Dr. Andreas Benz
Phone: | +49 821 598 - 2290 |
Email: | andreas.benz@geo.uni-augsburggeo.uni-augsburg.de () |
Room: | 2032 (B) |
Open hours: | by appointment |
Address: | Alter Postweg 118, 86159 Augsburg |
Current Research Interests
- Transition Studies
- Human-Environmental Relations
- Discourses on Development and the Environment
- Natur conservation and rewilding
- Migration and Translocality
- Education and Development
- Regional Focus: Cuba, South Asia
Memberships
- Association of Geographers at German Universities (VGDH)
- Environmental Science Center, University of Augsburg
- Study Group Geographical Development Theories
- Study Group High Mountains
- Study Group Latin America
- Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft (Alumni Network of the Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Teaching
name | semester | type |
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Naturschutz im Anthropoz?n | winter semester 2024/25 | Hauptseminar |
Begleitseminar 2 zur LfU-VL UmweltStudium: Schutz der nat¨¹rlichen Ressourcen | winter semester 2024/25 | Seminar |
Gro?e Exkursion / Gel?ndeseminar Vertiefung Estland 2025 | winter semester 2024/25 | Exkursion |
Tutorium HG1 | winter semester 2024/25 | Tutorium |
Entwicklung und Umwelt - Development and Environment | winter semester 2024/25 | Vorlesung |
Einf¨¹hrungsveranstaltung f¨¹r Erstsemester Geographie / Geoinformatik / Klima- & Umweltwissenschaften / Lehramt Geo | winter semester 2024/25 | Einf¨¹hrungskurs |
Denkwerkstatt Lehre | winter semester 2024/25 | Arbeitsgemeinschaft |
Entwicklung und Umwelt Lekt¨¹rekurs - Development and Environment | winter semester 2024/25 | Seminar |
Publications
2023 |
Benz, Andreas, V?lkening, Niklas (2023): Kubanische Diskurse zu Umwelt und Entwicklung: das Framing des Klimawandels durch den kubanischen Staat. In Teresa Millesi, Nora Zapf, Martin Coy (Eds.): Kulturen im Anthropoz?n: eine interdisziplin?re Herausforderung (pp. 303-321). M¨¹nchen: oekom. https://doi.org/10.14512/9783987262074 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2022 |
Benz, Andreas, Schmidt, Matthias (2022): Planetare Grenzen im Anthropoz?n: ein Leitkonzept f¨¹r die sozial?kologische Transformation?. Geographische Rundschau, 74(6), 4-8. BibTeX | RIS | URL |
V?lkening, Niklas, Benz, Andreas, Schmidt, Matthias (2022): The transformation of tourism and urban space in Havana, Cuba. Tourism Planning & Development, 19(5), 413-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2021.1894598 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2021 |
Benz, Andreas (2021): Das Ergr¨¹nen der Revolution: der Wandel des Naturbildes in Fidel Castros kubanischem Sozialismus. In Matthias Schmidt, Hubert Zapf (Eds.): Environmental Humanities: Beitr?ge zur geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Umweltforschung (pp. 143-160). G?ttingen: V&R Unipress. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
2020 |
V?lkening, Niklas, Benz, Andreas (2020): Konkurrenzen in Kuba: Bergbau und Tourismus versus Umwelt- und Naturschutz. Geographische Rundschau, 72(5), 22-27. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
Benz, Andreas (2020): The greening of the revolution: changing state views on nature and development in Cuba's transforming socialism. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 29(4), 243-248. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.29.4.9 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2019 |
V?lkening, Niklas, Benz, Andreas, Schmidt, Matthias (2019): International tourism and urban transformation in Old Havana. Erdkunde, 73(2), 83-96. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2019.02.01 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas, V?lkening, Niklas (2019): Politische ?kologie am Riedberger Horn. In Matthias Schmidt, Serge Leopold Middendorf, Sebastian Purwins (Eds.): The Power of Political Ecology: Tagungsband zur ersten augsburger.forschungswerkstatt (pp. 67-74). Augsburg: Institut f¨¹r Geographie, Universit?t Augsburg. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
Alff, Henryk, Benz, Andreas (2019): The multi-dimensionality of space - an analytical framework for the empirical investigation of the production of place. Erdkunde, 73(2), 111-125. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2019.02.03 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2018 |
Benz, Andreas (2018): Mobility (in)justice, positionality and translocal development in Gojal, Pakistan. In Nancy Cook, David Butz (Eds.): Mobilities, Mobility Justice and Social Justice (pp. 201-214). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780815377047-14 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2017 |
Benz, Andreas (2017): Kubas Umweltpolitik im Zeichen der Krise. In Matthias Schmidt (Ed.): Vielfalt und Ver?nderung: aktuelle Beitr?ge der Augsburger Humangeographie (pp. 85-98). Augsburg: Institut f¨¹r Geographie, Universit?t Augsburg. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
Benz, Andreas (2017): Pakistan: das gef?hrlichste Land der Welt?. In Fred Scholz (Ed.): L?nder des S¨¹dens: fragmentierende Entwicklung und Globalisierung (pp. 142-146). Braunschweig: Westermann. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
Benz, Andreas (2017): Positionality and the relational production of place in the context of student migration to Gilgit, Pakistan. In Katja Mielke, Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Eds.): Area studies at the crossroads: knowledge production after the mobility turn (pp. 103-119). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59834-9_6 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Schmidt, Matthias (Ed.) (2017): Vielfalt und Ver?nderung: aktuelle Beitr?ge der Augsburger Humangeographie. Augsburg: Institut f¨¹r Geographie, Universit?t Augsburg. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
2016 |
Benz, Andreas (2016): Framing modernization interventions: reassessing the role of migration and translocality in sustainable mountain development in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Mountain Research and Development, 36(2), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1659/mrd-journal-d-15-00055.1 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas (2016): Rezension: Dame, J.: Ern?hrungssicherung im Hochgebirge: Akteure und ihr Handeln im Kontext des sozio-?konomischen Wandels in Ladakh, Indien. Erdkundliches Wissen 156. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. Mountain Research and Development, 36(4), 565-566. https://doi.org/10.1659/mrd.mm195 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas (2016): The power of translocal networks and remittances. In S. Wymann von Dach, F. Bachmann, A. Borsdorf, T. Kohler, M. Jurek, E. Sharma (Eds.): Investing in sustainable mountain development: opportunities, resources and benefits (pp. 36-37). Bern: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern, with Bern Open Publishing (BOP). https://doi.org/10.7892/boris.74058 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2015 |
Benz, Andreas (2015): The ¡®Karachi Factor¡¯: the mobilizing power of religious networks in promoting migration and development in Ismaili communities of the Karakoram. In Stephan Conermann, Elena Smolarz (Eds.): Mobilizing Religion: Networks and Mobility (pp. 21-39). Berlin: EBVerlag. BibTeX | RIS |
2014 |
Benz, Andreas (2014): Education for development in Northern Pakistan: opportunities and constraints of schooling for rural households. Karachi: Oxford University Press. BibTeX | RIS Teilw. zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2011 |
Alff, Henryk, Benz, Andreas, Schmidt, Matthias (2014): Mobilities in Asian contexts [Editorial]. Internationales Asienforum, 45(1-2), 7-23. https://doi.org/10.11588/iaf.2014.45.3975 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas (2014): Mobility, multilocality and translocal development: changing livelihoods in the Karakoram. Geographica Helvetica, 69(4), 259-270. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-69-259-2014 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas (2014): Multilocality as an asset: translocal development and change among the Wakhi of Gojal, Pakistan. In Henryk Alff, Andreas Benz (Eds.): Tracing connections: explorations of spaces and places in Asian contexts (pp. 111-138). Berlin: wvb Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
Benz, Andreas (2014): Strategic positioning and the reproduction of inequality: the case of the Johari Shauka of the Kumaon Himalaya, India. Bonn: Competence Network Crossroads Asia. BibTeX | RIS | URL |
Benz, Andreas (2014): The challenges of education in Pakistan. DAWN, (12 October 2014, Books & Authors Supplement), 7. BibTeX | RIS |
Alff, Henryk, Benz, Andreas (2014): Tracing connections - explorations of spaces and places. In Henryk Alff, Andreas Benz (Eds.): Tracing connections: explorations of spaces and places in Asian contexts (pp. 7-20). Berlin: wvb Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
Alff, Henryk, Benz, Andreas (Eds.) (2014): Tracing connections: explorations of spaces and places in Asian contexts. Berlin: wvb Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin. BibTeX | RIS |
2013 |
Benz, Andreas (2013): Book Review: CHRISTIAN WAGNER: Brennpunkt Pakistan. Islamische Atommacht im 21. Jahrhundert. Bonn: Dietz, 2012. 191 pages, 1 map, 1 figure, 5 tables, € 16.90. ISBN 978-3-8012-0424-2. Internationales Asienforum, 44(3-4), 362-364. https://doi.org/10.11588/iaf.2013.44.1370 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas (2013): Education and development in the Karakorum: educational expansion and its impacts in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Erdkunde, 67(2), 123-136. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2013.02.02 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas (2013): How migrants made their way: the role of pioneering migrants and solidarity networks of the Wakhi of Gojal (Northern Pakistan) in shaping the dynamics of rural-urban migration. Bonn: Competence Network Crossroads Asia. BibTeX | RIS | URL |
2012 |
Benz, Andreas (2012): Educational challenges for Pakistan. In Herrmann Kreutzmann, Talat Mahmood (Eds.): Understanding Pakistan (pp. 37-89). Berlin: wvb Wissenschaftlicher Verlag. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
Benz, Andreas, Schmidt, Matthias (2012): Lokales Wissen und formale Bildung im Karakorum-Himalaya. Geographische Rundschau, 64(4), 50-57. BibTeX | RIS | URL |
Benz, Andreas (2012): Rezension: Gaesing, Karin (ed.): Reconciling Rural Livelihood and Biodiversity Conservation: Lessons from Research and Practice. International Spatial Planning Centre, Faculty of Spatial Planning, Technische Universit?t Dortmund 2009. SPRING Research Series 52. V und 185 S., Tab., Abb., Karten, Photos. ISBN 3-934525-52-0. DIE ERDE ¨C Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 142 (2011)(4), 376. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
Benz, Andreas (2012): The crisis of school education in Pakistan: of government's failure and new hopes in the growing private education sector. Internationales Asienforum, 43(3-4), 223-244. https://doi.org/10.11588/iaf.2012.43.186 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2011 |
Benz, Andreas, Alff, Henryk (2011): Kompetenznetzwerk CrossroadsAsia. In Aktuelle Tendenzen der transregionalen Area Studies (pp. 9-16). Berlin: Freie Universit?t Berlin, Center for Area Studies (CAS). PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
2009 |
Benz, Andreas (2009): Wasser in Israel - Pal?stina: eine polit-?kologische Analyse. Saarbr¨¹cken: VDM Verlag M¨¹ller. BibTeX | RIS Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diplomarbeit, 2005 |
2008 |
Benz, Andreas, Mahrwald, S., Neutz, S. (2008): Formal education in Shigar. In Herrmann Kreutzmann, Matthias Schmidt, Andreas Benz (Eds.): The Shigar microcosm: socio-economic investigations in a Karakoram oasis northern areas of Pakistan (pp. 106-133). Berlin: Zentrum f¨¹r Entwicklungsl?nder-Forschung (ZELF). PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
Kreutzmann, Hermann, Schmidt, Matthias, Benz, Andreas (Eds.) (2008): The Shigar Microcosm: socio-economic investigations in a Karakoram oasis, Northern Areas of Pakistan. Berlin: Zentrum f¨¹r Entwicklungsl?nder-Forschung (ZELF). PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
Lectures
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"Multiple Krisen in Kuba und ihre diskursive Rahmung in politischen Agenden" (with Niklas V?lkening), Geographies of overlapping crises, Martin-Luther-Universit?t?Halle-Wittenberg, 26.-28.01.2023.
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?Kubanische Diskurse zu Umwelt und Entwicklung ¨C das Framing des Klimawandels durch den kubanischen Staat¡° (with Niklas V?lkening), Cultures in the Anthropocene. An Interdisciplinary Challenge, Innsbruck University, 30.06.-03.07.2021.
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?Entwicklungs- und Umweltdiskurse in Kuba. Zwischen Modernisierung, Krise und Nachhaltigkeit¡°, Kolloquium des Instituts f¨¹r Geographie, Universit?t Augsburg, 29.06.2020
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?Bildungsmigration und translokale Lebenssicherungssysteme im Karakorum (Pakistan)¡°, 19. Bayerischer Schulgeographentag, Universit?t Augsburg, 06.03.2020.
- "Die Lift-Kontroverse um das Riedberger Horn - eine politisch-?kologische Analyse in den Allg?uer Alpen" (gemeinsam mit Niklas V?lkening), Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Hochgebirge (AKH) der DGfG, 02.02.2019, Universit?t Augsburg.
- "Politische ?kologie am Riedberger Horn" (gemeinsam mit Niklas V?lkening), Augsburger Forschungswerkstatt Politische ?kologie, 16.-17.11.2018, Universit?t Augsburg.
- "Right to the City and Urban Development in Havana" (gemeinsam mit Niklas V?lkening), Tagung des Geographischen Arbeitskreises Entwicklungstheorien (GAE) in der DGfG, 25.-27.10.2018, Bayreuth.
- "Das Ergr¨¹nen der Revolution ¨C Wandel des Naturbildes im kubanischen Sozialismus", Tagung "Natur und Narration" des Forschungsschwerpunkts Environmental Humanities der Universit?t Augsubrg, Umweltforschungsstation Schneefernerhaus (Zugspitze), 18.10.2017.
- "Regionale Entwicklung durch translokale Strategien? Potentiale und Risiken von Migrationsprozessen im Hochgebirge am Beispiel von Gojal, Pakistan", Kolloquium des Instituts f¨¹r Geographie der Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t Erlangen-N¨¹rnberg, 08.02.2017.
- "Alle(s) in Bewegung? Sozio-?konomischer Wandel, Migration und die Frage der Mobilit?ts-Gerechtigkeit im pakistanischen Karakorum", Tagung des Arbeitskreises S¨¹dasien (VGDH), Universit?t Augsburg, 27.01.2017.
- "The Multi-Dimensionality of Space: Challenging Spatial Bias in the Production of Places", 5th International Crossroads Asia Conferene: Area Studies' Futures, Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, 23.09.2016.
- "Translokale Entwicklung im pakistanischen Karakorum", Kolloquium des Instituts f¨¹r Geographie, Universit?t Augsburg, 12.07.2016.
- "Translokale Entwicklung im pakistanischen Karakorum - Migration, translokale Livelihoods und Bildungsexpansion in Gojal, Gilgit-Baltistan", Gemeinsame Tagung des Arbeitskreis Hochgebirge (VGDH) und der ARGE Vergleichende Hochgebirgsforschung, Berchtesgaden, 26.05.2016.
- 'Migration, translocality and mountain development - insights from Gojal, northern Pakistan', Perth III - Mountains of Our Future Earth, organized by The Centre for Mountain Studies, the Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) and the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment (GMBA), Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands, Perth, UK, 7.10.2015.
- "Translocality and Sustainable Mountain Development in Gojal, Gilgit-Baltistan", Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universit?t Berlin, 23.06.2015.
- "Studies in Place ¨C Placing the Students: Education Migrants¡¯ Shifting Socio-Spatial Positionalities in Gilgit, Pakistan", FRIAS Workshop: Translocal Spatial Practices, Urban Transformations: Migration and Mobile Urbanism in South and South-East Asia, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg, Freiburg i.Br., 15.01.2015.
- "Positionality at the Crossroads. Gendered Lifeworlds, Social Situatedness and the Relational Production of Place in the Context of Student Migration to Gilgit, Pakistan", 4th Crossroads Asia Conference: Crossroads Studies: Mobilities, Immobilities and the Issue of Positionality for Rethinking Area Studies, University of Bonn, 28.11.2014.
- "Education, Migration and Inequality in the Kumaon HImalaya, India", Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universit?t Berlin (Germany), 10.06.2014.
- ?Strukturen und Herausforderungen des pakistanischen Bildungssystems¡°, Tagung ?Pakistan im Fokus. Aktuelle Probleme & interdisziplin?re Forschungsperspektiven zu Politik, Gesellschaft und Religion¡°, Hochschule f¨¹r Philosophie M¨¹nchen, M¨¹nchen, 27.10.2013.
- "Migrationsnetzwerke und translokale Entwicklung. Der Beitrag von Pioniermigranten zum Prozess des sozio-?konomischen Wandels in Gojal, Nord-Pakistan", 58. Deutscher Geographentag, Fachsitzung 109 'Migranten als Akteure des Wandels?', Passau, 05.10.2013.
- "The Karachi-Factor: How Ismaili Migrants from the Karakorum Region Made their Way to Pakistan¡¯s Biggest City". Crossroads Asia International Conference "Mobilizing Religion: Networks and Mobility¡±, Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn, 18.07.2013.
- "Multilocality as an Asset. Translocal Development and change among the Wakhi of Gojal, Pakistan". Crossroads Asia Workshop "Tracing Connections. Explorations of Spaces and Places in Asian Multilocalities", Centre for Development Studies, Freie Universit?t Berlin, 20.06.2013.
- "Migration and Translocal Development among the Wakhi of Gojal, Pakistan". Crossroads Asia Lecture, Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Freie Universit?t Berlin, 22.01.2013.
- "New mobilities, translocal communities and livelihood networks in the Asian mountain periphery. The case of the Wakhi of Gojal, Northern Pakistan".? International Geographical Congress, Cologne, 30.08.2012.
- "Rethinking the migration & development nexus from a translocal perspective. The case of the Wakhi of Gojal, Northern Pakistan". International Geographical Congress, Cologne, 29.08.2012.
- "Turning Translocal??Social Networks and Migration of the Wakhi of Gojal, Northern Pakistan". Crossroads Asia Lecture, Zentrum f¨¹r Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Bonn, 11.07.2012.
- ¡°Reviving the old and spreading the new: Knowledge for development in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan¡±. National Seminar ¡°From survival to development - Understanding traditional knowledgesystems in socio-historical perspective¡±, School of Social Sciences, Uttarakhand Open University, Haldwani (India), 22. M?rz 2012.
- "Armut und Vielfalt der Lebenssicherung im Karakorum", zusammen mit PD Dr. Matthias Schmidt (Universit?t Hannover), Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Hochgebirge der DGfG, Erlangen, 5.2.2011.
- "Educational Challenges for Pakistan". Ringvorlesung "Understanding Pakistan", Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Berlin, 6.12.2010.
- "Bildung und Entwicklung in Nordpakistan. Chancen und Grenzen des Beitrags formaler Bildung zur Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen l?ndlicher Haushalte". Kolloquium des Instituts f¨¹r Geographische Wissenschaften, Freie Universit?t Berlin, 29.6.2010.
- "Bildung und Entwicklung in Nordpakistan. Chancen und Grenzen von Bildung als Entwicklungsfaktor". Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Hochgebirge der DGfG, Stuttgart, 28.1.2006.
Curriculum Vitae
- since November 2015: Research Assistant, Chair for Human Geography and Transformation Research, Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg
- February 2011 - October 2015: Research Associate at Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Institute of Geographical Sciences, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany, and member of the competence network "Crossroads Asia: Conflict, Migration, Development", funded by BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
- December 2011: Ph.D. in Geography at Freie Universit?t Berlin, Institute of Geographical Sciences, thesis "Education for Development in Northern Pakistan. Opportunities and Constraints of Schooling for the Improvement of Rural Households' Living Conditions"
- 2005 - 2011: Research Associate at Centre for Development Studies (ZELF), Institute of Geographical Sciences, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany
- July 2001 - October 2001: Fellow of Carl Duisberg Society (CDG), ASA- Program, in Haifa, Israel
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1998 - 2005: Study of? Geography, Islamic Studies and Political Science at Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg i. Br., Germany and at Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany
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