Marie Ladekjær Gravesen
Senior Researcher, Migration and global order
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2376-9552
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Personal profile
Research areas
Marie Ladekjær Gravesen’s overall work pertains to natural resource management in the Global South. Land that holds overlapping, potential, or historical usage by a variety of different actors such as government administrators, politicians, investors in green energy installations, biodiversity conservation actors, security actors, pastoralists, large-scale farm or ranch owners, and subsistence farmers. Specifically, Marie is interested in arenas where political visions, resource needs and land-use regimes clash in practice, creating conflicts around boundaries and fences, support or push-back to political reform and policy implementation, adaptation to change i.e. with new pastoral frontiers, and considerations of how overlapping resource claims can become politicized, lead to marginalisation and escalate into open conflict. She works with climate change adaptation, including dynamics around climate adaptation finance, Nature-based Solutions (NbS), and challenges around maladaptation and resources conflicts (legal, physical as well as underlying tensions).
Marie Ladekjær Gravesen’s work is empirically grounded while employing methodologies from qualitative anthropological inquiries, to archival usage and geographical information systems etc.. In general, she has been driven by a curiosity of how the micro scale of experiences, such as an exchange, transaction or clash, may be related to the macro scale of global green agendas, state policies, political interference, alliances, competition, or a perceived history of marginalization.
Education/Academic qualification
Anthropology, Ph.D., Negotiating Access to Land in a Contested Environment: Opposing Claims and Land-use Fragmentation in Western Laikipia, Kenya, University of Cologne
1 Sept 2013 → 2 Mar 2018
Award Date: 2 Mar 2018
External positions
Researcher, Aarhus University, Denmark
1 Nov 2018 → 15 Jun 2019
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, University of Cologne
1 Oct 2016 → 30 Sept 2017
PhD Fellow, University of Cologne
1 Sept 2013 → 31 Aug 2016
Thesis publication
Gravesen, M.L. 2018. Negotiating Access to Land in a Contested Environment-Opposing Claims and Land-use Fragmentation in Western Laikipia, Kenya. University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln).