Markus Keck
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751390 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Markus Keck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Markus |
| FAMILY NAME | Keck |
| SIGNATURE | KECK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Augsburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6152-097X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The bureaucratic life of urban climate resilience
With this commentary, we invite urban scholars to join us in exploring the bureaucratic life of urban climate resilience. Under this heading, we call for research into the intricate and often unpredictable processes of urban governance, from the formulation of general mitigation and adaptation goals to the implementation of concrete measures on the ground. While previous research on urban governance has focused primarily on political negotiations…
From the 'wealthy-healthy-chubby' nexus to 'outside foods
Mistranslating refuge crops
In light of recent pink bollworm (PBW) pest infestations in several cotton-producing states in India, farmers of genetically engineered Bt cotton (Bt for Bacillus thuringiensis) have faced fierce criticism for their noncompliance with the national insect resistance management (IRM) strategy. We argue that this criticism is short-sighted and one-dimensional. Building upon the literature on policy assemblages we show that the implementation of the …
From Necrocene to Naíocene—promising pathways toward sustainable agri-food systems
Market power and food loss at the producer-retailer interface of fruit and vegetable supply chains in Germany
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01083-x
Bt cotton, pink bollworm, and the political economy of sociobiological obsolescence
After genetically engineered Bt cotton lost its effectiveness in central and southern Indian states, pink bollworm infestations have recently returned to farmers’ fields and have substantially shifted their vulnerability context. We conceive Bt cotton as a neoliberal technology that is built to protect farmers only temporarily from Lepidopteran pests while ultimately driving the further concentration of capital. Based on data from a representativ…
Sustainability in agri-food systems
Current agri-food systems cause severe environmental, socioeconomic, and health-related problems. The ways how food and other agricultural goods are produced, marketed, consumed, and disposed of are leading drivers of environmental degradation and climate change At the same time, large-scale profit-oriented agri-food corporations exploit economically underprivileged workers and thus help intensifying socioeconomic divides and deprivation in our s…
The Return of Pink Bollworm in India’s Bt Cotton Fields
Since its introduction in India, Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton technology has been the object of controversial scholarly and non-academic debate. The recent return of pink bollworm ( Pectinophora gossypiella) pests in several Indian states has provided cause for concern about widespread resistances in Lepidopteran pests towards the endotoxins produced in Indian Bt cotton plants as well as about severe setbacks in regard to cotton farmers’ l…
The changing meaning of millets
The number of organic shops in Bengaluru has increased remarkably in the last few years, with millets being the main products drawing consumers. Yet, organic shops are only attracting middle-class consumers. We observed and interviewed 104 customers in five organic shops in Bengaluru to find out why this is the case. In this article, we follow practice theory to discuss the reported consumption patterns. We show that consumers, influenced by comm…
Urbanization, land use transformation and spatio-environmental impacts
Governing the yarshagumba ‘gold rush’
Under present conditions of economic globalization, social-ecological systems undergo rapid changes. In this context, internal and external forces put heavy pressure on the governance systems of commons to adapt effectively. While institutional learning has been identified as a key element for the adaptive governance of social-ecological systems, there is still limited knowledge of what roles communities and governmental actors play in these proc…
Production networks and borderlands
Burn or bury? A comparative cost–benefit analysis of crop residue management practices among smallholder rice farmers in northern Vietnam
Navigating Real Markets
In 2007 and 2008, Bangladesh was subject to a food crisis, which intensely hit the country's capital. Dhaka's food supplies were repeatedly disconnected due to floods and cyclones and world market prices for staple foods increased dramatically. In the middle of this situation, the national government launched eviction drives of numerous informal markets in Dhaka. Yet, despite of all these constraints, food traders still managed to guarantee stead…
Risk and resilience in Asian megacities
What is social resilience? Lessons learned and ways forward
Over the last decade, a growing body of literature has emerged which is concerned with the question of what form a promising concept of social resilience might take. In this article we argue that social resilience has the potential to be crafted into a coherent analytic framework that can build on scientific knowledge from the established concept of social vulnerability, and offer a fresh perspective on today’s challenges of global change. Based …
Resilience refused. Wasted potentials for improving food security in Dhaka
In 2007 and2008, Bangladesh was subject to a food crisis -the outcome of multiple causes -which had a severe impact on the urban poor of the country's capital.Dhaka's food supplies were repeatedly disconnected due to floods and cyclones, yet there was always enough food in the megacity thanks to wholesale traders' diverse and flexible supply networks.Despite the interim government's eviction drives aimed at slum dwellers and street vendors, the f…
Doing institutions. A dialectic reading of institutions and social practices and its relevance for development geography
Twelve years after the discussions on development and institutions at the meeting of the Geographischer Arbeitskreis Entwicklungstheorien (GAE 2000) in Zrich, this paper seeks to put institutions back on the research agenda in development geography.The authors explore recent trends in institutional theory and propose a dialectic understanding of "doing institutions" that positions social actors and their everyday practices at the center of instit…
Urbanization, land use transformation and spatio-environmental impacts
Bt cotton, pink bollworm, and the political economy of sociobiological obsolescence
After genetically engineered Bt cotton lost its effectiveness in central and southern Indian states, pink bollworm infestations have recently returned to farmers’ fields and have substantially shifted their vulnerability context. We conceive Bt cotton as a neoliberal technology that is built to protect farmers only temporarily from Lepidopteran pests while ultimately driving the further concentration of capital. Based on data from a representativ…
The Return of Pink Bollworm in India’s Bt Cotton Fields
Since its introduction in India, Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton technology has been the object of controversial scholarly and non-academic debate. The recent return of pink bollworm ( Pectinophora gossypiella) pests in several Indian states has provided cause for concern about widespread resistances in Lepidopteran pests towards the endotoxins produced in Indian Bt cotton plants as well as about severe setbacks in regard to cotton farmers’ l…
Market power and food loss at the producer-retailer interface of fruit and vegetable supply chains in Germany
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01083-x
Production networks and borderlands
Sustainability in agri-food systems
Current agri-food systems cause severe environmental, socioeconomic, and health-related problems. The ways how food and other agricultural goods are produced, marketed, consumed, and disposed of are leading drivers of environmental degradation and climate change At the same time, large-scale profit-oriented agri-food corporations exploit economically underprivileged workers and thus help intensifying socioeconomic divides and deprivation in our s…
The changing meaning of millets
The number of organic shops in Bengaluru has increased remarkably in the last few years, with millets being the main products drawing consumers. Yet, organic shops are only attracting middle-class consumers. We observed and interviewed 104 customers in five organic shops in Bengaluru to find out why this is the case. In this article, we follow practice theory to discuss the reported consumption patterns. We show that consumers, influenced by comm…
Doing institutions. A dialectic reading of institutions and social practices and its relevance for development geography
Twelve years after the discussions on development and institutions at the meeting of the Geographischer Arbeitskreis Entwicklungstheorien (GAE 2000) in Zrich, this paper seeks to put institutions back on the research agenda in development geography.The authors explore recent trends in institutional theory and propose a dialectic understanding of "doing institutions" that positions social actors and their everyday practices at the center of instit…
Risk and resilience in Asian megacities
What is social resilience? Lessons learned and ways forward
Over the last decade, a growing body of literature has emerged which is concerned with the question of what form a promising concept of social resilience might take. In this article we argue that social resilience has the potential to be crafted into a coherent analytic framework that can build on scientific knowledge from the established concept of social vulnerability, and offer a fresh perspective on today’s challenges of global change. Based …
Resilience refused. Wasted potentials for improving food security in Dhaka
In 2007 and2008, Bangladesh was subject to a food crisis -the outcome of multiple causes -which had a severe impact on the urban poor of the country's capital.Dhaka's food supplies were repeatedly disconnected due to floods and cyclones, yet there was always enough food in the megacity thanks to wholesale traders' diverse and flexible supply networks.Despite the interim government's eviction drives aimed at slum dwellers and street vendors, the f…
Navigating Real Markets
In 2007 and 2008, Bangladesh was subject to a food crisis, which intensely hit the country's capital. Dhaka's food supplies were repeatedly disconnected due to floods and cyclones and world market prices for staple foods increased dramatically. In the middle of this situation, the national government launched eviction drives of numerous informal markets in Dhaka. Yet, despite of all these constraints, food traders still managed to guarantee stead…
Burn or bury? A comparative cost–benefit analysis of crop residue management practices among smallholder rice farmers in northern Vietnam
Governing the yarshagumba ‘gold rush’
Under present conditions of economic globalization, social-ecological systems undergo rapid changes. In this context, internal and external forces put heavy pressure on the governance systems of commons to adapt effectively. While institutional learning has been identified as a key element for the adaptive governance of social-ecological systems, there is still limited knowledge of what roles communities and governmental actors play in these proc…
Production networks and borderlands
The changing meaning of millets
The number of organic shops in Bengaluru has increased remarkably in the last few years, with millets being the main products drawing consumers. Yet, organic shops are only attracting middle-class consumers. We observed and interviewed 104 customers in five organic shops in Bengaluru to find out why this is the case. In this article, we follow practice theory to discuss the reported consumption patterns. We show that consumers, influenced by comm…
Urbanization, land use transformation and spatio-environmental impacts
Sustainability in agri-food systems
Current agri-food systems cause severe environmental, socioeconomic, and health-related problems. The ways how food and other agricultural goods are produced, marketed, consumed, and disposed of are leading drivers of environmental degradation and climate change At the same time, large-scale profit-oriented agri-food corporations exploit economically underprivileged workers and thus help intensifying socioeconomic divides and deprivation in our s…
The Return of Pink Bollworm in India’s Bt Cotton Fields
Since its introduction in India, Bt ( Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton technology has been the object of controversial scholarly and non-academic debate. The recent return of pink bollworm ( Pectinophora gossypiella) pests in several Indian states has provided cause for concern about widespread resistances in Lepidopteran pests towards the endotoxins produced in Indian Bt cotton plants as well as about severe setbacks in regard to cotton farmers’ l…
Mistranslating refuge crops
In light of recent pink bollworm (PBW) pest infestations in several cotton-producing states in India, farmers of genetically engineered Bt cotton (Bt for Bacillus thuringiensis) have faced fierce criticism for their noncompliance with the national insect resistance management (IRM) strategy. We argue that this criticism is short-sighted and one-dimensional. Building upon the literature on policy assemblages we show that the implementation of the …
From Necrocene to Naíocene—promising pathways toward sustainable agri-food systems
Market power and food loss at the producer-retailer interface of fruit and vegetable supply chains in Germany
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-021-01083-x
Bt cotton, pink bollworm, and the political economy of sociobiological obsolescence
After genetically engineered Bt cotton lost its effectiveness in central and southern Indian states, pink bollworm infestations have recently returned to farmers’ fields and have substantially shifted their vulnerability context. We conceive Bt cotton as a neoliberal technology that is built to protect farmers only temporarily from Lepidopteran pests while ultimately driving the further concentration of capital. Based on data from a representativ…
The bureaucratic life of urban climate resilience
With this commentary, we invite urban scholars to join us in exploring the bureaucratic life of urban climate resilience. Under this heading, we call for research into the intricate and often unpredictable processes of urban governance, from the formulation of general mitigation and adaptation goals to the implementation of concrete measures on the ground. While previous research on urban governance has focused primarily on political negotiations…
From the 'wealthy-healthy-chubby' nexus to 'outside foods
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