Postcolonial Hierarchies

Susanne Buckley-Zistel

is a Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Conflict Studies at the Philipps University Marburg. Prior that this she held positions at the Frei University Berlin, the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and King’s College London.

Thorsten Bonacker

is a Professor for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Center for Conflict Studies and the Faculty of Social Science and Philosophy. He holds a PhD from the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and was a guest lecturer at Universities in Innsbruck and Almaty.

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 […]

Yaas Bahmani

bahmani@students.uni-marburg.de Yaas Bahmani is a student assistant at the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies. She is currently in the process of finishing her master’s degree in clinical psychology and psychotherapy. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Mannheim. Her interests in Conflict Studies revolve mainly around Iran and Afghanistan.

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 […]