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Archives for February 2014
Professor Ambreena Manji
British Institute in East Africa
Dr. Helida Oyieke
Dr. Helida Oyieke is the Director for Research and Collections at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi, where she oversees and provides leadership on research and collection programs in the institution. Dr. Oyieke started her research career in 1984 at the Kenyan Marine and Fisheries Institute in Mombasa where she rose to the rank […]
Professor Thomas Håkansson
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Professor Henrietta Moore
Cambridge University
Dr. Elizabeth Watson
University Senior Lecturer and Pybus Fellow of Newnham College, Department of Geography, Cambridge University, United Kingdom Liz Watson’s research focuses on the relations between livelihoods, institutions, environment and development in the drylands of the Horn of Africa. In Ethiopia, work in Konso examined the production and sustainability of its intensive agricultural terraced landscape, and focused […]
Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Position: Early-stage researcher (ESR 10) Address: Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology University of Cologne Albertus-Magnus-Platz D-50923 Cologne Email: marie.gravesen@uni-koeln.de Website: Department webpage Linkedin Biography: I am Marie Ladekjær Gravesen, the ESR 10 of the REAL project. I am affiliated to the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at University of Cologne. I […]
ESR 2: On the periphery of living memory in the Amboseli basin human settlement and landscape interaction c. 1700-1950
Early Stage Researcher: Anna Shoemaker Supervision: Paul Lane Host Institution: Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University Duration: 4 years – starting from 1 January 2014 The Amboseli basin in southern Kenya is considered to be a landscape traditionally inhabited by pastoralists, and the Maasai are identified as the indigenous people of the basin. Yet, today […]
ESR 3: Landscape and environmental change
Fellow: Geert van der Plas Supervision: Dirk Verschuren Host Institution: Limnology Unit, Department of Biology, Ghent University Duration: 3 years – beginning December 2013 Project description: “Millennial scale landscape and environmental change in the northern Rift Valley and Mount Kilimanjaro regions” In my project I will reconstruct past interactions of humans with their environment, driven […]
ESR 10: Negotiating land in a contested environment
Fellow: Marie Ladekjær Gravesen Supervision: Professor Dr. Michael Bollig Host Institution: Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne Duration: 3 years – starting from 1 October 2013 Project: ‘Negotiating Access to Land in a Contested Environment: Actors, Policies, Visions and the Fragmentation of Land-Use in Western Laikipia‘ This project focuses on past and present negotiations […]
Photos from the Baringo conference at the University of Köln
Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands. […]
Resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin
Over January 8-10, 2014, the Global South Studies Center at the University of Cologne hosted a conference and brought together many members of the REAL team and other researchers working in East Africa. The focus was social-ecological transitions, exchange and emergence: resilience and vulnerability in the wider Baringo basin and adjoining highlands. The program is […]