D Müller-Mahn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 230200 |
|---|---|
| NOME | D Müller-Mahn |
| PRENOMES | D |
| SOBRENOME | Müller-Mahn |
| ASSINATURA | MÜLLER-MAHN D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bonn |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5266-195X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 155 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Restoration policies and the ‘travelling model’ of the Great Green Wall in Ethiopia's Tigray region
The Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative was launched in 2007 as a Pan-African initiative to plant a belt of trees stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The project aims to restore 100 million hectares of land and create 10 million jobs by 2030. However, implementation is far behind schedule due to political instability, delayed funding, fragmented governance, and other challenges. This paper examines the politics of GGW implementation i…
Expanding political forests
The Ethiopian government has made significant efforts to promote reforestation and landscape restoration for many years. However, rural communities have been reluctant to participate in these state-led initiatives. Instead, farmers prefer to plant trees on their own land, primarily using exotic species. This apparent paradox raises questions about the motivations and consequences of on-farm tree planting. Our study examines tree-planting practice…
Behind the Curtain of Agbogbloshie's Demolition
In many cities across the global South, urban redevelopment initiatives have long been synonymous with large‐scale demolitions that obscure the true objectives of city authorities under the guise of sanitizing the city. These interventions, steeped in revanchist ideologies, disproportionately target informal economies and yield evictions that devastate livelihoods. Despite these stark realities, academic discourse highlighting these phenomena rem…
Ghost airports
Ghost projects and the ambiguity of infrastructure development
Reviving a ghost project
Cartel Economies and Urban Governance
Land governance in Nairobi is shaped by hybrid systems that blur the boundaries between formality and informality, especially in informal settlements which houses over 60 per cent of the city's population. Land cartels have emerged as powerful intermediaries, controlling access to land and services through “informal” channels. This article examines how cartels operate, sustain authority, and influence urban development in Korogocho, one of Nairob…
The hard work of future-making
This article proposes that future-making is hard work. Drawing on examples of work on and around infrastructure projects in East Africa, we show how people orient themselves towards the future through both imagination and material practices. We argue that work navigates between apparent opposites, and identify three antagonisms that are particularly relevant to our argument. First, we discuss how labour mediates between material reality and antic…
Geographies of the future
Decoding the Logics behind the Demolition and Redevelopment of Agbogbloshie Scrapyard, Accra, Ghana
Grounded in the theoretical lens of urban revanchism (Smith, 1996), this inquiry sheds light on the continuous marginalization of informal e-waste workers by revanchist forces in emerging economies like Ghana. Urban revanchism refers to the forceful reclamation of urban spaces from specific marginalized groups. Delving into the logics and initiatives underpinning the forced expulsion of informal e-waste workers in Accra—where the informal sector …
Complexities of multispecies coexistence
The transmission of diseases between wildlife and livestock poses a major challenge to both conservation and livestock sectors in Southern Africa. Focusing on the cases of foot and mouth disease and trypanosomiasis in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, this article explores the complexity of coexistence between humans, livestock, wildlife, vectors and pathogens. Multispecies coexistence, we suggest, is best understood not only t…
Megaprojects-mega failures? The politics of aspiration and the transformation of rural Kenya
Megaprojects are returning to play a key role in the transformation of rural Africa, despite controversies over their outcome. While some view them as promising tools for a 'big push' of modernization, others criticize their multiple adverse effects and risk of failure. Against this backdrop, the paper revisits earlier concepts that have explained megaproject failures by referring to problems of managerial complexity and the logics of state-led d…
Rethinking African Futures after Covid-19
This article focuses on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa, describes its effects for ongoing research, and asks how it may impact African studies. In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, the pandemic is changing the way people think about the future. The crisis gives rise to a feeling of uncertainty, while casting doubt on future orientations based on forecasts and planning. This scepticism does not concern the African continent alone, but it is her…
Climate change, the politics of anticipation and future riskscapes in Africa
The authors review two conceptual frameworks of risk management and apply them to the context of climate change in Africa, based on case studies in Côte d′Ivoire and Ethiopia. Politics of anticipation refers to a type of policy-making that uses scientific forecasts to manage future risks. Riskscapes, by contrast, are temporalspatial phenomena, which highlight perception, discourse and practice in relation to multiple risks and uncertainties. In v…
Envisioning African Futures
This critical review paper scrutinizes development corridors as ‘dreamscapes of modernity’ and showcases of ‘future-making’. I argue that corridors have become dominant blue-prints for spatial development because of a specific way in which they express, perform and implement ‘desirable futures’. I refer to three strands of conceptual debates. The first discusses how futures are ‘made’ and can be empirically approached through practices of future-…
Riskscapes revisited - Exploring the relationship between risk, space and practice
Multi‐Scalar Practices of the Korean State in Global Climate Politics
The paper examines the significance of state territoriality and the related multi‐scalar practices of the state in the light of the symptoms of post‐politics exemplified in global environmental governance. The focus rests on the South Korean government's Green Growth (GG) strategy and the efforts to export this strategy as a role model to emerging economies worldwide through the establishment of the Global Green Growth Institute. We begin with th…
No Place for the Political
Building upon post‐foundational political philosophies, this article scrutinizes the Paris Climate Conference in December 2015 from a micro‐geographical perspective. The analysis suggests that three different spaces exist at the site of the summit and reveals how their constituting practices and material arrangements rendered “Paris” post‐democratic. We begin with exposing the staged statements of the world's political elites in the meticulously …
Translating the 'adaptation to climate change' paradigm
In the past few years, adaptation to climate change has emerged as a dominant new theme in development politics, to an extent that it can almost be considered as a new development paradigm. Yet, this new paradigm and its effects are not unproblematic, as the empirical research in three East African countries presented in this article indicates. The article argues that the current transformation of environmental governance reflects not only climat…
“We Are Part of Zanzibar” – Translocal Practices and Imaginative Geographies in Contemporary Oman-Zanzibar Relations
Pathways and Dead Ends of Pastoral Development among the Afar and Karrayu in Ethiopia
Habitus und Feld
Der Beitrag plädiert für eine Neuorientierung der geographischen Entwicklungsforschung im Sinne einer geographischen Sozialforschung in Entwicklungsländern. Ausgangsbasis dafür ist eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der aktuellen entwicklungstheoretischen Diskussion und der Übertragung akteurszentrierter Ansätze in die Entwicklungsforschung. Die Kritik an diesen Ansätzen konzentriert sich auf deren unzureichend fundiertes Gesellschaftsverständ…
Translating the 'adaptation to climate change' paradigm
In the past few years, adaptation to climate change has emerged as a dominant new theme in development politics, to an extent that it can almost be considered as a new development paradigm. Yet, this new paradigm and its effects are not unproblematic, as the empirical research in three East African countries presented in this article indicates. The article argues that the current transformation of environmental governance reflects not only climat…
Envisioning African Futures
This critical review paper scrutinizes development corridors as ‘dreamscapes of modernity’ and showcases of ‘future-making’. I argue that corridors have become dominant blue-prints for spatial development because of a specific way in which they express, perform and implement ‘desirable futures’. I refer to three strands of conceptual debates. The first discusses how futures are ‘made’ and can be empirically approached through practices of future-…
Megaprojects-mega failures? The politics of aspiration and the transformation of rural Kenya
Megaprojects are returning to play a key role in the transformation of rural Africa, despite controversies over their outcome. While some view them as promising tools for a 'big push' of modernization, others criticize their multiple adverse effects and risk of failure. Against this backdrop, the paper revisits earlier concepts that have explained megaproject failures by referring to problems of managerial complexity and the logics of state-led d…
No Place for the Political
Building upon post‐foundational political philosophies, this article scrutinizes the Paris Climate Conference in December 2015 from a micro‐geographical perspective. The analysis suggests that three different spaces exist at the site of the summit and reveals how their constituting practices and material arrangements rendered “Paris” post‐democratic. We begin with exposing the staged statements of the world's political elites in the meticulously …
Pathways and Dead Ends of Pastoral Development among the Afar and Karrayu in Ethiopia
Rethinking African Futures after Covid-19
This article focuses on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa, describes its effects for ongoing research, and asks how it may impact African studies. In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, the pandemic is changing the way people think about the future. The crisis gives rise to a feeling of uncertainty, while casting doubt on future orientations based on forecasts and planning. This scepticism does not concern the African continent alone, but it is her…
The hard work of future-making
This article proposes that future-making is hard work. Drawing on examples of work on and around infrastructure projects in East Africa, we show how people orient themselves towards the future through both imagination and material practices. We argue that work navigates between apparent opposites, and identify three antagonisms that are particularly relevant to our argument. First, we discuss how labour mediates between material reality and antic…
Climate change, the politics of anticipation and future riskscapes in Africa
The authors review two conceptual frameworks of risk management and apply them to the context of climate change in Africa, based on case studies in Côte d′Ivoire and Ethiopia. Politics of anticipation refers to a type of policy-making that uses scientific forecasts to manage future risks. Riskscapes, by contrast, are temporalspatial phenomena, which highlight perception, discourse and practice in relation to multiple risks and uncertainties. In v…
Multi‐Scalar Practices of the Korean State in Global Climate Politics
The paper examines the significance of state territoriality and the related multi‐scalar practices of the state in the light of the symptoms of post‐politics exemplified in global environmental governance. The focus rests on the South Korean government's Green Growth (GG) strategy and the efforts to export this strategy as a role model to emerging economies worldwide through the establishment of the Global Green Growth Institute. We begin with th…
Ghost airports
Reviving a ghost project
Complexities of multispecies coexistence
The transmission of diseases between wildlife and livestock poses a major challenge to both conservation and livestock sectors in Southern Africa. Focusing on the cases of foot and mouth disease and trypanosomiasis in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, this article explores the complexity of coexistence between humans, livestock, wildlife, vectors and pathogens. Multispecies coexistence, we suggest, is best understood not only t…
Habitus und Feld
Der Beitrag plädiert für eine Neuorientierung der geographischen Entwicklungsforschung im Sinne einer geographischen Sozialforschung in Entwicklungsländern. Ausgangsbasis dafür ist eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der aktuellen entwicklungstheoretischen Diskussion und der Übertragung akteurszentrierter Ansätze in die Entwicklungsforschung. Die Kritik an diesen Ansätzen konzentriert sich auf deren unzureichend fundiertes Gesellschaftsverständ…
Pathways and Dead Ends of Pastoral Development among the Afar and Karrayu in Ethiopia
“We Are Part of Zanzibar” – Translocal Practices and Imaginative Geographies in Contemporary Oman-Zanzibar Relations
Translating the 'adaptation to climate change' paradigm
In the past few years, adaptation to climate change has emerged as a dominant new theme in development politics, to an extent that it can almost be considered as a new development paradigm. Yet, this new paradigm and its effects are not unproblematic, as the empirical research in three East African countries presented in this article indicates. The article argues that the current transformation of environmental governance reflects not only climat…
No Place for the Political
Building upon post‐foundational political philosophies, this article scrutinizes the Paris Climate Conference in December 2015 from a micro‐geographical perspective. The analysis suggests that three different spaces exist at the site of the summit and reveals how their constituting practices and material arrangements rendered “Paris” post‐democratic. We begin with exposing the staged statements of the world's political elites in the meticulously …
Multi‐Scalar Practices of the Korean State in Global Climate Politics
The paper examines the significance of state territoriality and the related multi‐scalar practices of the state in the light of the symptoms of post‐politics exemplified in global environmental governance. The focus rests on the South Korean government's Green Growth (GG) strategy and the efforts to export this strategy as a role model to emerging economies worldwide through the establishment of the Global Green Growth Institute. We begin with th…
Riskscapes revisited - Exploring the relationship between risk, space and practice
Envisioning African Futures
This critical review paper scrutinizes development corridors as ‘dreamscapes of modernity’ and showcases of ‘future-making’. I argue that corridors have become dominant blue-prints for spatial development because of a specific way in which they express, perform and implement ‘desirable futures’. I refer to three strands of conceptual debates. The first discusses how futures are ‘made’ and can be empirically approached through practices of future-…
Climate change, the politics of anticipation and future riskscapes in Africa
The authors review two conceptual frameworks of risk management and apply them to the context of climate change in Africa, based on case studies in Côte d′Ivoire and Ethiopia. Politics of anticipation refers to a type of policy-making that uses scientific forecasts to manage future risks. Riskscapes, by contrast, are temporalspatial phenomena, which highlight perception, discourse and practice in relation to multiple risks and uncertainties. In v…
Megaprojects-mega failures? The politics of aspiration and the transformation of rural Kenya
Megaprojects are returning to play a key role in the transformation of rural Africa, despite controversies over their outcome. While some view them as promising tools for a 'big push' of modernization, others criticize their multiple adverse effects and risk of failure. Against this backdrop, the paper revisits earlier concepts that have explained megaproject failures by referring to problems of managerial complexity and the logics of state-led d…
Rethinking African Futures after Covid-19
This article focuses on the impact of COVID-19 in Africa, describes its effects for ongoing research, and asks how it may impact African studies. In Africa, as elsewhere in the world, the pandemic is changing the way people think about the future. The crisis gives rise to a feeling of uncertainty, while casting doubt on future orientations based on forecasts and planning. This scepticism does not concern the African continent alone, but it is her…
Decoding the Logics behind the Demolition and Redevelopment of Agbogbloshie Scrapyard, Accra, Ghana
Grounded in the theoretical lens of urban revanchism (Smith, 1996), this inquiry sheds light on the continuous marginalization of informal e-waste workers by revanchist forces in emerging economies like Ghana. Urban revanchism refers to the forceful reclamation of urban spaces from specific marginalized groups. Delving into the logics and initiatives underpinning the forced expulsion of informal e-waste workers in Accra—where the informal sector …
Complexities of multispecies coexistence
The transmission of diseases between wildlife and livestock poses a major challenge to both conservation and livestock sectors in Southern Africa. Focusing on the cases of foot and mouth disease and trypanosomiasis in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, this article explores the complexity of coexistence between humans, livestock, wildlife, vectors and pathogens. Multispecies coexistence, we suggest, is best understood not only t…
The hard work of future-making
This article proposes that future-making is hard work. Drawing on examples of work on and around infrastructure projects in East Africa, we show how people orient themselves towards the future through both imagination and material practices. We argue that work navigates between apparent opposites, and identify three antagonisms that are particularly relevant to our argument. First, we discuss how labour mediates between material reality and antic…
Geographies of the future
Restoration policies and the ‘travelling model’ of the Great Green Wall in Ethiopia's Tigray region
The Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative was launched in 2007 as a Pan-African initiative to plant a belt of trees stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The project aims to restore 100 million hectares of land and create 10 million jobs by 2030. However, implementation is far behind schedule due to political instability, delayed funding, fragmented governance, and other challenges. This paper examines the politics of GGW implementation i…
Expanding political forests
The Ethiopian government has made significant efforts to promote reforestation and landscape restoration for many years. However, rural communities have been reluctant to participate in these state-led initiatives. Instead, farmers prefer to plant trees on their own land, primarily using exotic species. This apparent paradox raises questions about the motivations and consequences of on-farm tree planting. Our study examines tree-planting practice…
Behind the Curtain of Agbogbloshie's Demolition
In many cities across the global South, urban redevelopment initiatives have long been synonymous with large‐scale demolitions that obscure the true objectives of city authorities under the guise of sanitizing the city. These interventions, steeped in revanchist ideologies, disproportionately target informal economies and yield evictions that devastate livelihoods. Despite these stark realities, academic discourse highlighting these phenomena rem…
Ghost airports
Ghost projects and the ambiguity of infrastructure development
Reviving a ghost project
Cartel Economies and Urban Governance
Land governance in Nairobi is shaped by hybrid systems that blur the boundaries between formality and informality, especially in informal settlements which houses over 60 per cent of the city's population. Land cartels have emerged as powerful intermediaries, controlling access to land and services through “informal” channels. This article examines how cartels operate, sustain authority, and influence urban development in Korogocho, one of Nairob…
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