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Dr. rer. nat. Gideon Tups

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Dr. rer. nat. Gideon Tups (geb. Hartmann)

Südbau, Raum 2.10

Otto-Fischer-Straße 4
50674 Köln

Telephone +49-(0)221-470-1950
Fax +49-(0)221-470-4917
E-mail g.tups(at)uni-koeln.de


Research fellow

Postdoc at the Collaborative Research Center 288 "Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation" - C01: Future in Chains: Socio Economic Impacts of Growth Corridors

Research Interests

Topics: Agricultural production systems in the Global South, Agrarian change, Development Corridors, Infrastructure, Commodity Chains
Regional: Sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Namibia, Zambia, Tanzania)

Review activity

Journal of Rural Studies
Development Southern Africa
World Development
Area
Global Networks
Globalizations
Journal of Economic Geography
Progress in Economic Geography 

References

Tups, G., and P. Dannenberg (2023). Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in global value chains: Explaining governance in the fertilizer chain. Global Networks, 00, 1– 20. https://doi.org/10.1111/glob.12431

Tups, G., Bassermann, L., and L. Luig (2023). Krisendünger - Synthetische Düngemittel im Zentrum globaler Ernährungskrisen. In: Der kritische Agrarbericht 2023, 115-120. ABL-Verlag.

Luxen, V, Tups, G, and P. Dannenberg (2022). What makes Tanzanian smallholder farmers satisfied with their life? It’s not farming! DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 153(4). doi:https://doi.org/10.12854/erde-2022-623

Tups, G. (2022): Golden bullet or bad bet? New dependencies on synthetic fertilisers and their impacts on the African continent. INKOTA e.v., Berlin.

Tups. G. and P. Dannenberg (2021): Emptying the Future, Claiming Space: The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania as a Spatial Imaginary for Strategic Coupling Processes. In: Geoforum, 123: 23-35. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.04.015

Hartmann, G., Mwaka, I., and P. Dannenberg (2020): Large investments, small farmers: A financialisation perspective on value chains in a development corridor. Development Southern Africa, online first. DOI: 10.1080/0376835X.2020.1799758

Hartmann G., Nduru G. and P. Dannenberg (2020): Digital connectivity at the upstream end of value chains: A dynamic perspective on smartphone adoption amongst horticultural smallholders in Kenya. In: Competition & Change (Online first). DOI: 10.1177/1024529420914483

Dannenberg, P. and G. Hartmann (2019) Stairway to Heaven oder Highway to Hell? Neue Entwicklungskorridore am Beispiel SAGCOT in Tansania. In: Praxis Geographie, 11: 42-45.

Steffens, V., Hartmann, G., and P. Dannenberg (2019): Eine neue Generation von Wachstumskorridoren als Entwicklungsmotor in Afrika? Das Beispiel des tansanischen Landwirtschaftskorridors SAGCOT. In: Standort (Online 19.02.2019). doi:10.1007/s00548-019-00565-6.

Follmann, A., Hartmann, G., and P. Dannenberg (2018): Multi-temporal transect analysis of peri-urban developments in Faridabad, India. In: Journal of Maps, 14(1): 17-25.

Dannenberg, P., Follmann, A. and G. Hartmann (2017): Urbanisierung und peri-urbaner Wandel in und um Faridabad, Indien. In: Schmidt, M., Follmann, A. und J. Poerting (Hrsg.) (2017): Aktuelle Forschungsbeiträge zu Südasien: 7. Jahrestagung des AK Südasien, 27./28. Januar 2017, Augsburg, Heidelberg ; Berlin: CrossAsia-eBooks (Geographien Südasiens, Band 8), 34-37.

Talks

Tups, G. 2023. Düngemittel in der Krise: Alte und neue Problemstellungen. Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin, 18.01.2023.

Tups.G. 2023. Will the real chain scholars please stand up? Global Value Chains in the new world of Polycrisis. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Geographisches Institut - Kolloquium Wirtschaftsgeographie, Berlin, 11.01.2023.

Tups, G. 2022. "Friend-shoring" in Zeiten geopolitischer Spannungen: Neue Sojapartnerschaften zwischen China und Afrika. Global South Studies Center GSSC (Universität zu Köln) & Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Cologne. 06.12.2022.

Tups, G. & P. Dannenberg. 2022. Strategic (De-)coupling under Uncertainty and Crisis: How have Global Production Networks for Fertilizer been affected by the Russian Invasion of Ukraine? IGU CDES 2022 Osnabrück Mini Conference, Osnabrück. 06.10.2022.

Tups, G., Sakala, E. & P. Dannenberg. 2022. Future Aspirations in ‘Left Behind Places’ under Severe Stress – The Case of Rural Zambia. Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, Newcastle. 02.09.2022.

Tups, G. 2022. Transboundary value chains in Africa: Status Quo and Trends. ARTS Lecture Series on African Food Systems, Bonn. 06.05.2022.

Tups, G., 2022. Eating Fossil Fuels? Scrutinizing the fossil-fuel dependent food system under emergent geopolitics. AK Agri-Food Geographies, Vechta. 21.04.2022

Tups, G., 2022. Emptying the Future, Claiming Space. The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania as a Spatial Imaginary for Global Integration. SFB 1199 Colloquium, Leipzig. 20.04.2022.

Tups, G. 2021. Sino-African soybean trade Geopolitical imaginaries and incipient infrastructural configurations. Workshop “Future Heterogeneous Infrastructure Configurations in the Global South. Köln, 18.12.2021.

Tups, G. & P. Dannenberg. 2021. Der Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania – Nachhaltige regionale Wirtschaftspolitik durch Integration in globale Produktionsnetzwerke?. Bonner Geographische Gesellschaft, Bonn. 10.11.2021.

Matejcek, A. & Tups, G. 2021. Planning smart, working hard - Building digital connectivity between firms and farms in rural Tanzania. DKG Geowoche. 05.10.2021

Tups, G., 2021. Ostafrika als neuer Markt für die globale Düngemittelindustrie. INKOTA-netzwerk e.V., Berlin. 20.04.2021.

Tups, G., 2021. Turning Global Value Chains upside down? Governing agricultural production through the supplier-driven fertilizer GVC. AAG Annual Meeting 2021, Seattle. 07.04.2021.

Hartmann, G., Dannenberg, P., 2020. Turning Global Value Chains upside down? Upstream lead firms and governance in the fertilizer GVC. DFG Research Network Spaces of Global Production – Workshop: “Thinking about Extraction and Spaces of Global Production“, Bayreuth. 26.11.2020.

Hartmann, G., 2020. Emptying the Future, Claiming Space: African Development Corridors as Spatial Imaginaries of Strategic Coupling. Doctoral Colloquium on the Infrastructure Turn and Global Development 2020, Sheffield. 09.09.2020.

Hartmann G, & Dannenberg P. (2019): Wachstumskorridore als modus operandi landwirtschaftlicher Transformation? Das Megaprojekt SAGCOT in Tansania, Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019, Kiel. 26.09.2019.

Hartmann, G and P. Dannenberg (2018): Emptying future, claiming territory: The making of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2019, London.29.08.2019.

Hartmann, G. & Dannenberg, P. (2018): Entwicklungskorridore als Strategie zur Ernährungssicherheit in Afrika? - das Beispiel SAGCOT, Lecture Series Food and Nutrition Security - Competence Area Food Security. Cologne. 20.12.2018.

Hartmann, G. & Dannenberg, P. (2018): Going digital: A dynamic perspective on smartphone adoption amongst smallholders in agricultural value chains in Kenya, GCEG 2018 - Fifth Global Conference on Economic Geography. 25.08.2018. 

Dannenberg, P., Follmann, A. & Hartmann, G. (2017): Growing smart? Urbanization and peri-urban change in and around Faridabad, India. Arbeitskreis Südasien. Augsburg. 27-28.01.2017. 

Other

Tups, G. (2020): From health crisis to hunger crisis? Impacts of COVID-19 on fertilizer value chains in East Africa. CRC Future Rural Africa Blog. 28th December 2020. https://www.crc228.de/2020/12/28/from-health-crisis-to-hunger-crisis/

Hartmann, G., Hulke, C. & Kalvelage, L. (2020): Understanding Linkages of Future-Making through Global Value Chains. CRC Future Rural Africa Blog. 08th September 2020. https://www.crc228.de/2020/09/08/understanding-linkages-of-future-making-through-global-value-chains/

Hartmann, G. (2020): Spatialities of Future Making: The Case of Fertilizer Value Chains. CRC Future Rural Africa Blog. 10th February 2020. https://www.crc228.de/2020/02/10/the-case-of-fertilizer-value-chains/

Hartmann, G. (2019): The Quest to find SAGCOT: Erratic Space(s) and Fragments of Interpretation. CRC Future Rural Africa Blog. 17th January 2019. https://www.crc228.de/2019/01/17/the-quest-to-find-sagcot-erratic-spaces-and-fragments-of-interpretation/

Lecturing and Teaching activities

Summer Term 2022
"Introduction to QGIS: Data collection, organization, and visualization for empirical field work" Summer School, University of Namibia (UNAM)

Summer Term 2021
„Infrastructural Turn: Neue Infrastrukturen, Regionalplanung und sozioökonomischer Wandel im Globalen Süden“ Reading Seminar of M.Sc. Geographie.