Schlee, Dr. Beatrice

Email:

beatrice.schlee [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de

Areas of Research:

The impact of authoritarian rule, conflict and flight on the memory of the body and the political and social behavior of refugees; political trauma, violence and conflict, process of coming to terms with own’s past, authoritarian states

Regional Focus:

Subsaharan Africa (Zimbabwe), Southern Europe (Spain)

Education:

2003	PH.D. in Political Sciences, Univ. Freiburg
1996/97	Universidad Complutense, Madrid/Spain
1996	M.A. Political Science, University of Freiburg
1991/92	Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Fd./France
1990-1996	Contemporary History, Romance studies (University of Heidelberg, University of Freiburg)

Professional Experience / Applied Research:

Current Research Project	Bodymemory and Agency: The impact of authoritarian regimes, of conflict, flight and arrival in the host communities on the bodymemory of refugees and their spatial behavior. Research project in cooperation with Prof. Mone Welsche, Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg and students of the Liberal Arts and Sciences Programme at the University College Freiburg.
since 2016	lecturer on embodiment studies and body- approaches regarding the impact of authoritarian regimes, flight, migration and precarious life and work conditions (University College Freiburg, Liberal Arts and Sciences; Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg, University of Education Freiburg; German-Jordanian University Amman, Jordanien)
2008-2015	Senior Researcher at the Arnold-Bergsstraesser Institute (partly on family leave)
2004-2007	Country Representative of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Zimbabwe/Zambia (based in Harare)
since 2001	Researcher at the Arnold-Bergsstraesser Institute
1996-1999	Staff member of Deutsches Institut für Internationale Pädagogische Forschung in Frankfurt, Germany
since 1997	Lecturer at the Universities of Freiburg, Heidelberg, Rostock

Member of Freinem, Freiburger Netzwerk für Migrations- und Integrationsforschung.

Publications:

(2018): Bertelsmann Transformationsindex (BTI) 2018 – Zimbabwe Country Report. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung. https://www.bti-project.org/de/berichte/laenderberichte/detail/itc/zwe/ity/2018/itr/esa/

(2017 to be published) Zimbabwe Country Report 2018, together with Locardia Shayamunda, Bertelsmann-Stiftung, www.bti-project.org/fileadmin/files/BTI/Downloads/Reports/2016/pdf/BTI_2016_Zimbabwe.pdf (1/20/2017)

(2017): Review Rita Kesselring (2016), Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Stanford: Stanford University Press, Africa Spectrum, 1/2017, 126-129, https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/1027/1034, 14.9.2017.

(2016) Konfliktporträt Simbabwe, 11.7.2016, Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, http://www.bpb.de/internationales/weltweit/innerstaatliche-konflikte/54685/simbabwe, (1/20/2017)

(2014) “The wounds of the perpetrators: The legacy of the liberation war on the belligerent face of Zanu-PF politics in Zimbabwe”, conference paper presented at the African Studies Association Conference: Rethinking Violence, Reconstruction and Reconciliation, November 20-23, 2014 Indianapolis, Indiana.

(2011) „Die Konsequenzen jahrzehntelanger Amnes(t)iepolitik in Spanien. Das Fallbeispiel der Kleinstadt Llanes (Asturien)“, Die Friedens-Warte, 1/1/2011, Vol. 86, Issue 1/2, p. 45-71.

(2011) “Economic Crisis and Political Apathy in Zimbabwe: The impotent society”, paper presented at the ISPA-ECPR conference, Feburary 16-19 2011, Sao Paulo, Brasil.

(2010) Überlebensmechanismen in Zeiten größter Krisen: Simbabwe“, in: Holger Albrecht / Rolf Frankenberger (Hrsg.): Autoritarismus Reloaded. Neuere Ansätze und Erkenntnisse der Autokratieforschung, Baden Baden: Nomos(Weltregionen im Wandel, Bd. 10), 351-370.

(2010) „Politische Apathie als Antwort auf die Krise in Simbabwe“, in: Der Bürger im Staat, Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Baden-Württemberg, Heft 1, 83-94.

(2009) „Endstation Vergangenheit? Schweigepakt und Erinnerungsgesetz am Fallbeispiel einer spanischen Kleinstadt", in: Amnesie, Amnestie oder Aufarbeitung?: Zum Umgang mit autoritären Vergangenheiten und Menschenrechtsverletzungen, VS Verlag: Wiesbaden, 203-228.

(2008) Die Macht der Vergangenheit. Demokratisierung und politischer Wandel in einer spanischen Kleinstadt (Studien zu Ethnizität, Religion und Demokratie, Bd. 11). Baden-Baden. Freiburg/Brsg., Univ., Diss.

(2007) Zimbabwe: A case of resilient authoritarianism. Citizens' attitudes, leaders' opinion, and conjectures on a democratic transition (coeds: Masunungure, Eldred; Dickow, Helga), Letters from Byblos, 15. Byblos: International Centre for Human Sciences 2007.

(2007) „Zimbabwe: die Überlebenskünstler - eine Lektion in Sachen Machterhalt“, in: Molt, Peter (Hrsg.): Kulturen und Konflikte im Vergleich: comparing cultures and conflicts. Festschrift für Theodor Hanf Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 562-576.

(2004) Perceptions of culture and democracy in metropolitan Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo: a survey study. Letters from Byblos, 6. Byblos: International Centre For Human Sciences.

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