Mateja Kovacic

Mateja is teaching and researching transdisciplinary and transcultural theory of popular culture, science, and technology. Her research and publications cover a wide range of themes from anarchist history of humanoid robots and artificial intelligence in Japan; humanitarian medical drones in Tanzania and Rwanda; to neo-ethnic fashion movement among the young indigenous people in Brazil. Mateja’s most recent project is RGC-funded “Transnational anarchist digital networks: Japanese animation and civic imagination in political and cultural movements in Hong Kong” and the most recent publication Transcultural Perspective: Anthropological Investigations of Popular Idolatry, co-edited with Hiroshi Aoyagi and Patrick W. Galbraith, including a chapter “Cyborg in Idology Studies: Symbiosis of Animating Humans and Machines.”