Rosa Felicitas Philipp

PhD Studentin

Sozial- und Kulturgeographie

Phone
+41 31 684 64 62
E-Mail
rosa.philipp@unibe.ch
Office
315
Postal Address
Universität Bern
Geographisches Institut
Sozial- und Kulturgeographie
Hallerstrasse 12
CH-3012 Bern

Research Areas

  • Feminist Political Ecology
  • Eco-territorial Conflicts
  • Indigenous Resistance
  • Urban Agriculture and Sustainable Development
  • Audio-Visual and Participatory Methods

Regional Focus: Colombia, Mexico

Education

2024 Research stay with Prof. Dr. Astrid Ulloa at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2022 Research stay at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico with Dra. Mina Lorena Navarro Trujillo in the group „Entremados Comunitarios“
2020 – 2022 Coordinator of the BA Latin American Studies and research associate at the Center for Latin American Studies, Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany
2019 – 2020 Project assistant at Action medeor e.V.
2019 M.Sc. in Geography (Research Master), University of Bern, Switzerland
2018 Research stay in Mexico City for the Master's thesis „Urban Agriculture in Mexico City as a „Life Project“: An Analysis of Different Dimensions of Resilience“
2016 B.Sc. in Geography, Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany (semester abroad in 2015 at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá, Colombia)

Scholarships

2022 – 2025 Doc.CH Scholarship by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) for PhD project
2022 DAAD Research Scholarship for Doctoral Candidates 2021/22 for field research in Mexico with associated research stays
2021 proFOR+: Internal research funding by the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (funding line „Small Grants“) for field research in Mexico
2015 – 2019 Scholarship holder of the Max Weber Program of the Elite Network of Bavaria (administered by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
2015 PROMOS Scholarship for Internships by DAAD for the internship at the Secretaría Distrital de Ambiente, Bogotá, Colombia

Affiliations and Memberships

  • German Association for Latin American Research (ADLAF)
  • AK Feminist Geographies
  • Center for Latin American Studies, Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany

Philipp, Rosa; Käsbohrer, Andrea (2023): Humangeographie. In: Lay Brander, M. (Hrsg.): Einführung in die Lateinamerikastudien. Ein Handbuch. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin.

Philipp, Rosa (2023): Eine Feministische Politische Ökologie des Widerstands am Istmo de Tehuantepec, Mexiko. In: Schmidt, M.; Middendorf, S. L.; Purwins, S.; Walter, C. (Hrsg.): The Plurality of Political Ecology Tagungsband zur zweiten augsburger.forschungswerkstatt. Geographica Augustana, 35, Augsburg, 55 – 62. https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/104299/file/Texte-Augustana-Bd-35-OPUS.pdf

Podcasts

Part of the podcast: Wissen, das wir brauchen. Was ist Wissenschaft?, 22.06.2023, Kühn, Kathrin. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/auf-die-wissenschaft-hoeren-nur-was-ist-eigentlich-die-wissenschaft-dlf-05ebc439-100.html

Newsletter

Grunow, Hendrikje; Philipp, Rosa (2023): Wintervortragsreihe: Feminismen im globalen Kontext: Perspektiven – Bewegungen – Beziehungen. Newsletter des Zentralinstituts für Lateinamerikastudien. https://www.ku.de/fileadmin/190801/ZILAS-Newsletter_Mai_2023_DE_F.pdf

“Body & Territory: A Feminist Political Ecology of Female Protagonism in Environmental Conflict”

Duration 2022-2025
Funding

Doc.CH Stipendium des Schweizerischen Nationalfonds

Description

At the Istmo de Tehuantepec in Mexico, the Corredor Interoceánico (Interoceanic Corridor) is to be built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The infrastructure project includes various projects that are intended to strengthen the "development" of the region, which is characterized by very high cultural and biological diversity. The project polarizes the local population, with some protesting the project. Feminist political ecology (FPE) focuses on the relationships between bodies and territories in environmental conflicts (Sultana 2020, 6f.). Building on work with FPE, this PhD project explores the role that (indigenous) women's relationships with their territory play in political activism against the Corredor Interoceánico infrastructure project. Drawing on the theoretical framework of FPE, I work with feminist collaborative audio-visual and visual methods to highlight the spatialized and embodied experiences of women in resistance (Sundberg 2016, 6). My doctoral project sharpens Feminist Political Ecology in relation to its corporeal and emotional perspectives and strives to design an Embodied Feminist Political Ecology. Through the application of methods, FPE is expanded as I make visible the relationships of women and their territories that underlie resistance.

 

2025
March "Infrastructured Bodies: Building life-affirming alter-infrastructure at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec" in the session "FPE Session 2: Feminist Political Ecologies of Extraction 2: Resistance, Re-existencia, and Healing" at the conference of the American Association of Geographers, Detroit
2024
October «Bodies in resistance at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico« at the workshop of The Swiss School of Latin American Studies on the theme «Mapping Territories: Space, Place, and Environment in Latin America« at the University of Bern, Switzerland
August «Defensa de la vida: Women*'s Struggle Against the Threats of Mega-Projects at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico« in the session «Latin America / Caribbean Studies: Geopolitics of geographies and re-existences in Latin America and the Caribbean: infrastructures, artifices and hegemonic counter-discourses from the bodies and territories of sacrifice« at the International Geographical Congress IGU, Dublin, Ireland
«Defensa de la vida: Women*'s Struggle Against the Threats of Mega-Projects at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico« in the session «Organised Women and Activism? The Challenges of Women's Leadership in Shaping Socio-Environmental Justice« at the conference: Feminist and Queer Spatialities: Care, Connection and Change organized by the Commission on Gender and Geography, International pre-conference for the International Geographical Congress IGU, Dublin, Ireland
«Enhancing feminist geographies in a tiny cosmopolitan place: insights from the Swiss Feminist Geographies Group« together with Karine Duplan in the session «YES! A Place to Care, Connect and Change« at the conference: Feminist and Queer Spatialities: Care, Connection and Change organized by the Commission on Gender and Geography, International pre-conference for the International Geographers, Dublin, Ireland
2023
November «"El Sur resiste, existe porque resiste!” – R-existencia at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico» at the 21st Swiss Geoscience Meeting in the panel (organized by Johanna Paschen and myself) «Climate Justice and Feminist Political Ecology”, Mendrisio, Switzerland
«"¡El sur existe, existe porque resiste!" - Rexistencia en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, México: resistencia frente al megaproyecto del Corredor Interoceánico en el sur de México» at the Nachwuchsworkshop «Aktuelle Entwicklungen in Lateinamerika» as part of the conference «Crisis, Política y Resistencia en el Antropoceno», Weingarten, Germany
September «Rethinking resistance using the example of women’s cuerpo-territorio at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico» at the German Congress of Geography under the theme «Planetary Futures» in the panel «Re-negotiating society-environment relations in environmental protests», Frankfurt, Germany
«Rethinking territory in neo-extractivist conflicts from a feminist perspective» at the German Congress of Geography under the theme «Planetary Futures» in the panel «Place and emplacement as concepts of geography: practices and configurations», Frankfurt, Germany
June “Cuerpo-Territorio de mujeres en resistencia en el Istmo de Tehuantepec, México” at the conference of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF) on the theme “Environmental Justice” in the panel “Conflictos y violencia”, Berlin, Germany
March Workshop “Conectando experiencias con enfoque en el cuidado” at the meeting “Autonomías en práctica” of the collective “El Cambalache” together with Nisaguie Abril Flores Cruz, San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico
2022
November “Understanding Territory as Practices of Resistance” in the panel “Contestations” at the conference Here, There and Somewhere in Between: Placing, Practicing, Configuring, Mid-term conference of the Graduate School: “Practicing Place: SocioCultural Practices and Epistemic Configurations, Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany
September Presentation of my PhD project and participation in the Summer School “Environments of Inequality. Crises, Conflicts, Comparisons” at the Center of Advanced Latin American Studies, Guadalajara, Mexico
July “Body and Territory: A Feminist Political Ecology of Female Protagonism in Environmental Conflict” in the session “Environmental crisis and feminist political ecology” at the International Conference on crisis, recovery and gender: Feminist spatial perspectives organized by the Commission on Gender and Geography, International pre-conference for the 100th International Geographers Union Congress Paris at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
June “Cuerpo & Territorio: Una Ecología Política Feminista del protagonismo feminino en conflictos medioambientales” at Mesa 488 of the axis "Movimientos sociales, territorios y levantamientos populares: conflictos, experiencias y desafíos" at the 9a Conferencia Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
May “Body & Territory: A Feminist Political Ecology of Female Protagonism in Environmental Conflicts” in the panel “Political Ecological Perspectives on (Environmental) Justice” at the zweite.augsburger.forschungswerkstatt: the plurality of political ecology, University of Augsburg, Germany
April “Body and Territory: A Feminist Political Ecology of Female Protagonism in Environmental Conflict” in the panel “Women, Land, and Dispossession in the Americas” at the conference “Defending the land: Socio-environmental conflicts in the Americas”, Villanova University, USA

Current Courses (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Fall 2024 Feminist Spaces and Politics of the Everyday Life
Fall 2024 Exercise to Accompany the Lecture
Fall 2022 Exercise to Accompany the Lecture

Past Courses (Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany)

Spring 2021 Introduction to the Geographies of Latin America: Perceiving and Shaping Social and Economic Realities – Foundations of Latin American Geography
Spring 2021 Methods and Project Seminar: Human–Environment Relations in Latin America
Fall 2021/22 Introduction to the Geographies of Latin America: Perceiving and Shaping Social and Economic Realities – Economic Geography of Latin America
Fall 2020/21 Introduction to the Geographies of Latin America: Perceiving and Shaping Social and Economic Realities – Economic Geography of Latin America
Spring 2020 Introduction to the Geographies of Latin America: Perceiving and Shaping Social and Economic Realities – Foundations of Latin American Geography