Dr. Anne-Katrin Broocks (she / her)
Social Scientist: Sociology and Cultural Anthropology
Institute for Latin American Studies at Free University Berlin
Senior Researcher
+49 (0)30 838 63789
A.Broocks@fu-berlin.de
Room 208
Boltzmannstr. 4
14195 Berlin
Homepage: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anne-Katrin-Broocks
Education
2023 PhD Social Sciences – Knowledge Sociology, University of Bremen, Thesis: «Mangroves and Meaning-Making over time: Globalized discourse and it impacts on Mangrove Use». Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), DAAD Scholarship for fieldwork phase in Ecuador. Adjunct fellow: Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS).
2009 M.A. in Cultural Anthropology, Latin American Studies & German Literature at University of Hamburg. Thesis: Transnational Backpacker Culture in South America
Research Interests and Skills
- NaturesCultures, Human-Nature Interaction
- Natural Resource Management
- Resource Conflicts, Environmental Peacebuilding
- Mobilities, Displacement, Migration, Climate-induced Migration
- Co-Creation of Knowledge, Interepistemic Dialogue
Research Regions: Latin America, Southern Africa
International Research Coordination
Since 11.2023 Prodigy – Coordinator Working Package III Understanding and analysis of the nested nature of constant change
2018-2020 Coordination of Mangroves and Meaning-Making over time
https://www.leibniz-zmt.de/en/research/research-projects/meaning-of-mangroves.html
Curriculum vitae
01.2023-11.2023 Senior Policy Advisor at German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Division: Policy Issues of Discplament and Migration, Berlin, Germany.
06.2021-12.2022 Programme Coordinator: «Transformation of resource conflicts and promotion of intercultural dialogue in the Bolivian lowlands», Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ), Civil Peace Service, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
09.2018- 05.2021 Junior Researcher (Doctoral Candidate) at Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen
09.2020 – 05.2021 Junior Researcher (Doctoral Candidate), Socium Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy and Institute of Sociology, University of Bremen.
08.2016 – 08.2018 Advisor for conflict transformation in resource conflicts and Gender, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Boliva.
11.2013 – 01.2016 Advisor for a sustainable local economy and public-private dialogue in the Bazaruto Marine National Park Area, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Programme ‘ProEcon’, Mozambique.
01.2011 – 03.2013 Team Leader «Sustainability Department», Vamizi Island / Angoche, Cabo Delgado Biodiversity Trust Ltd., Mozambique.
Teaching
ESPOL University Guayaquil, Ecuador
University of Bremen, Institute of Sociology