Urban Ecologies
Uli BeiselThis project focuses on the main drivers of urbanization and the resulting interplay between biodiversity and human health.
Mobile Mosquitoes
Uli BeiselHow is the mobility of people and things interlinked with the mobility of mosquitoes and the spread of associated arboviral diseases?
Water contexts of Freetown
Lorenz GoschThis project engages with the social life of water in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Infrastructures of Value
Christof LammerThis project asks how infrastructures shape value in the agri-food sector.
African Swine Fever pandemic
Laura MattThis project engages with attempts to (re)gain control over the African Swine Fever virus in Brandenburg (North-Eastern Germany) and practices of knowing and caring for a contested ecological balance in a relational world.
Anthropocene in the Humboldt Forum Berlin
Ralph BuchenhorstThis project probes how Latin American decolonial conceptions such as Buen Vivir are considered at the Humboldt Forum Berlin when dealing with objects and symbolic forms appropriated by colonial practices.
Political Ecology along the Nile
Enrico IlleThis project asks how different residents in Sudan’s most conflicted areas define what they ‘have’ around them, if and how it should be extracted and put to use, and who should be allowed to do that.
Sustaining Life and Ecology
David KananizadehThis project looks into human-forest entanglements in Sierra Leone by inquiring into the social and economic forms and moral dimensions of sustaining ecology, life and subjectivation.
Toxicity as Ethical Substance
Stacey LangwickThis project explores how reflection on and labor over the toxic have come to define both ethical subjects and emergent objects of knowledge and practice in East Africa.
Better Bananas
Sandra CalkinsIn the face of Malthusian dystopias and their impetus to grow more and better food, this project focuses on biofortification, one recent high-tech agricultural solution for micronutrient deficiencies in Uganda.
Vectors of Health
Luísa Reis CastroThis project investigates technologies for controlling mosquito-borne diseases as a window into science and public health policies in Brazil.