Anna Zimmer
Research Associate
Postal address:
Department of Geography
University of Bonn
Meckenheimer Allee 166
53115 Bonn
Room: Poppelsdorfer Allee 102, 2. OG
Consultation hours:
On appointment
Email: zimmera@uni-bonn.de
Ongoing and completed research projects
Research interest
Political Ecology
Urban Governance
Water
India
Urban Governance
Water
India
My research interests are on issues of Political Ecology, mainly of water. I have studied conflicts around access to water in Spain, and am now working on sanitation in slums in India. This has lead to an interest in questions of urban governance, governmentality, and citizenship. In this context, the role of the state and bureaucracy in everyday life has emerged as a major focus. In my research I am working with qualitative methods, with a growing sympathy for ethnography.
Ongoing and completed research projects
- Political Ecology of Water – The role of gated communities in the region of Murcia, Spain. (completed)
- The Political Ecology of „illegal“ waste water - micro-politics and negotiation processes in a megacity. The case of Delhi / India. (ongoing)
Publications
(forthcoming): Urban waste water: accessing drainage services in a Delhi slum. In: Singh, R.B. & K. Takara (eds.): Hydrology and Water Resources. Rawat Publisher: Jaipur. (accepted)
(2011): Slums in Indien - ein Überblick. In: Südasien. Vol. 31, No. 2. S. 31.34.
(2010): Urban Political Ecology. Theoretical concepts, challenges, and suggested future directions. In: Erdkunde, Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 343–364
(2010): with Ur-Rehman, K.: Spatial patterns of child health inequalities in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. The advantages of GIS in data analysis. In: Geographica Helvetica Heft 1/2010. S.36-47.
(2010): New water uses in the Segura basin: conflicts around gated communities in Murcia. In: Water International. Vol. 35. Issue 1.
(2009): Social Relations in the Waste Waterscapes: The Case of Delhi's Informal Settlements. In: UGEC Viewpoints No. 2/Sep 2009. S. 9-12. Abrufbar unter: http://www.ugec.org/tiki-index.php?page=ReportsNewsletters
(2008): Managing water in the Segura basin - conflicts around gated communities in Murcia. In: Proceedings of the 13th IWRA World Water Congress 2008, 1-4 September, Montpellier. (accepted)
(2007): Zur Politischen Ökologie von Wasser - Die Rolle der Gated Communities in der Region Murcia, Spanien. Geographisches Institut der Universität Bonn. (unpublished Diploma thesis)
Presentations
(2010): Slums as spaces of risks – risks for whom and risks of what? Official and everyday constructions and governance responses in Delhi. Presentation at the 21st European Conference on Modern South Asia Studies, Bonn, July, 26-29, 2010.
(2010): Temporalities in the waste waterscapes – production, governance and subjectivities. The Case Study of an Unauthorised Colony in Delhi. Presentation at the Workshop on “Waterscapes, Labour and Uncertainty: crossing the boundaries of urban and rural technonature”, London School of Economics, 29-30 May 2010.
(2010): Waste water governance in Delhi: comparing slums and un-authorised colonies. Presentation at the Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, 24 March 2010.
(2009): Negotiation processes around waste water: micropolitics in informal settlements in Delhi (India). Presentation at the 4th Annual Meeting of the ‘Arbeitskreis Geographische Stadtforschung im Entwicklungskontext’ of the German Geographical Society, Innsbruck, June 5-7, 2009.
(2009): Urban sanitation in informal colonies: Negotiating access to basic services. Presentation at the IHDP Open Meeting, Bonn, April 26-30, 2009.
(2009): Urban sanitation in informal colonies: struggling for basic service provision in Delhi, India. Presentation at the RGS Post-graduate Forum Mid-term Conference, Plymouth, 7 March 2009.
(2008): Urban sanitation in informal colonies: How slum dwellers struggle for basic service provision. Presentation at the NAGI 30th Indian Geography Congress, Allahabad, December 19-21, 2008.
(2008): Managing water in the Segura basin: conflicts around gated communities in Murcia. Presentation at the IWRA 13th World Water Congress, Montpellier, September 1-4, 2008.
Education
- 2007 – present: PhD student at Bonn University (Germany)
- 03 / 2010: Visiting Student at the Institute for Development Studies, Brighton (UK)
- 07 - 12 / 2009: Affiliation at the Centre des Sciences Humaines, New Delhi (India)
- 2001 - 2007: Studies of Geography, Soil Science and Organic Agriculture at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne (Germany)
- 2003 – 2004: Studies of Geography at the Universidad de Extremadura (Spain)
Work experience
- 2007 - 2008: Lecturer at Bonn University (Germany)
- 2006: Rapporteur for the Bonn International Centre for Conversion (BICC) at the World Water Week (Stockholm)
- 2005 - 2006: Student assistant at BICC (Section Water & Conflict)
- 08 - 09 / 2005: Internship at the Okavango Delta Management Plan Secretariat (Botswana)
- 07 - 09 / 2004: Internship at the Water Department of the City of Bonn
Languages
- German: native
- French: native
- English: fluent
- Spanish: intermediate
- Hindi: intermediate
PhD Scholarship of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation
Südasien Büro Bonn
