Contact
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Institut für Ethnologie
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich
Room No 026
Institut für Ethnologie
Oettingenstr. 67
80538 Munich
Room No 026
Phone:
+49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 9613
Fax:
+49 (0) 89 / 2180 - 9602
Email:
eveline.duerr@ethnologie.lmu.de
Website:
professor of ethnology
Research Interests
- Environmental anthropology: human (and other than human beings) and their environments, Indigenous perspectives, (eco)tourism, perceptions of nature, sustainability and pollution, environmental ethics and care
- Urban anthropology: inequality, poverty, pollution, aesthetics, space, power and difference, politics, class and economy, ethics
- Identity politics: globalization, mobility and migration, cross-cultural encounters
- Regional expertise: Latin America, USA, Oceania, Transpacific connections
Doctoral Students Supervised
RCC
- Saskia Brill, “Negotiating Air in the Great Bear Rainforest. CO2 Emission Trade in the Context of Resource Use, Conservation and Decolonisation in Canada”
- Martín Fonk, “Geothermal Futures: Exploring Environmental Knowledge through Scientist and Indigenous People Engagement with Geothermal Energy Potentials of Andes Mountains”
- Rebecca Hofmann, “Situating Climate Change in Chuuk. Navigating “Belonging” through Environmental and Social Transformations in Micronesia”
- Oliver Liebig, “The Ikojts and the Wind. Indigenous Perspective on Renewable Energy in Mexico”
Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Ana Julia Echeverría-Scharfenberg, “Belonging in a Transforming Community: Mining, Return Migration and Gender in the Peruvian Andes”
- Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer, “Pollution, Urban Ethics and Cultural Practice in Auckland, Aoteatora New Zealand”
- Desirée Hetzel, “Localising Global Climate Change Policies in Vanuatu: Reception of Knowledge and Cultural Transformations”
- Barbara Vodopivec, “Made in Tepito: Urban Tourism and Inequality in Mexico City”
- Saskia Walther, “Transforming Indigenous Relations with Nature: Ecological Discourses, Tourism, and Gender in Mexico”
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