Dr. Philipp Lottholz
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Subproject C05 — Political Security and Economized Infrastructures
Career
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Since 02/2022 |
Post-Doctoral Fellow, DFG Collaborative Research Centre (SFB/TRR 138) "Dynamics of Security", Subproject B05 — Securitization and Desecuritization in International Trusteeship Administrations |
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2019 |
Post-Doctoral Fellow, DFG Collaborative Research Centre (SFB/TRR 138) "Dynamics of Security", Subproject C05 — Political Security and Economized Infrastructures |
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03/2019 |
Visiting Fellowship, DFG Collaborative Research Centre (SFB/TRR 138) "Dynamics of Security" |
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01 - 09/2018 |
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, UN and Global Order Programme, University of Reading |
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05 - 07/2016 |
Research Associate, International Development Department, University of Birmingham |
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10/2014 |
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLSIS), University of Birmingham Research Assistant, International Development Department, University of Birmingham |
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06 - 12/2015 |
Visitig Fellow, Central Asian Studies Institute, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic) |
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2013 - 2018 |
Doctoral Studies, International Development Department, University of Birmingham |
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2010 - 2013 |
Intern, Speaker and Consultant, NGO ‘Citizens of Europe’ (Bürger Europas e.V.), Berlin |
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2011 - 2012 |
Master of Science in International Development (International Political Economy Pathway), International Development Department, University of Birmingham |
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2007-2011 |
Bachelor of Science in International Economics (Major in East European Studies), School of Business and Economics, University of Tübingen |
Research interests
- Peace, conflict and security studies
- Statebuilding and intervention
- Central Asian studies
- Post-Soviet and post-Socialist studies
- Cooperative, practice-based and ethnographic methodology
- Researcher and research participant safety
- Post- and decolonial international studies
Selected Publications
Special Issues
- Lottholz, P., Bonacker, T. (2022) The Politics of Security, Stability and Ordering in (Post-) Imperial Central Asia, Europe-Asia Studies, 74(2).
- Manolova, P., Kušić, K., Lottholz, P. (2019) Decolonial Theory & Practice in Southeast Europe, edited with Polina Manolova and Katarina Kušić, dVERSIA, 19: 1-124, https://dversia.net/4644/dversia-decolonial-theory-practice-southeast-europe/
- Ismailbekova, A., Lottholz, P. (trans. & eds.) (2020) Collective Discussion: The Conflict in South Kyrgyzstan Ten Years On/Конфликт на юге Кыргызстана десять лет спустя, Central Asia Program Paper Series, Washington, DC: George Washington University, https://www.centralasiaprogram.org/archives/16380
Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters
- Lottholz, P., Bonacker, T. (2022) Understanding Post-Imperial Politics of Security, Stability and Ordering in Central Asia: An Introduction, Europe-Asia Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.2020492
- Bonacker, T., Lottholz, P. (2022) The Post-Imperial Politics of Security and Depoliticisation: Comparing Discourses and Practices of Ordering across Central Asia, Europe-Asia Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.2020217
- Lottholz, P. (2021) Towards a Post-Liberal Approach to Political Ordering, in Uitz, Renata, Holmes, Stephen and Andras Sajo (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Illiberalism, London: Routledge, 582-595.
- Kluczewska, K., Lottholz, P. (2021) ‘Recognizing the Never Quite Absent: De-Facto Usage, Ethics and Applications of Covert Research’, Qualitative Research, Online First, https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211033084
- Manolova, P., Lottholz, P. (2021) Security above the Law? Germany’s Bordering Practices and Freedom of Movement in Times of Covid-19, Movements: Journal of Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies, 6(1): 137-150, https://movements-journal.org/issues/09.open-call/08.manolova,lottholz--security-above-the-law.html
- Lottholz, P., Sheranova, A. (2021) Governing, but not Producing Security? Internationalised Community Security Practices in Kyrgyzstan, International Quarterly of Asian Studies, 52 (1-2): 55-77, https://doi.org/10.11588/iqas.2021.1-2.14476
- Lottholz, P., Heathershaw, J., Ismailbekova, A., Moldalieva, J., McGlinchey, E., Owen, C. (2020) Round-Table Discussion: Governance and Order-Making in Central Asia: From Illiberalism to Post-Liberalism?, Central Asian Survey, 49(3): 420-437, https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2020.1803794
- Lottholz, P. (2021) The Roles and Practices of Civil Society Actors in Police Reform in Kyrgyzstan: Activism, Expertise, Knowledge Production, International Peacekeeping, 28(1): 52-83, https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2020.1792296
- Lottholz, P. (2018) Old Slogans Ringing Hollow? The Legacy of Social Engineering, Statebuilding and the ‘Dilemma of Difference’ in (Post-) Soviet Kyrgyzstan, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 12(3): 405-424, https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2018.1507869
- Bekmurzaev, N., Lottholz, P., Meyer, J. (2018) Navigating the safety implications of doing research and being researched in Kyrgyzstan: Cooperation, networks and framing, Central Asian Survey, 37(1): 100-118, https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2017.1419165
- Lottholz, P. (2018) Critiquing anthropological imagination in peace and conflict studies: From empiricist positivism to a dialogical approach in ethnographic peace research, International Peacekeeping, 25(5): 695-720,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2017.1350576 - Lottholz, P. (2017) Negotiating Unfreedom: An (Auto-) Ethnography of Life at the Forefront of Academic Knowledge Production, Inter-disciplinary Political Studies, 3(1): 77-101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1285/i20398573v3n1p77
- Lottholz, P., Lemay-Hébert, N. (2016) Re-reading Weber, Reconceptualising Statebuilding: From Neo-Weberian to Post-Weberian Approaches to State, Legitimacy and Statebuilding, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 29(4): 1467-1485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09557571.2016. 1230588
