Contact
Phone: +49 6341 280-38550
anne.hennings[at]rptu.de
Academic employment
| Since 05/2020 | Peace Academy Rhineland-Palatinate, University of Koblenz-Landau, Post Doc |
| Since 04/2014 | Distance learning university in Hagen, Germany, Lecturer |
| 01/2018 - 03/2018 | Free University of Berlin, Germany, guest researcher in the GLOCON project |
| 04/2017 - 09/2017 | Institute of History and African Studies Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, Visiting Researcher |
| 04/2016 - 12/2017 | Heinrich B枚ll Foundation Phnom Penh, Cambodia, visiting researcher |
| 10/2013 - 03/2016 | Chair of International Relations & Sustainable Development, WWU M眉nster(Prof.'in Doris Fuchs), Research Assistant |
Research stays
| 03/2018 - 02/2019 | Further research in Sierra Leone |
| 03/2016 - 09/2017 | Resistance to land investments in post-war Cambodia and Sierra Leone |
| 03/2012 - 06/2012 | Needs and conflict analysis in rural Negros, Philippines |
| 12/2011 - 02/2012 | Large-scale land investments and pastoralism, Ethiopia |
| 09/2011 - 11/2011 | Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia: The Out-Of-Camp Approach, Ethiopia |
| 09/2009 - 02/2010 | Sustainable solutions for Burundian refugees from 1972, Tanzania |
Vocational training
| 01/2014 - 06/2019 | Doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Politics, WWU M眉nster |
| 10/2010 - 04/2013 | M.A. Peace and Conflict Studies, Philipps-Univ. Marburg |
| 04/2008 - 09/2010 | B.A. Sociology/ Political Science, University of Rostock |
| 10/2006 - 09/2009 | B.A. Social Sciences, University of Rostock (focus: Demography & Economics) |
Research project
- Tug of War: Customary and State Actors in Land Reform and their Impact on Human Security in Post-Conflict Societies (Start September 2022, Gerda Henkel Foundation)
Main research areas
- International relations/peace and conflict research
- Peacebuilding and conflict transformation
- Struggles over land and resources
- Social movements
- Non-state armed groups
- Development policy and rural development
- Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia
Theories
- Political ecology
- Post-structuralism and assemblage
- Post-liberal peace
Methods
- Political Ethnography/Ethnographic Peace Research
- Expert interviews
- Focus group interviews
- Qualitative content analysis
Event organization
"", webinar organized and moderated for the Land Portal, 25 June 2019.
Contested Nature - Conflicts on Large-Scale Land and Resource Deals, Workshop of the AFK Working Group "Nature, Resources and Conflicts". Berlin, January 09, 2015 (with Louisa Prause, FU Berlin).
- Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (Seminar), University of Koblenz-Landau
- The Political Ecology of Global Land Grabbing (online seminar), Fernuni Hagen
- Social Movements, Protest and Resistance in the Global South, (reading course), WWU M眉nster
- Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies (standard course), WWU M眉nster
- The political economy of global land grabbing (reading course), WWU M眉nster
- Sustainable Fisheries and the EU (online seminar), Fernuni Hagen
Articles and book contributions
Hennings, Anne (2019): From Bullets to Banners and Back Again? The Ambivalent Role of Ex-Combatants in Contested Land Deals in Sierra Leone. In: Africa Spectrum. Vol. 54. No. 1. pp. 22-43.
Hennings, Anne; Dietz, Kristina (2019): Territorialization. In: Brunner, Jan; Dobelmann, Anna; Kirst, Sarah; Prause, Louisa: Dictionary of Land and Resource Conflicts. Marburg: transcript.
Hennings, Anne (2019): The Dark Underbelly of Land Struggles: The Instrumentalization of Female Activism and Emotional Resistance in Cambodia. In: Critical Asian Studies. Vol. 51. No. 1. pp. 103-119.
Hennings, Anne (2018): Plantation Assemblages and Spaces of Contested Development in Sierra Leone and Cambodia. In: Conflict, Security & Development. Vol. 18. No. 6. pp. 521-546.
Hennings, Anne (2018): With Soymilk to the Khmer Rouge: Challenges of Researching Ex-Combatants in Post-War Contexts. In: International Peacekeeping. Vol. 25. No. 5. pp. 630-652.
Fuchs, Doris; Hennings, Anne (2018): Governance by Contract From a Perspective of Power: The Case of Land Grabbing. In: Cuttler, A. Claire; Dietz, Thomas: The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract. London/New York: Routledge. S. 57-76.
Hennings, Anne; Fuchs, D. (2017): Contracts, Power, and Land Grabbing. In: Cutler, Claire A.; Dietz, Thomas: The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract. London: Routledge. S. 57-76.
Hennings, Anne (2016): Assembling Resistance Against Large-Scale Land Deals: Challenges for Conflict Transformation in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. In: Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies. Vol. 9. No. 1. pp. 33-52.
Hennings, Anne (2016): The Conflict Potential of Exclusive Land Grabbing Practices. A challenge for regional peace. In: Journal of Peace and Conflict Research. Vol. 5. No. 2. pp. 221-248.
Hennings, Anne (2016): Land Acquisitions in Post-Conflict Countries. In: Thompson, P.; Kaplan, D.: Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer.
Hennings, Anne; Schramm, Annette (2015): Who owns the land? Land grabbing from an African perspective. In: Science and Peace. Vol. 1. pp. 28-30.
Working papers, online articles, reviews
Hennings, Anne (2019): Seeing Plantations as Complex and Contested Spaces. Resources and Conflict-Blog. 19.09.2019.
Hennings, Anne; Engwicht, Nina; Prause, Louisa (2019): How do we research conflicts? Challenges of ethical field research in the context of resource conflicts. CCS Working Paper Series. Marburg.
Hennings, Anne (2018): Women in Land Struggles: The Implications of Female Activism and Emotional Resistance for Gender Equity. GLOCON Working Paper Series. Berlin.
Hennings, Anne (2018): Review: Bettina Engels & Kristina Dietz (eds.): Contested Extractivism, Society and the State. Struggles over Mining and Land. Periphery - Politics, Economy, Culture, 38(3), 492-494.
Hennings, Anne (2018): Review: Violent Neoliberalism. Development, Discourse, and Dispossession in Cambodia. Simon Springer, published in London: Palgrave Macmillan. SOJOURN - Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 33 (3): 723 - 726.
Hennings, Anne (2017): The Dark Underbelly of Land Struggles: Women at the Front of Protests. Heinrich B枚ll Foundation. 27.02.2017.
Hennings, Anne; Dietz, Kristina; Engels, Bettina; Prause, Louisa (2017): Editorial: nature, resources, conflicts: struggles over the global valorization of land and raw materials. PROKLA 189, PP. 510-515.
Hennings, Anne (2017): A Buddhist, a Christian and a Hindu on the Road: Lessons Learned From an Unusual Fieldtrip to the Cambodian Borderlands. In: Storer, L. & Shoemaker, A.: The Challenges Undisclosed. Reflections on Invisible Experiences of Doctoral Fieldwork, pp. 26-29.
Hennings, Anne (2016): Review: Theories in spatial and urban research. Introductions. J眉rgen O脽enbr眉gge & Anne Vogelpohl, published in M眉nster: Westf盲lisches Dampfboot. Periphery 141: 123-125.
Hennings, Anne; Prause, Louisa (2015): Contested Nature, Contested Terms: Conflicts Around Large-Scale Land Use Change. ZeFKo 4 (1): 162-171.