Lives and Ecologies

The research unit Lives and Ecologies studies how humans seek to shape their lives, together with humans and other living beings, under conditions of change, disruption and destruction of ecological and societal resources. How do they search for possibilities of survival, continuity, and good life? How do processes such as mobility and displacement, pollution and biodiversity loss, or wars and conflicts reorder human-environment relations, livelihoods, and intergenerational life trajectories? Research in the unit is organised in two thematic conversations: human-environmental relations, and life trajectories and livelihoods across generations.

Research Projects

Dr. Steven Serels

A New History of Infectious Diseases in the Southern Red Sea Region (DFG)

Dr. Akmal Bazarbaev

Internal Labour Migration in Central Asia, 1870-1917: Social Drivers and Government Impediments to Movement (AvH)

Projects of Affiliated and Associated Researchers

Mariam Aboughazi

The Aftermath of Hope: Defeat, Recovery and Dreams In Post Counter Revolutionary Egypt (DAAD)

Benita Kawalla

Between Family Love and Formalities: On intra-family negotiations of citizenship constructions, belonging and acts of citizenship of mixed-status families in Jordan

Dr. Anu Krishna

The Cardamom Chronicles - Scent, Savour, and Social Worlds in a Global Spice Chain

Dr. Tabea Scharrer

Socio-Economic Positioning and Class Making in the Context of Transnational Forced Migration. Somali Refugees in Kenya and Germany

Dr. Magdalena Suerbaum

Syrian Parents in Berlin and Istanbul: Gendered perspectives on strategies of childrearing, educational choices and intergenerational relationships

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