Dr. Theo Aalders
Research Assistant
Theo Aalders is a Postdoctoral fellow at Bonn University, Department of Geography. As part of his work for the Collaborative Research Centre “Future Rural Africa” he studies geographies of the future of unbuilt and unfinished hydropower projects in East Africa. He collaborates with artists and local communities to create collaborative comics and art works as a methodological entry point to researching futures.
Dr. Johannes Theodor Aalders
AG Müller-Mahn
1.015
Geozentrum - Meckenheimer Allee 176
53115 Bonn
CRC228 - Project C03: "Green Futures"
Consultation hours
By arrangement
Research Areas
Future-Making
Unfinished Infrastructure projects
Infrastructure Sabotage
Labour
Collaborative Visual Methods
Comics
East Africa
Publications
Aalders, J. T., & Monson, K. (2022). Research With the Moving, the Vivacious Many: A Practical Poetry Of Paces In More-Than-Human Worlds. ACME, 21(2), 205–225.
Aalders, J. T., Bachmann, J., Knutsson, P., & Musembi Kilaka, B. (2021). The Making and Unmaking of a Megaproject: Contesting Temporalities along the LAPSSET Corridor in Kenya. Antipode, 53(5), 1273–1293. Link
Aalders, J. T., Moraa, A., Oluoch-olunya, N. A., & Muli, D. (2020). Drawing together: Making Marginal Futures Visible through Collaborative Comic Creation (CCC). Geographica Helvetica, 75, 415–430. Link
Aalders, J. T. (2020a). Building on the Ruins of Empire: The Uganda Railway and the LAPSSET Corridor in Kenya. Third World Quarterly. Link
Aalders, J. T. (2020b). Ghostlines: Movements, Anticipations, and Drawings of the LAPSSET Development Corridor in Kenya [Gothenburg University]. Link
Aalders, J. T. (2018). The scale of risk: Conceptualising and analysing the politics of sacrifice scales in the case of informal settlements at urban rivers in Nairobi. Erdkunde, 72(2), 91–101. Link
Brink, E., Aalders, T., Ádám, D., Feller, R., Henselek, Y., Hoffmann, A., Ibe, K., Matthey-Doret, A., Meyer, M., Negrut, N. L., Rau, A. L., Riewerts, B., von Schuckmann, L., Törnros, S., von Wehrden, H., Abson, D. J., & Wamsler, C. (2016). Cascades of green: A review of ecosystem-based adaptation in urban areas. Global Environmental Change, 36, 111–123. Link