
Dr. Diego Menestrey Schwieger
Short Biography
09/2016 till 8/2017 (maternity leave replacement): Coordinator of the Master’s program “Culture and Environment in Africa”, Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.
05/2010 bis 05/2016: Research fellow in the LINGS Project (Local Institutions in Globalized Societies) at the Department of Social & Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne.
Doctorate (Dr. des) on the 5.11.2015. Titel of the Dissertation: "The Pump Keeps on Running: On the Emergence of Water Management Institutions Between State Decentralization and Local Practices in Northern Kunene".
03/2004 bis 04/2010: Master’s studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology (major subject), Sociology and Latin-American Studies (subsidiary subjects). Title of thesis: "Institutions and Conflict. An Ethnographic Study of Communal Water Management in North-West Namibia".
Academic Membershipds/Awards
Hamburg's student's price in Social & Cultural Anthropology 2010.
Thematic Interests and Regional Focus
Human-Environment Relations, Community-Based Natural Resource Management, Qualitative and Quantitative Methods.
Southern Africa, Caribbean.
Courses and Seminars
SoSe 2017: Guerrillas, Paras, Narcos - an approach to an understanding of the armed conflict and violence in Colombia
SoSe 2017: Basic Concepts of Research in Hazard, Vulnerability, and Risk Managment
WiSe 2016/2017: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Social Anthropology
WiSe 2016/2017: Theoretical Approaches to Human-Environment Relations – An introduction
SoSe 2016: Anthropological Perspectives on the Caribbean
Publications
Menestrey Schwieger; D. A. (2017). The Pump Keeps on Running: On the Emergence of Water Management Institutions Between State Decentralization and Local Practices in Northern Kunene. Lit Verlag: Münster.
Menestrey Schwieger, D. A. 2015. An Ethnographic Analysis of the Role of Power in Institutional Arrangements: Borehole Cost Recovery Within a Pastoral Community in North-Western Namibia. Environmental Policy and Governance, 25, 258–269.
Bollig, M., & Menestrey Schwieger, D. A. 2014. Fragmentation, Cooperation and Power: Institutional Dynamics in Natural Resource Governance in North-Western Namibia. Human ecology, 42, 167-181.
Menestrey Schwieger, D. A. 2012. Institutions and Conflict: An Ethnographic Study of Communal Water Management in North-West Namibia. Köln: Kölner Ethnologische Beiträge.
Menestrey Schwieger, D. A. 2010. Institutions and Conflict: Communal Water Management in North-West Namibia. MICROCON Research Working Paper 34. Brighton: MICROCON.