Dr. Tanja Granzow

Tanja Granzow is a Senior Researcher at the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science/Peace and Conflict Studies and a Magister's degree in Social & Cultural Anthropology from the University of Tübingen, including a year abroad at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, where she focused on Middle Eastern Politics and Refugee Studies. In addition, she is a certified Forest Educator and is currently pursuing a M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences at the FernUniversität in Hagen.

Prior to her current position, Tanja has worked as Research Associate at Heidelberg University, where she initiated her research on human-ocean-interrelations and transformation processes in coastal communities in Spain and Cuba. At the University of Tübingen, she conducted ethnographic research on humanitarian intervention in post-disaster Haiti. Besides, she gained experience in research management and science communication at the Universities of Würzburg, Tübingen and Heidelberg.

At the Chair, Tanja works within the project "InteW²", in which she researches on best practices in integrated forest and water resource management in Germany.

Research interests

• Human-Environment Interrelations
• Environmental Justice
• Transformation Processes
• Sensory and Embodied Research Methods
• Arts-Science Collaboration

Research Projects

2023-present                  Integriertes Management von Wald und Wasser unter sich ändernden klimatischen Bedingungen: Risiken, Maßnahmen, Übertragbarkeit (InteW²), Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, University of Freiburg

2021-present                  Human-Ocean Relations and Coastal Transformation in Fishing Communities (COSTRA)
¡vamos, simbiosis!
Building a Partnership with the Sea Through Arts and Sciences 

For a video portraying of the project, please visit: https://vimeo.com/799460294

2020-present                  Ehrenamtliches Engagement in der aktiven Wiederbewaldung, in cooperation with Forstliche Versuchs- und Forschungsanstalt (FVA) Freiburg

2015-2018                      Re-Ordering Prozesse in der Humanitären Nothilfe, CRC 923 „Threatened Order. Societies Under Stress“, University of Tübingen

2012-2015                      Framing Threat. Mobilizing Violence: Micro-mechanisms of Conflict Escalation in Yemen, CRC 923 „Threatened Order. Societies Under Stress“, University of Tübingen

2008                               Zâr-Rituale in Cairo: Zwischen Tradition und Medialisierungen, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen

Professional Experience

04/2023-present
Senior Researcher, Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy, University of Freiburg

08/2022-08/2023
Consultant, Environmental Defense Fund, USA

04/2021-10/2022
Research Associate and Academic Coordinator, Thematic Research Network „Umwelten-Umbrüche-Umdenken“ / „Rethinking Environmental Change“, Heidelberg University

01/2020-02/2021
Research Coordinator, International Research Cooperation and Research Strategies, University of Tübingen

10/2018-11/2019
Research Coordination, Research Advancement Center, University of Würzburg

08/2015-09/2018
Research Associate, Collaborative Research Center 923 „Threatened Order. Societies Under Stress“, University of Tübingen

01/2010-09/2011
Internation Project Coordinator and Proxy, later CEO, Foundation of the German Institute for Disaster Medicine, Tübingen

Education

• 2020-present

M.Sc. in Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences, FernUniversität in Hagen
Thesis topic: "Ins Handeln kommen": Motivationen der Gründer*innen von Wiederbewaldungsinitiativen

• 2012-2015

Doctorate (Dr. rer. soc.) in Political Science/Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Tübingen
Dissertation: Framing Threat, Mobilizing Violence: Micro-mechanisms of conflict escalation in Yemen

• 2003-2009

Magister in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen
Thesis: Zâr-Rituale in Cairo: Zwischen Tradition und Medialisierungen

 

Teaching 

• Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung aus kulturanthropologischer Perspektive, Summer Semester 2022, University of Würzburg, BA+MA Europäische Ethnologie
• Körper(um)welten, Winter Semester 2021/22, Heidelberg University, Interdisciplinary „Marsilius Brückenseminar“
• Medizinethnologie & Humanitäre Hilfe, Summer Semester 2018, University of Tübingen, BA+MA Ethnologie
• Haiti – Gesellschaft im Ausnahmezustand?, Winter Semester 2017/18, University of Tübingen, BA+MA Ethnologie

• Einführung in die Vergleichende Kulturwissenschaft, Winter Semester 2011/12, University of Tübingen, BA Ethnologie

Organized and taught within the following summer schools:

• Re-Ordering Diversity: Humanitarian Assistance in the Context of Forced Migration and Displacement, July 4-8, 2016, University of Tübingen
• 2. Tübinger Sommerakademie Katastrophenmedizin und Humanitäre Hilfe, 31.07.-07.08.2011, Foundation of the German Institute for Disaster Medicine, Tübingen

• 1. Tübinger Sommerakademie Katastrophenmedizin und Humanitäre Hilfe, Summer 2010, Foundation of the German Institute for Disaster Medicine, Tübingen

Publications

Monographs

Framing Threat, Mobilizing Violence. Micro-Mechanisms of Conflict Escalation in Yemen, Dissertation, University of Tübingen, submitted 2015, published online 2018. dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-22496

Zar-Rituale in Cairo. Zwischen Tradition und Medialisierungen, Magister‘s Thesis 2008, University of Tübingen, published online 2013. hdl.handle.net/10900/47086

Co-Edited

Civil Wars, Special Issue: Framing Political Violence – A Micro-Approach to Civil War Studies, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2015. (Guest Editor, with Andreas Hasenclever and Jan Sändig) doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2015.1070448

Articles

»Chronik einer angekündigten Katastrophe – Hurrikan Irma in Haiti«, in: Krisen anders denken. Wie Menschen mit Bedrohungen umgegangen sind und was wir daraus lernen können, Editors Ewald Frie and Mischa Meier, Tübingen, 2023, Pages 133-149.

»Die Brüche zwischen Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft heilen: Hoffnung und Aspirationen als sine qua non der Ordnungsherstellung«, in: Bedroht sein. Gesellschaften unter Stress im Vergleich, Editors Ewald Frie, Mischa Meier and Dennis Schmidt, Tübingen, 2023, Pages 215-245. (with Gabriele Alex; in print)

»Umweltwissenschaften«, in: Umwelt interdisziplinär. Grundlagen – Konzepte – Handlungsfelder, Editors Thomas Meier, Frank Keppler, Ute Mager, Ulrich Platt and Friederike Reents, Heidelberg, 2022, online first. (with Thomas Kirchhoff, Frank Keppler, Thomas Meier and Jacqueline Lorenzen)

»Kreative Krisen. Brüche und Übergänge«, in: Ruperto Carola, Vol. 19, 2022, Pages 60-69. (with Friederike Reents and Jacqueline Lorenzen) doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ruca.2022.19.24508

Between Threat and Infantilisation: How Frames Impede the Meaningful Participation of the Disaster Affected in Haiti«, in: Affectedness and Participation in International Institutions, Editors Jan Sändig, Jochen von Bernstorff and Andreas Hasenclever, Routledge 2020.

»Between Threat and Infantilisation: How Frames Impede the Meaningful Participation of the Disaster Affected in Haiti«, in: Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, Vol. 8, Issue 5–6: Special Issue: Affectedness in International Institutions, Guest Editors Jan Sändig, Jochen von Bernstorff and Andreas Hasenclever, 2018, Pages 725–744. doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2018.1575768

»Aligning with the UN: Non-Violent Self-Determination Movements in the Global South«, in: Journal of Global Security Studies, Special Issue Nonviolent Civil Resistance, Vol. 3, Issue 3, 1 July 2018, Pages 322–338. (with Jan Sändig) doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogy019

»Mobilisierungs- und Eskalationsstrategien der Huthis im Spiegel ihres 'framing'. Problemdiagnose – Lösungsvorschlag – Motivationsaufruf«, in: Jemen-Report. Mitteilungen der Deutsch-Jemenitischen Gesellschaft e.V., Vol. 47, Issue 1/2 2016, Pages 23–31.

»Violent vs. Non-Violent Struggle: Investigating the Impact of Frames on Movement Strategies in Yemen«, in: Civil Wars, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2015. doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2015.1070451

»Introduction: Framing Political Violence – A Micro-Approach to Civil War Studies«, in: Civil Wars, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2015. (with Andreas Hasenclever and Jan Sändig) doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2015.1070448

»We are gambling with our survival.' Bedrohungskommunikation als Indikator für bedrohte Ordnungen«, in: Aufruhr – Katastrophe – Konkurrenz – Zerfall. Bedrohte Ordnungen als Thema der Kulturwissenschaften, Vol.1 of CRC 923-Series 'Bedrohte Ordnungen', Editors Ewald Frie and Mischa Meier, Tübingen 2014, Pages 141–173. (with Fabian Fechner, Jacek Klimek, Roman Krawielicki, Beatrice von Lüpke, Rebekka Nöcker) doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-153002-9