Johanna Kocks

2021
Research Associate at Center for Conflict Studies, Team Prof. Dr. Felix Anderl
PhD-fellow: "Environmental conflicts and resistance"

2026-2020 
Master of Arts in International Studies/Peace and Conflict Research, Goethe University Frankfurt/M.; Semester abroad: Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

2012-2016 
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt/M.; Semester abroad: Department of Political Science, Universidade Nova/Lisbon

05/2023 – 08/2023         | University of São Paulo/Salvador de Bahia, Brazil (DAAD scholarship for doctoral candidates)  deutsch: Bahia, Brasilien (DAAD Forschungsstipendium) 

03/2025 - 04/2025     | University Huelva, Spain (MARA travel grant)  deutsch: Andalucía, Spanien (MARA Reiseförderung) 

2023 – 2025 elected representative for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers at the Center for Conflict Studies

- Political Ecology
- Environmental Conflicts
- Social Movements & Protest
- Transnational Feminist Theory and Practise

Publications:
2024. Critical Ethnography’s Sense of Direction: Imagining Social Justice in Sacrifice Zones of Capital. Public Anthropologist. With Felix Anderl.

Conference Contributions:
11/2025
Annual Conference of the Project “Transformation of Political Violence”, Marburg University, Germany 
Presentation: Slow Violence: The Temporalities of Violence and Resistance on Ilha de Maré/Brazil 

08/2025
European International Study Association, University of Bologna, Italy
Presentation: Extractive Violence: From Sacrifice Zones of Capital to ‘Sacrificable’ Bodies

11/2024
EnJust Conference 2024, University of Hamburg, Germany 
Presentation: Destruction and (Re)Construction in Sacrifice Zones of Capital: Resistance against environmental destruction on the island Ilha de Maré, Bahia, Brazil

09/2024
German Political Science Association, University of Göttingen, Germany
Presentation: Back to the Future: Anti-Colonial struggles, environmental activism and transformative knowledges

06/2024
The Political Ecology Network Conference, Lund University, Sweden
Chair and discussant of panels "Resistance and transformation" I + II
Presentation: Enacting the Future - Environmental Activism, Resistance and Transformative Knowledges

10/2023
Annual conference of the institute for the study of social movements & protest, Free University Berlin, Germany 
Panel: Intersectional Perspectives on Environmental Conflicts 
Presentation: Back to the future - Afro-Brazilian emancipatory resistance towards ecological destruction as anti-colonial struggle

09/2023
European International Studies Association, University of Potsdam, Germany 
Panel: Agrarian Orders and Transformation: Disruptions in Agraria
Presentation: Enacting the Future - Environmental Activism, Resistance and Transformative Knowledges

07/2022
Annual conference of the Center for Conflict Studies, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany 
Chair: Environmental conflicts

- Conflictive human-nature relationships (MA)
- Introduction to Postcolonial Theory (BA/MA)
- Envisioning Social Change: social movements, utopia and socio- ecological conflicts (BA)
- Climate Justice & Coloniality (BA)
- Environmental Conflicts 

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