Activities
Scientific Events and Panels
In summer 2014 we conducted and chaired a working group dealing with cultural conceptions of African natures in the past and the future.
In January 2014 Rafael Nuñez, currently working on cognitive sciences from University of San Diego, California, visited Bayreuth Academy to discuss about the role of conceptual metaphors in concepts of space and time.
Ghousmane, M. Workshop: „Tchighozerine tin innig - Relations homme-environnement“. University Vienna (June 2013).
In October 2013 Sybille Bauriedl joined the BA as a postdoc fellow for the subproject Visions of Nature. She will analyze the conceptionalization of nature and future within African climate adaption policies and the spatial construction of African and European climate knowledge.
Kupakwashe Mtata conducted fieldwork in Zimbabwe during July-October 2013.
End of July 2013 Prof. Atmanspacher visited the academy to lecture and discuss his work on the concepts of time in physics and cognitive sciences.
In June 2013 Corina Buendía joined the BA as a Postdoc fellow in the subgroup Visions of Nature. She is developing a methodological framework to classify land-use models in the context of African National Parks.
Kickoff-Workshop at Schloss Thurnau: Presentation and discussion of first research results and discussion of the way forward. Schloss Thurnau (10-11 May 2013). Find further information here.
In May 2013 Rushman visited to discuss his fieldwork in Niger.
March 2013 Georg Klute traveled to Africa to visit Visions of Nature sub-project fieldwork sites.
Scientific Lectures
Sybille Bauriedl and Detlef Müller-Mahn held a session on "Adaptation in North-South-Context" with papers on climate-related risks and social vulnerability in Ghana and Ruanda. Sybille Bauriedl had an additional paper in the session "Neoliberalization of Nature and Commodified Sustainability" at the 53. Deutscher Geographentag, in Passau 3-6 October 2013.
Bauriedl, S., Müller-Mahn, D. “Climate change discourses: Production of space, nature and social difference”, Internationale Konferenz “Denaturalizing Climate Change: Migration, Mobilities and Spaces”: University of Bremen (October 2013).
Bauriedl, S., Müller-Mahn, D. Presentation of research results: "Geopolitische und sozialräumliche Dimensionen der dezentralen Energiewende in Deutschland im Kontext internationaler Klimapolitik. Leipziger Geographisches Kolloquium: Institut für Länderkunde (October 2013).
Klute, G. „Africa’s future environment: concepts of appropriation and conservation of nature“, Workshop des europäischen Forschernetzwerkes ABORNE (African Borderlands Research Network) „Bewildering Borders, Transnational Conservation and Resource Governance in Africa“. University of Vienna (September 2013).
Publications
Bauriedl, S. „Geschlechter im Klimawandel: Soziale Differenzierung als Kompetenz sozialwissenschaftlicher Klimaanpassungsforschung“. In: GAIA 22(4) (i. E.), 2014.
Bauriedl, S. „Geschlechterkonstruktionen in Umweltdiskursen: Verfestigen und aufweichen von Geschlechterdualismen“. In: Christine Katz, Anja Thiem, Sebastian Heilmann, Sabine Hofmeister (Hg.): Nachhaltigkeit anders denken Veränderungspotenziale durch Geschlechterperspektiven. (i.E.), 2014.
Bauriedl, S. „Klimapolitik“. In: Belina, B. / Naumann, M. / Strüver, S. (Hg.): Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie. (i.E.), 2014.
Bauriedl, S. / Wichterich, C. „Ökonomisierung von Natur, Raum, Körper“. Online-Publikation der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (i.E.), 2014.
Hauhs, M. Philippe. „Descola’s Four Cosmologies from a Modelling Perspective“. In: Sociologus (submitted), 2014.
Klute, G. / Fernandes, R. “Global Challenges and the (Re)Development of neo-traditional Land Rights. In: Modern Africa, 2014. (submitted).
Weisser, F. / Bollig, M. / Doevenspeck, M. / Müller-Mahn, D. “Translating the ‘adaptation to climate change’ paradigm: the politics of a travelling idea in Africa”. In: Geographical Journal. Online first, 2013.
Education
Bauriedl, S., Müller-Mahn, D. „Von der Nachhaltigkeitsforschung zu sozial-ökologischen Transformationen“. Im Kurs wurden Ergebnisse ihrer afrikanischen Fallstudien eingebracht (Kenia, Äthiopien, Uganda) und Basisliteratur des Teilprojektes diskutiert. Universität Bonn (WS 2013/14).
Hauhs, M., Klute, G. „Concepts of Appropriating and Conserving Nature“. In diesem Kurs wurden Nationalparks in Afrika zum Thema gemacht und zentrale Projektliteratur gelesen. Universität Bayreuth (WS 2013/14).
Klute, G. „Tim Ingold und Philippe Descola: Neue Ansätze des Mensch-Umwelt-Verhältnisses in der Ethnologie“. In diesem Kurs wurden die wichtigsten zeitgenössischen ethnologischen Autoren zur Thematik behandelt. Den gleichen Kurs „New anthropological approaches in man – environment relations“ bot Georg Klute als Blockveranstaltung im Dezember 2013 an der Universität Addis Abeba an. Universität Bayreuth (SoSe 2013).