Johannes Dittmann
Research Associate
PhD student
Johannes Dittmann
RG Müller-Mahn
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Geozentrum - Meckenheimer Allee 176
53115 Bonn
Consultation hours
Wednesdays 12:00-14:00 am; registration via email
Focus areas
Development Geography, Political Geography, Cultural Geography
human-environment-relations, environmental politics, green economy, coloniality
political ecology, policy mobility studies
qualitative social research, ethnography, discourse analysis
Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Germany
Research
Collaborative Research Center 'Future Rural Africa - Future-Making and Social-Ecological Transformation' (www.crc228.de); Sub-Project 'Green Futures'
PhD thesis
The politics of the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area. Performing a 'paper tiger' and new forms of political authority in Namibia. (associated SFB/TRR 228 "Future Rural Africa")
Curriculum Vitae
since January 2018: Research Associate/PhD student in the working group Development Geography, University of Bonn
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
2022
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.-10.06.22: Transboundary conservation governance, political authority and the New Wildlife Economy in Southern Africa, World-Ecology Research Network Conference 2022, University of Bonn.
2021
05.11.21: 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. & Ogolla, A. (2022): Devolution of governance and the politics of fishery at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. (Accepted in: Kuiper, G., Kioko, E. & Bollig, M.:Agricultural intensification and resource conflicts: Social dynamics in the Lake Naivasha Basin (edited volume).
Dittmann, J. & Müller-Mahn, D. (2022): 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 (forthcoming).
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.
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.
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
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)