Profile
Abstract
Research interests
* empirical social-geographical fieldwork in the Middle East and North Africa
* topics: rural social change, development, youth studies, mountain and steppe pastoralism, methods of knowledge transfer in environmental policy
* dissertation: understand socio-economic transformations and drought in eastern Morocco with the analytical help of actor-network theory
Professional career
- since 09/2022
Postdoc, Institute for Geography | University of Leipzig - 03/2020 - 07/2022
Postdoc, INTERNAS project | Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig - 01/2015 - 12/2019
Project Assistant, Junior Research Group POLISES | UFZ Leipzig - 08/2008 - 06/2012
Research Assistant, Collaborative Research Center 586 ‘Difference and Integration’ | University of Leipzig & UFZ Leipzig
Education
- 04/2011 - 06/2019
PhD student, Faculty of History, Arts and Oriental Studies | University of Leipzig - 10/2002 - 07/2008
M.A. student, Arabic and Middle East Studies & Computer Science | University of Leipzig
- Formation of a Middle Class? Social Cohesion in Rural MoroccoGertel, JörgDuration: 09/2022 – 08/2025Funded by: DFG Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftInvolved organisational units of Leipzig University: Wirtschaftsgeographie und Globalisierungsforschung
- Gertel, J.; Kreuer, D.; Stolleis, F. (Eds.)Die enteignete Generation: Jugend im Nahen Osten und in NordafrikaFriedrich-Ebert-StiftungBonn: Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachf.. 2023.ISBN: 978-3-8012-0653-6
- Gertel, J.; Kreuer, D.The impact of the pandemic on young people: A survey among "Young Leaders" in the Middle East and North AfricaFriedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Tunisia Office. La Marsa. 2021.ISBN: 978-9938-815-11-5
- Gertel, J.; Kreuer, D.WerteIn: Gertel, J.; Hexel, R. (Eds.)Zwischen Ungewissheit und Zuversicht. Bonn: Dietz. 2017. pp. 75–99.
- Mueller, B.; Schulze, J.; Kreuer, D.; Linstaedter, A.; Frank, K.How to avoid unsustainable side effects of managing climate risk in drylands - The supplementary feeding controversyAGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS. 2015. pp. 153–165.
- Spengler, T.; Dietrich, H.; Kreuer, D.; Gertel, J.Methodik der StudieIn: Gertel, J.; Hexel, R. (Eds.)Zwischen Ungewissheit und Zuversicht. Bonn: Dietz. 2017. pp. 379–390.
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Introduction to Economic Geography
Lecture, 2022/23 winter term