Franzisca Zanker
is a Senior Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg where she heads the research cluster „Patterns of (Forced) Migration“. Her current research interests focus on political processes surrounding refugee and migration governance with her most recent project looking at refugee protection in South Africa and Uganda.
Daniela Sauer
Daniela Sauer is a B.A. student in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Freiburg. Her thesis focuses on sustainability as a performative act of social distinction. She also engages with decolonial approaches to knowledge and science communication. Daniela is a student assistant for the knowledge(s) in dialogue component of the Postcolonial Hierarchies network at the […]
Fabricio Rodríguez
is a Senior Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg. He holds a PhD in Political Science with a focus on International Relations from the University of Freiburg.
Harry Parfitt
Harry Parfitt is a M.A. student of the Global Studies Programme (GSP) in Freiburg. He is conducting ethnographic research with migrant workers in the platform economy for his M.A. thesis. As a student assistant, Harry is helping to develop the Virtual Encyclopaedia in the Postcolonial Hierarchies network at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) Freiburg.
Andreas Mehler
is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg. He has previously served as Director of the GIGA Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg (2002 – 2015).
Alke Jenss
is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Cluster ‚Contested Governance‘ at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg. Her current research focuses on the production of security and insecurity through transnational infrastructure masterplans, leading a project on infrastructural connections between North and Central America, and North Africa and Europe, and multi-scalar governance from a […]
Viviana García Pinzón
is a Senior Researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg and an Associate at the Institute of Latin American Studies at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA). Viviana completed a PhD. in Political Science with a focus on peace and conflict studies at the Philipps University of Marburg (summa cum […]
Kristine Dünkelsbühler
is a student assistant for the research and encyclopaedia components of the Postcolonial Hierarchies network at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Applied Political Science, a French-German double diploma, at the University of Freiburg. She obtained her B.A. in Applied Political Science at the Institut d’Études Politiques […]
Manuela Boatcă
is a Professor of Sociology and Head of School of the Global Studies Programme at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has a degree in English and German languages and literatures and a PhD in sociology.
Miriam Bartelmann
Miriam Bartelmann is a PhD researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute (ABI) Freiburg. Her research focuses on environmental and territorial conflicts that arise on the ground of or reproduce postcolonial hierarchies. Her interests are in decolonial perspectives and transformative practices. She holds a B.A. in Sociology and Islamic studies from the University of Freiburg. During her M.A. […]
