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Prof. Dr. Stefan Ouma
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Chair of Economic Geography
Since 01 March 2019, I have been holding the Chair of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography at the University of Bayreuth. Before that I worked as Doc and Post-Doc at Goethe-University, Frankfurt.
My research interests lies in a theoretically and empirically informed economic geography of globalization and development, drawing primarily on insights from heterodox economics, political ecology, and post- and decolonial work. My overriding research goal is to rematerialize “the economy” in times of seemingly unbounded economic relations and to open it up for political debate regarding the more sustainable and just pathways and forms of economy-making.
My current research on the political economy and ecology of global supply chains, the financialization of land and agriculture, the digital transformation of labor, and on “African Futures” reflect this orientation and complement existing foci of the Bayreuth Department of Geography. I have research experience in both the Global South (West and East Africa) and the Global North (Germany, New Zealand) and cultivate a global-relational perspective on geographically uneven development processes.
Read more about my past research projects here.
Between 2019 and 2024, I was a member of the Editorial Collective of one of Geography’s Prime Journals: Antipode.
I am also part of the Advisory Board of Critical African Studies, Global Africa, Environment and Planning A, Finance and Space.and Agro-Food Studies.
You can find a list of my academic and public talks here!
My CV:
| 2023 - 2025 | Vice-Speaker Institute of African Studies, University of Bayreuth |
| 2018 | Full Professor of Economic Geography, University of Bayreuth |
| 2016 | Visiting scholar Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin |
| 2013 - 2018 | Assistant Professor Economic Geography |
| 2012 | Visiting Scholar, Department of Politics, Sociology and Geography, University of Newcastle. |
| 2012 | PhD Economic Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt |
| 2007 - 2012 | Research Associate Goethe University Frankfurt |
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Chair of Economic Geography
Areas of research:
Themes:Political ecology and economy of global commodity chains, agrarian change in rural areas of East and West Africa, "African Futures", financialization of land and agriculture, transformation of labor through digitalization.
Theoretical orientations:Heterodox Economic Approaches, Political Ecology, De- and Postcolonial Approaches.
Methods:Qualitative-reconstructive methods, critical ethnography, mixed methods designs, critical statistics
Regional focus: Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania; Rhine-Main Region; New Zealand; further research experience in Australia, Singapore and South Africa
Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Chair of Economic Geography
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Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Chair of Economic Geography
Prof. Dr. Stefan Ouma
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Room: 134, GEO II
Office hours: My office hours during the winter semester are irregularly on Tuesdays. During the semester break, please make an appointment with me.
Please register here for the office hours.
Phone: +49 (0) 921 55-2262
E-mail: stefan.ouma@uni-bayreuth.de