Johannes Dittmann

Post-Doctoral Researcher/Lecturer 

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Johannes Dittmann

RG Schipper

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Geozentrum - Meckenheimer Allee 176

53115 Bonn

Consultation hours

Thursdays 10:00-12:00 am; registration via email

Focus areas

Development Geography, Political Geography, Cultural Geography

Environmental politics, adaptation to climate change, coloniality & decolonial theory

Political ecology, policy mobility studies

Ethnography, discourse analysis, quantitative social research

Southern Africa, Eastern Africa

Current Research

Adaptation to Climate Change and Development Policy

PhD thesis

Paper Park? Politik grenzübergreifenden Naturschutzes in Nordost Namibia

Paper Park? Politics of transboundary conservastion in northeastern Namibia

Associated with: Collaborative Research Center 'Future Rural Africa - Future-Making and Social-Ecological Transformation' (www.crc228.de); Sub-Project 'Green Futures'

Curriculum Vitae

since January 2024: Postdoc Development Geography (working group Prof. Lisa Schipper)

October 2023: PhD in Geography 

January 2018 - December 2023: PhD student/Lecturer Development Geography (working group Prof. Detlef Müller-Mahn) 

April - December 2017: Research Assistant in the working group Development Geography, University of Bonn

March 2017: Graduation Master of Science Geography

January 2017 - March 2017: Assistant in the working group Development Geography

October 2014 - March 2017: Master of Science Studies Geography (Development and Globalization) University of Bonn

September 2014: Graduation Bachelor of Science in Geography University of Bonn

August 2014 - December 2016: Student Assistant in the working group Development Geography

2014: Tutor for methodology at the Institute of Geography

October 2011- September 2014: Bachelor of Science Studies Geography University of Bonn

2011: Abitur at Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium Bonn

Presentations

2023

20.09.23: Transboundary conservation and new dynamics of territoriality. Politics of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023, Frankfurt.

20.09.23: Naturschutz ohne Grenzen? Naturschutz-Megaprojekte und kommunale Alternativen im Südlichen Afrika, Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2023, Frankfurt.

31.05.23: Conservation, sovereignty and state borders in Africa. Cross-border conservation initiatives and new forms for political authority, European Conference of African Studies (ECAS), Cologne.

2022

29.11.2022: The contested translation of a transboundary conservation mega project. Politics of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area. Bonn International Center for Conflict Studies (BICC), Annual Conference, Bonn.

16.6.-18.6.2022: Back to a precolonial future: Retrotopian visions of African conservation and realigning political authority, Tagung Geographischer Arbeitskreis Entwicklungstheorien 2022, University of Vienna. 

08.06.-10.06.2022: Transboundary conservation governance, political authority and the New Wildlife Economy in Southern Africa, World-Ecology Research Network Conference 2022, University of Bonn.

2021

05.11.2021: Wildlife Corridors, Resettlement and the Territorialization of Transfrontier Conservation in northeastern Namibia, Research Colloquium, Baseler Afrika Bibliographien. Basel.

12.05.2021: Zukunft ohne Grenzen: Politik grenzübergreifenden Naturschutzes in Nordost-Namibia. Vorstellung des Sonderforschungsbereichs Future Rural Africa (mit Prof. Detlef Müller-Mahn, Prof. Mariele Evers, Dr. Britta Höllermann, Chigozie Nweke-Eze, Julian Rochlitz, Astrid Matejcek und Rene Vesper). Lecture series "Mittwochs im Geographischen Institut Bonn". Bonn.

2020

26.09.2020: Transfrontier conservation governance and new dynamics of sovereignty in Namibia. 7th Namibia Research Day, Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Basel.

22.-25.09.2020: Conservation in the 'not yet' - Future-making in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area. POLLEN Political Ecology Network Biennial Conference 2020: Contested Natures: Power, Possibility, Prefiguration, Brighton, UK.

30.01.-01.02.2020: Schatten der Geschichte? Kolonialität und Politik der Landreform in Namibia. Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie 17 - Technoscapes, Bonn.

28.06.2019: Politische Kontrolle im Namen der Natur. Gießener Geographische Gesellschaft, Geographisches Institut Gießen.

02.-05.09.2019: The Peace Parks Paradigm as a Travelling Model. Workshop of the Collaborative Research Center 228 "Future Rural Africa" and the University of Namibia (UNAM), Katima Mulilo (Namibia).

31.01.-02.02.19: Green Futures: The Politics of the Green Economy in Rural Africa. Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie 16 - More-Than-Human-Geographies, Eichstätt (mit Rene Vesper).

25.-27.1.2018: "Sometimes the lake misbehaves" - Zur Politischen Ökologie der Fischrei im Naivasha-See, Kenia, Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie 15 - Materie, Materialien, Methoden, Freiburg im Breisgau.

06.12.17: (Un-)mögliche Zukünfte Kenias; Dies Academicus Universität Bonn, Bonn.

02.-03.05.17: Impacts of Devolution on the East African Small-Scale Fishery of Lake Naivasha, Kenya; 7th Annual Postgraduate Conference of the Sheffield Institute for International Development, Sheffield.

25. - 26.11.16: Die Fischerei im Naivasha-See aus politisch-ökologischer Perspektive; Jahrestreffen Geographischer Arbeitskreis Subsaharisches Afrika, Frankfurt.

Publications

Dittmann, J. (2023): Naturschutz ohne Grenzen – Zur Politik eines Naturschutz-Megaprojektes im Südlichen Afrika. In: Geographische Rundschau 75, (10), 22-25.

Dittmann, J. & Ogolla, A. (2023): Devolution of governance and the politics of fishery at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. (Accepted in: Kuiper, G., Kioko, E. & Bollig, M. (eds.): Agricultural intensification and resource conflicts: Social dynamics in the Lake Naivasha Basin (edited volume), (forthcoming).

Dittmann, J. & Müller-Mahn, D. (2023): Transfrontier conservation governance, commodification of nature and new dynamics of sovereignty in Namibia. In: Bollig, M., Lendelvo, S. et al. (eds): Commodifying the Wild. . (James Currey Publishing), London. p. 107-133.

Müller-Mahn, D. & Dittmann, J. (2021): Entwicklungspraxis - eine geographische Perspektive. In: In: Braun, B., Helbrecht, I., Schneider-Sliwa, R. & Wehrhahn, R. (Hrsg.): Humangeographie. (Westermann), Braunschweig. p. 561-569.

Müller-Mahn, D., Dittmann, J., Stephan, C. & Verne, J. (2021): Geographische Entwicklungsforschung jenseits des Hemisphärendenkens. In: Braun, B., Helbrecht, I., Schneider-Sliwa, R. & Wehrhahn, R. (Hrsg.): Humangeographie. (Westermann), Braunschweig. p. 506-512.

Müller-Mahn, D. & Dittmann, J. (2019): Die Schatten der Geschichte: Koloniale Landnahme und ihre Folgen in Namibia. In: Geographische Rundschau 71, (5), 30-33.

Dittmann. J. (2019): Finnland. In: Staatenlexikon Europa. Geographie, Geschichte, Kultur, Politik und Wirtschaft. (Peter Lang Verlag), Berlin, 143-157.

Dittmann, J. (2018): Sometimes the lake misbehaves - Zur Politischen Ökologie der Fischerei im Naivasha-See, Kenia. In: Beiträge zu interdisziplinären Studien in Ländern des Südens, Band 19.

Dittmann, J., Bauriedel, T., Bock, T., Götz, J., Hellwig, V., Schmitt, D., Spitzley, B. und Vesper, R. (2017): Politik internationaler Klimaverhandlungen - De-Politisierung des Klimawandels während der Conference of the Parties 21 in Paris. In: Development Geography Occasional Paper 11. Bonn. PDF (Abgerufen 27.11.18).

Dittmann, J. (ed) (2016): Naivasha as a development hub. In: Development Geography Occasional Paper 6. Bonn. PDF (Abgerufen: 27.11.18).

Dittmann, J. (2013): „Kommende Ramersdorf in Beuel". In: KuLaDig, Kultur.Landschaft.Digital. Link (Abgerufen: 27.11.18)

Scholarships

PROMOS-Scholarship for master thesis SS 2016

Teaching

WiSe 23/24

  • Einführung in Quantitative Methoden in der Humangeographie, Thu 8-10am

SoSe 23

  • Practical course on methods, 03.08.23 - 05.08.23 & 07.08.23 - 08.08.23
  • Introduction to ethnographic methods, Thu 4-6 p.m.

WiSe 22/23

  • Social displacement and coming to terms with colonialism in Bonn, 10.02.23
  • Cultural landscape Siebengebirge, 14.02.23
  • The Rhine in the area of Bonn from a human geographical perspective, 13.02.23

SoSe 22

  • Advanced seminar: Human Geography Advanced seminar compact, Wed. 2-6 p.m.
  • Methods seminar: Introduction to methods of ethnography, Tues 4-6 p.m.

 WiSe 21/22

  • Field trip: Revitalization of urban usable areas in Bonn, 17.12.21
  • Field trip: Debates about the reappraisal of German colonialism in Bonn, 14.01.22

SoSe 21

  • Project Seminar: Postcolonial Geographies in Germany, Tues 8-12 (digital).

WiSe 20/21

  • Advanced Seminar: Human Geography Advanced Seminar, Mon 8-10am (digital).
  • Excursion: Debates on revitalization and historical reappraisal in Bonn, 04.12.20 & 18.12.20

SoSe 20

  • Advanced Seminar: Human Geography Advanced Seminar, Mon 8-10am (digital).

WiSe 19/20

  • Advanced Seminar: Introduction to Geographical Development Research
  • Methods Seminar: Introduction to Discourse Research in Human Geography

WiSe 18/19

  • Advanced Seminar: Human Geography Advanced Seminar, Wed 4-6pm; Ü II (Continuation);
  • Methods Seminar: Introduction to Methods of Qualitative Social Research, Tue 2 - 4 p.m.; Ü VI

SoSe 18

  • Advanced Seminar: Human Geography Advanced Seminar, Wed 4-6 pm; Ü II

WiSe 17/18

  • Seminar on Methods: Paradigms, Approaches and Instruments of Qualitative Social Research (with Prof. Sabine Tröger), Thu 12-14; Ü IV

Memberships

  • Bonn Geographical Society
  • Association for Geography at German-speaking Universities and Research Institutions
  • Informationsstelle Südliches Afrika e. V. (issa)
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