Research interests
Amazonia, anthropology of ethics, critical development studies, ecological economics, environmental ethics, ontological anthropology, political ecology, sustainability, technological change
Theodor Borrmann
Theodor is a final-year DPhil candidate at the Oxford Department of International Development. His research interests include the provenance, conceptualisation, and impact of modern technological artefacts (such as chainsaws or phones) as well as Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies, environmental and development ethics, and problems of the wider political economy. In his thesis, he critically illuminates processes of technological change among the Yagua people in northwestern Amazonia.
Theodor joined the department in October 2019. Prior to coming to Oxford, Theodor read for postgraduate degrees in Economics (University of Warwick, 2019) and International Political Economy (King’s College London, 2017), as well as for an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Economics (University of Münster, 2015). Over the course of his studies, he interned with non-governmental organisations in Peru and Cameroon and with the Institute of Environment and Human Security of the United Nations University.
Theodor holds a scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation).
