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Solidarity and Differentiation: Coalition-Building among Progressive Agrarian Movements in Germany

This project focuses on coalition-building processes between organisations in progressive agrarian movements and groups representing seasonal workers in Germany.

Rural Radicalism and Agonistic Spaces in Northern Sweden: Pluralism and Counter-publics in Sápmi

Focusing on human rights activists, farmers, hunters as well as environmental movements, the study examines how competing forms of rural radicalism are articulated, contested and aligned in Northern Sweden

New article: Swallowed up by the earth

The global economy’s relentless hunger for coltan was always dangerous for Rubaya. The town was – and still is – a mining-governancevoid, before and after M23’s takeover.

Rural Radicalism

The CRG research program on Rural Radicalism investigates rural political contestation.

Loose Futures: Deep History, Fluvial Geology and Economy of Sediments in the Himalayan Rivers

This project ethnographically examines the long history of sediments in the Himalayan rivers.

From Land Occupations Towards Permanent Settlements, a Case of the Serikat Petani Pasundan in West-Java, Indonesia

This study attempts to contribute towards enriching the iteration of public authority to a more inclusive manner that also emphasizes the peasant class as a political force.

Gender, Climate Change and Conflict in practice: Adaptation, Resilience and Sustainable Peace in the Africa Great Lakes Region

This project aims to map and examine how local communities in general, and women’s movements in particular, adapt and remain resilient in settings where climate change is exacerbating protracted conflict.

Gender, Climate Change and Natural Resource Management

With this project, we propose a deeper critical interrogation of what meanings gender equality and women’s empowerment assume in natural resource management initiatives in conflict-affected countries.

The Political Ecology of Conservation Conflicts

This study goes beyond Human-Wildlife Conflict to explore the broader multi-scalar politics that produce both conservation and its conflicts

The maritime in the landlocked: The position and role of seas in the modern shaping of the Ciscaspian-Central Asian region.

This research, which focuses on the early-modern and modern historical periods,  looks into the position and role of these water surfaces and their respective littorals in western Central Asia’s social history.