Derzeitige Position

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc) der Arbeitsgruppe "Wirtschaftsgeographie und Globaler Süden", Prof. Dr. Revilla Diez, Geographisches Institut, Universität zu Köln
seit Oktober 2022

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Globale Produktionsnetzwerke & Kommodifizierung
Grüne Innovation & Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
Ressourcenperipherie & Energiesysteme
Naturschutz & Tourismus

 

Ausbildung und akademische Grade

seit 10/2022	Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc) am Geographischen Institut der Universität zu Köln, Arbeitsgruppe Wirtschaftsgeographie und Globaler Süden
10/20221 - 09/2022	Mitarbeit als Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc) am Deutschen Institut für Tropische und Subtropische Landwirtschaft im DFG-Projekt „(Post-)colonial breeding in Namibia: Historical, socio-ecological and genetic transformations“
01/2022 - 09/2022	Wissenschaftlicher Koordinator des DFG Sonderforschungsbereiches „Future Rural Africa“ und des ERC Advanced Grant „REWILDING the Anthropocene“
Juli 2021	Verteidigung der Dissertation "Capturing value from wildlife tourism: growth corridors and global production networks"
seit April 2018	Promotion im Fach Geographie, Universität zu Köln 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
Februar 2017	M.Sc. Geographie, Universität zu Köln
Januar 2013	B.A. General History und Humangeographie, Universität Potsdam

 

Publikationen

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 19(4), 282-293

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

 

Fachvorträge

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

Trinity College, 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.

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

World Wide Fund for Nature, Stakeholder Workshop: “How much remains? Local value capture from tourism in Zambezi, Namibia.” Berlin, Januar 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, Spanien, Juni 2019.

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

 

INTERNATIONALE FORSCHUNGSAUFENTHALTE

Warwick University, Warwick (VK): Gastaufenthalt am Global History Department, auf Einladung von Prof. Dr. David Anderson (Oktober 2020 - Dezember 2020)

Feldaufenthalte in Namibia, Botswana, Tansania and Sambia (insgesamt 9 Monate zwischen Mai 2018 and November 2019)

Central Institute of Economic Management, Hanoi (Vietnam): Feldaufenthalt für die Masterarbeit “Aufwertungspotenziale der vietnamesischen Öl- und Gasindustrie aus der Perspektive der globalen Produktionsnetzwerke” (Mai bis Juni 2016)        

Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences, Bischkek (Kirgisien): Forschungspraktikum, “Rural economic development in seismic active regions” Februar bis März 2015  

Universität Zaragoza, Zaragoza (Spanien): Austauschjahr von September 2009 bis Juli 2010