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
Postcolonial Hierarchies in Peace & Conflict, BMBF, 2022-2026.
Promises of Democratic Connection, Thyssen Foundation, 2022-2024.
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):
with Valeria Guarneros (2022): Transformed Security Practices: Informalization in the Production of Hegemony and Place(link is external). In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, online first.
(2021): Gobernanza de la Expansión: Infraestructuras transnacionales de energía en América Latina(link is external). In: Perfiles Latinoamericanos, 29 (58), 1-27.
with Bregje Van Veelen, Evelina Gambino et al. (2021): Interventions on the Democracy of Infrastructures(link is external). In: Political Geography, online first.
(2019): Authoritarian neoliberal rescaling in Latin America: Urban in/security and austerity in Oaxaca. In: Globalizations, 16(3), 304–319.
(2018): Criminal Heterarchy and Its Critics:(link is external) Governance and the making of insecurity in Colombia(link is external). In: Global Crime, 19 (3-4), 250-270.
Books
with Lehmann, Rosa / Boos, Tobias (2021): Sozialstrukturen in Lateinamerika. Dynamiken und Akteure im 21. Jahrhundert.(link is external) Springer VS.
with Eser, Patrick/ Tittor, Anne/Schulten, Johannes (2018): Globale Ungleichgewichte und soziale Transformationen. Wien: Mandelbaum.
(2016): "Grauzonen staatlicher Gewalt. Staatlich produzierte Unsicherheit in Kolumbien und Mexiko." Bielefeld: Transcript. OPEN ACCESS
with Stefan Pimmer (2015) (ed.): "Der Staat in Lateinamerika: Kolonialität, Gewalt, Transformation." Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot.