Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
Sophia Hoffinger is a PhD student in the Social Anthropology Department, at the University of Edinburgh. Her doctoral research explores ethnographic articulations of and claims to justice, responsibility, and rights within the contested field of anti-colonial and anti-racist Palestine solidarity activism in Germany. Key questions that inspire her research revolve around the construction of memory politics, white Germanness, as well as the politics of speech, judgment, and space.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Anti-Racism
Colonialism
Ethnography
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Human Rights
Identity/Representation
Nationalism
Transnationalism
Palestinian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Palestine
Specialties
Legal Anthropology, Memory Politics, Solidarity.
Languages
German (native)
Arabic (intermediate)
English (fluent)
Italian (fluent)
French (intermediate)
Education
BA
| 2016
| Anthropology and Sociology
| SOAS, University of London
Abstracts
Judge as German: The Politics of Judgement in the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Efforts in Germany
