Institute of Geography

Portrait

Short CV

 
 2013-present  PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland
 2013-2015  Organisation and Provision of the MA course Gendering Sustainability
 2011-2015  Research Assistant in the field of Gender and Development at the interdisciniplary center for Gender Studies, University of Bern, Switzerland
 2008-2009  MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, Unversity of London, Great Britain
 2005-2008  BA in Development Studies with Overseas Experience, University of East Anglia Norwichm Great Britain

Research Interests

  • Land Rights in the region of Sub-Sahara, Africa
  • Institutionalism
  • Agrarian Change
  • Gender and Power

Publications

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Number of items: 3.

Journal Article

Lanz, Kristina (2014). The Great African Land Grab: Agricultural investments and the global food system. African affairs, 113(451), pp. 314-316. Oxford University Press 10.1093/afraf/adu010

Report

Lanz, Kristina; Derungs, Flurina Andrea; Schnegg, Brigitte (2013). Factsheet Violence against Women - The missing MDG? Bern: Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit DEZA

Lanz, Kristina; Bieri, Sabin; Fankhauser, Lilian (2012). Critical Gender Issues with Regard to Food, Land, and Water: A Compendium for Policy-makers, NGOs, and Researchers (NCCR North-South Dialogue 40). Bern: CDE / NCCR North-South

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Teaching

  • HS 2013-2015  MA Seminar „Gendering Sustainability“ in cooperation with the Graduate Institute, GenfFS
  • 2014 BA Lecture „Spatial development issues: The contribution of political ecology. Impacts of large-scale land acquisitions on the food system.”
  • FS 2013 Organisation Lecture Series „Welche Zukunft? Geschlechterperspektiven auf nachhaltige Entwicklung.“

 

Presentations

  • „Large-scale land acquisitions as appropriations of local food systems: A case study from Ghana.” 3-6 September 2014  ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, Great Britain.
  • „The political economy of large-scale land acquisitions in Ghana: Food systems, gender and resistance.” 17-18 Oktober  Schweizerische Tage der Afrikaforschung, Bern, Switzerland.
  • „Institutional Change, Power and Resistance in a LSLA in Ghana”. 27 November  SNIS Workshop, Bern, Switzerland.
  • „Towards a new tragedy of the commons? Large-scale land acquisitions and their impacts on women’s access to common property resources.” 14-15 Januar 2013 Gender and Land Governance Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands.