Personal Profile
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Personal Profile
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) D 55099 Mainz Faculty 07, Department of Anthropology and African Studies Mirco Göpfert Personal Profile Academic and Professional Positions 2011- Research fellow and co-administrator of the “Boundary Work: Police in West Africa” (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG) project 2007-2010 Research assistant to Prof. Dr Carola Lentz at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Mainz University 2006-2007 Research assistant to Dr Georg Glasze at the Department of Geography, Mainz University Education 2008- Ph.D. student at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Title of dissertation: The Gendarmerie in Niger 2003-2008 Studies in social anthropology (first major) and human geography (second major) at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (2003-2004) and the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (2004-2008), with an Erasmus year at the Paul Valéry University Montpellier, France (2005-2006); M.A. (with distinction) Grants and Fellowships 2012 Erasmus teaching fellowship (hosted by: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales EHESS Marseille) 2009-2011 Ph.D. fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes) 2005-2006 Erasmus scholarship (hosted by: Paul Valéry University Montpellier, France) Field Research 2012 Research on advanced training in the gendarmerie in Niger; comparative research on police work in Ghana (3 months) 2011 Research on criminal investigations in the gendarmerie in Niger (2 months) 2011 Comparative research on police work in a German police station (1 month) 2009-2010 Research on everyday police work in the gendarmerie in Niger (12 months) Last update: 18.06.2013 Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) D 55099 Mainz Faculty 07, Department of Anthropology and African Studies Mirco Göpfert 2009 Literature research at the Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CESDIP), Guyancourt, France (1 month) 2008-2009 Research on security and plural policing in Niamey, Niger (3 months) 2006 Research on secondary school education in northern Ghana (3 months) Workshops Organised 2013 Just Police Work: Ethnographic Research on the Police in Africa. International workshop held at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 12 - 15 June. Papers 2013 Arrangements: Social dramas on a legal stage. Paper presented at the workshop “Just police work: Ethnographic research on the police in Africa” in Mainz, June 2013. 2013 Soft law enforcement in the Nigérien gendarmerie: How a case is born. Paper presented at the “Reconsidering policing in Africa” workshop in Oxford, May 2013. 2013 L’esthétique de la bureaucratie: la rédaction des procès-verbaux dans la gendarmerie Nigérienne. Presented at the 6th Rencontre Européenne d’Analyse des Sociétés Politiques (REASOPO) in Paris, January/February 2013. 2012 La violence policière en Afrique de l’Ouest: Dilemmes des auteurs et des ethnographes. Presented in the graduate seminar “L’État vu d’en bas” of Giorgio Blundo at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales EHESS Marseille, March 2012. 2012 L’esthétique de la bureaucratie: la rédaction des procès-verbaux dans la gendarmerie Nigérienne. Presented in the doctoral seminar “Développement, politiques publiques et modes de gouvernance: approches socio-anthropologiques” of Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales EHESS Marseille, March 2012. 2011 Violence as normal exception in West African police organizations (with Jan Beek). Presented in the panel “Soldaten – Rebellen – Banditen: von Corpsgeist, Freiheitsbegriff und Ehrvorstellungen” at the conference of the German Anthropological Association in Vienna, September 2011. 2011 Violence as normal exception in West African police organizations (with Jan Beek). Presented at the conference “Making sense of violence? Interdisciplinary approaches to violence: past and present” in Bern, September 2011. 2011 Distantly close violence specialists: Paramilitary state organizations in West Africa (with Jan Beek). Presented in the panel “Bureaucrats in Uniform: Historical and Anthropological Explorations of an African Professional Field” at the European Conference on African Studies ECAS in Uppsala, June 2011. Last update: 18.06.2013 Mirco Göpfert Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) D 55099 Mainz Faculty 07, Department of Anthropology and African Studies 2011 Distantly close violence specialists: Paramilitary state organizations in West Africa (with Jan Beek). Presented in the workshop “Blurring of military and police roles” at the 11th Biennial conference of ERGOMAS (European Research Group on Military and Society) in Amsterdam, June 2011. 2011 Nähe und Ferne bei Gewaltspezialisten: Paramilitärische staatliche Organisationen in Westafrika (with Jan Beek). Presented in the lecture series of the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Mainz University, May 2011. 2010 Bureaucratic aesthetics. Writing procès-verbaux in the Nigerien gendarmerie. Presented in the panel “The working state in Africa: Public services and public servants in action” at the conference of the German Association for African Studies in Mainz, April 2010. 2009 Security in nocturnal Niamey: Preliminary reflections and conceptual outlook. Presented at the conference “États en chantier en Afrique au sud du Sahara” (“States at work in SubSaharan Africa”) in Niamey, December 2009. 2009 Abstention, delegation, imposition: Security in nocturnal Niamey. Presented in the panel “Spaces of (In)Security” at the European Conference on African Studies ECAS in Leipzig, June 2009. 2009 Le policing au Niger. Presented in the seminar series of the Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CESDIP) in Guyancourt, France, March 2009. Last update: 18.06.2013