The Department of Geography at the University of Bonn and Futurium are partnering on the Z05 project “Negotiating African Futures: an exhibition project” of

We are pleased that our research project has received funding for a third project phase (2026-2029).

Grassroots activism gums up the wheels of hydro-development

We are pleased that our research project has received funding for a third project phase (2026-2029).

Abstract. In this intervention, we raise concerns about the latent authoritarian potential of academic bureaucracies to restrict or even prohibit spaces for critical exchange on highly politicized iss...

Letter signed by agencies including Doctors Without Borders condemn Israeli military attacks on Palestinians

To learn more about our rational and purposes, then please look at this page , or download this document. If would like to participate then the first step is to propose a panel, or some other contribu...

The article examines the contested hydrosocial territory of the Masinga Dam reservoir in Kenya, focusing on how historical injustices, infrastructural temporalities, and spatial reconfigurations shap...

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In this recent publication, researchers Theo Aalders and Detlef Müller-Mahn (Project C03 Green Futures) explore how labor shapes future-making in East African

The project „Medium-Scale Farmers in Rural Africa: Transformations in Belonging, Property, Kinship and Power“ was recently approved for funding by

At COP27, the Kenyan and UK governments signed a climate finance agreement to accelerate the implementation of the High Grand Falls mega-dam on Tana R…

The five-day intensive PhD spring school ‘Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts’ will be held from 7-11 April 2025 in Wageninge...

State-led infrastructure development plays an increasingly important role in social transformation, especially in the Global South, which is also pushing the topic on research agendas in the social sc...

Zum 75-jährigen Bestehen des Grundgesetzes erleben Wissenschaftler:innen in Deutschland einen bisher nicht dagewesenen Angriff auf ihre Grundrechte. Nachdem die Bundesbildungsministerin Bettina Stark-...

MSF International President Dr Christos Christou writes to the United Nations Security Council, asking they use their leverage and help stop the bloodshed being committed in Gaza.

Die GEW sieht ihren Warnstreik als Weckruf für die Arbeitgeber. Unter anderem in Berlin und Leipzig gingen Tausende Beschäftigte aus Schulen und Kitas auf die Straße.