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Anna Fünfgeld

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Anna Fünfgeld is a social scientist specialized in energy and climate politics, resource conflicts, social movements, and infrastructure studies. Her academic background is in political science/ international relations, geography, social and cultural anthropology, and German literature and language studies. Anna’s current research project deals with energy politics in Indonesia and Brazil and the societal struggles and political contestations related to them. Conceptually she is interested and works with critical state theories, theories of justice, and spatial theories as well as approaches from political economy, political ecology, and infrastructure studies.
Anna is a doctoral candidate at the International Politics Department of the University of Freiburg (supervised by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rüland) and at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg (supervised by Prof. Detlef Nolte). She formerly worked as a researcher, and methodology coordinator at the Freiburg Southeast Asian Studies project, and as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of International Politics and the Institute of Human Geography at Freiburg University.
Anna also acted as principal researcher and project coordinator in projects on the agency of refugees in Germany (2016), and the spatial perception and practices in German public places (2014). She conducted an interdisciplinary study on Indonesia`s decentralization reforms and public service delivery, and research for her Magister thesis on coal mining conflicts in Indonesia in 2011/12. She has carried out and contributed to several consultancy studies.
Anna also works as a freelance radio journalist and offers workshops and training on anti-discrimination (anti-rightwing extremism/populism, argumentation training, Anti-Bias, and Betzavta).
Please access Anna’s publications here:
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna_Fuenfgeld
Academia: https://giga-hamburg.academia.edu/AnnaF%C3%BCnfgeld/Papers
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9910-5501

Research Interests

•    Energy Politics
•    Climate Politics
•    Resource Conflicts
•    Infrastructure Studies
•    Political Economy
•    Political Ecology

Regional Expertise

•    Southeast Asia, esp. Indonesia
•    South America, esp. Brazil

Publications

Monographs

Fünfgeld, A. (2016): Staatlichkeit als lokale Praxis: Kohleabbau und Widerstand in Indonesien. Berlin [u.a.]: LIT-Verlag. Southeast Asian Modernities Series 16.

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Fünfgeld, A. (2019): The Dream of ASEAN Connectivity. Imagining Infrastructure in Southeast Asia. In: Pacific Affairs 92 (2), pp. 287–311.

Fünfgeld, A. (2018): ASEAN Energy Connectivity: Energy, Infrastructure and Regional Cooperation in Southeast Asia. In: The Indonesian Quarterly 46 (4), pp. 315–343.

Fünfgeld, A. (2016): The State of Coal Mining in East Kalimantan: Towards a Political Ecology of Local Stateness. Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS), Special Issue on Socio-Ecological Conflicts in Southeast Asia, 9(1): 147-161.

Book Chapters

Fünfgeld, A. (2019): Hegemony and Varieties of Contestation: Social Movements and the Struggle over Coal-Based Energy Production in Indonesia. In: Anderl, F. et al. (eds.): Rule and Resistance beyond the Nation State. London, New York: Rowman and Littlefield International, pp. 89–114.

Fünfgeld, A. (2019): Just Energy? - Structures of Energy (In)Justice and the Indonesian Coal Sector. In: Tahseen Jafry (Hg.): Routledge Handbook of Climate Justice. London: Routledge, pp. 222–236.

Fünfgeld, A./ Freytag, T. (2019): Zur Praxis urbaner Nacht-Orte in Freiburg. In: Hülz, M. et al. (eds.): Heimat. Ein vielfältiges Konstrukt. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 259–278.

Other Publications

Fünfgeld, A. (2018): Fossil Fuels and the Question of Justice. Insights from Indonesian Energy Politics. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. Berlin (Analysen, 44). Online verfügbar unter https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/38632/fossil-fuels-and-the-question-of-justice/.

Fünfgeld, A. (2017): Claiming Justice Matters in Energy Politics. Why energy policy is not only about economic or ecological issues, but also fundamental requires the consideration of impacts on social justice. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. Berlin (Policy Paper, 2/2017). Online verfügbar unter https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/38032/claiming-justice-matters-in-energy-policy/.

Fünfgeld, A. (2017): Governing Resources, Governing People: From Timber to Coal in East Kalimantan. Occasional Paper Series, Southeast Asian Studies at Freiburg University, OP No. 37.

Fünfgeld, A. (2017): Kohle ohne Ende – fossilistische Energiepolitik in Indonesien. Südostasien. 33(4): 30-31.

Fünfgeld, A. (2017): Claiming Justice Matters in Energy Policy. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Policy Paper 2/2017. URL: https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Policy_Paper/PolicyPaper_2-2017.pdf.

Fünfgeld, A. (2017): „Wenn sich nicht mal mehr der Teufel heimisch fühlt“ – Widerstand gegen die Energiepolitik in Indonesien. In: Stiftung Asienhaus (ed., 2017): Asien im Windschatten des Wachstums. Ungleichheit – Extraktivismus – Bewegungen: 35-37.

Fünfgeld, A./ Hofstetter, Joana (2017): Zwischen Dissidenz und Opposition – Was ist Widerstand und wie kann man dazu forschen?, Tagungsbericht, Normative Orders Conference „International Dissidence: Rule and Resistance in a Globalized World“, Frankfurt, 2-4 March 2017, URL: https://www.theorieblog.de/index.php/author/anna-fuenfgeld/

Fünfgeld, A./ Gonschorek, G. (2015): Dynamic Alignments and Realignments in Global Southeast Asia. Conference Report. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) Conference. 24-26 June 2015, Freiburg. Internationales Asienforum 46(3-4): 419-425.

Fünfgeld, A./ Lücking, M./ Platte, F. (2012): How Can Standards Contribute to Social Welfare through the Improvement of Public Service Delivery? An Interdisciplinary Assessment of the Potentials of Standard Based Public Service Delivery in Indonesia. Occasional Paper Series, Southeast Asian Studies at Freiburg. OP No. 11.

Fünfgeld, A. (2007): Indonesiens informelles Abfallentsorgungssystem und die, die es am Leben erhalten. Cargo Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 27: 24-26.

Conference Contributions & Invited Talks

2/2020 - Consent and Contestation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Indonesian Energy Politics, ALMA Series, Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg, 13 February 2020.

2/2020 - The Dream of ASEAN Connectivity: Imagining Infrastructure in Southeast Asia, Workshop „Jenseits der Neuen Seidenstraße,“ Freiburg, 8 February 2020.

2/2020 - Consent and Contestation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Indonesian Energy Politics, CLICCS Cluster of excellence, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, 6 February 2020.

7/2019 - The Dream of ASEAN Connectivity: Imagining Infrastructure in Southeast Asia, 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Leiden/ The Netherlands, 16-19 July 2019.

7/2019 - Struggles over Indonesian Energy Politics: Counter-Hegemony and the Role of Organic Intellectuals, 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Leiden/ The Netherlands, 16-19 July 2019.

7/2019 - Geopolitics, Energy, and the Empty Signifier of Connectivity, Conference „Constructing the 21st Century Silk Road: Southeast Asia in the Race for Connectivity and Geopolitical Interests,” University of Freiburg, 4-5 July 2019.

3/2019 -  Connecting and Dis-Connecting ASEAN: Infrastructural Imaginaries in Southeast Asia, International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conventon, Toronto/ Canada, 27-30 March 2020.

3/2019 - Struggles over Indonesian Energy Politics: Counter-Hegemony and the Role of Organic Intellectuals, International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conventon, Toronto/ Canada, 27-30 March 2020.

11/2018 - Governing Resources, Governing People: From Timber to Coal in Indonesia. Paper presented at the GIGA Research Platform Middle East on ‘Natural Resources in the MENA Region and beyond’, Hamburg, 16 November 2018

10/2018 - Just Energy? – Structures of Energy (In)Justice and the Indonesian Coal Sector. Paper presented at the workshop ‘Mining and Energy in Indonesia. Juggling Future Needs and Sustainability’ at Passau University, 25 October 2018.

9/2018 - Energy Infrastructures: Dreams, Realities, and the neglected of ASEAN Connectivity. Paper Presented at the EISA workshop ‘Exploring IR through Infrastructures: Materiality as Global Politics’, Prague, 11 September 2018.

8/2018 - Just Energy? Social Justice and the Indonesian Coal Sector. Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research’s (ECPR) General Conference, Hamburg, 25 August 2018.

8/2018 - Energy Infrastructures as Multi-Scalar Challenges of ASEAN Physical Connectivity. Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research’s (ECPR) General Conference, Hamburg, 23 August 2018.

6/2018 - Security, Justice, and Oligarchy: Struggles over Hegemony in Indonesian Energy Politics. Paper presented at the Authors’ Workshop ‘The Transnationalization of Rule and Resistance.’ Goethe University Frankfurt, 7 June 2018.

3/2018 - Energy Infrastructures: Dreams, Realities and the Neglected of ASEAN Connectivity. Paper presented at the 2018 Philippines International Studies Organization (PHISO) Conference ‘Re-thinking Regions in Global International Relations’, 23-24 March 2018, Ateneo de Davao University, Davao City, The Philippines.

11/2017 - Backwards into the future? – Coal-based energy policy in Indonesia. Presentation at the Conference ‘The Politics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia’ at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies, University of Bonn, 15 November 2017.

9/2017 – Keadilan Energi dan Keselamatan Rakyat (Energy Justice and People’s Safety), Kedai Jatam, Jakarta/ Indonesia, 20 september 2017.

4/2017 - Needs and Agency of Refugees in Freiburg. Presentation of research results at the Migration Commission of the City of Freiburg, 27 April 2017.

4/2017 -  Energiepolitik in Indonesien – Aushandlungsprozesse um Gerechtigkeit. Invited talk held at opening event of the international profile of the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg, 26 April 2017.

3/2017 - When Oligarchy Meets Neoliberalism – A Structural Approach to Coal and Energy Policy in Indonesia. Presentation at the Normative Orders group conference ‘International Dissidence: Rule and Resistance in a Globalized World’, 3 March 2017, Frankfurt.

1/2017 - Energy and Resource Policy in Indonesia – Contested Justice. Invited talk held for the Geography Lecture Series of the University of Göttingen, 24 January 2017, Göttingen.

11/2016 - Needs of Refugees in Freiburg. Presentation of research results for refugees, refugee workers, volunteers, and the Freiburg city council, 6 October 2016.

11/2015 - Nacht-Orte. Presentation of research results at the public event “Freiburg at night”, organized by the City of Freiburg, 18 November 2015, Freiburg.

8/2015 - (Towards a) Political Ecology of Coal Mining in East Kalimantan. Presentation at the EuroSEAS Conference. 11-14 August 2015, Vienna.

1/2014 - Nacht-Orte. Presentation of research results at a public event organized by the City of Freiburg, 13 November 2014, Freiburg.

7/2014 - ‚Praktische‘ Konstituierung von Staatlichkeit im Konfliktfeld des Kohlebergbaus in Ost-Kalimantan (Indonesien). Presentation at Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute. 24 July 2014, Freiburg.

1/2014 - Der Staat als dynamische Infrastruktur und die ‚praktische‘ Konstituierung von Staatlichkeit im Konfliktfeld des Kohlebergbaus in Indonesien. Presentation at the ‘Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie IX Infrastrukturen der Stadt‘, 31 January -1 February 2014, University of Bremen.

1/2012 - Political Participation & Strategies of Resistance in Decentralized Indonesia - A Case Study on Coal-Mining in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Presentation at the ‘Forschungswerkstatt Intersektionale Mehrebenenanalyse in der (Forschungs-)Praxis‘, 26-28 January 2012, University Hamburg-Harburg.