Dr. Michael Kleinod-Freudenberg
Global South Studies Center (GSSC)
Short Biography
2022– 2023
Researcher and project coordinator at the Global South Studies Center, University of Cologne
2015 – 2022
Assistant professor (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at M.A. program “Economy and Society of Asia” and Department of Southeast Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn
2015
Phd in Sociology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2011 – 2015
Researcher in the BMBF-funded network of competence „Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia“ (DORISEA); Phd graduate student at Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Research Focus
- Societal nature relations, political ecology
- Cultural mediations of socio-ecological relations
- Nexus of social inequality and ecological degradation
- Animism, alternative ontologies
- Nature conservation, ecotourism
- Critical Theory, Praxeology, Marxian ecology
- Transformation studies
- Inter- and transdisciplinarity
- Southeast Asia, Laos
Recent Publications