The phase of writing applications had been long and tiresome, but by now I managed to find an exciting and promising new position. Here, I would like to share a bit about that work with you.
Category Archives: Germany
Merry Christmas ! (…and some 2025 Aspirations)
The end of the year is approaching rapidly, and as usual the last pre-Christmas week is being used to tie up all those loose ends, that had been left untended during the last quarter of the year. Let me use this moment to wish you all a wonderful holiday season, with lots of cookies, regeneration,Continue reading “Merry Christmas ! (…and some 2025 Aspirations)”
AfD-protests in Germany
Today many brave people are demonstrating in Germany against the fascist AfD (Alternative for Germany). It would be great if the party could be forbidden on the basis of extreme rightwing propaganda, which denounces the right to live for everyone. Greetings especially go out to the protesters in Dortmund, Gießen and Göttingen. I hope theContinue reading “AfD-protests in Germany”
Lützerath: Digging Coal For Profits
As my last credited course during my PhD-education, I participated in the Occupy Climate Change Online School during this spring term. The online school, being organised by a team of renowned international scholars headed by Marco Armiero and administered by Anja Moum Rieser, brought together many different lectures about political ecology, environmental justice, and politicalContinue reading “Lützerath: Digging Coal For Profits”
Today Germany quits nuclear power…
…and ends an era which once was characterised by the promise of abundant cheap energy that was shattered during the disaster at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 and buried after Fukushima-Daiichi in 2011. Nuclear energy in this Central European country has always been a contested issue, and the scale of it made it inevitableContinue reading “Today Germany quits nuclear power…”