Staff - 3rd phase of research

Dr. Ingo Breuer

Currently working on:

Impacts of liberalization on North African agricultural systems • Youth, economy, and identity in North African cities • Geographies of global health • Social change on the Tibetan Plateau • Potentials of longitudinal studies in development research

Researcher (since 2001) and Project Leader (since July 2008) at the Collaborative Research Centre 586 "Difference & Integration": Project „Nomads Without Pasture? Key Issues of Sustainable Development: Political Ecology and Human Security“ • Research interests: Geographies of development, globalization, livelihoods, and global markets • Studied Geography, Economics and Islamic Studies at Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany (1996-2001) • Empirical research in Egypt, Morocco, Tibet, and France • PhD on mobility and livelihood security in Morocco (2005) • M.A. thesis on access to drinking water and marginalization in Cairo’s informal settlements (2001) • Arabic language studies in Cairo (DAAD exchange program, 1998/99)

Selected Publications:

(2013; ed.): Pastoralist Tibetans. Wiesbaden: Reichert. (with A.Gruschke, to be published in 2013).

(2012; ed.) Alltagsmobilitäten. Marokkanische Lebenswelten im Aufbruch. Bielefeld: Transkript, 448 p. (with J.Gertel; See table of contents here)

(2012) Alltagsmobilitäten - Marokkos neue soziale Landschaften. [Everyday mobilities: Morocco’s new social landscapes]. In: J. Gertel & I. Breuer (eds.): Alltagsmobilitäten, Bielefeld: Transcript, 11-31. (with J. Gertel; full paper available here)

(2012) Landwirtschaftliche Existenzsicherung am Limit? [Exploring the limits of agricultural livelihoods]. In: J. Gertel & I. Breuer (eds.): Alltagsmobilitäten, Bielefeld: Transcript, 83-111. (with J. Gertel, D. Kreuer, J. Frische)

(2012) Ländliche Lohnarbeit und Kommodifizierung von Arbeitskraft [Rural wage work and the commodification of labour]. In: J. Gertel & I. Breuer (Hrsg.): Alltagsmobilitäten, Bielefeld: Transcript, 125-143. (with J. Gertel)

(2012) Bruchlinien sozialräumlicher Fragmentierung einer lokalen Agrargesellschaft [Social lines of disruption in a Moroccan agricultural system]. In: J. Gertel & I. Breuer (Hrsg.): Alltagsmobilitäten, Bielefeld: Transcript, 145-161.

(2012) Rabat: Junge Erwachsene, Arbeitsmarkt und soziale Absicherung im urbanen Marokko [Rabat: Young adults, labour markets and social security in urban Morocco]. In: J. Gertel & I. Breuer (Hrsg.): Alltagsmobilitäten, Bielefeld: Transcript, 327-339.

(2011) Market Spaces in a Globalizing Periphery: Livestock Trade, Borders, and Liberalization in Eastern Morocco. In Gertel, Jörg & R. LeHeron (eds.): Economic Spaces of Pastoral Production and Commodity Systems: Markets and Livelihoods. Farnham: Ashgate, 151-171. (with D. Kreuer)

(2011) Marokkos Weideressourcen in globalisierten Konfliktarenen [Morocco’s pastoral resources in arenas of global conflict].. In: Geographische Rundschau 7/8, 10-16. (with M. Mahdi).

(2011) Espaces mobiles et moyens d’existence à la ‘périphérie mondialisée’ du Maroc [Mobile spaces and livelihoods in Morocco’s globalized periphery]. In: L’information géographique, 1/2011, 56-71.

(2009) Neue Unsicherheiten am Rande der Sahara: Regionalisierung und soziale Polarisierung in Marokko [New Insecurities on the Saharan margins: Regionalization and social polarization in Morocco]. In: Nova Acta Leopoldina NF 108 (373), 193-206, 2009. (with J. Gertel)

(2009) Urbanisierung und Regionalisierung in Osttibet [Urbanization and regionalization in Eastern Tibet]. In: Internationales Asienforum 40 (1-2), 119-141. (with J. Gertel, A. Gruschke)

(2007) Mobilität und Existenzsicherung im ariden Marokko [Mobility and livelihood security in arid Morocco]. Wiesbaden, Reichert (Nomaden und Sesshafte 8).

(2007, ed.) (ed.): Pastoral Morocco. Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity. Wiesbaden, Reichert (Nomaden und Sesshafte 7), 267 p. (with J. Gertel)

(2007) Introduction. In: Gertel, Jörg and Ingo Breuer (ed.): Pastoral Morocco. Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity. Wiesbaden, Reichert, 3–10. (with J. Gertel)

(2007) Marketing from the Margins: The Ilimchan Pastoralists of the Pre-Sahara. In: Gertel, Jörg and Ingo Breuer (ed.): Pastoral Morocco. Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity. Wiesbaden, Reichert, 117–132.

(2007) Livelihood Security and Mobility in the High Atlas Mountains. In: Gertel, Jörg and Ingo Breuer (ed.): Pastoral Morocco. Globalizing Scapes of Mobility and Insecurity. Wiesbaden, Reichert, 165–180.

(2005) Statistiken, oder: Wie werden Nomaden in Marokko gemacht? [Statistics, or: Constructions of Nomads in Morocco]. In: Mitteilungen des SFB "Differenz und Integration": Methoden als Aspekte der Wissenskonstruktion, Halle/Saale, OWZ, 55-73.

(2004) Moderne Nomaden – Existenzsicherung und Mobilität im ariden Marokko [Modern nomads: Livelihoods and mobility in arid Morocco]. In: Günter Meyer (ed.): Die arabische Welt im Spiegel der Kulturgeographie. Mainz, ZEFAW, 256-263.