Department: ZEF A

Ongoing Doctoral Theses

Adebo, Hiwot Wolde..  Navigating through the Roughness: Ethiopian Migrants’ Lived Experiences and Migration Decision Making in South Africa.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn. 
Agyepong, Edna.  Land scarcity and societal transformation around Ghana's Bui Dam: Polyrational social constructions and access in contested spaces.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Resources, University of Bonn . 
Al Munajed, Dima..  Participation of Syrian women in civil society organizations following the Syrian conflict: Investigating participation in Turkey and Lebanon.  Doctoral thesis at  University of Bonn. 
Annan, A..  Promoting quality in agricultural value chains; a means for quality control or resource capture? A study of the cocoa and Shea value chains in Ghana..  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn. 
Barbosa Pereira, A..  Legal fields under dispute in mining related conflicts: implications to legal theory and social sciences.  Doctoral thesis at  University of Bonn. 
Castillo Lopez, Daiana..  Food sovereignty and (post) conflict in the rural Colombia: The case of Tenza Valley.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn. 
Cermeño, H.  (in progress) Access to the city: urban assemblages and resulting processes of social inclusion and exclusion in Amritsar and Lahore.  Doctoral Thesis at  Faculty of Arts, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.  Download [GIF | 15.18KB]
Chinchilla Salcedo, Gina María..  Memory Work in Colombia after the Peace Accord with the FARC-EP Guerrilla: Memory Actors and Narratives in Dispute.  Doctoral thesis at  University of Bonn.  Download [GIF | 15.18KB]
Cruz Kanter, E..  From Discourse to Violence: the Role of Meanings in the Production of Violence in the Indigenous Communities of the Southeast of Chiapas, Mexico..  Faculty of Phylosophy. 
Ete, M..  An Ethnographic Study of Local Development Brokers in the Arena of Hydropower Development in Arunachal, India.  Doctoral Thesis at  Center for Development Research, University of Bonn. 
Figueroa, G..  Alternative agriculture and farmers’ decision making processes in the context of the "updating of the socio-economic model" in Cuba.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn. 
Forneck S..  Changing Home(s) – Development, Local Perceptions and the Social Construction of Belonging in Zangla/India.  Doctoral Thesis at  The Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn. 
Geiger, Franziska..  Co-creation of Resilient Living Spaces? Opportunities and Challenges for Female Refugees During Covid-19 in Bonn Bad Godesberg.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn. 
Gella, A.A..  Gender and gender (in)equality in small holder farming in Ethiopia.  Doctoral thesis at  ZEF. 
Guanti Lasso, M.M..  Rethinking the issue: Primary and Secondary Prevention of HIV and AIDS in Panama Using the Structural Vulnerability Approach, the case of the Panamanian Indigenous Groups Ngäbe and Buglé. 
Hojiev, K.  Conflicts in Fergana Valley: Identity and Social Dynamics along Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan borders.  Doctoral Thesis at  Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn. 
Innis, P. G..  Risks in everyday urban life: vulnerability and practices in flood-prone precarious settlements in Monrovia, Liberia.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. 
Kumar, A..  Entangled imageries of Mumbai: ANT accounts for techno-fix, protest and placemaking by slum dwellers.  Doctoral thesis at  University of Bonn. 
Maddah, H..  Women Household Heads in Iran: A Discourse Analysis. 
Martin Espinosa, Mayra Alejandra..  Digital transformation on the communication practices of the Colombian NGO sector throughout Covid-19.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn. 
Martini, L..  Creative city and knowledge community: Their interplay in human development in Bandung, Indonesia.  Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn. 
Min Jung Cho.  Research and its governance in the health research system of Uzbekistan. 
Mumbi Ndunda, Elizabeth..  Contribution of Multi-stakeholder initiatives and collective action in conflict management among pastoral communities in Northern Kenya..  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn. 
Nago Zeufack, M..  Adaptation aid efficiency in Central Africa: A case study of North-South cooperation on climate change adaptation in the Congo Basin.  Doctoral thesis at  University of Göttingen. 
Oginni, Oyewole S...  Civilian Loyalty and Civilian Agency in insecure spaces. A study of armed conflicts in the Lake Chad Basin region..  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn. 
Pratama, Arif Budy..  The pursuit of smartness - An ethnographic study understanding the dynamic of smart city development project in the Magelang municipality, Indonesia.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn. 
Rawat, Namrata..  Youth Aspirations and Migration Choices in the Hill Region of Uttarakhand, India.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn. 
Rodriguez-Camayo, Fernando..  How can food security and resilience to climate change of smallholders be addressed in specialty coffee value chains? The case of the dry corridor in Honduras..  Agriculture. 
Rosales Salgado, Maryoriet Nicole..  The Stay-at-Home Paradox; Survivor narratives of Domestic Violence in Urban Honduras during the COVID-19 Pandemic.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn. 
Shagdarsuren, O..  Extralegality and Policy Implications in the Mining Sector of Mongolia.  Doctoral Thesis at  University of Bonn. 
Zhang, L..  Rural Hukou Residents' Mobility for Employment in China.  Doctoral thesis at  University of Bonn. 

Published Doctoral Theses

2022

Hussain, M.  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 Philosophy, University of Bonn.  Further Information

2021

Banerjee, S..  2021.  The ‘Good’ Legitimacy; The ‘Bad’ Legitimacy - A Study of Conflict Prolongation through the prism of State Responses towards Maoism in India.  Doctoral thesis at the Faculty of Philosophy at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn.  Further Information
Ekren, E.  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 Philosophy.  ULB Bonn   Further Information
Mora Motta, A..  The (un)making of an extractivist logging enclave: Fundamental human needs and tree plantations in southern Chile.  Doctoral Thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy.  Unpublished manuscript  
Waheed, A..  2021.  Development Discourses and Urban Poor: A Comparative Study of Slums of Islamabad and Brasilia.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.  Further Information

2020

Bustillos Ardaya, A..  2020.  Applying disaster risk governance in dynamic environments - case study Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.  Doctoral Thesis at  Faculty of Math. Nat., University of Bonn. 
Fellahi, A..  2020.  Youth Migration Choices in Light of the Rural Renewal Program in Algeria: The case of Batna Province (Aures Region).  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn.  Further Information
Germer, A..  2020.  Food habits and nutrition security in West Africa: Practices from Southwestern Burkina Faso.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bonn.  Further Information
Hossain, M..  2020.  Dispossession, environmental degradation and protest: Contested development in Bangladesh.  Doctoral thesis at  Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn.