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Land and Environmental Conflicts

Climate change is worsening existing international conflicts and putting environmental policy at the centre of controversial debates. Disadvantaged groups have historically been disproportionately affected by land and environmental conflicts, suffering greatly from environmental degradation and resource scarcity. Such conflicts frequently arise in connection with the extraction of raw materials through land grabbing and environmental pollution. This promotes distributive injustice, food crises and migration. Our research focuses on socio-ecological conflicts through empirical fieldwork with local communities. Our work draws on social and cultural anthropology, the sociology of globalisation, and protest and movement research, with a particular focus on rural areas.

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  BMBF-Area Studies Projekt „Soziale Klimawandelfolgen und Nachhaltigkeitsinnovationen im südlichen Afrika und dem nördlichen Südamerika“ (NISANSA)

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  Dani Haudenschild: Paving the Earth. Autobahn Infrastructure Development of the A49 in Germany

  Hanna Schnieders: Decolonising Global Justice Debates: Experiences of Climate Activists

  Christin Stühlen: Umweltkonflikte in Südosteuropa: Lithium, Protest und die grüne Transformation.

  Daniela Triml-Chifflard: Klimawandel und Wasserbedingte (Un)sicherheiten am Rio Artebonito. Eine politisch-ontologische Analyse der fließenden Grenze zwischen der Dominikanischen Republik und Haiti.

  Johanna Kocks: Envisioning Social Change - Soziale Bewegungen und Widerstand im Kontext sozio-ökologischer Konflikte.

  Rachmi Hertanti: A Maneuvre to Break the Chain of Green Colonialism in the South? Indonesia’s Industrial Policy on Downstream Natural Resources for Electric Vehicle Battery Production

  Sibth Ul Hassan: Land Disputes and Governance Reforms in Pashtun Tribal Areas.

  Jenny Garcia Ruales: An Ecology of Legal Knowledges: Learning (with) the Kawsak Sacha from an anthropological-legal perspective

  Alessio Thomasberger: Arakmbut Indigenous Modernity: Qualitative transformations to confront the ecological crisis