Profile

Professional career

• 10/2022 - 09/2023
  Acting Director
• since 11/2011
  (Senior) Lecturer and Postdoc Researcher, Institute of Anthropology, Leipzig University
• 07/2009 - 10/2011
  PhD in Management Studies, EBS University, Wiesbaden (Deutschland)

Education

• 09/2001 - 08/2008
  Magister Degree Anthropology and Media Studies, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)

Stefanie Mauksch's research focuses on new development activities under the umbrella of social entrepreneurship. While her doctoral thesis engaged with the ways in which promoters develop, advertise and embellish the concept in Euro-America, her current project examines how the concept is realized, made manifest and contested in the Global South. What happens when the heroic vision of social entrepreneurship meets the everyday struggles of very poor people? How do activists "teach" business skills and motivate clients to alter their economic behavior? What do participants learn and to what extent do their learnings meet previously held expectations or shape future action? Stefanie Mauksch explores these questions through an investigation of social enterprise projects in Kathmandu (Nepal) and Khartoum (Sudan).

• Mauksch, S.

  Managing the dance of enchantment: An ethnography of social entrepreneurship events

  Organization. 2017. 24 (2). pp. 133–153.

  DOI: 10.1177/1350508416644511
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• Mauksch, S.

  Five Ways of Seeing Events (in Anthropology and Organization Studies)

  In: Mir, R.; Fayard, A.-L. (Eds.)

  New York: Routledge. 2020. p. 357-377.

  ISBN: 978-1-138-49642-2
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• Mauksch, S.

  Being blind, being exceptional: Work integration, social entrepreneurship and the reimagination of blind potential in Nepal

  Disability & Society. 2022. 28 (3). pp. 401–420.

  DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2021.1933387
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• Mauksch, S.

  Economic Ethicising

  In: Carrier, J. (Ed.)

  A Handbook of Economic Anthropology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 2022. pp. 266–276.

  ISBN: 978 1 83910 891 4
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• Mauksch, S.; Dey, P.

  Treating disability as an asset (not a limitation): A critical examination of disability inclusion through social entrepreneurship

  Organization. 2024. 33 (4). pp. 603–737.

  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508422115058
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more publications

• Publikationspreis: Best Paper in the Critical Perspectives Stream

  Mauksch, Stefanie (Ethnologie)

  awarded in 2012 by International Social Innovation Research Conference.
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• Publikationspreis: Best Developmental Paper Award, Entrepreneurship Stream

  Mauksch, Stefanie (Ethnologie)

  awarded in 2012 by British Academy of Management.
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• Andere Stipendien/Forschungspreise: Pre-Doc Award 2020

  Mauksch, Stefanie (Ethnologie)

  awarded in 2020 by Leipzig University.
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Theory and Methods in Anthropology; Anthropology of the Body; Anthropology and Gender; Anthropology of Neoliberalism

• Introduction to Anthropology (BA, German)

  This module introduces students to the basics of Anthropology and offers training in important scientific working techniques. The lecture deals with theories of social practice, research methods and offers an outlook on current trends in the subject. In the exercise, students discuss anthropological texts during lectures, train academic reading, learn how to deal with academic literature and expand their English reading skills.

• Culture & Technology (MA, English)

  This subject examines relationships among technology, culture, politics, animals and the (human) body in a range of social settings. Specific attention will be paid to contexts of so-called Global South. How are scientific knowledge and technological innovations constantly redrawing the boundaries between Nature and Society? How do new technologies evolve in relation to, and transform imaginations of identity, power, and knowledge?

• Methods in Anthropology (BA, German)

• Anthropology of the Body, Kinship and Gender (BA)

  This course is an introduction into anthropological perspectives on the body, gender and kinship/relatedness. It explores how anthropologists may move beyond reducing the body to a pre-social entity, instead asking how bodies co-produce social realities.

• Current Topics in Anthropology (BA)

  This course engaged with anthropological perspectives on phenomena of Late Capitalism, such as Wall Street finance, transnational management or social entrepreneurship.

• Commodifications (MA, English)

  The module focuses on how scholars of anthropology communicate their ideas. It combines a reading class on commodifications (of the body, of nature, of labour etc.) with participation in the Lecture Series “Commodifications”. We will read the presenters’ and/or related texts before joining their presentation, to then engage in informed discussions with them. In the following seminar, we will digest and discuss our learnings on the basis of individual students’ synopses.

• Current Debates in Anthropology (MA, English)

  The course focuses on current debates in anthropology. These scholarly discussions are approached through in-depth reading of a selection of often cited and hotly debated contemporary texts. Students will expand their knowledge through profound discussion of key themes in our discipline such as nature/culture, agency/structure, globalization, contemporary forms of capitalism, materiality, body/race/gender and other critical issues.

• Disability Worlds: Anthropology and/of Dis/Ability (BA, German)

  The aim of the seminar is to gain deeper insights into "disability worlds". Ethnographic studies approach the subjective worldviews, embodiments, and political and symbolic tactics of people whose everyday lives are shaped by categories and divergent experiences of disability. Using concepts such as ableism, intersectionality, access, debility, (im)mobility and (in)dependence, we develop unconventional angles on the topic of disability.