ZEF theme: Social and Cultural Change and Adaptation
Ongoing Doctoral Theses
Blue health for all? Investigating urban blue spaces as potentially therapeutic landscapes for elderly people in deprived communities. Learning from cases in Ruhr and Ahmedabad Metropolis.
Doctoral Thesis at
University of Bonn.
Building resilient communities after the conflict in Colombia: memories, identity, and contested narratives.
Doctoral thesis at
University of Bonn.
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Dynamics of Ejidal conflicts in the context of Neo Zapatism 1980-2015.
Doctoral Thesis at
University of Bonn.
(Re)Creating Home: Climate Variability, Food Security and the Social Construction of Home in Ladakh, India.
Doctoral Thesis at
The Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
Social mobilization in Colombia: advocacy action for the guarantee of the rights of freedom of expression and access to public information. Two cases of National Platforms of Civil Society Organizations - CSOs.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn.
Youth Aspirations, Decision Making and Migration Choices in the Hill Region of Uttarakhand, India.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn.
The Space where we belong; Narratives of space and insecurity in urban Honduras.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn.
Labor Migration within China: A Field Study in Xiangfu Township of Southwestern China.
Doctoral thesis at
University of Bonn.
Published Doctoral Theses
2023
2023.
An Ethnographic Study of Local Development Brokers in the Arena of Hydropower Development in Arunachal, India.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
2022
2022.
Enhancing Quality in Cocoa Production; a Study of the Cocoa Sector of Ghana.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
2022.
The Hidden Risk of Conventional Floodplain Mapping: Diagnosis in Cali, Colombia.
Dissertation at
Faculty of Agriculture, Universität Bonn.
University of Bonn
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2022.
Challenges and Opportunities for the Inclusion of Women in Politics in Pakistan: A Case Study of Women and Men Career Politicians in the Pakistan Tehreek Insaf Political Party (PTI).
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
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2021
2021.
Agency, opportunity structure and empowerment in everyday refugee life: Enduring and overcoming challenges of daily living in Cologne refugee shelters.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
ULB Bonn
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2021.
The (un)making of an extractivist logging enclave: Fundamental human needs and tree plantations in southern Chile.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
2020
2020.
Mining and small-scale farming in the Andes: Socio-environmental roots of land-use conflicts.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bonn.
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2020.
Empowerment of girls and women in rural Pakistan: Migration, decision-making and consciousness.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2019
2019.
Decisions, Practices and Priorities: A Qualitative Study on University Dropout and Personal Development in Panama.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
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2019.
Language choice as a gate-keeping practice: An exploration into the psycho-social impacts of multillinguaism through case studies from the educational and judicial sectors of Pakistan.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
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2018
2018.
The Ethiopian Agricultural Extension System and Its Role as a “Development Actor”: Cases from Southwestern Ethiopia.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2018.
Angaité’s responses to deforestation: Political ecology of the livelihood and land use strategies of an indigenous community from the Paraguayan Chaco.
Doctoral thesis at
University of Marburg.
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2017
2017.
Cattle Raids, Violence and Pastoralists Livelihoods in Northern Kenya-the Case of the Turkana and Samburu Communities.
Doctoral Thesis at
University of Cologne.
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2017.
Institutional Pathways to Transformative Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
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2016
2016.
Farmer-herder relations in Ghana: Interplay of environmental of environmental change, conflict, cooperation and social networks.
Doctoral Thesis at
Institute for Ethnology, University of Göttingen.
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2016.
Agricultural transformation and indigenous communities: Case studies from Southern India.
Doctoral Thesis at
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.
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2016.
Beyond profits? An inquiry about media for social transformation in Argentina and Brazil.
Doctoral thesis at
University of Bremen.
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2015
2015.
State-Society Interaction in Vietnam: The Everyday Dialogue of Local Irrigation Management in the Mekong Delta.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
Lit Verlag <a href="http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-90719-6" target="_blank">http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-90719-6</a>
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2015.
Gender Differentiated Asset Dynamics in Bangladesh: Individual Adaptation and Potential for Group Based Approaches in the Context of Climate Change.
Doctoral Thesis at
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn.
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2015.
Locally Embedded Adaptation Planning: A trilogy on the adaptation of flood-affected people in Kampung Muara Baru Jakarta.
Doctoral Thesis at the at
Philosophy, University Bonn.
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2014
2014.
Vulnerability and Resilience of Different Social Groups to Floods and Policy Reforms in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Bonn.
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2013
2013.
Organising and Implementing Local Economic De-velopment Initiatives at the District Level in Ghana.
Thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
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2013.
Pre-industrial Ecological Modernization in Agro-Food and Medicine: Directing the Commodification of Heritage Culture in Cambodia.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
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2013.
Aqua-'culture': Socio-Cultural Peculiarities, Practical Senses, and Missing Sustainability in Pangasius Aquaculture in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bonn.
ZEF Development Studies #26, Lit Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 978-3-643-90485-0
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2013.
Unraveling the Parks and People Dichotomy: Local Interests and Conflicts in Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia.
Doctoral thesis at
University of Hohenheim.
Margraph Publishers. Weikersheim, Germany
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2013.
Servicing Transformation. Agricultural Service Organisations and Agrarian Change in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan.
Doctoral thesis at ZEF at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
LIT Verlag
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2012
2012.
Ethics in Consumer Choice – An Empirical Analysis based on the Example of Coffee.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn.
Springer Gabler: Wiesbaden
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2012.
The sustainability of the Acehnese Jama‘at Tabligh Movement through the formation of social network.
Doctoral thesis at
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
2012.
What is Beyond the River? Power, Authority and Social Order on 18th and 19th Century Transoxania.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
2011
2011.
Kinship and Islam: The Role of Collective Identities in Shaping Institutional Order of Patronage in Southern Tajikistan.
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn at
ZEF.
Lit Verlag, Münster
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2011.
Corporate Diversity Management in Multinational Companies in Singapore. Lost in Translation?.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
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2011.
The Organisation of Trade in North Sumatra Batak Traders and Trading Networks.
Doctoral thesis at
Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.
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