeast Asia (Indonesia)
- Medical Anthropology
- Nutritional ecology
- Public Health
- Climate Change, Sustainability, Degrowth
- Anthropology of the Future in Southeast Asia
- Anthropology of Tourism (Sustainable Tourism)
- Ethnographic Methods
Selected Publications
Academic Theses/Monographs
2020
Wie heilig sind Wald und Wasser? Die Rolle von Landschaftskonzepten im Disput um Tourismusentwicklung in einem Naturschutzgebiet in Nordbali, Indonesien. Dissertation. eDiss, Open Access der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
2008
Konkurrenz um die Ressource Wasser. Nutzungskonflikte am Beispiel der südbalinesischen Reiskultur. Magisterarbeit. Göttingen: Open Access der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
Academic publications in scientific journals (peer-reviewed)
2015
Alliances Across Ideologies: Networking with NGOs in a Tourism Dispute in Northern Bali. In: Rachel P. Lorenzen; Dik Roth (Hg.): “Bali: Socio-environmental conflicts in contested spaces”. The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA) 02/2015; 16 (2), 123–140. The Australian National University, Routledge.
2011
Water Conflicts between different User Groups in South Bali, Indonesia. In: Human Ecology 39 (1), 69–79. New York, Heidelberg: Springer.
Book chapters (peer-reviewed)
2014
Respecting the Lakes: Arguments about a Tourism Project between Environmentalism and Agama. In: Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin; David Harnish (Hg.): Between Harmony and Discrimination. Negotiating Religious Identities within Majority-Minority Relationships in Bali and Lombok. Leiden, Boston: Brill, pp. 275-300.
2009
„Ich brachte es nicht übers Herz, ihr diese Dinge nicht mitzuteilen". In: Elfriede Hermann; Karin Klenke; Michael Dickhardt (Hg.): Form, Macht, Differenz. Motive und Felder ethnologischen Forschens. Göttingen: Göttinger Universitätsverlag, pp. 65-76. (mit Jero Mangku Dalem I Nyoman Sutarmi).
