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Eveline Dürr

Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr

Carson Professor 2013–14

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LMU Munich
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Oettingenstr. 67, 026
80538 Munich

Phone: +49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 9613

Eveline Dürr is a professor of social anthropology at LMU Munich. Previously, she was an associate professor at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. She received her doctoral degree and venia legendi (Habilitation) from the University of Freiburg, Germany. She led the Urban Environments Initiative in cooperation with the TU Munich and currently acts as co-chair of the Collaborative Research Centre "Culture of Vigilance". Her interests include urban anthropology, ethics, inequality, spatiality, and 'pollution,' as well as human-environment relationships. Her projects and publications consider the historical trajectories that have formed present conditions. She conducts fieldwork in Latin America, the USA, and in Oceania.

More information is available at https://www.en.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/staff/professors/duerr/index.html.

Selected Publications:

Special Issues/Books

  • with Philipp Schorch and Sina Emde, eds. “Experiencing Pacific Environments: Pasts, Presents, Futures.” Special Issue, The Contemporary Pacific 32, no. 1 (2020): 1–171. https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/42112.
  • with Saskia Walther, eds. “Ecotourism in Latin America: Identity Politics in Gendered and Racialized Environments.” Special Section, Bulletin of Latin American Research 39, no. 2 (2020): 172–222. https://doi.org/10.1111/blar.12923.
  • with Arno Pascht, eds. Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses: Ontologies, Discourses, and Practices in Oceania. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
  • with Rivke Jaffe, eds. Urban Pollution: Cultural Meanings, Social Practices. Volume 15 of Studies in Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, edited by Roy Ellen. Oxford and New York: Berghahn, 2010.

Book Chapters/Journal Articles 

  • with Raúl Acosta García, Marie Aschenbrenner, and Gordon Winder. “Re-imagining Cities as Ecosystems: Environmental Subject Formation in Auckland and Mexico City.” Urban Research & Practice (2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2020.1811886
  • with Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer. “Tackling Pollution with Care: Everyday Politics and Citizen Engagement in Auckland, New Zealand.” In Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City: Engaging the Urban and the Future, edited Setha Low, 204–215. London and New York: Routledge, 2018.
  • with Rivke Jaffe. “Pollution.” In A Companion to Urban Anthropology, edited by Donald Nonini, 414–427. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
  • with Anna Meiser. “Negotiating New Roles and Relationships in the Jungle: Rain Forest Imaginations and Community-Based Ecotourism in Ecuador.” Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America 12, no. 2 (2014): 151–168. http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/tipiti/vol12/iss2/11.

Image: © Universität Augsburg.