Current Position

Postdoc at the Institute of Geography, University of Cologne, Prof. Dr.  Revilla Diez since October 2022

Third-party funded projects

FGHyTransition: Fossil-green hydrogen path creation for transformative development in Namibia and Vietnam (German Research Foundation

Research Focus

Global production networks & commodification
Green innovation & sustainability transition
Resource peripheries & energy systems
Nature conservation & tourism

Academic CV

since 10/2022	Postdoctoral researcher and lecturer since October 2022
10/2021 - 09/2022	Postdoc at the German Institute for Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture in the DFG-funded project „(Post-)colonial breeding in Namibia: Historical, socio-ecological and genetic transformations“
01/2022 - 09/2022	Scientific Coordinator of the DFG-funded collaborative research centre „Future Rural Africa“ and the ERC Advanced Grant „REWILDING the Anthropocene“
10/2020 - 12/2020	Visiting scholar at the Global History Department, Warwick University, Warwick (VK)
04/2028 - 07/2021	Dissertation: “Growth corridor policy and global production networks: capturing value from wildlife tourism in the Zambezi region, Namibia” Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig
February 2017	M.Sc. Geography, University of Cologne
January 2013	B.A. General History and Human Geography, University Potsdam

 

Publications

Kalvelage, L., & Tups, G. (2024): Friendshoring in global production networks: state-orchestrated coupling amid geopolitical uncertainty. ZFW–Advances in Economic Geography, online first

Kalvelage, L., & Walker, B. (2024): Strategic coupling beyond borders: Germany's extraterritorial agency in Namibia's green hydrogen industry. Journal of Economic Geography, online first

Kalvelage, L.; Revilla Diez, J.; Bollig, M. (2023): Valuing nature in global production networks: Hunting tourism and the weight of history in Zambezi, Namibia. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2200468

Lüder, L; Kalvelage, L.. (2023): Regional resilience and social-ecological systems: the impact of COVID-19 on community conervation in Namibia, online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2023.2276939

Kalvelage, L.; Hardie, C.; Mausch, K.; Conti, C.; Hall, A. (2023):Inside-out strategic coupling for smallholder market integration - Mango production in Malawi as a test case, Outlook on Agriculture, online first. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00307270231179240

Bollig, M.; Kalvelage, L.; Lacan, L.; Lendelvo, S.; Mosimane, A.; Nghitevelekwa, R.  (2023): Introduction: Practices, Discourses, and Materialities Surrounding the Commodification of the ‘Wild’. In: Ed: Currey, J.: Conservation, Markets, And The Environment In Southern And Eastern Africa Commodifying The ‘Wild’, edited by J. Currey, https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.3643592.7?seq=2

Revilla Diez, J.; Hulke, C.; Kalvelage, L. (2023): Chapter 3 - Value Chains and Global Production Networks: Conceptual considerations and economic development in the ‘wild’. In: Ed: Currey, J.: Conservation, Markets, And The Environment In Southern And Eastern Africa Commodifying The ‘Wild’, edited by J. Currey, https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.3643592.9

Kalvelage, L. (2023): Chapter 13 - Hunting for Development: Global production networks and the commodification of wildlife in Namibia. In: Ed: Currey, J.: Conservation, Markets, And The Environment In Southern And Eastern Africa Commodifying The ‘Wild’, edited by J. Currey, https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.3643592.19

Lacan, L.;  Kalvelage, L.; Lendelvo, S.;Mosimane, A.; Nghitevelekwa, R.; Bollig, M. (2023): Conclusions: Commodifying the ‘Wild’ – Where do we go from here? In: Ed: Currey, J.: Conservation, Markets, And The Environment In Southern And Eastern Africa Commodifying The ‘Wild’, edited by J. Currey, https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.3643592.24

Kalvelage, L.; Revilla Diez, J.: Bollig, M. (2023): Valuing Nature in Global Production Networks: Hunting Tourism and the Weight of History in Zambezi, Namibia, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, online first. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2023.2200468

Vehrs, H.; Kalvelage, L.; R. Nghitevelekwa (2022): The Power of Dissonance: Inconsistent Relations Between Travelling Ideas And Local Realities in Community Conservation in Namibia’s Zambezi Region, Conservation and Society, online first. 

Hulke, C.; Kalvelage, L.; Kairu, J.; Revilla Diez, J.; P. Rutina (2022): Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, online first.

Kalvelage, L.; Bollig, M.; Grawert, E.; Hulke, C.; Meyer, M.; Mkutu, K.; Müller-Koné, M.; Revilla Diez, J. (2021): Territorialising Conservation: Community-based approaches in Kenya and Namibia. Conservation and Society, Conservation and Society 19(4). 282-293. Link

Breul, M.; Hulke, C.; Kalvelage, L. (2021): Path Formation and Reformation: Studying the Variegated Consequences of Path Creation for Regional Development. Economic Geography, 1-22. Link

Kalvelage, L.; Revilla Diez, J.: Bollig, M. (2021): Do tar roads bring tourism? Growth corridor policy and tourism development in the Zambezi region, Namibia, European Journal of Development Research, 1-22. Link

Kalvelage, L.; Revilla Diez, J.; Bollig, M. (2020): How much remains? Local value capture from tourism in Zambezi, Namibia. Tourism Geographies, 1-22. Link

Gargallo. E.; Kalvelage, L. (2020): Integrating Social-Ecological Systems and Global Production Networks: Local Effects of Trophy Hunting in Namibian Conservancies, Development Southern Africa 38(1), 87-103. Link

Kalvelage, L.; Breul, M. (2017): Die Rolle des Staates in Aufwertungsprozessen der Öl- und Gasindustrie - der Fall Vietnam'. The German Journal on Contemporary Asia 145, 24-44. Link

 

Peer Reviews

Climate and Development
Development Southern Africa
European Urban and Regional Studies
Innovation and Development
Political Geography
Regional Studies
Standort
Tourism Geographies

 

Presentations

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie: „Regional Resilience and Social-Ecological Systems: : Capturing the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on community conservancies“, Frankfurt, September 2023.

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie: „Neue Pfadentwicklung in der Peripherie: Synergetische Beziehungen zwischen Grünem Wasserstoff und der Ölindustrie in Namibia“, Frankfurt, September 2023.

Symposium zur umweltorientierten Wirtschaftsgeographie: “Laying the Groundwork: How states modify extraterritorial assets for strategic coupling“, Trier, July 2023.

Regional Studies Association Annual Conference: “Laying the Groundwork: How states modify extraterritorial assets for strategic coupling”, Ljubljana, June 2023.

European Conference on African Studies: “Regional Resilience and Social-Ecological Systems: Capturing the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on community conservancies”, Cologne, May 2023.

Rauischholzhausener Symposium zur Wirtschaftsgeographie: „Power tot he Periphery: Assembling Regional Assets for the Green Hydrogen Transition in Lagging Regions“, Rauischholzhausen, April 2023.

Arbeitskreis Industriegeographie: „Valuing Nature in Global Production Networks: Hunting Tourism in Zambezi, Namibia”, Wiesbaden-Naurod, November 2022.

University of Namibia, Wildlife and Tourism Management Conference: “Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia”. Katima Mulilo, October 2022.

Global Conference on Economic Geography: “Valuing nature in global production networks: hunting tourism in Zambezi, Namibia”, Dublin, June 2022.

University of Bayreuth, CBNRM workshop: “Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia”. Windhoek, Namibia, March 2022.

Royal Geographical Society: “Covid-19 and the changing geographies of value chains: local institutions and regional resilience in the Zambezi region, Namibia”. London, United Kingdom, August 2021.

Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland: "Resource-making in Zambezi: who benefits from hunting tourism?" Frankfurt, June 2021.

Global History @ Warwick Network: “Do tar roads bring tourism? Growth corridor policy and tourism development in the Zambezi region, Namibia.” Warwick, VK, December 2020.

World Wide Fund for Nature, Stakeholder Workshop: “How much remains? Local value capture from tourism in Zambezi, Namibia.” Berlin, January 2020.

Deutscher Kongress für Geographie: “Commodification through conservation: The transfer of value in tourism GPNs in Namibia and Tanzania.” Kiel, September 2019.

Department of Geography, History and Environmental Studies Public Lectures, University of Namibia: “How much remains? Local value capture from tourism in Zambezi, Namibia.” Windhuk, Namibia, August 2019.

Regional Studies Association Annual Conference: “Global Connections, Local Development? Capturing Value from Tourism GPNs in Namibian Conservancies.” Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 2019.

European Conference on African Studies: “Global Connections, Local Development? Capturing Value from Tourism GPNs in Namibian Conservancies.” Edinburgh, VK, June 2019.