Johannes Dittmann

Research Associate

PhD student

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Johannes Dittmann

RG Schipper

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Geozentrum - Meckenheimer Allee 176

53115 Bonn

+49 228 73-4005

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)
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