For the past 9 years, David Tjiharuka worked as a Philosophy and Applied Ethics‘ lecturer at the University of Namibia. His academic expertise is in ethics, critical thinking, and ecology, and my interests are in phenomenology and ethnology. He will work for the project „Empathy and Resilience: Phenomenological, Anthropological and Psychological Approaches to the Resilience Potentials within Cultural Practices of Collective Resonance“. It examines the different forms and functions of collective empathy in the ethnographic context of an indigenous group in the arid north-west of Namibia. The project is headed by Prof. Michael Bollig from the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne.
