Violent Futures? Contestations along carbon frontiers in East Africa (B03)

• Subject Area: Empirical Social Research ; Political Science
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760

This project makes use of the frontier approach to examine the impact of future-oriented carbon-credit projects on local conflicts in Kenya and Tanzania. We aim to understand how frontier entrepreneurs - private companies, state agencies, and (I)NGOs - promote and implement carbon-credit projects in conflict-prone locations inhabited by marginalized people - the pastoralists, forest dwellers, and small-scale farmers. We will apply qualitative research methods.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 228: Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
• International Connection: Tanzania
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Project Heads: Privatdozentin Dr. Elke Grawert, until 12/2021; Professor Dr. Conrad Justus Schetter; Professor Emmanuel Sulle, Ph.D.