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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Schnegg
Professor
Address
Universität Hamburg
Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, West (ESA W)
20146 Hamburg
Office
Room: 230
Office hours
Consultation appointments are made by prior arrangement.
Deputy: Dr. Christian Strümpell
Contact
Tel.: +49 40 42838-7915
Fax: +49 40 42838-6288
Curriculum Vitae
2015 Paul-Lazarsfeld-Visiting-Professor at the Department of Methods in the Social Sciences, University of Vienna
2010-2014 Speaker of the Department of Cultural Studies & Cultural History at the University of Hamburg
Since 2010 Full Professor (W3) at the Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg
2009 Assistant professor (with tenure track) at the Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne
2007 Assistant professor at the Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg
2003 Dr. phil, title of the thesis: "Das Fiesta Netzwerk: Soziale Organisation einer mexikanischen Gemeinde, 1679-2001" (= the fiesta network: social organization of a Mexican community, 1679-2001)
2002-2004 Parental leave
1999-2002 Research associate, DFG funded project "Moderner Kulturwandel am Beispiel von compadrazgo in Mexiko", headed by M. Casimir, Th. Schweizer
1997 Magister Artium, main subject Anthropology, subsidiary subjects Sociology and History. Title of the thesis: "Soziale Struktur und Alltagsleben in virtuellen Gemeinschaften" (= social structure and daily life in virtual communities)
1992-1997 Studies of Anthropology, Economics, Sociology and History at the University of Cologne
1971 Born in Munich
Research Interests
- Political ecology
- Climate and Culture
- Social networks
- Ethnographic methods
- South Africa, Latin America
Publications
Schnegg, M., Kiaka, R.D.. “Subsidized elephants: Community-based resource governance and environmental (in)justice in Namibia. ”. Geoforum 93. (2018): S. 105-115.(zum Artikel)
Schnegg, Michael. “Institutional multiplexity: social networks and community-based natural resource management”. Sustainability Science (2018): S. 1-14.open access
Schnegg, M. & J. Pauli. “Verwandtschaftsethnologie”. Einführung in die Erforschung kultureller Vielfalt. Hg. Beer, B., H. Fischer & J. Pauli. Berlin: Reimer, 2017, S. 147-164. open access
Schnegg, M. “ Collective Foods: Situating Food on the Continuum of Private-Common Property Regimes”. Current Anthropology 57 (5). (2016): S. 683-689.open access
Schnegg, M. “Lost in Translation: State Policies and Micro-politics of Water Governance in Namibia”. Human Ecology 44. (2016): S. 245-255.open access
Schnegg, M. & M. Bollig. “Institutions put to the test: Community-based water management in Namibia during a drought”. Journal of Arid Environments (2016): S. 62-71.open access
Schnegg, M., Linke, T.. “Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia.”. International Journal of the Commons 10(2). (2016) open access
Schnegg, M., M. Bollig, & Th. Linke. “Moral equality and success of common-pool water governance in Namibia”. Ambio (2016): S. 1-10.open access
Schnegg, M. “Reciprocity on Demand. Sharing and Exchanging Food in Northwestern Namibia”. Human Nature (2015): S. 1-18.open access
Schnegg, M. & Linke, T.. “Living Institutions: Sharing and Sanctioning Water among Pastoralists in Namibia”. World Development 68. (2015): S. 205-214.open access
Rieprich, R. & M. Schnegg, “The Value of Landscapes in Northern Namibia: A System of Intertwined Material and Nonmaterial Services, Society & Natural Resources”. 2015. open access
Schnegg, M. “Anthropology and Comparison: Methodological Challenges and Tentative Solutions.”. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 139. (2014): S. 55-72.open access
Schnegg, M., R. Rieprich and M. Pröpper. “Culture, Nature, and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Northern Namibia”. Ecology & Society 19 (4): 26. (2014) open access
Schnegg, M. “Epistemology: The Nature and Validation of Knowledge”. Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology. Hg. Bernard, Russell H. & Clarence C. Gravlee. Lanham a. o.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, S. 21-53. (article PDF, copyrighted material, do not print) (article scan)
Bollig, M., M. Schnegg & H.-P. Wotzka (Hg.). Pastoralism in Africa. Past, present and future. New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. (Review: Grillo, K. (2014))
Projects
Current research projects
2018-2021 NORFACE / BMBF
Artisanal Gold Mining, Mobility and Ideas of Sustainable Futures in Ghana
Michael Schnegg & Robert Pijpers
2010-2019 DFG - long-term project
„Local institutions in globalized societies"
2012-2016 BMBF - SASSCAL
"Deforestation and Development"
Michael Schnegg & João Baptista
2010-2015 BMBF - Sustainable land management - The Future Okavango
„Cultural knowledge, valuation, and regulation of ecosystem services"
Michael Schnegg & Michael Pröpper
2010-2013 DFG-Projekt
„Aging in the transnational space: (re-)migration processes between Mexiko and the USA"
Julia Pauli & Michael Schnegg
Workshops
2018 Conference at the University of Hamburg: „In troubled Waters“ – (with Michael Bollig und David Parduhn) programm
2016 Organisation der Konferenz "Comparing Culture(s): Reinvigorating Explicit Comparison as a Method in Anthropology", 27.05.-29.05.2016, Hamburg (gemeinsam mit Edward Lowe, Soka University)
2013 Organisation der Tagung "XXXIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA)", 21.-26. Mai 2013, Hamburg (gemeinsam mit Betina Hollstein, Sonja Drobnic)
2009 Organisation des Workshops „Eliten zwischen Aneignung, Anpassung und Abgrenzung” auf der Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Frankfurt (Main) (gemeinsam mit Dr. Pauli)
2009 Leiter der Module „Grundlagen der Netzwerkanalyse" (2 Tage) und „Gesamtnetzwerke" (4 Tage) der 3. Trierer Summerschool: „Network Analysis for the Humanities and the Social Sciences"
2008 „Changing livelihoods in the face of AIDS" (CLIVIA), 18.-20.01.2008, Durban, Südafrika (zusammen mit Dr. Scott Drimie und Clemens Greiner, M.A.)
2008 Leiter der Module „Grundlagen der Netzwerkanalyse" (2 Tage) und „Gesamtnetzwerke" (4 Tage) der 2. Trierer Summerschool: „Network Analysis for the Humanities and the Social Sciences"
2007 Organisation des Workshops „Verwandtschaft Heute” auf der Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Halle (Saale) (gemeinsam mit Prof. Alber, Prof. Beer, Dr. Pauli)
2007 Kommentator: „Social networks and institutional change: pathways and limits of state intervention in rural societies”, European Science Foundation - COST action A 35 Progressore - Working Group 4 (State and Peasants), Münster, 30.-31. März 2007
2007 Leiter der 6-tägigen 1. Trierer Summerschool: „Network Analysis for the Humanities and the Social Sciences"
2006 2nd International Symposium in Media Informatics - „Cow Paths: Agency in Social Software" - 16.-17. November, 2006, B-IT, Bonn (zusammen mit Dr. Ralf Klamma)
2000 Organisation der internationalen Konferenz „Networks, ethnography and social theory. In memoriam Thomas Schweizer”, Universität zu Köln, 9.-12. Juli 2000 (zusammen mit Prof. Dr. M. Bollig, Prof. Dr. H. Lang und Dr. J. Pauli)