Team > MA Axel Prestes Dürrnagel
MA Axel Prestes Dürrnagel
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Sozial- und Bevölkerungsgeographie
Research priorities
- Social and Urban Geography, Development Geography
- Spatial and Social Justice
- (Peri-)Urban land Governance and Livelihoods
- Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
- Qualitative and Ethnographic Approaches
- Regional foci: Southern Africa (Mozambique), Latin America (Brazil)
Research projects
DFG Research Unit 2757 / Local Self-Governance in the context of Weak Statehood in Antiquity and the Modern Era (LoSAM). Subproject Social and Population Geography. Urban Shadow Spaces in the Postcolonial State: Self-organisation of Land and Water Resources in the Periphery of Maputo, Mozambique.
Biography
| since 2019 | Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Chair of Social and Population Geography, University of Bayreuth, Germany |
Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), Maputo, Mozambique | |
| 2018 | Freelance Researcher at the Disaster Research Unit (DRU), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 - 2020 | Tour Guide for study trips to Portugal and Australia, Studiosus Reisen München GmbH |
| 2017 | Project Assistant for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction, adelphi research GmbH, Berlin, Germany |
| 2013 - 2016 | Master of Arts in Latin American Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany Academic exchange and research stay at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning and Research (IPPUR), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil Thesis: “Exclusive and conflictive spaces: The neoliberal politics of mega-events and socio-spatial dynamics in Rio de Janeiro” |
Consultant and Intern at the Department of South America, German Development Cooperation (GIZ) GmbH, Eschborn, Germany and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| 2008 - 2013 | Bachelor of Science in Geography, University of Würzburg, Germany |
| Academic exchange at the Department of Geography, University of Guadalajara, Mexico | |
Presentations
09/2021: Desenvolvimento através de relações? O caso da Agricultura Urbana em Maputo, with Matias Siueia Júnior and Simone Prestes Dürrnagel (Iº Seminário Internacional GeoÁfrica. Áfricas em Movimentos. Economias, Sociedades e Espaços na África Subsaariana, virtual conference organized byGeoÁfrica, Rio de Janeiro & Maputo)
09/2021: Peri-urban agriculture in Maputo: Can collective action withstand socio-spatial pressures? (2nd Cologne Conference on Food for Future 2021, poster presentation at virtual conference organized by the University of Cologne)
07/2021: Traditional self-organisation under socio spatial pressure: Insights from rural Karangasso Vigué and peri urban Maputo, with Janneke Tiegna (International Conference of the DFG Research Unit 2757 LoSAM, Local Self-Governance and Weak Statehood: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, University of Würzburg)
06/2021: Periurbane Landgovernance in Maputo, Mosambik (Jahrestagung des DGfG-Arbeitskreises Subsaharisches Afrika (AKSA), Digitaler Afrika-Workshop am Institut für Geographie der Universität Gießen)
04/2021: O Direito à Cidade e a Salvaguarda da Agricultura Urbana (I Jornadas Científicas sobre o "Direito à Cidade e os desafios na implementação da Nova Agenda Urbana em Moçambique"; virtual conference organized by Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo and UN-Habitat Mozambique)
02/2021: Embracing transformations through collective self-organisation? Lessons from peri-urban Maputo (Annual Conference of the Swiss Political Science Association 2021, virtual conference organized by the Institute of Political Science, University of Bern)
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Sozial- und Bevölkerungsgeographie
Publikationen
2022
Axel Prestes Dürrnagel, Matias Siueia Júnior, Simone Prestes Dürrnagel: Agricultura urbana, relações e desenvolvimento : um olhar sobre Maputo, Moçambique. In: Boletim GeoÁfrica, 1 (2022). - S. 96-119.
Axel Prestes Dürrnagel, Matias Siueia Júnior, Simone Prestes Dürrnagel: Desenvolvimento através de relações? : O caso da Agricultura Urbana em Maputo. In: Antônio Gomes de Jesus Neto, Frédéric Monié, José Júlio Júnior Guambe, Luana Alves Lessa, Mussá Abdul Remane, Nelson Cortes Pacheco Junior (Hrsg.): Anais : I° Seminário Internacional GeoÁfrica ; Áfricas em Movimentos. - Rio de Janeiro ; Maputo : 2022. - S. 496-520.
Axel Prestes Dürrnagel, Janneke Tiegna: Local Self-Organisation under Socio-Spatial Pressure : Insights from Rural Karangasso- Vigué (Burkina Faso) and Peri-Urban Maputo (Mozambique). In: Dominique Krüger, Christoph Mohamad-Klotzbach, Rene Pfeilschifter (Hrsg.): Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South. - Berlin : De Gruyter, 2022. - S. 439-464.
doi:10.1515/9783110798098-017
2021
Axel Prestes Dürrnagel, Eberhard Rothfuß, Susan Thomschke: Die Stadt als Ko-Kreation? Selbstorganisation von Land- und Wasserressourcen in der städtischen Peripherie von Maputo. In: Geographische Rundschau, 73 (2021). - S. 16-21.
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Sozial- und Bevölkerungsgeographie
MA Axel Prestes Dürrnagel
Projektmitarbeiter (DFG)
Telefon: +49 (0)931 3183867
E-Mail: Axel.Duerrnagel@uni-bayreuth.de