Forschungsschwerpunkte

Wirtschaftsgeographie, Globale Produktionsnetzwerke, landwirtschaftliche Wertschöpfungsketten, Resilienz und Vulnerabilitätsforschung, soziale Netzwerke, regional value chains, livelihoods

Regionaler Schwerpunkt

Südliches Afrika, insbesondere Namibia und Tansania; Südostasien, insbesondere Vietnam

Publikationen

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

Hulke, Carolin (2022): Development beyond global integration: Livelihood strategies, small-scale agriculture, and regional value chains in Namibian conservation areas. Dissertation, Universität zu Köln. Link

Hulke, C.; Kalvelage, L.; Kairu, J.; Revilla Diez, J.; Rutina, L. (2022): Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Free access link: https://academic.oup.com/cjres/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cjres/rsac001/6554430?guestAccessKey=c620a2c4-1e3f-4488-8d32-1aa3959e5464

Hulke, C.; Revilla Diez, J. (2022): Understanding regional value chain evolution in peripheral areas through governance interactions – An institutional layering approach. Applied Geography 139. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102640.

Kiesel, C.; Dannenberg, P.; Hulke, C.; Kairu, J.; Revilla Diez, J., Sandhage-Hofmann, A. (2022):
An argument for place-based policies: The importance of local agro-economic, political and environmental conditions for agricultural policies exemplified by the Zambezi region, Namibia. Environmental Science & Policy 129, 137-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.12.012

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, Online first

Breul, M.; Hulke, C.; Kalvelage, L. (2021): Path Formation and Reformation: Studying the Variegated Consequences of Path Creation for Regional Development. Economic Geography, S. 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2021.1922277

Aring, M; Reichardt, O.; Menjono Katjizeu, E.; Luyanda, B., Hulke, C. (2021): Collective Capacity to Aspire? Aspirations and Livelihood Strategies in the Zambezi Region, Namibia The European Journal of Development Research, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-021-00412-1

Hulke, Carolin; Kairu, Jim Kariuki; Diez, Javier Revilla (2020): Development visions, livelihood realities – how conservation shapes agricultural value chains in the Zambezi region, Namibia. Development Southern Africa, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2020.1838260

Hulke, H.; Revilla Diez, J. (2020): Building adaptive capacity to external risks through collective action - Social learning mechanisms of smallholders in rural Vietnam. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101829

Präsentationen

Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, London, 10. - 11. November 2022:
“Navigating through the storm: conservancies as local institutions for regional resilience in Zambezi, Namibia”

Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, annual meeting 9-11 July 2022, Amsterdam:
“Social upgrading through civil society engagement and government aids: How COVID-19 affects the horticulture value chain organisation and livelihood outcomes in Zambezi, Namibia”

6th Global Conference on Economic Geography, 7. bis 10.06.2022, Dublin:
“How do regional value chains evolve? The role of multi-layered institutions in the emergence of horticulture in northern Namibia”

Royal Geographical Society, annual meeting (virtual), 31.08. bis 3.09.2021,
“COVID-19 and the changing geographies of value chains:
Local institutions and regional resilience in the Zambezi region, Namibia”
“Understanding Regional Value Chain evolution through governance interactions – an institutional layering approach”

07.06. – 10.06.2021, Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (VAD), Africa challenges Konferent 2020/21
“Regional value chains & rural development - Interpath relations between the tourism & horticulture sector in rural Namibia”

07. – 10. April 2021: American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting (digital):
“Governing Regional Value Chains – Institutional layering in the horticulture sector in rural Namibia”

14. - 15. November 2019: Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, London
“New regional path development in Zambezi, Namibia? Interlinkages between horticulture value chains and nature conservation” 

27. - 30. September 2019: Deutscher Kongress für Geographie an der Universität Kiel
“New regional path development in Zambezi, Namibia? Interlinkages between horticulture value chains and nature conservation”

1. März 2019, Konferenz “Resources for a social-ecological transformation” an der Universität Innsbruck
„Conflicting conservation? Regional agricultural value chains and possibilities of participation in Northern Namibia”

20. - 22. Juni 2018: 3. Young Economic Geographers Network (YEGN) Workshop “Unequal Contours of Development in the Global South”, Lindlar
“Of Corridors, Livelihoods and Elephants: Coupling the Zambezi region in Northern Namibia to GPNs”

Lehrveranstaltungen

WS 2022/23: Ungleiche Entwicklungsdynamiken im Globalen Süden - Konzeptionelle Zugänge und Raumbeispiele
SoSe 2022: Mittelseminar Wirtschaftliche „Entwicklung“ im Globalen Süden aus kritischer Perspektive
SoSe 2022: Exkursion Wirtschaft und Entwicklung – Strukturwandel in Köln
SoSe 2022: Exkursion “Socio-economic impacts of growth corridors – Realities in Namibia” SoSe 2021: Mittelseminar “Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung aus einer kritischen Perspektive“
SoSe 2020: Angewandte statistische Analysen mit STATA
SoSe 2019: Geländepraktikum zu „Livelihood-Strategien und Wellbeing landwirtschaftlicher Haushalte in der Sambesi-Region in Namibia: Potentials, challenges and conflicts of resource use on communal land in the Zambezi Region“
SoSe 2018: Angewandte statistische Analysen mit STATA
WS 2017/2018: Angewandte statistische Analysen mit STATA

Akademischer Werdegang

Seit 07/2022
Postdoc als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Geographischen Institut, Universität zu Köln, AG Wirtschaftsgeographie und Globaler Süden, Prof. Dr. Revilla Diez

04/2022: Dissertation „Development beyond global integration: Livelihood strategies, small-scale agriculture, and regional value chains in Namibian conservation areas” (Betreuer*innen: Prof. Dr. Javier Revilla Diez, Prof. Dr. Julia Verne, Dr. Rory Horner)

Seit 11/2017
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Geographischen Institut der Universität zu Köln, AG Wirtschaftsgeographie und Globaler Süden, Prof. Dr. Revilla Diez. Assoziierte Projektmitarbeiterin des DFG-geförderten CRC 228, Future Rural Africa.

05/2017 - 06/2017
Forschungsaufenthalt an der Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry, Vietnam Stipendiatin des GSSC (Global South Study Center), Universität zu Köln

04/2015 - 10/2017
Master of Science Anthropogeographie, Profilbildung Wirtschaftsgeographie, Universität zu Köln, Nebenfach Politikwissenschaften

08/2013 - 07/2017
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft am Geographischen Institut der Universität zu Köln, AG Wirtschaftsgeographie, Prof. Dr. Boris Braun

10/2011 - 03/2015
Bachelor of Science Geographie, Universität zu Köln, Nebenfächer Soziologie und Ethnologie

Masterarbeit

Building adaptive capacity to external risks through collective action –  the role of social capital in small-scale farming in rural areas of Vietnam