Philipp Naucke is an academic staff member at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and a postdoctoral investigator at Mecila, where he coordinates the Research Area Politics of Conviviality. His research interests focus on rural lifeworlds in the conflict and post-conflict regions of Colombia and Guatemala. In several research projects, he has ethnographically explored the Local Peacebuilding potential of peasant and indigenous communities, State-Society Relations and Everyday State Formation in regions of supposed state absence, and the Transforming Insecurity Situations and Security Strategies of marginalized indigenous, afro-colombian and peasant communities in (post-)conflict regions of Colombia. He is currently working on a project about Conviviality in Sacrifice Zones, dealing with violence, environmental destruction and alternative ecologies in areas and times of polycrisis phenomena.
Philipp holds a doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology and a master’s degree in Ethnology, Economics and Peace and Conflict Studies, both from Philipps-Universität Marburg. He has held two Interim Professorships in Social Anthropology (2023, 2020-21), was a Visiting Researcher at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2023), an Associate Researcher at the Universitat de Barcelona (2020-21) and has held several Visiting Lectureships at the Universidad del Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia (2023), Universidade Rovuma, Nampula, Mozambique (2022) and the Universitat de Barcelona (2016, 2017, 2019, 2022). For his PhD thesis on State-Society Encounters in Conflict Regions, he received the 1st ADLAF Prize 2022 of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerika Forschung for excellent, interdisciplinary research on Latin America.
Recent publications:
Naucke, P. & E. Halbmayer 2024. “Introduction: Security from the Margins.” Introduction to the Special Issue ‚Security from the Margins‘, Conflict and Society 10: 97–112.
Naucke, P. 2024. “‘Dignified Life’ in the Colombian Peace Process. Peasant security strategies in transforming (in)security situations.” Article in Special Issue ‚Security from the Margins‘, Conflict and Society 10: 144–61.
Naucke, P. 2024. “Peasant Peacebuilding – Colombian Peace Communities as Rural Peace Agents.” In: T. Kleibl, C. Schmitt, K. Kiewitt, R. Lutz (eds.), Krieg und Konflikt. Peacebuilding als Herausforderung und Arbeitsfeld. Beltz Verlag, Juventa, S. 309-324.
Naucke, P. 2023. “Beyond State Absence – Clientelised Statehood in a Colombian Conflict Region.” History and Anthropology 35(4): 732–53.
Naucke, P. & E. Halbmayer. 2023. “Von friedlichen Gesellschaften bis Friedensgemeinden und lokalen friedensbildenden Prozessen. Beiträge der anthropologischen Friedensforschung.” In: J.C. Cohrs, N. Knab, G. Sommer (eds.) Handbuch Friedenspsychologie, S- 3-24.