Jenss, Dr. Alke

Position: 
Senior Researcher, Coordination Cluster Contested Governance
Email: 
alke.jenss [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone: 
+49 (0)761 888 78 26
Areas of Research: 
the Production of Security and Insecurity, “war on drugs”, statehood, multiscalar governance, political economy of land conflicts, spatial theory
Regional Focus: 
Latin America (particularly Colombia, Mexico)
Education: 
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
Professional Experience / Applied Research: 
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

 

ADLAF Dissertation award 2016 (German Association for Research on Latin America)

Networks

Co-coordination of the 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

 

Important Publications (selection)

Articles (peer reviewed):

Jenss, Alke (2018): A Criminal Commodity Consensus: The Coloniality of State Power, State Crime and the Transformation of Property Relations in Mexico. In: State Crime Journal 7 (2), 306-328.

Jenss, Alke (2018): Authoritarian neoliberal rescaling in Latin America: Urban in/security and austerity in Oaxaca. In: Globalizations (OnlineFirst).

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 (2017): Control, Utility and Formalization at the" Frontier": Contested Discourses on Agriculture in Eastern Colombia. In: Alternautas 4 (2).

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 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.

List of publications

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