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Wedekind, Dr. Jonah

Portrait von Jonah Wedekind
Position at ABI:
Senior Researcher
E-mail:
jonah.wedekind [at] abi.uni-freiburg.de
Phone:
+49 1522 5385883
Social Media:
https://x.com/jowedekind
Areas of research:
Transitional Justice, Political Ecology, Resource Conflicts, Land Investments
Regional focus:
Ethiopia, Horn of Africa
Professional experience:
2022-2024
Research Consultant & Team Lead for Peace Research Facility, Rift Valley Institute, Äthiopien
2019-2021
Freelance lecturer and editor, a.o. for Ethiopia Insight
2016
Guest Researcher, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, UK
2014
Guest Researcher, Haramaya University, Äthiopien
2013
Guest Researcher, Ethiopian Economics Association, Äthiopien
2013-2016
Researcher, Department für Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
2012-2013
Research Assistant, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
Education:
2021
PhD in Agricultural Sciences: “Castor Craze & Crash: A political ecology of state strategy, idle investments and rural resistance in Ethiopia’s ‘final’ frontiers”, Thaer-Institut, Humboldt-Universität Berlin
2011
M.Sc. Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
2010
B.Sc. Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton, UK

Ongoing project at ABI: Support to Transitional Justice (s2TJ), Äthiopien, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. 

“Reconfiguring Contested Borderlands in Ethiopia”, Knowledge for Peace (K4P), Peace Research Facility, Rift Valley Institute, Äthiopien, 2023-2024.

“Political Economy of Resources in Ethiopia’s Peripheries”, Knowledge for Peace (K4P), Peace Research Facility, Rift Valley Institute, Äthiopien, 2022-2023. 

“European Network for Political Ecology”, Marie Curie FP7-ITN - EU-Projekt ENTITLE, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2013-2016. 

Jonah Wedekind & Kedir Jamal (forthcoming, 2024) Camps, Checkpoints and Caterpillars: Inter-regional territorial expansionism and distributive struggles in Ethiopia’s Oromia-Somali borderlands, Rift Valley Institute. 

Jonah Wedekind (2024) Prosperity to the Periphery? The Politics of Resource Extraction in Ethiopia, Post-2018, Rift Valley Institute. 

Hallelujah Lulie & Jonah Wedekind (2024) Ethiopia: 2023–24. In: Awedoba, A., Kamski, B., Mehler, A., and D.  Sebudubudu (eds.) Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2024, Vol. 21, Leiden: Brill, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004696976_035. 

Jonah Wedekind & Hallelujah Lulie (2023) Ethiopia: 2022–23. In: Awedoba, A., Kamski, B., Mehler, A., and D. Sebudubudu (eds.) Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2023, Vol. 20, Leiden: Brill, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004538115_035. 

Jonah Wedekind und Davide Chingò (2021) Contract and Control: Agrarian labour mobilisation and resistance under large-scale land investments for biofuel crop production in Ethiopia, Annales d’Éthiopie, Vol. 33, 47-76. 

Jonah Wedekind (2021) Anatomy of a White Elephant: Investment Failure and Land Conflicts on Ethiopia’s Oromia–Somali Frontier. In: Gabbert, et al. (eds.) Lands of the Future: Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 167-188. 

Echi Christina Gabbert, Fana Gebresenbet & Jonah Wedekind (2021) Pastoralism for Future. In: Gabbert  et al. (eds.) Lands of the Future: Anthropological Perspectives on Pastoralism, Land Deals and Tropes of Modernity in Eastern Africa. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 309-317.

Diego Andreucci, Melissa Garcia-Lamarca, Jonah Wedekind & Erik Swyngedouw (2017) “Value Grabbing”: A Political Ecology of Rent, Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 28(3), 28-47, https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2016.1278027. 

Diego Andreucci, Jonah Wedekind & Garcia-Lopez, G. (2015) The Commons: An Introduction. In: A Political Ecology Manual for Civil Society, ENTITLE Fellows, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. 

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