Jenss, Dr. Alke
2010-2014 | PhD in Sociology, Philipps University Marburg (summa cum laude). Empirical research in Colombia and Mexico on the grey zones of state violence. Scholarship holder.
ADLAF Dissertation award 2016 (German Association for Research on Latin America) |
2002-2008 | MA Political Science, Peace & Conflict Studies, Spanish Language
Philipps University Marburg |
2005 | Political Theory and International and Latin American Relations
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina |
2016-2017 | PostDoc Researcher and Lecturer in the Cluster Transnationalization, Development and Migration at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University |
2014-2016 | Lecturer in Human Rights in the spanish language MA programme "Intercultural Conflict Management", Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Berlin |
2014-2015 | Researcher, civil society research project on Investment & Emerging Markets, Werkstatt Ökonomie |
2009-2014 | Lecturer at Marburg, Kassel and Göttingen Universities |
2009-2014 | Journalist/Editor at LateinamerikaNachrichten |
Projects
Authoritarian Urbanism Working Group, with Dr. Hugo Fanton, Dr. Aysegül Can, Dr. Khanyile Mlotshwa, 2020-2021.
Authoritarian Democracies Conference, March 17-19th March, 2021.
Making Infrastructures Global? Design and Governance of Infrastructural Expansion in the Global South (EUCOR Project in Cooperation with Prof. Dr. Kenny Cupers, Urban Studies Department, University of Basel, and Dr. Benjamin Schütze, ABI)
Networks
Critical Political Economy Research Network (CPERN) at the European Sociological Association (ESA)
Political Economy Beyond Boundaries at the European International Studies Association (EISA)
Critical Peace Studies Working Group at the German Association of Peace & Conflict Studies (AFK)
Working Group on the Transformation of the State at the Latin American Social Sciences Council CLACSO: Estados latinoamericanos: ruptura y restauración
awards
ADLAF Dissertation award 2016 (German Association for Research on Latin America)
Important Publications (selection)
Articles (peer reviewed):
(2021). Gobernanza de la Expansión: Infraestructuras transnacionales de energía en América Latina. In: Perfiles Latinoamericanos. Forthcoming.
with Evelina Gambino (2021). The promise of seamless connectivity. Interventions on the Democracy of Infrastructures. Political Geography, OnlineFirst.
with Benjamin Schütze (2021). Rethinking Authoritarian Power: The Logistics Space and Authoritarian Practices in and between Secondary Port Cities of the Global South. In: International Studies Quarterly 65(1), 82-94 OPEN ACCESS.
Jenss, Alke (2020). Global Flows and Everyday Violence in Urban Space: The Port-City of Buenaventura, Colombia. In: Political Geography, 102113. OPEN ACCESS.
Jenss, Alke (2020). Disrupting the Rhythms of Violence. In: Global Policy, 12 (52), 67-77. OPEN ACCESS.
Jenss, Alke (2019): Authoritarian neoliberal rescaling in Latin America: Urban in/security and austerity in Oaxaca. In: Globalizations, 16(3), 304–319.
Jenss, Alke (2018): Criminal Heterarchy and Its Critics: Governance and the making of insecurity in Colombia. In: Global Crime, 19 (3-4), 250-270.
Jenss, Alke (2018): Von Dimensionen der Ungleichheit, Konflikten auf Dauer und dem Wissen vom Kontext. Staat und Gewalt in Dekolonialer Perspektive. In: ZefKo Zeitschrift für Konfliktforschung (2/2018). 125-153.
Jenss, Alke (2015): "From Coexistence and Complementarity to Confrontation? Colombian paramilitaries and their successors and their relation to the state." Security and Peace (S+F) Special Issue „Militias and the Production of (In-)Security“, Nomos, pp. 34-39.
Jenss, Alke (2012): "Vertreibung als Strategie. Landkonflikte in Kolumbien." Peripherie.126/127, pp. 249-274.
Books
with Lehmann, Rosa/ Boos, Tobias (2021). Sozialstrukturen in Lateinamerika. Dynamiken und Akteure im 21. Jahrhundert. Springer VS. Forthcoming.
with Eser, Patrick/ Tittor, Anne/Schulten, Johannes (2018): Globale Ungleichgewichte und soziale Transformationen. Wien: Mandelbaum.
Jenss, Alke (2016): "Grauzonen staatlicher Gewalt. Staatlich produzierte Unsicherheit in Kolumbien und Mexiko." Bielefeld: Transcript. OPEN ACCESS
Jenss, Alke/ Pimmer, Stefan (2015) (ed.): "Der Staat in Lateinamerika: Kolonialität, Gewalt, Transformation." Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.