Senior Researcher |
Dr. Irit Eguavoen |
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| Department | ZEF A: Department of Political and Cultural Change | |
| Research countries |
- Benin - Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Ghana |
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| Research topic | Youth and generational contracts, NRM, climate change, water, social anthropology, legal anthropology, environmental history | |
| Projects |
WASCAL - West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use www.wascal.org 2008-2011:Re-thinking Water Storage for Climate Change Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana) |
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| Working groups | RESEARCH INTEREST: Livelihood options, decisions and strategies of rural youth in Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana. KEYWORDS: land use, livelihood strategies, youth unemployment, mobility, social networks, labour markets, politics, WP 3.3., WP 4.1., WP 4.4 | |
| Teaching | Field research methods (ZEF doctoral courses, 2009-2012); Interfaces of social sciences and ecology (ZEFc doctoral course, 2011-2012); Feldforschungspraktikum Äthiopien (Universität Köln, 2010); Zivilgesellschaft und Entwicklung (Universität Bonn, 2011) |
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| Funding institutions | BMBF | |
| Degrees | Magistra Artium - Social Anthropology and African Studies (Berlin 2003); Dr. phil. - Social and Cultural Anthropology (Köln 2007) |
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| Publications |
2011.
Complete list of publications.
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| Additional Information | Tutorship of ZEF junior researchers/ PhD projects: - Esther Dörendahl: Boundary work for sustainable water resources management. A study of boundary dynamics at the Wilderness Catchment and the Incomati Catchment, South Africa. - Aminata Germer: Food security and nutrition. Rural past and present perceptions, Ioba Province, Burkina Faso (WASCAL project) - Niklas Bamler (WASCAL project) - Karsten A. Schulz: The Challenges of Adaptive Governance in Northern Ghana: Mitigating Climate Change Related Vulnerabilities and Risks (associated to WASCAL project) |
