Gibson Gosbert Mulokozi

Gibson G. Mulokozi is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, where he also serves on the Steering Committee of the Graduate School of Geosciences (GSGS). 

His research constitutes Work Package 3, Wild-catch value chains in Tanzania, within the project Showcasing the Wild, part of the DFG-funded Commodifying the Wild consortium. His ongoing dissertation, Human–Fish Relations: How Species-Specific Material Properties Shape Value Chains at Lake Tanganyika, asks how the material properties of freshwater fish shape value creation, the distribution of value, and the differentiated livelihoods of actors in the fish value chains of Lake Tanganyika's eastern Tanzanian shore. It studies an ornamental and a food-fish chain drawn from a single species assemblage as distinct relations, bringing them into direct comparison where their livelihood outcomes diverge. 

The dissertation extends the materiality strand of resource geography and more-than-human scholarship into global value chain analysis, treating the fish not as inert raw material but as an active condition of the economic relation — and showing, through human–fish relations, how the properties of a living resource shape the creation of value, its distribution, and the livelihoods that follow.