Seminars and Courses of Past Semesters

Winter 23/24 Introduction to the Anthropology of Environment; The institute library: a decolonizing examination

Summer 2023 Basic Concepts of Research in Hazard, Vulnerability, and Risk Management

Winter 22/23 Introduction to the Anthropology of Environment

Summer 2022 Basic Concepts of Research in Hazard, Vulnerability, and Risk Management

Winter 21/22 Mobilität, Arbeit und Handel in Ostafrika

Summer 2019 14506.1310 Anthropologische Perspektiven auf globale Wertschöpfungsketten

Winter 16/17 14506.1311 Zeit - Geschlecht - Kultur - Macht

Short Biography

Since 2021 
Lecturer and Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne & Coordinator for the DAAD Climate and Environment Center "Future African Savannas" (AFAS) 
 
Since 2019 
Research Fellow, University of Cologne 
 
2013 - 2018 
Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne 
 
2017 
Research fellow, Department of Geography, University of Bonn 
 
2013 - 2017 
Research fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne 
 
2011 
Researcher for the Research Group for Microfinance, University of Applied Sciences in Holland, The Hague 
 
2009 - 2011 
M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University 

Thematic Interests and Regional Focus

• Economic Anthropology 
• Globalization 
• Migration 
• Translocality 
• Gender 
• East Africa 
• Interdisciplinary and/or Applied Research 

Publications

Kuiper, G. (2023). The second-hand clothing trade and moral economic contestations over (re)distribution in Tanzania. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2193366.  
 
Kuiper, G. (2021). Emotional risk assessments in the field: Leaving Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ethnography. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381211002856.  
 
Kuiper, G. and Greiner, C. (2021). Export horticulture and labour migration in Kenya: Translocality and transiency in a secondary town. Geoforum, 122, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.03.013.  
 
Kuiper, G. (2020). Ethnographic fieldwork quarantined. Social Anthropology, 28, pp. 300-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12848.  
 
Kuiper, G. (2020). They just move in with relatives': Translocal labour migrants and transient spaces in Naivasha, Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, pp. 227-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2020.1730562.  
 
Kuiper, G. (2019). Agro-industrial labour in Kenya. Cut flower farms and migrant workers' settlements, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18046-1.  
 
Kuiper, G. (2019), "Conflicted emotions: Learning about uchawi" in: S. Thomas, S. Dinkelaker and F. Thajib, eds, Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20831-8_6.  
 
Kuiper, G. (2018). Kenyan flower farms and global notions of 'decent work'. Voices from around the World, 2. Available at: URL.  
 
Kuiper, G. (2017). Get on a boat: A photographic view from Lake Naivasha. Voices from around the World, 3. Available at: URL. 
 
Kuiper, G. and Gemählich, A. (2017). Sustainability and depoliticisation: Certifications in the cut-flower industry at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Africa Spectrum, 52, pp. 31-53. https://doi.org/10.1177/000203971705200302.