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I specialise in the anthropology of intimacy, violence and law and have been conducting ethnographic research in Sierra Leone since 2011 and in Germany since 2018. Through combining empirical research with conceptual synthesis, I study how people negotiate the space to live their most intimate needs on various levels of social and legal organisation. I am particularly interested in the friction between care and control, between rights, protections and their practical realisation that arise from the divide between private and public spheres, both through the politico-legal separation between home/house and street, and through conflicting discourses regarding which areas of life states may regulate and in what way. I am interested in inventive contractualism and creative syncretism and examine what laws ‘do’ and how they interact with how people govern their lives in diverse contexts.
My long-term engagement with Sierra Leone focuses on three core areas:
In my research on Germany I investigate:
A third cornerstone of my research turns inward
and looks at our discipline, at the nexus between ethnographic unpredictability and institutional demands and at how we conduct and navigate research, academia and the university. I have been writing about various aspects of what we could call the ugly underbelly of anthropological work (ontological insecurity, loneliness, violence, abuse). I ask what anthropologists and institutions can and should do to challenge and deconstruct violent structures, prevent harm where possible and to offer support while taking seriously the unpredictability of human interactions?
I have taught social anthropology at both graduate and undergraduate levels at the University of Oxford, the University of Vienna and Leipzig University. My teaching experience spans social analysis and interpretation, love and intimacy, violence, law and rights, confinement and imprisonment, research methodology, ethics, West Africa and Europe.
In the Academic Year 2021/2022 I teach on the following courses:
I also run the academic citizenship teaching innovation and am the programme coordinator of the Anthropology Honors Program
Current PhD students:
Anastasiia Omelianiuk (supervised with Prof. Mattijs van de Port)
Ketema Degefa (supervised with Dr. Freek Colombijn and Dr. Kedir Teji Roba)
I am open to supervising PhD students.
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In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Anthropology, PhD, DPhil in Anthropology, University of Oxford
Award Date: 14 Jan 2019
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Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper › Academic
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Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper › Academic
1/03/22 → 17/11/22
Project: Research
Luisa Schneider (Reviewer)
Activity: Peer review and Editorial work › Peer review › Academic
Luisa Schneider (Organiser), Julienne Weegels (Organiser) & Marzio Zamboni (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
Luisa Schneider (Speaker)
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Luisa Schneider (Speaker)
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Luisa Schneider (Organiser) & Ann Zuntz (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
Schneider, Luisa (Recipient), 2018
Prize › Academic
Schneider, Luisa (Recipient), 2017
Prize › Academic
Luisa Schneider & Stefan Schwendtner
22/04/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
2/12/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
19/06/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
16/06/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment