1 Curriculum Vitae BENEDIKT KORF 1. PERSONAL DETAILS

Curriculum Vitae
BENEDIKT KORF
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PERSONAL DETAILS
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich.
Tel: +41 44 63 55 240. Email: [email protected]
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EDUCATION
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (D); PhD (Dr.rer.agr.); “summa cum laude”): 2000-2004
Conflict, Space and Institutions: Property Rights and the Political Economy of War in Sri Lanka.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Seminar für Ländliche Entwicklung (D): Jan 1999-Dec 1999
Postgraduate certificate: Rural Development
RWTH Aachen (D), M.A. Geography (“with distinction”): January 1999
RWTH Aachen (D), M.Sc. Civil Engineering (specialization in environmental engineering):
November 1998
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE):
 Visiting research fellow (Jan-Sept 2013)
Department of Geography, University of Zurich (CH):
 Associate Professor in Political Geography: Nov 2009 – present
 Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Geography: Feb 2007-Oct 2009
Department of Geography, University of Liverpool (UK):
 Lecturer in Development Geography: April 2005 – Jan 2007
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Chair of Resource Economics (D):
 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (research associate); Project coordinator: July 2004- Mar 2005
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), Rome (IT):
 Consultant, Livelihoods division: Apr-Jun 2004.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Seminar für Ländliche Entwicklung (SLE) (D):
 Team leader, Sri Lanka research group: Mar-Dec 2001.
World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB), German Development Cooperation (GTZ), FAO, Arcotrass,
Berghof foundation:
 Independent freelance consultant, trainer, coach and policy advisor: 2000-2005.
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RESEARCH
Principal Research Grants:
2013-2016 (SNF, c.301.000 CHF): Living with violence II: the struggle for territory in post-war Sri Lanka
[PI; funding for one PhD student, 30% postdoc position, plus field work]
2013 (University of Zurich, c.4.000.000 CHF; Project No. 8: 426.000 CHF): Global Change and
Biodiversity (GCB): Predicting the state of the environment: Integrating scaling and feedback mechanisms; Project
No. 8: Political ecology of environmental conflicts (University Priority Research Programme 2013 ff.)
[Co-leader, Project 8; PI: Michael Schaepman, Co-PI: Bernhard Schmid, Andrew Hector]
2012-2015 (SNF, c.180.000 CHF): Brokering political & economic transitions in South Asia’s periphery
[PI; funding for one PhD students, plus field work]
2009-2012 (SNF, 185.000 CHF): Living with Violence in Rural Nepal
[PI; funding for PhD student: Sarah Byrne, plus field work]
2009-2012 (SNF, ProDoc, 383.000 CHF): Negotiating Rural Development at South Asia’s Periphery [CoPI; PI: Ulrike Müller-Böker; supervised PhD student: Bart Klem]
2006-2008 (ESRC, NGPA Programme, 250.000 £): Conflict, Community and Faith in Sri Lanka
[Co-PI; PI: Jonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh (UK); co-PI: Jonathan Goodhand, SOAS
(UK), Bart Klem (UZH), Shahul Hasbullah, KT Silva, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka]
2005-2006 (World Bank, 25.000 EUR): Policy Note on Land and Conflict in Sri Lanka
[Principal investigator]
2002-2004 (ZEF, PhD fellowship plus field work grant, 30.000 EUR): Conflict, Space and Institutions:
Property Rights and the Political Economy of War in Sri Lanka
[PhD stipend]
2001 (GTZ, BMZ, 90.000 EUR): Conflict- Threat or Opportunity? Land Use and Coping Strategies of
War-affected Communities in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
[Principal investigator, Team Leader; Co-investigators: T Flämig, C. Schenk, M. Ziebell, R.
Singarayer, T. Sakthivel, A. Ratnayake, K. Devarajah, D. Darmarajah]
Other research collaborations:
2004, 2007 (BMZ, 1.500.000 EUR; Sub-Project Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: 200.000 EUR):
Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction (CAPRi)
[Coordinator, Sub-Project Ethiopia (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin); Principal applicant(s):
Ruth Meinzen-Dick, IFPRI (USA), Konrad Hagedorn, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin u.a.; PhD
students: Fekadu Beyene, Bekele Hundie]
2002-2004 (DFG-BMZ, 60.000 EUR): The Role of Local-level Institutions for Enhancing Rural
Livelihoods in Ethiopia.
[Co-investigator; Principal applicant: Konrad Hagedorn, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; coinvestigator: Ayalneh Bogale, Alemaya University, Ethiopia]
1999 (GTZ, BMZ): Food Security and Conflict: A Participatory Development Concept for the IFSP
Trincomalee, Sri Lanka:
[Collaborator; Team leader: Eberhard Bauer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin]
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1997 (German Development Service, Carl Duisberg Foundation): Water Supply and Sanitation in
Rural Communities of Sunyani District, Ghana:
[Researcher]
1996 (Caritas, Diocese of Mbinga, Tanzania): Socio-economic Study of Rural Water Mill Projects in
Mbinga, Tanzania:
[Intern]
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PhD SUPERVISION
Completed:
Beyene, Fekadu Beyene (co-supervisor, with K Hagedorn, HU Berlin), The Commons in Transition:
Pastoralism and resource management in Somali Region, Ethiopia (2004-2008)
Starmanns, Mark (co-supervisor, with B Braun, Universität Köln): Standards of Fairness and
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Textile Industry (2003-2008)
Klem, Bart (principal supervisor): In the Wake of War: Political Transition in Eastern Sri Lanka
(SNF, ProDoc, 2008-2012)
Ongoing:
Hollenbach, Pia (principal supervisor): Ethnographies of Aid, Moral Geographies and PostTsunami Humanitarianism in Sri Lanka (2008-2012)
Byrne, Sarah (principal supervisor, with Andrea Nightingale): Living with Violence in Rural Nepal
(SNF, 2010-2013).
Johnson, Deborah (principal supervisor, with Roland Bleiker): The Divided Church: Boundary
crossings of the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict (2010-2014).
Emmenegger, Rony (co-supervisor, with Tobias Hagmann and Timothy Raeymaekers): The Somali
frontier in Ethiopia (2010-2014)
Hochleithner, Stephan (co-supervisor, principal supervisor: Timothy Raeymakers): Peace
displacement in Eastern Congo (2012-2015)
Isabaeva, Eliza (2011-2014, co-supervisor, with Peter Finke): Urban squatters as spaces of politics
in Kyrgistan.
Bartmess, Jennifer (2012-2016, principal supervisor, with Norman Backhaus): Political ecology of
forest user conflicts in Borneo (University Priority Research Programme Global Change and
Biodiversity).
Weiss, Tobias (2012-2015, co-supervisor, with Fabian Schäfer and David Chiavacci): Political
protest, anti-nuclear campaigns and media spaces in Japan after Fukushima.
Kelegama, Thiruni (2013-2017, principal supervisor): Political Protest, Circulating Norms and the
Political Economy of Land in South Asia.
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CONSULTANCY
2011, United Kingdom (Berghof Foundation, Berlin: Engaging the Tamil Diaspora in Peace Building)
[Evaluator; funded through BHC Sri Lanka, Colombo]
2005, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation: Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict
Transformation (FLICT))
[Review mission; funded through GTZ, DfID]
2004, Ghana, Rome (Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO): Sustainable Livelihoods Training
Package on Natural Resource Conflicts)
[Programme evaluation, workshop facilitation, training material; funded through FAO]
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2003, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation: Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict
Transformation (FLICT))
[Reconnaissance mission; funded through GTZ DfID]
2003, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation: Integrated Food Security Programme Trincomalee)
[Concept paper “Participatory Project Management – Principles and Practices”; funded through
GTZ]
2003, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation: Integrated Food Security Programme Trincomalee)
[Concept paper “Community Mobilization – Principles and Practices”; funded through GTZ]
2002-2003, Sri Lanka (Berghof-Foundation for conflict studies, Colombo)
[Scoping study on “Control over Land in the northeast of Sri Lanka]
2002, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation: Jaffna Rehabilitation Project (JRP))
[Project review on “Social mobilisation and conflict transformation; funded through GTZ]
2002, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation: Jaffna Rehabilitation Project (JRP))
[Project Progress Review; funded through GTZ]
2001, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation, Asian Development Bank: Northeast
community Restoration Programme (NECORD))
[Training concept for community development; funded through GTZ]
2001, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation, Asian Development Bank: Northeast
community Restoration Programme (NECORD))
[Project appraisal mission; funded through GTZ]
2000, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation: Integrated Food Security Programme Trincomalee)
[Review, coaching and training on community mobilisation; funded through GTZ]
2000, Germany (Agroplan Wolfenbüttel: Zukunftsentwicklung in Mühlen)
[Co-facilitator, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA)]
2000, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation: Integrated Food Security Programme Trincomalee)
[Project progress review and logframe planning; funded through GTZ]
2000, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation: Integrated Food Security Programme Trincomalee)
[Concept development for planning village projects; funded through GTZ]
2000, Sri Lanka (German Development Cooperation: Integrated Food Security Programme Trincomalee)
[Train-the trainer workshop in participatory development approaches, funded through GTZ]
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EXTERNAL ACTIVITIES
Editor, Geographica Helvetica (2009- )
Editorial boards: Europa Regional, International Development Planning Review
Peer reviewer:
Research proposals:
Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC);
British Academy;
American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies;
Schweizer Nationalfonds (SNF);
Swiss Network for International Studies (SNIS)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
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Journals:
Africa Spectrum; American Anthropologist; Antipode; Comparative Political Studies; Conflict, Security &
Development; Disaster; Environment and Planning A; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Erdkunde;
Europa Regional; Geoforum; Geopolitics; Global Networks; International Journal of Conflict and Violence;
International Migration Journal; Journal of Development Studies; Journal of Historical Sociology; Journal of
International Development; Journal of Land Use Science; Journal of Peace Research; Journal of Refugee Studies;
Journal of Rural Studies; Journal of Socio-Economics; Millennium; National Geographic (Advisor); Norwegian
Journal of Geography; Planning Theory, Political Geography; Security Dialogue; Social and Cultural Geography;
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography; Society and Natural Resources; The World Economy; Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers.
Book manuscripts: Routledge (4).
External examiner:
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Department of Development Studies: external examiner, PhD
Paolo Novak, April 2008.
Wageningen University, NL: external examiner, PhD Timmo Ghaasbeck, May 2010.
Kathmandu University, Nepal: external examiner, PhD Anita Ghimire, April 2010.
Universität Passau, D: Habilitationsgutachten, Oktober 2011
Graduate School of International Development Studies, Roskilde University, DK: external examiner, PhD Stine
Finne Jakobsen, March 2012.
Norwegian Technical University, Trondheim, Department of Geography: external examiner, PhD Sarah
Khasalamwa, November 2012.
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ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES
Speaker, Research Field 3: Norms and Orders, University Research Priority Programme “Asia and Europe”,
University of Zurich (2010-2012)
Steering committee, Innovation Pool, Department of Geography, UZH (2010- )
Steering committee, University Research Priority Programme “Global Change and Biodiversity”, University of
Zurich (2013- ...)
Head of examination board, Minor Subject “Geography” (Lizenziat), University of Zurich (2010-2012)
Expert, Kommission für die Aufnahmeprüfung von Studierenden mit ausländischem Vorbildungsausweis, Rectors
Conference of the Swiss Universities (CRUS) (2010-2011)
Scientific Advisory Board, Zurich Graduate School in Geography (2009- )
Ausschuss Lehre (Departmental Advisory Board, Teaching), Department of Geography (2008-2011)
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MEMBERSHIPS
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of Geographers, UK;
American Association of Geographers;
Development Studies Association, UK;
Gesellschaft für Erdkunde, Berlin;
Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich (GEGZ).
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PUBLICATIONS
(a)
Peer-reviewed articles
Published or forthcoming:
Hess, M. and B. Korf (2014, forthcoming) Tamil Diaspora and the political spaces of secondgeneration activism in Switzerland. Global Networks.
Korf, B. and J. Truong (2013, in print) Schwierigkeiten mit dem Volk: Politische Geographie und
die (Un-) Vernunft der direkten Demokratie. Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 87 (2).
Hasbullah, SH, Korf, B, 2013, Muslim geographies, violence and the politics of community in
eastern Sri Lanka. Geographical Journal 179 (1), 32-43.
Korf, B. (2012): Neuro-Kulturgeographie. Geographische Zeitschrift 100 (3), 146-163.
Featherstone, D, Korf, B, 2012, Introduction: Space, contestation and the political. Geoforum 43
(4), 663–668.
Korf, B, 2012, Geographien akademischer Resonanz. Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 86
(4), 419-425.
Korf, B, Schetter, C, 2012, Räume des Ausnahmezustands. Carl Schmitts Raumphilosophie,
Frontiers und Ungoverned Territories. Peripherie 126/127, 147-170.
Hagmann, T, Korf, B, 2012, Agamben in the Ogaden: violence and sovereignty in the EthiopianSomali frontier. Political Geography 31, 205-214.
Korf, B, Raeymaekers, T, 2012, Geographie der Gewalt. Geographische Rundschau 64 (2), 4-11.
Backhaus, N, Berndt, C, Korf, B, Müller-Böker, U, 2012, Worlds of difference, different worlds:
geographies of globalization. Geographica Helvetica 67 (1-2), 77-84.
Korf, B, 2011, Resources, violence and the telluric geographies of small wars. Progress in Human
Geography, 35(6), 733–756.
Schlottmann, A, Graefe, O, Korf, B, 2010, Things that matter. A dialogue on interpretative and
material semiotics in geography. Geographische Zeitschrift 98 (4), 226-236.
*Korf, B, M Engeler and T Hagmann, 2010, The geography of warscape. Third World Quarterly
31 (3), 385-399.
*Korf, B, SH Hasbullah, P Hollenbach, B Klem, 2010, The gift of disaster: On the
commodification of good intentions in Sri Lanka after the tsunami. Disasters 34(S1): S60−S77.
Korf, B, 2010, The geography of participation. Third World Quarterly 31 (5), 709–720.
Korf, B. 2009, Geographie des Ernstfalls. Geographische Zeitschrift 97 (2+3), 151-167.
*Goodhand, J., Klem, B, Korf, B, 2009, Religion, conflict and boundary politics in Sri Lanka,
European Journal of Development Research 21, 679–698.
Bogale, A, Korf, B, 2009, Resource Entitlement and Mobility of Pastoralists in Yerer and Daketa
Valleys, Eastern Ethiopia. Human Ecology 37, 453-462.
*Hasbullah, SH, Korf, B, 2009, Muslim geographies and the politics of purification in Sri Lanka
after the 2004 Tsunami. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 30, 248-264.
Korf, B, 2009, Partizipation als Ausnahmezustand. Geographica Helvetica 64 (2), 98-105.
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Korf, B, 2008, ‘A Neural Turn? On the ontology of the geographical subject’, Environment and
Planning A 40 (3), 715-732.
Crewett, W, Bogale, A, Korf, B, 2008, Land Tenure in Ethiopia: Continuities, change and the
quest for state control, CAPRi Working Paper 91 (Washington D.C.: IFPRI).
Crewett, W, Korf, B, 2008, Reforming Land Tenure in Ethiopia: Historical narratives, political
ideologies and multiple practices. Review of African Political Economy 116, 202-220.
Beyene, F, Korf, B, 2008, Unmaking the commons: Collective action, property righst and
resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in Eastern Ethiopia. CAPRi Working Paper 88
(Washingon D.C.: IFPRI).
Korf, B, 2007, Antinomies of Generosity: Moral geographies and post-Tsunami aid in Southeast
Asia, Geoforum 38 (1), 366-378.
Bogale, A, Korf, B, 2007, To Share or Not to Share? (Non-)Violence, Scarcity and Resource
Access in Somali Region, Ethiopia, Journal of Development Studies 43 (4), 743-765.
Korf, B, 2007, Contract or War? On the rules of the game in civil wars, Journal of International
Development 19 (5), 685-694.
Korf, B, Engeler, M, 2007, Geographien der Gewalt, Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie 51
(3+4), 221-237.
Korf, B, 2007, Geographie und Gehirn, Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde 81 (3), 267-284.
*Korf, B, Fünfgeld, H, 2006, War and the Commons: assessing the changing politics of violence,
access and entitlements in Sri Lanka, Geoforum 37 (3), 391-403.
Korf, B, 2006, Who is the Rogue? Discourse, Power and Spatial Politics in Sri Lanka, Political
Geography 25 (3), 279-297.
Korf, B, 2006, Cargo Cult Science, Armchair Empiricism and the Idea of Violent Conflict, Third
World Quarterly 27 (3), 459-476.
Korf, B, 2006, Functions of Violence Revisited: Greed, Pride and Grievance in Sri Lanka’s Civil
War, Progress in Development Studies 6 (2), 109-122.
Korf, B, 2006, Dining with Devils? An Ethnographic Enquiry into the Conflict-Development
Nexus in Sri Lanka, Oxford Development Studies 44 (1), 47-64.
Korf, B, Oughton, L, 2006, Rethinking the European Countryside: Can we learn from the
South?, Journal of Rural Studies 22, 278-289.
Korf, B, 2006, Geographien der Moral, Geographische Zeitschrift 94 (1), 1-14.
Korf, B, Engel, S, 2006, On the Incentives of Violence: Greed and Pride in Sri Lanka’s Civil
War, South Asian Economic Journal 7 (1), 117-129.
Korf, B, 2005, Rethinking the Greed-Grievance Nexus: Property Rights and the Political
Economy of War in Sri Lanka, Journal of Peace Research 42 (2), 201-217.
Korf, B, 2005, Participatory Development and Violent Conflict – An Antagonism?, International
Journal of Rural Management 1 (1), 59-71.
Korf, B, 2005, Wer hat Angst vorm Schurkenstaat? Macht / Raum-Diskurse in Sri Lanka,
Geographica Helvetica 35 (2), 127-135.
Bogale, A, Hagedorn, K, Korf, B, 2005, Determinants of Povery in Rural Ethiopia, Quarterly
Journal of International Agriculture 44 (2), 101-120.
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Korf, B, Thangarajah, Y, 2005, Challenging the Continuum. New Concepts for Development
Aid in Sri Lanka’s Complex Emergency, Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences 28 (1+2), 1-23.
Korf, B, 2004, 'War, Livelihoods and Vulnerability in Sri Lanka', Development and Change 35
(2), 177-197.
Korf, B, 2004, 'Die Ordnung der Entwicklung: Zur Ethnographie der Entwicklungspraxis und
ihrer ethischen Implikationen', Geographische Zeitschrift 92 (4), 208-226.
Korf, B, 2004, 'Food Security in Times of War: Geographical Development Research at the
Nexus of Theory and Practice', Die Erde 135 (1), 219-233.
Korf, B, 2004, 'Der Andere als Schurke: Zur Rolle ethnisierter Feindbilder in den srilankischen
Friedensverhandlungen', Internationales Asienforum 35 (3), 245-261.
Korf, B, 2003, 'Geographien der Gewalt: Handlungsorientierte geographische Bürgerkriegsforschung in politisch-ökonomischer Perspektive', Geographische Zeitschrift 91 (1), 24-39.
Korf, B, 2003, 'Livelihoods at Risk: Coping strategies of war-affected communities in Sri Lanka',
Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics 104 (2), 129-141.
Korf, B, 2002, 'Ist PRA in der Postmoderne angekommen?', Peripherie 87, 293-314.
Korf, B, 2001, with E Bauer, 'Gabenökonomie oder Marktwirtschaft? Humanitäre Maßnahmen
in Konfliktregionen. Der Nordosten Sri Lankas', Entwicklungsethnologie 10 (1+2), 121-152
Bauer, E, Bigdon, C, Korf, B, 2000, 'Anspruch und Wirklichkeit in der Konflikt¬bearbeitung –
Was kann Entwicklungszusammenarbeit wirklich leisten? Das Beispiel Sri Lanka', Peripherie 79,
43-68.
Korf, B, 2000, 'Ökonomie der Zeit. Über Wege zu Wassermühlen, Partizipation und Gender –
Beobachtungen aus Tansania', Entwicklungsethnologie 9 (1), 28-42.
(b)
Monographs
forthcoming:
Spencer, J, Goodhand, J, Hasbullah, SH, Klem, B, Korf, B, KT Silva, 2014, forthcoming,
Checkpoing, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace.
London: Pluto.
published:
Engel, A, Korf, B, 2005, Negotiation and Mediation Techniques for Natural Resource
Management. Rome: FAO.
Korf, B, 2004, Conflict, Space and Institutions: Property Rights and the Political Economy of
War in Sri Lanka, Aachen: Shaker.
Korf, B, Flämig, T, Schenk, C, Ziebell, M, Ziegler, J, Singarayer, RM, Abeyrathne, RM,
Devarajah, K, Dharmarajah, D, Sakthivel, T, 2001, Conflict – Threat or Opportunity. Land Use
and Coping Strategies of War-affected Communities in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, (= Schriftenreihe
des Seminars für Ländliche Entwicklung, No. S195, Berlin), Weikersheim: Margraf.
Bauer, E, Bigdon, C, Engel, A, Ha, N, Korf, B, Schäfer, K, Terzioglu, E, 1999, Food Security
and Conflict. A Participatory Development Concept for the Integrated Food Security
Programme Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, (= Schriftenreihe des Seminars für Ländliche Entwicklung,
No. S 183, Berlin), Weikersheim: Margraf.
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(c)
Edited collections
forthcoming:
Korf, B. and C. Schetter eds. (2014): Geographien der Gewalt. (=Teubner Studienbücher zur
Geographie).
published:
Korf, B. and T. Raeymaekers, eds. (2013): Violent Frontiers: States and Violence in the
Borderlands. Palgrave-Macmillan (African Borderlands Serices = ABORNE).
Featherstone, D, Korf, B and J van Wezemael, eds., (2012): Space, contestation and the political.
Themed issue for: Geoforum 43 (4), 663-731.
Goodhand, J, Korf, B, Spencer, J, eds., 2011, Conflict, Aid and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka.
Routledge, London.
Korf, B and J Ossenbrügge, eds., 2010, Geographie der (Un-) Sicherheit. Themed issue,
Geographica Helvetica 65 (3).
Korf, B, ed., 2009, Ansichten – Aussichten auf Europa. Themed issue, Europa Regional, 17 (4).
(d)
Book chapters
published:
Korf, B, Raeymaekers, T, 2013, ‘Border, frontier and the geography of rule at the margins of the
state’, in Korf, B, Raeymaekers, T, (eds), Violent Frontiers: States and Violence in the
Borderlands. Palgrave-Macmillan (African Borderlands Serices = ABORNE), pp. 3-28.*
Korf, B, Hagmann, T, Doevenspeck, M, 2013, ‘Geographies of violence and sovereignty: the
African Frontier revisited’, in Korf, B, Raeymaekers, T, (eds), Violent Frontiers: States and
Violence in the Borderlands. Palgrave-Macmillan (African Borderlands Serices = ABORNE), pp.
29-54.*
Korf, B., 2013, ‘The Certainty of Uncertainty: Topographies of risk and landscapes of fear in Sri
Lanka’s civil war’, in Müller-Mahn, D (ed.), The Spatial Dimension of Risk: How geography
shapes the emergence of riskscapes. London: Earthscan, 68-81.*
Korf, B, Schetter, C, 2012, ‚Krisenregion‘, in N Marquardt, V Schreiber (eds), Ortsregister.
Bielefeld: Transcript.
Fekadu Beyene, Korf, B, 2012, ‘Unmaking the Commons: Collective action, property rights and
resource appropriation among (agro-) pastoralists in eastern Ethiopia’, in Meinzen-Dick, R. und
E Mwangi (eds.), Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 304-327.*
Di Gregorio, M, Hagedorn, K, Kirk, M, Korf, B, McCarthy, N, Meinzen-Dick, R, Swallow, B,
2012, ‘Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction’, in Meinzen-Dick, R. and E
Mwangi (eds.), Collective Action and Property Rights for Poverty Reduction. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 25-48.*
Korf, B. 2011, ‘Klimakriege?’, in T Jäger und R Beckmann (eds), Kriegstheorie. VS Verlag,
Wiesbaden, 577-585.
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Goodhand, J, Korf, B, 2011, ‘Caught in the peace trap? On the illiberal consequences of liberal
peace in Sri Lanka’, in J Goodhand, B Korf and J Spencer (eds.), Conflict, Aid and Peacebuilding
in Sri Lanka. Routledge, London, 1-15.
Korf, B, 2009, ‘Development II’, In: R Kitchin and N Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopedia
of Human Geography, Volume 3, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 117-122.
Korf, B, 2009, ‘Cartographic Violence: engaging a Sinhala kind of geography’, in C Brun and T
Jazeel (eds.), Spatialising Politics: Culture, difference and geography in post-colonial Sri Lanka.
London, New Delhi: Sage, 100-121.
Korf, B, 2009, ‘Make Law, not War! On the political economy of violence and appropriation’, in
V Beckmann and M Padmanabhan (eds.), Institutions and Sustainability: Political economy of
agriculture and the environment. Festschrift in Honour of Konrad Hagedorn. Heidelberg, New
York: Springer, 43-60.
Korf, B, 2007, ‘Governing Bottom-up in Rural Development: The legitimacy dilemma’, in L
Cheshire, V Higgins and G Lawrence (eds.), International Perspectives on Rural Governance:
New power relations in rural economies and societies. London: Routledge, 259-272.
Korf, B, 2006, ‘Hydraulischer Imperialismus, Geographie und epistemische Gewalt in Sri Lanka’,
in E Kulke, H Monheim and P Wittmann (eds.), GrenzWerte. Tagungsbericht und
Abhandlungen, 55. Deutscher Geographentag Trier 2005. Leipzig: Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Geographie, 627-633.
Korf, B, 2005, ‘The Commons at War: Fuzzy Property Rights and Ethnicised Entitlements in Sri
Lanka’, in P Cuasay and C Vaddhanaphuti (eds.), Commonplaces and Comparisons: Remaking
eco-political spaces in Southeast Asia. Chiang Mai: Regional Centre for Social Science and
Sustainable Development (RCSD), 103-125.
Bigdon, C, Korf, B, 2004, ‘The Role of Development Aid in Conflict Transformation:
Facilitating empowerment processes and community building’, in A Austin, M Fischer and N
Ropers (eds.), Transforming Ethno-political Conflict: The Berghof-Handbook. Wiesbaden: VS
Verlag, 341-370.
Korf, B, 2004, 'Making Sense of Bottom-up in Rural Development', in G van Huylenbroeck, W
Verbeke and L Lauwers (eds.), Role of Institutions in Rural Policies and Agricultural Markets,
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 423-437.*
Korf, B, 2004, 'Partizipation als Tyrannei? - Zur PRA-Methode in der ländlichen
Gemeindeplanung', in L Laschewski and C Neu (eds.), Sozialer Wandel in ländlichen Räumen:
Theorie, Empirie und politische Strategien, Aachen: Shaker, 259-280.
Bauer, E, Bigdon, C, Korf, B, 2003, 'Development Projects in Complex Emergencies – The Case
of Trincomalee, Sri Lanka', in M Mayer, D Rajasingam-Senanayake and Y Thangarajah (eds.),
Building Local Capacities for Peace: Rethinking conflict and development in Sri Lanka, New
Delhi: Mac Millan Publishers, 177-195.
Korf, B, 2003, 'Livelihoods, Food Security and Conflict in Trincomalee', in M Mayer et al. (eds.),
Poverty Issues in Sri Lanka. Towards new empirical insights, Colombo: Center for Poverty
Analysis, 126-148.
Korf, B, 2002, 'Ist PRA ein angemessenes Instrument zur Bevölkerungsbeteiligung in
Wohlstands¬gesellschaften?', in K Müller et al. (eds.), Wissenschaft und Praxis der Landschaftsnutzung – Formen interner und externer Forschungskooperation, Weikers¬heim: Margraf
Verlag, 93-104.
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Other publications
published:
Korf, B, Klauser, F and O. Söderström (2013) Editorial: Les fabriques des “géographies” –
making academic geographies in Europe. Geographica Helvetica 68 (1), 1-10.
Flitner, M, Korf, B, 2012, Klimakriege = Kriege der Zukunft? Geographische Rundschau 64 (2),
45-48.
Korf, B, 2012, As Geografias Imaginárias de Guerras Climáticas. Revista de Geopolítica, Natal –
RN 3 (1), 21-30. [Übersetzung von Korf, B, 2011, The imaginative geographies of climate wars.
Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences 14, 35–39. Übersetzt durch: Paul Sutermeister]
Korf, B, 2012, ‘Aussichten auf Europa’, in H Gebhardt, S Lentz et al. (eds), Europa – Eine
Geographie. Heidelberg: Spektrum, 211-212.
Korf, B, 2011, The imaginative geographies of climate wars. Procedia Social and Behavioral
Sciences 14, 35–39.
Graefe, O, Korf, B, Schlottmann, A, 2010, Einführung in das Themenheft Natur und
Gesellschaft: Neue Theorien in kritischer Sichtung. Geographische Zeitschrift 98 (4), 191-193.
Korf, B, 2010, Rezensionsaufsatz: Frankreich. Geographische Revue 2/2012, 80-84.
Korf, B, 2010, Book review: “D. Böhn, E. Rothfuss (Hg.) Handbuch des GeographieUnterrichts, Band 8/I und II: Entwicklungsländer“. Erdkunde 64 (4), 394-96.
Korf, B, 2010, Book review: „Simone Rettberg (2009) Das Risiko der Afar. Existenzsicherung
äthiopischer Nomaden im Kontext von Hungerkrisen, Konflikten und
Entwicklungsinterventionen. Saarbrücken: Verlag für Entwicklungspolitik“. Die Erde 141, 151f.
Korf, B, 2010, Das falsche Bild vom Klimakrieg. umwelt aktuell, 11.2010, 4-5.
Korf, B, Ossenbrügge, J. 2010, Geographie der (Un-) Sicherheit. Geographica Helvetica 65 (3),
1-5.
Korf, B, 2010, Review essay: “The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion. J.
Habermas & J. Ratzinger, Ignatius 2006: San Francisco, CA. 85pp”. Tijdschrift voor
Economische en Sociale Geografie 101 (4), 481–483.
Korf, B, 2010, Geographie des Zorns. Geographica Helvetica 65 (1), 59-62.
Korf, B, 2010, Sri Lanka: the third wave. International Development Planning Review, 32 (1), ivi.
Korf, B, 2009, ‘Ach, Europa!’. Europa Regional 17 (4), 178-179.
Korf, B, 2009, Grenzen der Ordnung: Was ist da, wo kein Staat (zu machen) ist?, Powision.
Magazin am Institut für Politikwissenschaft, 01/2009, 21-22.
Korf, B, 2007, Geographien des Mitleids, Asiatische Studien LXI (4), 1165-1182.
Korf, B, 2007, Review of “Naila Kabeer (ed) (2005) Inclusive Citizenship: Meaning and
Expressions”, International Development Planning Review 29 (4), 524-525.
Korf, B, 2007, Review of “J Nevins (2005): A Not-So-Distant Horror: Mass violence in East
Timor”, Progress in Human Geography 31 (4), 577-579.
Korf, B, 2007, Der Tsunami des Mitleids, Die Wochenzeitung (WOZ), No. 27 (5. Juli), p. 23.
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Korf, B, 2006, Commentary on the Special Section on the Indian Ocean Tsunami: Disasters,
Generosity and the Other, Geographical Journal 172 (3), 245-247.
Korf, B, 2006, Observations: Geography and Benedikt XVI, Area 38 (3), 326-329.
Korf, B, 2005, Sri Lanka: The tsunami after the tsunami, International Development Planning
Review 27 (3), i-vii. (editorial)
Bogale, A, Korf, B, 2005, To Share or Not To Share? (Non-)Violence, Scarcity and Resource
Access in Somali Region, Ethiopia, ICAR Discussion Paper on Institutional Change in
Agriculture and Natural Resources No. 10. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Korf, B, 2005, Partizipation als Tyrannei? Reaktion auf zwei Beiträge zum Thema
“Partitzipation”: H. Heinrichs. 2005. GAIA 14/1:30-31. C.F. Gethmann. 2005. GAIA 14/1:3233, GAIA 14 (3), 224-226.
Korf, B, 2004, ‘Beyond Continuum Thinking: Participation is possible even in wartimes!’, PLA
Notes 50, 171-189.*
Korf, B, 2003, ‘Conflict – Threat or Opportunity? War, Livelihoods and Vulnerability in Sri
Lanka’, ICAR Discussion Paper on Institutional Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources
No. 1. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.*
Korf, B, 2003, ‘Sri Lanka: Wer hat Angst vorm Schurkenstaat?’, Südasien 23 (4), 59-65.
Korf, B, 2003, 'Ethnicised Entitlements? Property Rights and Civil War in Sri Lanka', ZEF
Discussion Paper on Development Policy No. 75. Bonn: Center for Development Research
(ZEF).*
Korf, B, 2003, 'Contract or War? An Essay on Institutional Logic in Civil Wars', Berghof
Occasional Paper No. 23, Berlin: Berghof Zentrum für Konstruktive Konfliktbearbeitung.
Korf, B, 2003, 'Schafft Entwicklung Frieden in Sri Lanka?', Südasien 23 (2), 59-62.
Korf, B, Bauer, E, 2002, 'Food Security in the Context of Crisis and Conflict: Beyond
Continuum Thinking', Gatekeeper Series No. 106, (London: iied).
Korf, B, 2002, 'Does PRA make sense in democratic societies?', PLA-Notes 44, 65-69.*
Korf, B, 2002, ‘Getting the Institutions Right! Reconciling Societies in Post-War Recovery’.
Pravada, 8 (3), 35-38.
Korf, B, 2001, 'Agenten der Entlastung? Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Bürgerkrieg in Sri
Lanka', blätter des iz3w, 254, 28-29
Korf, B, 2001, 'Entwicklung als Entlastungstat? Internationale Zusammenarbeit im Kontext des
Sri Lankischen Bürgerkrieges', Südasien 21 (2), 53-57
Korf, B, 2001, 'Vom Süden lernen? Planen mit PRA', Ausbildung und Beratung, 3, 78-80.
Korf, B, Bien, B, Falge, C, Fischer, M, Hollmeier, E, Holthusen, B, Maaßen, U, Pölking, A, Ruth,
P, van Stuyvenberg-Huhnholz, S, Wittine, D (2001): 'PRA in Wohlstands-gesellschaften –
Erfahrungen aus Niedersachsen', LBL-BeraterInnen News, 1, 53-57.
Korf, B, 2000, 'Engendering Engineers – Wasserwirtschaftsprojekte in Tansania und Ghana',
blätter des iz3w, Spezialheft ‚Gender’, 46-48.
Korf, B, 1998, 'Local Self-Reliance im Kontext der Dezentralisierung in Ghana: Selbsthilfemodelle in der Wasserversorgung ländlicher Kommunen', Trialog 59, 31-35.
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10.
TEACHING
Universität Zürich:
Bachelor:
GEO 242.2 Politische Geographie (with M Hermann)*
GEO 326 Bachelorarbeit*
Master:
GEO 410.1 Thinking Geographically*
GEO 423 Political Geography (2008-2010, with T Hagmann)
GEO 511 Masterarbeit*
GEO 842 Ethik in einer globalisierten Welt (with Peter Schaber)
Kolloquium für Masterstudierende, Politische Geographie*
PhD:
Research Seminar Politische Geographie*
Promotionsseminar II*
Principles and Theory (2010, 2011)
* = Module coordinator
University of Liverpool:
Bachelor:
GEOG101 Environment and People (with R Bradshaw, J Dearing)
GEOG103, 104 Study Skills for Geographers (I+II)
GEOG292 Project Management for International Development*
GEOG252 Research Design for Geographers (with R Phillips, A Morse and others)
GEOG253 Research Methods for Geographers (with R Phillips, A Morse and others)
GEOG392 Issues in International Development*
GEOG341 Field Class Santa Cruz (with A Plater, J Boyle, B Evans)
GEOG361 Dissertation
*= Module Coordinator
Master:
GEOG 430 Theorising Human Geography
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GEOG 450 Geographies of Globalisation and Development
GEOG 451 Key Issues in Globalisation and Development
Supervision of Master theses
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin:
2004-2005: Wibke Crewett: Property Rights to Land in the Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia:
History, debate, and implementation of the “Oromia Regional Land Use and Administration
Proclamation” of 2002. (with K Hagedorn)
2004: Patricia Chmela, Between Lions and Tigers: The economic impacts of Sri Lanka’s complex
political emergency on paddy farmers living in the border zone.
(with H von Witzke)
University of Liverpool:
2005: Tim Hudson: Networks of Resistance: The Hamadab Affected Peoples Group against the
implementation of a resettlement scheme.
2006: Manorma Ramsurrun: Northern Non-Governmental Organisations’ Perceptions on the
Changing Roles of NGOs within Trade Advocacy.
Universität Zürich:
Completed:
2007-2008: Veronika Schürmann (Diplomarbeit): Wof Washa - Dynamics of a Forest at the
Eastern Escarpment of the Ethiopian Highlands (with Ch Hergarten, K Herweg, CDE).
2007-2008: Sabine Ehrler: Interfaces of a local NGO in Global Health Governance: The
example of HIV prevention in Mali.
2008: Mike Kramer: Entwicklungspolitische Diskurse in der Schweiz und in Österreich im
Vergleich.
2008-2009: Janine Wittek: Tamil Diaspora networks and post-tsunami generosity. (with Pia
Hollenbach)
2008-2009: Pascal Kallenberger: Howrah the other Kolkata. The planning and making of poverty
in a Indian 'mega-slum' (with Christian Schmid, ETHZ).
2008-2009: Matthias Meier: Corporate Social Responsibility in globalen Lieferketten: Strategien
von Schweizer Bekleidungsunternehmen zur Übernahme von Verantwortung (with Mark
Starmanns).
2009-2010: Rony Emmenegger: Rural Development and local politics in Oromiya, Ethiopia (with
Tobias Hagmann).
2009-2010: Doris Waldburger: Motivation für ein ethisches Konsumverhalten: Eine Studie zum
Moraldiskurs ethischer Konsumenten (with Pia Hollenbach)
2009-2010: Ruf, Christian: Orte im funktionalen und räumlichen Kontext: Zwei Masse für die
Eigen- und Frendzentralität der Schweizer Gemeinden (with Christoph Craviolini)
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2010-2011: Weilenmann Barbara: A Critical Analysis of Discourse: A Case Study on DFID's
Persception and Representation of State Failure (with Tobias Hagmann)
2010-2011: Moser Michael: Statefailure as a chance and a challenge for the international
community (with Timothy Raeymaekers)
2011-2012: Monika Hess: Tamil Transnational politics in Switzerland after May 2009 (with Pia
Hollenbach).
2011-2012: Basil Gantenbein: Nachfrageseitige Qualitätsanforderungen für die projektbasierte
CO2‐Kompensation im Ausland.
2011-2012: Pirmin Suter: Zur Politischen Geographie des Röstigrabens. (with M. Hermann)
2011-2012: Ilona Imoberdorf: Der Wolf im Wallis: Interessen und Strategien in der Deutung des
Wolfes (with Willi Zimmermann, ETHZ).
2011-2012: Graf Samuel: The politics of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASM) in ghana
(with Timothy Raeymaekers)
2012-2013: Pascal Haltiner: Spaces of conflict of small-scale fishing communities in eastern Sri
Lanka (with Bart Klem)
2012: Alice Kern: The politics of irrigation in Nepal in a time of political transition (with Sarah
Byrne)
2012-2013: Ottavia Cima: The politics of accountability in NGO projects in Nepal (in
collaboration with Helvetas).
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