Univ.-Ass. Julia Malik, BA MA

Professional Experience

Julia Malik is a doctoral candidate and university assistant at the Department of Society , Knowledge and Politics (formerly Department of Science, Technology and Society Studies) at the University of Klagenfurt. For her bachelor and master degree she studied Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna.

Her interests include digitalization and automatization, state and bureaucracy, social policy and poverty, and kinship and care.

She is currently working on her PhD project in anthropological science and technology studies with the working titel "Classifying Citizens, Updating the State: How Practicing Digital Welfare Shapes Statehood in Colombia". To examine the interrelations between digitalization, welfare, and statehood, she conducted 13 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Colombia. Through the case of a digital socioeconomic classification system used in state welfare, she addresses questions about the conditions and effects of technologies and practices of digital social policy.

In the course of her master thesis, Julia Malik carried out two months of ehtnographic fieldwork at a public hospital in the Philippines to analyze practices, norms and negotiations of care and relations between the "medical/public" and "kinship/private".