Wintersemester 2025/26

• S - Thematische Vertiefung: Political ecology of land ownership and land value(s)

• HS- Methods in Geographies of Global Inequalities

Sommersemester 2025

• S - Thematische Vertiefung: Critical perspectives on right-wing movements in agricultural spaces
• S - Geographien der Differenzen

Eleanor Schaumann completed her PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth. Her dissertation “Priceless but Worthless: Values and Valuation Practices in Namibian Karakul Sheep Farming” deals with the interrelation of agricultural crisis and colonial history. Her wider research interests include agriculture, settler colonialism, and human-environment relations.

• Schaumann, Eleanor. 2024. ‘Saving Sheep – On Extinction Narratives in Namibian Swakara Farming’. Cambridge Prisms: Extinction, March 7, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/ext.2024.2.
• Schaumann, Eleanor. 2024. ‘Lamb Description – a Circulation of Knowledge Practices’. In Knowing/Unknowing: African Studies at the Crossroads, edited by Katharina Schramm and Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004701441_014.