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PD Dr. Festus Boamah
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Sozial- und Bevölkerungsgeographie
Research priorities
- Beyond Energy Justice
- Political Ecology of Gobal Environmental Change
- Land Grabbing & State-society Relations
- Corruption & Natural Resource Governance
Educational Background
| 06/2023 | Post-Doc/Habilitation. Chair of Social and Population Geography, University of Bayreuth, Title: "Mattering" Space-production Enterprise, Epistimic Injustice Lock-ins and Normative Stencil Adventures in Energy Justice Scholarship in Africa |
| 05/2015 | PhD in Development Geography: Department of Geography, University of Bergen. PhD dissertation entitled: ''Biofuels and land politics: connecting the disconnects in the debate about livelihood impacts of jatropha biofuel land deals in Ghana'' |
| 11/2011 - 12/2011 | Visiting PhD Student: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex under the sponsorship of Professor Ian Scoones |
| 05/2013-06/2013, 05/2009 | PhD Scholarship Holder at the Nordic African Institute, Uppsala, hosted by Professor Kjell Havnevik under the Rural and Agrarian Change, Property and Resources Research Cluster |
| 08/2010 | Masters in Development Geography: Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Norway. Thesis topic: ''Competition between biofuel and food? The case of a jatropha biodiesel project and its effects on food security in the affected communities in Northern Ghana'' |
| 08/2003 - 05/2007 | Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honors Division): Geography and Resource Development, Department of Geography, University of Ghana |
Work and Research Experience
| 07/2023 - to the present | University of Bayreuth, Germany. Chair of Social & Population Geography, "Privat Dozent" PD (Privat Lecturer) |
| 04/2016 – 06/2023 | University of Bayreuth, Germany. Chair of Social & Population Geography, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer (Habilitation Dissertation completed) |
| 08/2015 - 11/2015 | Higher Executive Officer, Dept. of Geography, University of Bergen |
| 24 - 27/11/2015 | A co-organizer of a PhD Course and Workshop entitled: ‘Power in Political Ecology organized at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. Available here: http://www.uib.no/en/course/GEO902 |
| 21 - 22/10/2015 | A co-organizer of the International Conference dubbed: Beyond Oil: Geographies of climate and energy transformation at the University of Bergen. Available here: https://spacelab.b.uib.no/conference-beyond-oil/ |
| 09/2015 | Guest Lecturer at the Bergen University College. Lecture topic: Synergies and contradictions in ‘Green’ Initiatives: From Green Revolution to Green/Climate Governmentality. |
| 06 - 07/2015 | Consultant for Christen Michelsen Institute (CMI), Norway: Undertaking Systematic Literature Review Assignment for ‘Anti-Corruption and Extreme Resource Governance’ project |
| 04/2015 | Guest Lecturer at the Bergen University College. Lecture topic: Biofuels and other agricultural Investments in Africa: Challenges and Prospects. |
| 02 - 04/2015 | Higher Executive Officer: Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Norway |
| 09/2010 - 08/2011 | Research Associate: The Energy Center, College of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana |
| 2007 - 2008 | Research Assistant: Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana. Responsibilities: Undertaking research, teaching and training, capacity building, policy assessment, development and dissemination in the area of migration. |
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Sozial- und Bevölkerungsgeographie
Publikationen
2021
Rothfuß, Eberhard; Boamah, Festus
Praxistheorie in der Energiegeographie : Reflexionen zur solaren Energiewende in Kenia
Energiegeographie : Konzepte und Herausforderungen
Stuttgart : UTB, 2021. - S. 73-82 . - (UTB; 5320)
Rothfuß, Eberhard; Boamah, Festus; Dörfler, Thomas
Relational governance of territorial resources in post-colonial Africa : A new analytic framewo ...
In: Die Erde Bd. 152 (2021) Heft 2. - S. 75-90
doi:10.12854/erde-2021-527 ...
2020
Rothfuß, Eberhard; Boamah, Festus
Politics and (Self)-Organisation of Electricity System Transitions in a Global North–South Pers ...
In: Politics and Governance Bd. 8 (2020) Heft 3. - S. 162-172
doi:10.17645/pag.v8i3.3636 ...
Boamah, Festus; Rothfuß, Eberhard
"Practical recognition" as a suitable pathway for researching just energy
futures : Seeing like ...
In: Energy Research & Social Science Bd. 60 (2020)
doi:10.1016/j.erss.2019.101324 ...
2018
Boamah, Festus; Rothfuß, Eberhard
From technical innovations towards social practices and socio-technical transition? : Re-thinki ...
In: Energy Research & Social Science Bd. 42 (2018) . - S. 1-10
doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.02.019 ...
2017
Boamah, Festus
Energieunabhängig mit Photovoltaik : Von zentralen Stromnetzen zur Selbstversorgung in Ghana un ...
In: Spektrum Bd. 13 (2017) Heft 2. - S. 62-65
http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/de/universitaet/presse/ ...
Boamah, Festus; Williams, Aled
Strengthening Institutions against Corruption? : Biofuel Deals in Ghana
Corruption, Natural Resources and Development : From Resource Curse to Political Ecology
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017. - S. 117-130
2016
Boamah, Festus
Rezension von: Hall, Ruth ; Scoones, Ian ; Tsikata, Dzodzi (Hrsg.): Africa's Land Rush : Rural Livelihoods and ...
In: Journal of International Development Bd. 28 (2016) Heft 7. - S. 1189-1191
doi:10.1002/jid.3238 ...
Lavers, Tom; Boamah, Festus
The impact of agricultural investments on state capacity : A comparative
analysis of Ethiopia a ...
In: Geoforum Bd. 72 (2016) . - S. 94-103
doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.02.004 ...
Boamah, Festus; Overå, Raghnild
Rethinking livelihood impacts of biofuel land deals in Ghana
In: Development and Change Bd. 47 (2016) Heft 1. - S. 98-129
doi:10.1111/dech.12213 ...
2015
Boamah, Festus
Biofuels and land politics : Connecting the disconnects in the debate about livelihood impacts ...
Bergen, University of Bergen, Department of Geography, 2015
https://bora.uib.no/bitstream/handle/1956/9861/dr- ...
(Dissertation, ,
)
2014
Boamah, Festus
How and why chiefs formalise land use in recent times : The politics of land dispossession thro ...
In: Review of African Political Economy Bd. 41 (2014) Heft 141. - S. 406-423
doi:10.1080/03056244.2014.901947 ...
Boamah, Festus
Imageries of the contested concepts “land grabbing” and “land transactions” : Implications for ...
In: Geoforum Bd. 54 (2014) . - S. 324-334
doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.10.009 ...
2011
Boamah, Festus
Competition between Biofuel and Food? : Evidence from Ajatropha Biodiesel Project in Northern G ...
Biofuels, Land Grabbing and Food Security in Africa
London : Zed Books, 2011. - S. 159-175 . - (Africa Now)
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Sozial- und Bevölkerungsgeographie
PD Dr. Festus Boamah
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Raum: 159, GEO II
Sprechstunde: consultation by arrangement (nach Vereinbarung)
Telefon: +49 (0)921 / 55-2281
E-Mail: festus.boamah@uni-bayreuth.de