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Dr. David Kreuer

Dr. David Kreuer

Research Fellow

Economic Geography and Globalisation Research
Institutsgebäude
Johannisallee 19a, Room 0.02
04103 Leipzig

Phone: +49 341 97 - 32971

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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 Morocco
    Gertel, Jörg
    Duration: 09/2022 – 08/2025
    Funded by: DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
    Involved organisational units of Leipzig University: Wirtschaftsgeographie und Globalisierungsforschung
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more projects

  • Gertel, J.; Kreuer, D.; Stolleis, F. (Eds.)
    Die enteignete Generation: Jugend im Nahen Osten und in Nordafrika
    Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
    Bonn: Verlag J.H.W. Dietz Nachf.. 2023.
    ISBN: 978-3-8012-0653-6
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  • Gertel, J.; Kreuer, D.; Stolleis, F. (Eds.)
    The Dispossessed Generation: Youth in the Middle East and North Africa
    Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
    London: Saqi Books. 2024.
    ISBN: 978-0-86356-952-4
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  • Kreuer, D.
    Environmental Awareness and Activism
    In: Gertel, J.; Kreuer, D.; Stolleis, F. (Eds.)
    The Dispossessed Generation: Youth in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Saqi Books. 2024. pp. 182–202.
    ISBN: 978-0-86356-952-4
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  • Kreuer, D.; Gertel, J.
    Values and the Formation of Groups
    In: Gertel, J.; Kreuer, D.; Stolleis, F. (Eds.)
    The Dispossessed Generation: Youth in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Saqi Books. 2024. pp. 263–282.
    ISBN: 978-0-86356-952-4
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  • Kreuer, D.
    Hopes and Expectations
    In: Gertel, J.; Kreuer, D.; Stolleis, F. (Eds.)
    The Dispossessed Generation: Youth in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Saqi Books. 2024. pp. 383–397.
    ISBN: 978-0-86356-952-4
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more publications

  • Introduction to Economic Geography

    Lecture, 2022/23 winter term