Axel Prestes Dürrnagel
Postdoc
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Further Information
Projects
- PRODIGY: “Process-based & Resilience-Oriented management of DIversity Generates sustainabilitY“. Funded by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Period: 2024 – 2025. Role: Researcher in the work package on Governance and Society (WP3, Regional Diversity in Conversion)
- DFG Research Unit 2757 LoSAM: “Local Self Governance in the context of Weak Statehood in Antiquity and the Modern Era”. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Period: 2019 - 2023. Role: Researcher in the Subproject of Social and Population Geography: Urban Shadow Spaces in the Postcolonial State: Self-organisation of Land and Water Resources in the Periphery of Maputo (Mozambique)
Research Focus
- Urban and Social Geography
- Human-environment interactions
- Land and resource governance and conflicts
- Socio-spatial displacement processes
- State-society interactions
- Community-based governance of protected areas
Geographic Focus
- South America (especially MAP region and Brazil)
- Southern Africa (especially Mozambique)
- South Germany
- Portugal
Theories
- Space, place, and life-world phenomenology
- Governance and actor perspectives
- Political ecology
- Critical realism
Methods
- Qualitative and interpretive social science research
- Ethnographic approaches and qualitative research methods such as interviews, participant observation, and visual methods
- Participatory workshops and future methods
02/2024 - today | Postdoctoral Researcher in the Research Group Human Geography, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau |
04/2019 – 02/2024 | Research Associate and PhD Candidate at the Chair of Social and Population Geography, University of Bayreuth |
05/2021 – 10/2021 | Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), Maputo, Mozambique |
09/2017 – 05/2019 | Tour Guide for study trips to Australia and Portugal, Sudiosus Reisen GmbH, München |
04/2017 – 08/2017 | Project Assistant for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction, adelphi research GmbH, Berlin |
10/2013 – 03/2016 | Master of Arts in Latin American Studies, University of Hamburg |
03/2015 – 03/2016 | Academic exchange at the Urban and Regional Research and Planning Institute (IPPUR), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil |
10/2008 – 09/2013 | Bachelor of Science in Human Geography, University of Würzburg |
08/2010 – 06/2011 | Academic exchange at the Department of Geography, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico |
Journal articles
2022
Prestes Dürrnagel, A.; Sueia Junior, M.; Prestes Dürrnagel, S. (2022): Agricultura urbana, relações e desenvolvimento: um olhar sobre Maputo, Moçambique. In Boletim GeoÁfrica, 1 (2), pp. 96-119.
2021
Prestes Dürrnagel, A.; Rothfuß, E.; Thomschke, S. (2021) Die Stadt als Ko-Kreation? Selbstorganisation von Land- und Wasserressourcen in der städtischen Peripherie von Maputo. In: Geographische Rundschau. vol. 73. pp. 16-21.
Book chapters
2023
Prestes Dürrnagel, A; Tiegna, J. (2023): Local Self-Organisation under Socio-Spatial Pressure: Insights from Rural Karangasso- Vigué (Burkina Faso) and Peri-Urban Maputo (Mozambique). In: D. Krüger, C. Mohamad-Klotzbach & R. Pfeilschifter (Hrsg.): Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, S. 439-464.
2022
Prestes Dürrnagel, A.; Sueia Junior, M.; Prestes Dürrnagel, S. (2022): Desenvolvimento através de relações? O caso da Agricultura Urbana em Maputo. In: A. Gomes de Jesus Neto, F. Monié, H. Gelo Machute, J. J. Júnior Guambe, L. Alves Lessa, M. Abdul Remane & N. C. Pacheco Junior (eds..): Anais. Iº Seminário Internacional GeoÁfrica. Áfricas em Movimentos. Economias, Sociedades e Espaços na África Subsaariana. Rio de Janeiro / Maputo, pp. 496–520.
Other publications
2023
Prestes Dürrnagel, A. (2023): Urbane Landnutzungskonflikte am Beispiel der schnell wachsenden afrikanischen Großstadt Maputo (Mosambik). In: M. Doevenspeck & G. Schruefer (Hrsg.): Bayreuther Kontaktstudium Geographie, Band 12, S. 155-165.
University of Bayreuth | Seminar: Gesellschaft-Umwelt-Beziehungen (Seminar: Society-Environment Relationships), Bachelor (winter semester 2023/2024) |
| Seminar: Methodologie der Gesellschaft-Umwelt-Forschung (Seminar: Methodology of Society-Environment Research), Bachelor (winter semester 2023/2024) |
| Geländeübung Regensburg (1-Day Field Trip to Regensburg), with E. Rothfuß, Bachelor/Master (summer semester 2023) |
| Große Geländeübung Portugal (12-Day Field Trip to Portugal), with E. Rothfuß, Bachelor/Master (summer semester 2023) |
| Vorbereitungsseminar Große Geländeübung Portugal (Preparatory Seminar for Field Trip to Portugal), with E. Rothfuß, Bachelor/Master (summer semester 2023) |
| Geländeübung Human- und Physische Geographie (4-Day Fieldwork Tutorial in Human and Physical Geography), with S. Thomschke, Bachelor (summer semester 2019) |
11/2024 | “Sustainable land use futures through knowledge co-creation? Insights from the Southwestern Amazon”. 5th Open Science Meeting of the Global Land Programme, Oaxaca, Mexico |
09/2024 | “Desafios e oportunidades em unidades de conservação: um olhar comparativo entre Europa Central e Amazônia Ocidental” ("Challenges and opportunities in protected areas: a comparative perspective on Central Europe and Western Amazonia"). Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC), Rio Branco, Brazil |
07/2024 | “Peri-urban life-worlds contested: Everyday experiences, governance, and conflicts at the rural-urban interface of Maputo, Mozambique” Disputation presentation. University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth. |
02/2024 | „Raumerfahrungen und Ortsverluste peri-urbaner Lebenswelten: Empirische Befunde aus Maputo, Mosambik“ (“ Experiences of space and loss of place in peri-urban life-worlds: Empirical findings from Maputo, Mozambique”). AK Raumphänomenologie, Würzburg) |
10/2022 | „Urbane Landnutzungskonflikte am Beispiel einer schnell wachsenden afrikanischen Großstadt – Maputo/Mosambik“ (“Urban land use conflicts based on the example of a rapidly growing African city - Maputo/Mozambique”). 12. Bayreuther Kontaktstudium Geographie, Bayreuth |
05/2022 | „Urbanisierungsdynamiken und sozial-räumliche Konflikte in Maputo, Mosambik“ (“Urbanisation dynamics and socio-spatial conflicts in Maputo, Mozambique”). KoordinierungsKreis Mosambik e.V. Online |
09/2021 | „Desenvolvimento através de relações? O caso da Agricultura Urbana em Maputo” (“‘Development through relationships? The case of Urban Agriculture in Maputo”). With M. Siueia Júnior & Simone Prestes Dürrnagel. Iº Seminário Internacional GeoÁfrica. Áfricas em Movimentos. Economias, Sociedades e Espaços na África Subsaariana. Online |
09/2021 | „Peri-urban agriculture in Maputo: Can collective action withstand socio-spatial pressures?" 2nd Cologne Conference on Food for Future 2021. Poster presentation. Online. |
07/2021 | „Traditional self-organisation under socio spatial pressure: Insights from rural Karangasso Vigué and peri urban Maputo“. With Janneke Tiegna. International Conference of the DFG Research Unit 2757 LoSAM, Local Self-Governance and Weak Statehood: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, University of Würzburg. Online |
06/2021 | „Periurbane Landgovernance in Maputo, Mosambik“ (“‘Peri-urban land governance in Maputo, Mozambique”). Jahrestagung des DGfG-Arbeitskreises Subsaharisches Afrika (AKSA). Online |
04/2021 | „O Direito à Cidade e a Salvaguarda da Agricultura Urbana“ (“‘The Right to the City and the Preservation of Urban Agriculture”) I Jornadas Científicas sobre o "Direito à Cidade e os desafios na implementação da Nova Agenda Urbana em Moçambique". Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo & UN-Habitat Mozambique. Online |
02/2021 | “Embracing transformations through collective self-organisation? Lessons from peri-urban Maputo“ Annual Congress of the Swiss Political Science Association 2021. University Bern. Online |