Project summary The strong temporal dynamics of the East African landscape and natural-resource distributions have always encouraged people to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. However, the realities of current social and environmental changes are occurring at unprecedented rates and amplitudes. Increasing population growth, changes in patterns of land tenure, industrialization, weak systems of governance, […]
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 […]
Michael Bollig contact info
Position: Professor for Anthropology Address: Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology (Institute für Ethnologie) University of Cologne Albertus-Magnus-Platz D-50923 Cologne Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology University of Cologne, Main Building Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Cologne, Germany Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology University of Cologne, Main Building Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Cologne, Germany Email: michael.bollig@uni-koeln.de Website: Ethnology website […]
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 […]