Philipp Schröder obtained his postdoctoral qualification (habilitation) in 2022 from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) with a thesis on trade, entrepreneurship and translocal livelihoods in Eurasia, in particular Kyrgyzstan, Russia and China. Previously, Philipp was a member of the research group on ‘Integration and Conflict’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale (2006-2012) and a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2013-2017) and the University of Freiburg (2017-2022), Germany. He received his PhD in 2012 from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, researching youth cultures, identity and urban change in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek.

Philipp is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland (https://www.isek.uzh.ch/de/ethnologie/Personen/Personen/S/philippschroeder.html).

Furthermore, he is a Research Affiliate at ISDC – International Security and Development Center in Berlin, Germany (https://isdc.org/team/philipp-schroder/). As an expert of ISDC and in other capacities he has conducted applied research and consulted on projects of development cooperation in Central Asia for agencies such as the World Bank, UN Women, UNICEF, USAID or the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).

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Monographs

Schröder, Philipp forthcoming. Trade Pioneers, Middlemen, New Entrepreneurs: Kyrgyzstan’s First Capitalists along Translocal Value Chains between ‘Home’, Russia and China. London: Routledge.

Schröder, Philipp 2017. Bishkek Boys: Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital. 
New York and Oxford: Berghahn.

Schröder, Philipp 2006. ‘Dagaalka Sokeeye – To Fight the Familiar’. The Somali Civil War from the Perspectives of Ethnological and Political Science Conflict Theories. Berlin: LIT-Verlag. (in German)

Edited Volumes / Special Issues

Stephan-Emmrich, Manja and Schröder, Philipp (eds.) 2018. Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers.

Nasritdinov, Emil and Philipp Schröder (eds.) 2017. Re/Claiming Bishkek. Central Asian Affairs 4 (2).

Schröder, Philipp (ed.) 2017. Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond. London and New York: Routledge.

Habeck, Joachim Otto and Schröder, Philipp (eds.) 2016. Angst in the City? EthnoScripts, 18 (1).

Contributions to Edited Volumes

Schröder, Philipp forthcoming. Entering the Eurasian Economic Union: An Ethnographic Exploration among ‘New Entrepreneurs’ in Kyrgyzstan between 2013 and 2017. In: Alexander Libman and Evgeny Vinokurov (eds.): The Elgar Companion to the Eurasian Economic Union. Cheltenham, UK & Northampton, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Schröder, Philipp forthcoming. A Javanese Conversation with Central Asia on Transitive Matters. In: Anna Meiser, Ingo Rohrer and Mirjam Lücking (eds.): In Tandem  – Ways Towards a Postcolonial Anthropology: Methods – Themes – Approaches. Springer VS.

Schröder, Philipp forthcoming. The dvor and Urban Communities: Socio-Spatial Rhythms in Bishkek and other Cities of Central Asia. In: Jeanne Feaux de la Croix and Madeleine Reeves (eds.): Central Asian Worlds. Handbook on Central Asian Anthropology. London: Routledge.

Schröder, Philipp 2020. Descendants of Altynay: Education as an opportunity and urban idealisation in present-day Kyrgyzstan. In: Denise Egea (ed.): Education in Central Asia: A Kaleidoscope of Challenges and Opportunities. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 157–170.

Schröder, Philipp 2018. The Economics of Translocality – Epistemographic Observations from Fieldwork in(-between) Russia, China, and Kyrgyzstan. In: Manja Stephan-Emmrich and Philipp Schröder (eds.): Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas: Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus. Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 263-288.

Journal Articles

Schröder, Philipp in preparation. Post-Socialist Capitalism and Emerging Middle-Classes in Central Asia.

Schröder, Philipp in preparation. Crumbling Facades: Grandiose Projects, Inequality and Resistance along the New Silk Road.

Schröder, Philipp 2020. Business 2.0: Kyrgyz Middlemen in Guangzhou. In: Central Asian Survey.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2019.1711023

Nasritdinov, Emil and Philipp Schröder 2017. Re/Claiming Bishkek: Contestation and Activism in the City of Two Revolutions. In. Central Asian Affairs: ‘Re-Claiming Bishkek’, 4 (2): 97-128.

Schröder, Philipp. 2017. From Shanghai to Iug-2…and What Now? Traces of (Re-)Claiming Bishkek from a Multi-temporal Fieldwork among Urban Men. In. Central Asian Affairs: ‘Re-Claiming Bishkek’, 4 (2): 129-145.

Schröder, Philipp 2016. Avoidance and Appropriation in Bishkek: Dealing with Time, Space and Urbanity in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital. In: Central Asian Survey, 35(2): 218-236.

Nasritdinov, Emil and Philipp Schröder 2016. From Frunze to Bishkek. Soviet Territorial Youth Formations and Their Decline in the 1990-s and 2000-s. In: Central Asian Affairs, 3(1): 1-28.

Schröder, Philipp 2015. Ainuras Amerikanische Karriere. Räumliche und Soziale Mobilität einer jungen Kirgisin. [Ainura’s American Career: The Spatial and Social Mobility of a Young Kyrgyz Woman.] In: Déjà Lu, Issue 3, 2015 (E-Journal of the World Council of Anthropological Associations). 
Reprint of 2013: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 138: 235-258.

Schröder, Philipp 2014. „Der deutsche Bruder in unserem Hof’: Respekt, Solidarität und ‚distanzierbare Nähe‘ als Aspekte meiner Verortung in einer Nachbarschaftsgemeinschaft kirgisischer Männer. [‘The German Brother in our Yard’: Respect, Solidarity and ‘Distanced Proximity’ as Aspects of my Positioning in a Neighbourhood Community of Kyrgyz Men.] In: Sociologus, 6(2): 155-178.

Schröder, Philipp und Manja Stephan-Emmrich 2014. The Institutionalization of Mobility: Well-being and Social Hierarchies in Central Asian Translocal Livelihoods. In: Mobilities. [Druckversion: Mobilities 2016, 11(3): 420-443.]

Schröder, Philipp 2010. ‘Urbanizing’ Bishkek: interrelations of boundaries, migration, group size and opportunity structure. In: Central Asian Survey, 29:4, 453-467.

Schröder, Philipp 2007. Schauspiel, Ideologie und Selbstdarstellung – Beschreibungen zum sibirischen Schamanismus zwischen dem 18. und 21. Jahrhundert im Kontext der Writing-Culture Debatte. [Spectacle, Ideology and Self-Presentation – Descriptions of Siberian Shamanism between the 18th and 21st Century in Light of the Writing Culture-Debate.] In: Anthropos 102.2007, 135-156.

Reviews

Schröder, Philipp 2018. Locating Institutions in Kyrgyzstan’s Bazaar Economies. Review of: Spector, Regine 2017. Order at the Bazaar. Power and Trade in Central Asia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. In: Central Asian Affairs, 5 (4), 375-379.

Schröder, Philipp 2015. Review of: Schmoller, Jesko 2014. Achieving a Career, Becoming a Master. Aspirations in the Lives of Young Uzbek Men. In: Central Asian Survey, 34:4, 568-570.

Schröder, Philipp 2006. Review of: Yurkova, Irina 2004. Der Alltag der Transformation. Kleinunternehmerinnen in Usbekistan. [The Everyday Life of Transformation. Small Buinesswomen in Uzbekistan.] In: Anthropos, 101.2006, 332-334.

Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology