Sarah Ruth Sippel is a Senior Researcher at the University of Leipzig, Germany, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. She studied Middle Eastern...
Reviewed by George White. Through their work at the Collaborative Research Centre at Leipzig University, Steffi Marung, Matthias Middell and their collaborators have produced a comprehensive and impressive volume on the weighty topic of globalization. The topic is innately geographical, specifically spatial, and geographers not only have a lot to say about it, they already have written much about it.
By Michaela Böhme Recent dynamics in the global food system – such as large-scale farmland acquisitions by corporate and state investors, processes of farmland financialization and assetization, or the increasing...
This interview is part of the series “Seen Through a Spatial Lens … – Spatializations in Global Times”. The series presents the guests invited by the Collaborative Research Centre 1199...
This article is part of the TRAFO series Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the 15th Summer School of the Graduate...
This article is part of the TRAFO series Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’. Today, we put the spotlight on the conference Practices and Processes of Space-making under the Global...
Nach über drei Jahren gibt es zwei Neubesetzungen in der Redaktion des TRAFO-Blogs: Die bisherigen Mitglieder Christian Boulanger, Botakoz Kassymbekova, Stefanie Rentsch und Gesche Schifferdecker haben vor kurzem das Redaktionsteam verlassen....
By Michaela Böhme and Felicitas Sommer How should food production and consumption be organized? Powerful corporations promoting agro-industrialist approaches to food and food security hold not only substantial power in...
Einführung in die Vortragsreihe “Transregionale Verflechtungen: Räumliche Zusammenhänge jenseits etablierter Metageographien” am Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS), Philipps-Universität Marburg im Wintersemester 2016/17 und Sommersemester 2017. von Steffen Wippel ...
While a vital part of our everyday lives, the future of food is insecure: agriculture and food are currently being shaped by the culmination of multiple crises related to new...
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research is a platform for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who are interested in transregional exchange and research on current issues. TRAFO is the blog of the Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin) and the Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland (Bonn).
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