Projects
Our initiative has an a extensive history of research in the environmental humanities and social sciences. Here is an overview of our members’ third party funded projects.
Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human & Earth System Coupled Research
2023-26
Just futures: An Interdisciplinary approach to cultural climate models
2023-25
S(m)elling the ‘wild’: the political ecology of arboreal essential oils and the making of olfactory resources
2023-25
Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
2022-27
Rewilding the Anthropocene
2022-26
Mobile mosquitoes - Understanding the entangled mobilities of Aedes Mosquitoes and humans in India, Mexico, Tanzania and Germany
2022-26
Post-Global Aesthetics: World creation and exhaustion in 21st Century Latin American literatures
2022-24
Spring School: The Agrarian Question and Contested Rural Futures in Africa funded by the VW Foundation
2022
Connecting – Excluding. Cultural dynamics beyond globalized net works
2021-26
African Climate and Environment Center – Future African Savannas (AFAS)
2021-25
Rare Earths in the Just Transition: Connecting Global Inequalities in REE Commodity Chains
2021-22
Maria Sibylla Merian Center: Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America (MECILA)
2020-26
Climate Change Literacy
2020-21
Heisenberg Professorship Media Ecology
2019-24
Empathy and resilience. Phenomenological investigations into the resilience potentials of interpersonal resonance
2019-23
A future without forest? Future-making, environmental change and socio-economic transformations in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
2019-23
Driving factors for and societal effects of sea-level rise and delta flooding in the Ayeyarwady Delta (Myanmar) - Lessons from the past for disaster governance in the future
2019-25
Nam-Tip: Social and cultural implications of desertification tipping points in the Namibian East Communal rangelands. Sub-Project 3 of BioTip. Understanding and managing desertification tipping points in dryland social-ecological systems (Bollig)
2019-22
Between enclaves and integration – Chinese and African Special Economic Zones in Sub-Saharan Africa
2019-22
CRC-TRR 228: Future rural Africa. Future-making and social-ecological transformation (with Bonn University)
2018-25
Heisenberg Professorship for Phenomenology and Anthropology
2018-23
MYrisk: Multiple risks management of extreme events in fast growing (mega)cities in Myanmar
2017-25
Standards 2.0. Livelihoods of Indian smallholder farmers between global and domestic value chains for organic and fair trade agri-food products
2016-20
Gateway cities and their hinterland: Global cities from the Global South as nodes in global commodity chains
2015-19
Reading global: Constructions of World Literature and Latin America
2015-21
Remapping the Global South: Teaching-Researching-Exchanging
2015-18
Resilience in East African Landscapes (REAL)
2013-17
GlobE consortium: Wetlands in East Africa
2013-16
Local Institutions in Globalized Societies (LINGS)
2010-19
SPP 1448 Adaptation and Creativity in Africa
2010-14
Resilience, Collapse and Reorganisation in Social-Ecological Systems of East- and South Africa’s Savannahs
2010-17
SPP Megacities Megachallenge
2006-16
ForUm for Urban Future in Southeast Asia
2005 -
ongoing
Governing emerging megacities
2005-08
IMPETUS: Integratives Management-Projekt für einen effizienten und tragfähigen Umgang mit Süßwasser in Westafrika
2005-08
SFB/CRC 389 Arid Climate, Adaptation and Cultural Innovation in Africa (ACACIA)
1995-07
