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People
Our group includes senior researchers and graduate students from various divisions of the Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Norman Backhaus, Prof. Dr.
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Globalization theory, landscape perception and development, eco-tourism, nature conservation, spatial theory.
Regional focus: Switzerland, Malaysia | personal website |
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Miriam Bishokarma, PhD student
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Rural livelihoods and food security, impact of food assistance, World Food Programme, ethno-political movements.
Regional Focus: South Asia, Nepal, India | personal website |
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Sarah Byrne, PhD student
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Rural livelihoods,
conflict research, local governance, decentralisation, public policy,
development studies. Regional focus: South Asia, Nepal | personal website |
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Sandra Contzen, Dr.
Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Forest and Food Sciences, Bern University of Applied Science
Rural development and livelihoods, local implementation of Poverty
Reduction Strategies, participation, rural sociology, gender. Regional
focus: Honduras, Switzerland | personal website |
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Rony Emmenegger, PhD student
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Urban studies: city development, urban planning, architecture and infrastructure. Development studies: anthropology of development, decentralisation, local politics and local administration. Regional Focus: Africa, Ethiopia (Somali and Oromia region) | personal website |
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Urs Geiser, Dr.
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Livelihood strategies (access, power and inequalities), decentralisation and 'adaptive' governance; rural development as contested societal practice (esp. "local state" and donors). Regional focus: Pakistan (NWFP), India (Kerala), Switzerland | personal website |
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Maiken Graf, dipl.geogr. / Coordinator IP DSGZ
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Staff coordination and management of activities, finances and publications; communication and knowledge transfer; organisation of workshops and meetings | personal website |
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Craig Hatcher, PhD student
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Migration research, development studies, legal geographies, law and urban studies.
Regional focus: Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan) | personal website |
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Pia Hollenbach, PhD student
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Ethnographies of aid, governance of aid, transnational solidarity, post-disaster studies, moral geographies
Regional Focus: South Asia, Sri Lanka | personal website |
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Deborah Johnson, PhD student
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Conflict research, land politics, peace building (and liberal peace theory), politics and aesthetics.
Regional focus: South Asia | personal website |
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Bart Klem, Dr.
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Causes and dynamics of armed conflict, peacekeeping and peacebuilding interventions, development – conflict nexus. Regional focus: South Asia, Sri Lanka | personal website |
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Benedikt Korf, Prof. Dr.
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Political geography: geographies of violence, political ecology. Development studies: ethnographies of aid, moral geographies.
Regional Focus: South Asia, Horn of Africa | personal website |
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Silva Lieberherr, PhD student
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Contested rural development, social/peasants’ movements, agrarian change, subalterns. Regional focus: South Asia (India) | personal website |
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Martina Locher, PhD student
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Rural livelihoods (esp. international land investments and local
livelihoods), integrated nature conservation and development,
participation, gender studies. Regional focus: Tanzania, Nepal, Bangladesh | personal website |
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Ulrike Müller Böker, Prof. Dr.
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Livelihood strategies, resource-use conflicts (land, forests), labour migration, nature conservation. Regional focus: South Asia, East Africa, Central Asia, Switzerland | personal website |
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Ephraim Pörtner, PhD student
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Globalization and migration processes, asylum, anthropology of the state.
Regional focus: Switzerland, Central & South Asia | personal website |
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Timothy Raeymaekers, Dr.
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Political & social economy, conflict resources, border(land)s, economic anthropology, geographies of violence & protection. Regional focus: Congo, Uganda | personal website |
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Mark Starmanns, Dr.
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Corporate responsibility, ethical & fair trade, private regulation, social standards, global production networks, ethical consumption, textile industry. Regional focus: India, Bangladesh, Switzerland | personal website |
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Bernd Steimann, Dr.
Development Policy Coordinator, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Rural livelihoods, institutional change, natural resource management (pastures, forests), post-socialism, decentralisation, participation. Regional focus: Central & South Asia, Switzerland |
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Susan Thieme, PD Dr.
Dept. of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Labour migration; livelihoods and development, transnationalism and multi-locality;
gender and generation, social finance; social geography. Regional focus: Central and South Asia, Switzerland | personal website |
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