
Dr. Gerda Kuiper
Seminars and Courses of Past Semesters
Seminars and Courses of Past Semesters
Winter 23/24 Introduction to the Anthropology of Environment; The institute library: a decolonizing examination
Summer 2023 Basic Concepts of Research in Hazard, Vulnerability, and Risk Management
Winter 22/23 Introduction to the Anthropology of Environment
Summer 2022 Basic Concepts of Research in Hazard, Vulnerability, and Risk Management
Winter 21/22 Mobilität, Arbeit und Handel in Ostafrika
Summer 2019 14506.1310 Anthropologische Perspektiven auf globale Wertschöpfungsketten
Winter 16/17 14506.1311 Zeit - Geschlecht - Kultur - Macht
Short Biography
Short Biography
Since 2021
Lecturer and Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne & Coordinator for the DAAD Climate and Environment Center "Future African Savannas" (AFAS)
Since 2019
Research Fellow, University of Cologne
2013 - 2018
Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
2017
Research fellow, Department of Geography, University of Bonn
2013 - 2017
Research fellow, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
2011
Researcher for the Research Group for Microfinance, University of Applied Sciences in Holland, The Hague
2009 - 2011
M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University
Thematic Interests and Regional Focus
Thematic Interests and Regional Focus
- Economic Anthropology
- Globalization
- Migration
- Translocality
- Gender
- East Africa
- Interdisciplinary and/or Applied Research
Research Projects
African Climate and Environment Center - Future African Savannas (AFAS)

African Climate and Environment Center - Future African Savannas (AFAS)
Support: DAADCooperation Partners: ZEF (University of Bonn), ICCA (University of Nairobi, Kenya), CEA-CCBAD (Université de Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Ivory Coast)
Project management: Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig, Dr. Gerda Kuiper
Website: https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/en/the-center/african-climate-and-environment-center-future-african-savannas-afas
Duration
Funding Phase: 2021- 2025 (5 years) | Budget: 2.8 Mio €
FOR 1501 RCR | B3 Global Economic Influences and Local Labor Relations in the Reorganization of an Agro-Industrial Center

FOR 1501 RCR | B3 Global Economic Influences and Local Labor Relations in the Reorganization of an Agro-Industrial Center
Sub-Project B3 of Research Unit 1501 Resilience, Collapse and Reorganization in Social-Ecological Systems of East and South Africa’s Savannahs (RCR)
Support: German Research Foundation (DFG)Cooperation Partners: University of Bonn
Project management: Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig
Staff: Gerda Kuiper, M.A.
Website: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/237677796?language=en
Duration:
2. Funding Phase 2013-2016 (36 months) | Budjet Sub-Projekt: 154.900 €
Publications
Publications
Kuiper, G. (2023). The second-hand clothing trade and moral economic contestations over (re)distribution in Tanzania. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, pp. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2023.2193366.
Kuiper, G. (2021). Emotional risk assessments in the field: Leaving Tanzania during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ethnography. https://doi.org/10.1177/14661381211002856.
Kuiper, G. and Greiner, C. (2021). Export horticulture and labour migration in Kenya: Translocality and transiency in a secondary town. Geoforum, 122, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.03.013.
Kuiper, G. (2020). Ethnographic fieldwork quarantined. Social Anthropology, 28, pp. 300-301. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12848.
Kuiper, G. (2020). They just move in with relatives': Translocal labour migrants and transient spaces in Naivasha, Kenya. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 14, pp. 227-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2020.1730562.
Kuiper, G. (2019). Agro-industrial labour in Kenya. Cut flower farms and migrant workers' settlements, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18046-1.
Kuiper, G. (2019), "Conflicted emotions: Learning about uchawi" in: S. Thomas, S. Dinkelaker and F. Thajib, eds, Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography. New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20831-8_6.
Kuiper, G. (2018). Kenyan flower farms and global notions of 'decent work'. Voices from around the World, 2. Available at: URL.
Kuiper, G. (2017). Get on a boat: A photographic view from Lake Naivasha. Voices from around the World, 3. Available at: URL.
Kuiper, G. and Gemählich, A. (2017). Sustainability and depoliticisation: Certifications in the cut-flower industry at Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Africa Spectrum, 52, pp. 31-53. https://doi.org/10.1177/000203971705200302.