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Dr. Matian van Soest

Short Biography

Since 2019: Scientfic Coordinator of the CRC-TRR 228 'Future Rural Africa'

2018: Ph.D.: 'The Political Egology of Malaria: Emerging Dynamics of Wetland Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda'

2014: Master of Arts, Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne.

2010: Bachelor of Arts, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam.

Thematic Interests and Regional Focus

Science Management; Medical Anthropology; Wetlands; Malaria; Human-Environment Relations.

East Africa; Uganda.

Publications 

2020: The Political Ecology of Malaria: Emerging Dynamics of Weltand Agriculture at the Urban Fringe in Central Uganda. Bielefeld: Transcript.

2017: Wetland encroachment in the urban fringe: land dynamics in central Uganda. Voices from Around the World 2(3).

2016: Small scale farming and malaria in Uganda: the ambivalent role of wetlands. WHOCC Newsletter Water & Risk (24): 11-13.