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Research Interests

  • Critical norms research: Legal pluralism;  Human rights, international law, rights of indigenous peoples

  • Conflict studies: Conflict transformation, Resource conflicts, Extractive industries

  • Critical development studies

  • Ethnographic and decolonial methods

  • Empirical focus: Latin America, especially Amazonia

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Short Bio

Dr. Riccarda Flemmer studied political science, sociology and psychology (Magister Artium) at the RWTH University of Aachen and at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Her doctorate in International Relations was completed at the University of Hamburg in 2019. The title of her dissertation is ‘The Contested Meaning of Prior Consultation and FPIC - lndigenous Grassroots and the Politics of Translating Rights in Struggles over Resources in the Peruvian Amazon’.

During her doctoral studies she worked as a researcher in the project ‘Consultation, Participation and Conflict Transformation. A Comparative Study on Resource Extraction in Bolivia and Peru’ (Link, 2013-2015) funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) and in the project of the German Federal Ministry for Education (BMBF) ‘The Americas as Space of Entanglements’ (Link, 2016-2017). She was a member of the doctoral program of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Hamburg as well as an active member of the GIGA's research programs ‘Accountability and Participation’ and ‘Peace and Security’. Since April 2020, she has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Political Science, especially Global Governance, at the University of Hamburg. Her publications on participatory conflict transformation, contested legal norms, human rights and socio-ecological conflicts have appeared in World Development, Third World Quarterly, the Journal of Latin American Studies and the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, among others.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Academic Career

  • Since 04/2020: Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Science, esp. Global Governance of Prof. Antje Wiener at the University of Hamburg

  • Since 04/2019: Associated researcher at the Institute of Latin American Studies, GIGA Hamburg

  • 2017–2019: Doctoral candidate and active member of Research Programs ‘Accountability and Participation’ and ‘Peace and Security’ at the Institute of Latin American Studies, GIGA Hamburg

  • 2016–2017: Researcher in the project ‘The Americas as Space of Entanglements’ (Link), financed by the German Ministry for Education (BMBF), Center for InterAmerican Studies (CIAS), Universität Bielefeld

  • 2013–2015: Researcher in the project project ‘Prior Consultation, Participation and Conflict Transformation. A Comparative Study of Resource Extraction in Bolivia and Peru’(Link), funded by the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF)

  • 2012–2016: Consultancy for the annual reports ‘Peru: Early Crisis Warning’ [‘Peru: Krisenfrühwarnung (KIK)’] from 2012–2015 and in 2016 ‘Politökonomische Kurzanalyse 2016 (PÖK)’, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

  • 2012–2019: Doctoral candidate at the Institute of Latin American Studies, GIGA Hamburg

  • 09/2012–12/2012: Organisation and documentation of the symposium ‘Prior Consultation in Latin America’ with international scholars at the congress of the Latin American Network on Legal Anthropology (RELAJU) in Sucre, Bolivia; Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)/ German Development Agency (GIZ)

  • 02/2011–04/2011: International research internship at the Defensoría del Pueblo (human rights ombudsman) in Lima, Peru

  • 12/2010–02/2011: Research internship in the research project ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in the Peruvian Amazon: a Challenge to Social Inclusion and Multi-Level Governance’ (Link), German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn


Academic Graduations and Qualifications

  • 03/2019: PhD in Political Science, International Relations ‘The Contested Meaning of Prior Consultation and FPIC - lndigenous Grassroots and the Politics of Translating Rights in Struggles over Resources in the Peruvian Amazon’ (Referees Prof. Antje Wiener, FAcSS, Prof. Detlef Nolte & Prof. Kathryn Hochstetler, PhD), summa cum laude

  • 02/2012: Magister Artium in Political Science, Sociology and Psychology at the RWTH University of Aachen and at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, with distinction


Awards

  • 11/2018: Research fellowship at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) in Lima, trAndeS, DAAD Binational Postgraduate School

  • 05/2018–01/2019: GIGA Seed Money, GIGA Hamburg

  • 12/2016–02/2017: Research fellowship for fieldwork in Peru and an academic stay at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), trAndeS, DAAD Binational Postgraduate School

  • 05/2016: Conference funding, Stiftungen und Körperschaftsvermögen of the Universität Hamburg

  • 04/2013–08/2013: Research fellowship for field research in Peru, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

  • 10/2012–09/2013: Doctoral scholarship (Promotionsstipendium der Landesgraduiertenförderung) of the Universität Hamburg

  • 2013: Springorum-Award, RWTH Aachen University (Award for the M.A, thesis/Magisterarbeit)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Positions and Memberships

  • From June 2020: Co-Chair of ther Amazonia Section, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

  • Editorial board of the annual report ‘Conflict Barometer’, Heidelberger Institut für Internationale Konfliktforschung (HIIK)

  • Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW)

  • Environmental Justice Network (EnJust)

  • International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS)

  • International Studies Association (ISA)

  • Multidisciplinary European Network on Indigenous Peoples EMPI)

  • Political Ecology Network (POLLEN)