Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr

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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