Dr. Diana Ayeh
Thematic Area Environment and Society
Department of Environmental Politics
Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research − UFZ
Permoserstr. 15
04318 Leipzig, Germany
phone: ++49 - 341 - 235 482257
diana.ayeh@ufz.de
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Research Interests
- Ethnographies of the economy and of social inequality
- Ethics in the extractive industries and role of the public
- (Post-)mining governance in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Germany
- Spatiality and temporality of conflicts
- Narratives of sustainability transformation (e.g., Circular Economy and Just Transition)
- Extractivism as the material basis for the energy transition
Professional Career
since 05/2022 Research Associate in the Department of Environmental Politics, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
01/2022 - 05/2022 Research Fellow at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), University of Ghana
04/2020 - 05/2022 Research Associate in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
01/2016 - 12/2019 Research Associate in the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199, Subproject B06 Gold Mining and New Regulations of (Sub)National Spaces in Africa, University of Leipzig
01/2015 - 12/2015 Postgraduate Studies International Cooperation for Sustainable Development, Seminar for Rural Development (SLE), Humboldt-University Berlin
06/2015 - 11/2015 Junior Consultant SLE Study Inclusion grows - Developing a manual on disability mainstreaming for the German development cooperation Case study Namibia, Client: GIZ/BMZ
10/2011 - 07/2014 Master of Arts African Studies, University of Leipzig and Master de Recherche Dynamiques Africaines, Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) Bordeaux
10/2007 - 09/2011 Bachelor of Arts Political Science, University of Leipzig
Current Projects
Discourses and Narratives for Sustainability Transformation
recomine: Local alliance on mining legacies with support of a broad public community
Completed Projects
PostMIN: Negotiating Mine Closure in West Africa (MIASA Tandem Fellowship)
Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199 Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition
Publications
Ayeh, D., Bleicher, A. (2023). Rohstoffe im 21. Jahrhundert. In: Sonnberger, M., Bleicher, A., Groß, M. (eds) Handbuch Umweltsoziologie. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37222-4_52-1.
Ayeh, D. (2022). Le droit minier face à l’éthique de l’or: Contestations autour d’une concession minière au Burkina Faso. Revue internationale des études du développement 249, 35-62.
https://doi.org/10.4000/ried.770.
Ayeh, D. (2022). What Local Gold Extraction Tells Us about a Globalized Mining Economy. TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research. Published online 07 April 2022, https://trafo.hypotheses.org/34308.
Ayeh, D. (2021). Spaces of Responsibility: Negotiating Industrial Gold Mining in Burkina
Faso. Berlin: DE GRUYTER OLDENBOURG (Dialectics of the Global 10). ISBN: 9783110689969.
Ayeh, D., Bleicher A. (2021): One concept fits it all? On the relationship between geoethics and responsible mining. The Extractive Industries and Society 8 (3), 100934. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100934.
Ayeh, D. (2020): What’s “local” labor in Burkina Faso’s mining sector? Africa is a Country. Published online 25 June.
Ayeh D. (2019): Rezension zu: Mbembe, Achille: Critique of Black Reason. Durham 2017. Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists. Published online 21 September. ISBN: 978-0-8223-6343-9.
Ayeh D. (2018): Yaramoko. Mining Conflicts in Burkina Faso. Published online 15 November.
Werthmann, K.; Ayeh, D. (2017): Processes of Enclaving under the Global Condition: The Case of Burkina Faso. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag GmbH. (Working paper series of the SFB 1199 Universität Leipzig, 4).
Kieck. B.; Ayeh, D., Beitzer, P., Gerdes, N. Günther, P., Wiemers, B. (2016): Inclusion Grows. Developing a manual on disability mainstreaming for the German Development Cooperation - Case Study Namibia. Berlin: Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institut für Agrar- und Gartenbauwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.18452/3211.
Ayeh, D., Plastrotmann C., and Ziesemer S. (2016): Verantwortung ohne Grenzen? Deutsche Entwicklungszusammenarbeit im Kontext von Flucht und Vertreibung. Berlin: Seminar für Ländliche Entwicklung (SLE Briefing Paper 09), ISSN: 2197-8042.
Ayeh, D., Rahn, K., Wendebourg, L., Bing, N, Kausch, S. (2015): Auf postkolonialen Spuren in Leipzig. Ein Stadtplan. Leipzig: Engagierte Wissenschaft e.V.