Silja Klepp

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Silja Klepp (* 1976 ) is a German social anthropologist and professor of human geography at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU).

Life

From 1996 to 2003 Klepp studied European Ethnology , Italian and Political Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2006 to 2010 she did her doctorate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle and was at the same time part of the DFG - Graduate School  Fractured Zones of Globalization  at the University of Leipzig . The dissertation is entitled  Europe between border control and refugee protection. An ethnography of the maritime border on the Mediterranean.

She then took on a postdoc position in the DFG coastal research project INTERCOAST and worked at the Sustainability Research Center artec at the University of Bremen. From 2012 she works on her own project Climate Change and Mobility - New Rights and Resources for Environmental Migrants in the Pacific Region at artec.

The Research Academy Leipzig awarded her dissertation on refugees and EU border policies in the Mediterranean in 2010 with the doctoral prize. In 2012, Klepp was awarded the Christiane Rajewsky Prize of the Working Group on Peace and Conflict Research (AFK) for her dissertation. In addition, she was nominated for the German Study Prize of the Körber Foundation .

From 2012 to 2017 she was a member of the Junge Akademie . Since 2017 she has been a member of the Council for Migration and the Presidential Assembly of the Evangelical Church Congress . The Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel appointed her to the professorship for human geography at the Institute of Geography in 2017. Klepp also works there on the subject of “Social Dynamics in Coastal and Marine Areas” within the research cluster Future Oceans .

job

Klepp conducted research on migration in countries of Oceania , the Mediterranean region and Zambia . She is interested in the social and cultural effects of climate change and considers the research subjects against the background of their colonial history (“post-colonial perspectives”). She brings elements of critical theory and issues of social and cultural diversity into the debate about possible climate change adaptation .

Publications (selection)

  • Silja Klepp and Libertad Chavez-Rodriguez (Eds.): A Critical Approach to Climate Change Adaptation: Discourses, Policies, and Practices. Routledge Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research . Routledge , London / New York 2018, ISBN 978-1-138-05629-9 , pp. 302 .
  • Silja Klepp: Europe between border control and refugee law. An ethnography of the maritime border on the Mediterranean . Transcript, Bielefeld 2011, ISBN 978-3-8376-1722-1 , pp. 428 .
  • Denaturalizing Climate Change: Migration, Mobilities and Space . In: Friederike Gesing, Johannes Herbeck, Silja Klepp (eds.): Artec-paper . No. 200 , 2014.
  • Silja Klepp: Arrival and reception of refugees in Italy: An ethnographic journey to the borders of Europe . 2007, ISBN 978-3-639-42810-0 , pp. 116 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ By Research Academy Leipzig: Research Academy Leipzig - Doctoral Awards. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
  2. ↑ The previous winners - Working Group for Peace and Conflict Research. Accessed on July 4, 2020 (German).
  3. ^ The German Study Prize 2011. Prize winners and contributions. Körber Foundation, 2011, accessed on January 14, 2018 .
  4. ^ The Young Academy: The Young Academy: Details. Retrieved January 14, 2018 .
  5. ^ Members . May 11, 2017 ( rat-fuer-migration.de [accessed January 14, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Presidential Assembly | German Evangelical Church Congress. Retrieved July 4, 2020 .
  7. ↑ http://www.marinesocialscience.uni-kiel.de/de/team/prof-dr-silja-klepp , homepage of BMBF "future oceans", accessed 18-12-2017
  8. ↑ https://www.kms.uni-kiel.de/de/haben/lösungen/prof-dr-silja-klepp Homepage of the CAU Kiel, accessed December 18, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Klepp, Silja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1976