Dr. Friederike Gesing

Gesing, F. (2019). The politics of artificial dunes: Sustainable coastal protection measures and contested socio-natural objects. DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 150(3), 145-157. PDF

Gesing, F. (2019). Towards a more-than-human political ecology of coastal protection: Coast Care practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/2514848619860751

Gesing, F., Knecht, M., Flitner, M., & Amelang, K. (Hrsg.). (2019). NaturenKulturen: Denkr?ume und Werkzeuge für neue politische ?kologien. Bielefeld: transcript.

Gesing, F., Knecht, M., Flitner, M., & Amelang, K. (2019). NaturenKulturen-Forschung – Eine Einleitung In F. Gesing, M. Knecht, M. Flitner, & K. Amelang (Hrsg.), NaturenKulturen: Denkr?ume und Werkzeuge für neue politische ?kologien (pp. 17–50). Bielefeld: transcript

Gesing, F. (2019). Dünen schützen (für) Neuseeland: Weicher Küstenschutz als naturkulturelle Praxis. In F. Gesing, M. Knecht, M. Flitner, & K. Amelang (Hrsg.), NaturenKulturen: Denkr?ume und Werkzeuge für neue politische ?kologien (pp. 415–446). Bielefeld: transcript.

Gesing, F. (2018). Transnational Municipal Climate Networks and the Politics of Standardisation: The Contested Role of Climate Data in the New Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy. Politics and Governance, 6 (3), 126–135. DOI: 10.17645/pag.v6i3.1111 Pdf.

Gesing, F. (2017). Weicher Küstenschutz in Neuseeland – mit der Natur arbeiten. In Gottfried Hempel, Irmtraut Hemel, & Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Hrsg.), Klüger nutzen – besser schützen – Bremer Forschung an tropischen Küsten. (pp. 107–109). Bremen: Edition Falkenberg.

Gesing, F. (2017). The New Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy and the Politics of Municipal Climate Data, Bremen ZenTra Working Paper in Transnational Studies Nr. 71. Bremen: Center for Transnational Studies (ZenTra). Online https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2984761

Gesing, F. (2017). Ethnography and the Politics of Abstraction(s). Science as Culture, 26(1), 117-123. doi: 10.1080/09505431.2016.1238888

Gesing, F. (2017). Whose Beach, Which Nature? Erosion Control and the Coproduction of Coastal Naturecultures in Aotearoa New Zealand, in E. Dürr & A. Pascht (Hg.), Environmental Transformations and Cultural Responses: Ontologies, Discourses, and Practices in Oceania (p. 125–156). Palgrave Macmillan New York.

Gesing, F. (2016). Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand. An Ethnography of Coastal Protection, Bielefeld: transcript. Open access-Version online http://elib.suub.uni-bremen.de/edocs/00105627-1.pdf

Wilmsen, F., & Gesing, F. (2016). The Global Protocol for Community-Scale Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories (GPC) – A New Passage Point on an Old Road?, Bremen ZenTra Working Paper in Transnational Studies Nr. 68. Bremen: Center for Transnational Studies (ZenTra). Online https://ssrn.com/abstract=2874704

Gesing, F., Herbeck, J., & Klepp, S. (2014). Denaturalizing Climate Change: Migration, Mobilities and Space. artec paper 200.

Gesing, B.F. (2006). Fat Politics: Ko?rpernormierung und Geschlechterkonstruktion im modernen Schlankheitsdiskurs.  Bulletin Texte 18 (32): GenderErtr?ge, 206-222.
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Gesing, B.F. (2005). Politik machen und Bro?tchen kaufen. Frauenzeitschriften und die Konstruktion normativer Weiblichkeit im Bundestagswahlkampf 2005, in S. Scholz (Hg.), ?Kann die das?“Geschlechterbilder und Geschlechterpolitiken im Bundestagswahlkampf 2005 (S.97-102). Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Texte 33.
MIT LINK ZU: https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Publ-Texte/Texte_33.pdf

Gesing, B.F. (2005). Glauben in Zeiten der Krise. Die Glaubensbiografie als Entwicklungserza?hlung, in S. Beck (Hg.), Alt sein, entwerfen, erfahren. Ethnografische Erkundungen in Lebenswelten alter Menschen (S. 55-73), Berlin: Panama-Verlag.

since 11/2017
PI, independent post doc project “Nitrogen management in the making – Material practices and policies in Germany”

06/2017–02/2018
Acting managing director of artec Sustainability Research Center

09/2015–10/2017
Senior researcher at ZenTra – Center for Transnational Studies, Working Group ZenTraClim: Climate Change and Transnational Policy

07/2015
PhD, University of Bremen (Social Sciences), summa cum laude. Dissertation: Working with Nature in Aotearoa New Zealand: An Ethnography of Coastal Protection, published with transcript (Bielefeld: 2016). Awarded Bremer Studienpreis 2016.

04/2014–08/2015
Senior researcher at the Department for Anthropology and Cultural Research, University of Bremen, convenor of the Bremen NatureCultures Lab (BNCL)

6/2013–12/2013
Researcher at artec, Working group “Global Change and Governance”

09/2012–06/2013
Visiting Research Fellow at the Science, Technology and Society Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (Working Group Prof. Sheila Jasanoff)

11/2009–10/2012
Doctoral cadidate with the internationale interdisciplinary Research Training Group INTERCOAST (Integrated Coastal Zone and Shelf-Sea Research), University of Bremen/MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences and University of Waikato (NZ), funded by the German Research Council (DFG)

10/2001–02/2009
M.A. European Ethnology (Cultural Anthropology) and Gender Studies at Humboldt University Berlin and University of Sussex (GB). Magister Thesis: “Das Pers?nliche ist politisch” revisited – Zum Mediendiskurs um einen Neuen Feminismus in Deutschland [“The private is political” revisited – on the media discourse about new feminism in Germany] (with distinction)

Student Assistant at (selection): genanet, Focal Point Gender – Environment – Sustainability, Humboldt University’s Chair for Public Law and Gender Studies (Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer, LL.M), 5th European Conference on Gender Equality in Higher Education. Internships at the office for gender and women, Green Party NRW (Düsseldorf) and at the archives of Ravensbrueck Memorial Museum.

Memberships

• VGDH | Verband der Geographen an Deutschen Hochschulen
• dgv Commissson “Europeanization_Globalization: Ethnographies of the Political”
• European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
• American Association of Geographers (AAG)
• European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)