Institut für Ethnologie
E-mail: michael.bollig[at]uni-koeln.de
Telefon: +49 221 470 3501
Web: ethnologie.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/bollig.html
Akademische Mitgliedschaften und Auszeichnungen
2021
ERC Advanced Grand (Project: REWILDING)
2017
Winner of the Leo Spitzer Award 2018 at the University of Cologne
2016-present
Co-PI in the Collaborative Research Centre Africa’s Rural Futures (TR288)
2011-2010
Co-PI of the Marie Curie ITN Resilience in East African Landscapes
2010-present
Co-Director of the DFG long-term project Institutions and Globalization
2010-2016
Speaker of the Research Unit Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation in the Savannahs of Eastern and Southern Africa (FOR 1501)
2010-2012
Executive Director of the Society of Africa-related Sciences in German (Vereinigung der Afrikawissenschaften Deutschlands)
2009-present
Director of the Cologne African Studies Center (CASC)
2004-2010
Referee (Fachkollegiat) for Anthropology with the German Research Foundation
2003-present
Editorial board-member of Human Ecology, Peripherie, Nomadic Peoples
2000-2007
Speaker of the Collaborative Research Programme ACACIA (Arid Climate Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa; SFB 389)Kurzbiografie
2015
Associate Vice-Rector for the Global South
2011
Prorector for international relations, University of Cologne
2009
Offered Full Professorship (W3), Institute of Anthropology, University Hamburg (declined)
2001
Offered Full Professorship (C4), Institute of Anthropology, University of Halle (declined)
2000
Replacement Professorship (C4), Institute of Anthropology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
2000-present
Professor for Anthropology at the University of Cologne and Speaker for the Interdisciplinary Programme Arid Climate and Cultural Evolution in Arid Africa (ACACIA); the programme includes several doctoral studies on resource management in southern Africa’s communal areas
1999
Postdoctoral Lecture Qualification (Habilitation), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
1992-1999
Associate Professor (C3), Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
1991
PhD (Dr. Phil.), University of Tübingen
1986-1991
PhD Student, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Tübingen. Fieldwork in Kenya on conflict managementInteressengebiete
Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte
CRC 228: Future Rural Africa
African Climate and Environment Center – Future African Savannas (AFAS)
Empathy and ResilienceERC: Rewilding the Anthropocene
Vergangene Forschungsprojekte
SFB/Transregio 228 „Zukunft im ländlichen Afrika“ | Teilprojekt Z03 Combined Farm/Household SurveySFB/Transregio 228 „Zukunft im ländlichen Afrika“ | Teilprojekt Z04 Integrated Research and Training Group (IRTG)SFB 806 „Unser Weg nach Europa“ | Teilprojekt E03 „Anthropological Models for a Reconstruction of the First African Frontier“
LINGS – Local Institutions in Globalized Societies
REAL – Resilience and Adaptation in East African Landscape
Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation in the Social-Ecological Systems of Southern and Eastern African Savannahs
Adaptation and Creativity in Africa – Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder
Mobility, Networks and Institutions in the Management of Natural Resources in Contemporary Africa
SFB/TRR 228 „Zukunft im ländlichen Afrika“ | Teilprojekt A04 „Future ConservationTowards an African Eden? Shifting bio-cultural frontiers and the (re)coupling of social-ecological relations in the conservation areas“
Aktuelle Publikationen
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Köhler, E. and Bollig, M. (2025). Elephant corridors in the Kavango-Zambezi transfrontier conservation area (KAZA TFCA): environmental infrastructures for a greener anthropocene in Namibia’s Mudumu landscape. Rev Reg Res,. XML
Menestrey Schwieger, D., Munyebvu – Chambara, F., Hamunyela, N., Tielbörger, K., Nesongano, W., Bilton, M., Bollig, M. and Linstädter, A. (2025). Understanding Rangeland Desertification at the Village Level: A Comparative Study with a Social-Ecological Systems Perspective in Namibia. Hum Ecol,. XML
Pelican, M., Zafer, K. and Bollig, M. (2025), Decolonizing the Future Academy in Africa and Beyond: Institutional Development and Collaboration, transcript. XML
Greiner, C., van Wolputte, S., Bollig, M., Gockel, M. and Kahindi, N. (2024). The Aftermath – What Future for African Studies (in Europe?). A View From Behind the Scenes of ECAS9. Africa Spectrum,. XML
Kuiper, G., Kioko, E. and Bollig, M. (2024), Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya, Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies 34, Leiden: Brill. XML
Lacan, L., Vehrs, H. and Bollig, M. (2024). Introduction: Multispecies encounters in conservation landscapes in Southern Africa. Anthropology Southern Africa, 47, pp. 109–117. XML
Vehrs, H., Lacan, L. and Bollig, M. (2024). Conclusion: Situating multispecies relations in Southern Africa in their local historical and political contexts. Anthropology Southern Africa, 47, pp. 268–273. XML
Bollig, M., Kalvelage, L., Lacan, L., Lendelvo, S., Mosimane, A. and Nghitevelekwa, R. (2023), “Introduction: Practices, Discourses, and Materialities Surrounding the Commodification of the ‘Wild’” in: M. Bollig, A. Mosimane, R. Nghitevelekwa and S. Lendelvo, eds, Conservation, markets, and the environment in Southern and Eastern Africa: Commodifying the ‘Wild’. James Currey Publishers. XML
Bollig, M. and Krause, F. (2023), Environmental Anthropology. Fields of Engagement and Contemporary Challenges, Zürich: UTB. XML
Greiner, C. and Bollig, M. (2023), “Fetishising the ‘Wild’: Conservation, commodities, and capitalism” in: M. Bollig, S. Lendelvo, A. Mosimane and R. Nghitevelekwa, eds, Conservation, Markets & theEnvironment in Southern and Eastern Africa. Boydell & Brewer, 31-55. XML
Kalvelage, L., Revilla Diez, J. and Bollig, M. (2023). Valuing Nature in Global Production Networks: Hunting Tourism and the Weight of History in Zambezi, Namibia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 113(8). XML
Lacan, L., Kalvelage, L., Lendelvo, S., Mosimane, A., Nghitevelekwa, R. and Bollig, M. (2023), “Conclusions: Commodifying the ‘Wild’ – Where do we go from there?” in: M. Bollig, R. Nghitevelekwa, A. Mosimane and S. Lendelvo, eds, Conservation, markets, and the environment in Southern and Eastern Africa: Commodifying the ‘Wild’. James Currey Publishers. XML
van Dam, A., van Engelen, W., Müller-Mahn, D., Agha, S., Junglen, S., Borgemeister, C. and Bollig, M. (2023). Complexities of multispecies coexistence: Animal diseases and diverging modes of ordering at the wildlife–livestock interface in Southern Africa. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(1). XML
Bollig, M. (2022), “Twenty-First Century Conservation in Africa: Contemporary Dilemmas, Future Challenges” in: C. Greiner, S. van Wolputte and M. Bollig, eds, African Futures. 27 Leiden: Brill. XML
Greiner, C., Van Wolputte, S. and Bollig, M. (2022), African Futures 27, Leiden: Brill. XML
Jacob, D., Birkmann, J., Bollig, M., Bonn, Aletta, Nöthlings, U., Ott, K., Quaas, M., Reichstein, M., Scholz, Imme, Malburg-Graf, Barbara and Sonntag, S. (2022), Research priorities for sustainability science, Hamburg: German Committee Future Earth. Available at: URL. XML
Kalvelage, L., Revilla Diez, J. and Bollig, M. (2022). How much remains? Local value capture from tourism in Zambezi, Namibia. Tourism Geographies, 24, pp. 759-780. XML
van Wolputte, S., Greiner, C. and Bollig, M. (2022), “Futuring Africa: An Introduction” in: C. Greiner, S. van Wolputte and M. Bollig, eds, African Futures. 27 Leiden: Brill. XML
Bollig, M. (2021). Materiality, inequality, and future-making as focal points of future engagement of economic anthropology with climate change. Economic Anthropolgy, 8, pp. 180-182. XML
Bollig, M. and Vehrs, H. (2021). The Making of a Conservation Landscape: The Emergence of a Conservationist Environmental Infrastructure Along the Kwando River in Namibia’s Zambezi Region. Africa, 91, pp. 270-95. XML
Greiner, C., Vehrs, H. and Bollig, M. (2021). Land‑use and Land‑cover Changes in Pastoral Drylands: Long‑term Dynamics, Economic Change, and Shifting Socioecological Frontiers in Baringo, Kenya. Human Ecology,. XML
Kalvelage, L., Bollig, M., Grawert, E., Hulke, C., Meyer, M., Mkutu, K., Müller-Koné, M. and Revilla Diez, J. (2021). Territorialising Conservation: Community-based approaches in Kenya and Namibia. Conservation and Society,. XML
Kalvelage, L., Revilla Diez, J. and Bollig, M. (2021). Do tar roads bring tourism? Growth corridor policy and tourism development in the Zambezi region, Namibia. European Journal of Development Research,, pp. 1000–1021. XML
Bollig, M. (2020), Shaping the African Savannah: From Captialist Frontier to Arid Eden in Namibia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. XML
Bollig, M., Schnegg, M. and Menestrey Schwieger, D. (2020). Ethnographic Upscaling: Exploring and Testing Hypotheses Drawn from In-depth Ethnographic Findings in Spatially Continuous Cases. Field Methods, 32(4), pp. 346-364. XML
Bollig, M. and Vehrs, H. (2020). Abundant Herds: Accumulation, Herd Management and Land-Use Patterns in a Conservation Area. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice, 10. XML
Gröne, K., Braun, B., Kloß, S., Schüller, M. and Bollig, M. (2020), “Fairer Handel. Chancen, Grenzen, Herausforderungen – Einleitung” in: K. Gröne, B. Braun, S. Kloß, M. Schüller and M. Bollig, eds, Fairer Handel: Chancen, Grenzen, Herausforderungen. München: oekom, 7-14. XML
Gröne, K., Braun, B., Kloß, S., Schüller, M. and Bollig, M. (eds.) 2020. Fairer Handel. Chancen, Grenzen, Herausforderungen, 1st ed., München: Oekom Verlag. XML
Basukala, A., Vehrs, H., Bollig, M., Greiner, C. and Thonfeld, F. (2019), Dataset: Spatial-temporal analysis of land-use and land-cover change in East Pokot, Kenya, CRC/TRR228, Database (TRR228DB). XML
Basukala, A., Vehrs, H., Bollig, M., Greiner, C. and Thonfeld, F. (2019), Spatial-temporal analysis of land-use and land-cover change in East Pokot, Kenya Documentation, Bonn, Germany: ZFL. XML
Bollig, M. (2019). The Anxieties, Thrills, and Gains of Rarity and Extinction: From Discourses on Remnant Fauna to the Globalized Protection and Marketing of Endangered Wildlife in Namibia’s “Arid Eden”, in S. Gänger & M. Bollig (eds). Forum: Commodifying the “Wild”. Environmental History, 24(4). XML
Gänger, S. and Bollig, M. (2019). Forum: Commodifying the “Wild”: Anxiety, Ecology and Au-thenticity in the Late Modern Era. Environmental History, 24(4). XML
Greiner, C. and Bollig, M. (2018). African Studies between Area Studies Tradition and Global Entanglement Approaches: Perspectives from The University of Cologne. African study monographs. Supplementary issue, 54, pp. 15-28. XML
Bollig, M. (2017), “Interkulturelle Vergleichsverfahren” in: B. Beer, H. Fischer and J. Pauli, eds, Ethnologie: Einführung in die Erforschung kultureller Vielfalt. Berlin: Reimer, 107 – 124. XML
Anderson, D. and Bollig, M. (2016). Introduction: Resilience and Collaps: Histories, Ecologies, Conflicts and Identities in the Baringo-Bogoria Basin Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 10(1), pp. 1-20. XML
Becker, M., Alvarez, M., Heller, G., Leparmarai, P., Maina, D., Malombe, Itambo, Bollig, M. and Vehrs, H. (2016). Land Use Changes and the Invasion Dynamics of Shrubs in Baringo. Journal of East African Studies, 10, pp. 111-129. XML
Bollig, M. (2016). Adaptive Cycles in the Savannah: Pastoral Specialization and Diversification in Northern Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 10(1), pp. 21-44. XML
Bollig, M. (2016). Towards an Arid Eden? Boundary Making, Governance and Benefit Sharing and the Political Ecology of the ‘New Commons’ of Kunene Region, Northern Namibia. International Journal of the Commons, 10(2), pp. 771-799. XML
Bollig, M. and Anderson, D. (2016). Resilience, Crises and Collapse in the East African Savannah: Causes and Consequences of Environmental Change in East Africa. Journal of the East African Studies. Special Issue, 10(1). XML
Bollig, M. and Olwage, E. (2016). The Political Ecology of Hunting in Namibia’s Kaokoveld: From Dorsland Trekkers’ Elephant Hunts to Trophy-Hunting in Contemporary Conservancies. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 34(1), pp. 61-79. XML
Bollig, M. and Schnegg, M. (2016). Institutions Put to the Test. Community-based Water Management in Namibia During a Drought. Journal of Arid Environments, 124, pp. 62 -71. XML
Linstädter, A., Kuhn, A., Naumann, C., Rasch, S., Sandhage-Hofmann, A., Amelung, W., Jordaan, J., Du Preez, C. and Bollig, M. (2016). Assessing the Resilience of a Real-World Social-Ecological System: Lessons From a Multidisciplinary Evaluation of a South African Pastoral System. Ecology and Society, 21(3), pp. 35. XML
Ming’ate, F. and Bollig, M. (2016). Local Rules and Their Enforcement in the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Reserve Co-Management Arrangement in Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History, 105(1), pp. 1-19. XML
Schnegg, M., Bollig, M. and Linke, T. (2016). Moral Equality and Success of Common-Pool Water Governance in Namibia. Ambio, 45(5), pp. 581-590. XML
Kioko, E. and Bollig, M. (2015). Cross-Cutting Ties and Coexistence: Intermarriage, Land Rentals and Changing Land Use Patterns among Maasai and Kikuyu of Maiella and Enoosupukia, Lake Naivasha Basin, Kenya. Rural Landscapes: Society, Environment, History, 2(1), pp. 1-16. XML
Bollig, M. (2014). Resilience – Analytical Tool, Bridging Concept or Development Goal? Anthropological Perspectives on the Use of a Border Object. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 139(2), pp. 253-280. XML
Bollig, M. and Finke, P. (2014). Explanatory Models in Anthropology: Methodological Refinements, Cross-Cultural Comparison and Theoretical Developments. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 139, pp. 39-54. XML
Bollig, M., Greiner, C. and Österle, M. (2014). Inscribing Identity and Agency on the Landscape: Of Pathways, Places, and the Transition of the Public Sphere in East Pokot, Kenya. African Studies Review, 57(3), pp. 55-78. XML
Bollig, M. and Menestrey Schwieger, D. (2014). Fragmentation, Cooperation and Power: Dynamics in Natural Resource Governance in North-Western Namibia. Human Ecology, 42(2), pp. 167-181. XML
Bollig, M. (2013), “Ethnologie in Deutschland heute – Strukturen, Studienbedingungen Forschungsschwerpunkte” in: T. Bierschenk, M. Krings and C. Lentz, eds, Ethnologie im 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Reimer, 165-188. XML
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