Anja Decker, M.A.
Department: Local and regional studies
Job: doktorandka
Email:
Phone: 777512313
ORCID: 0000-0002-3867-3935
Themes: Economy, Gender, City and Village, Migration and Mobility, Work, Social Inequalities, Lifestyle
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2014 - ongoing PhD candidate, Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich, research project Ambiguous ruralities. Precarity as a framework for understanding social inequality in the Western Bohemian borderlands (working title)
2002 - 2009 Magister studies of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität Berlin and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Focus
*political ecology
*diverse economies and informality
*precarity and social inequality
*alternative food systems
*rural studies
Teaching Activities
2020(autumn term) Exploring social insecurity in affluent societies. A practical introduction to conducting and analyzing narrative interviews, seminar, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University Basel
2019(Spring term) Crisis as a norm?! Dealing with limited resources in times of uncertainty, seminar, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University Basel
2017/18 (Winter term) Close up on food. Cultural anthropological perspectives on regional food and subsistence farming, seminar, Institute for European
Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich
2017 (Summer term) Contemporary rural life. Ruralities and rural everday-life in European societies, seminar - I:IMSK Universität Regensburg
2016 (Winter term) Ruralities and rural everyday-life. Contemporary transformations, discourses and problems, seminar, Institute for European Ethnology and
Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich
Foreign Study Visits and Internships
2014 - 2018 Member of the International PhD program Transformations in European Societies, Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich
Medallion
Selected publications
Decker, A. 2019. A Freezer full of Meat. Subsistence Farming in the Context of Social Inequality. In: Journal for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis 3 (2).
Decker, A. 2019 Von Schätzen im Garten, hybriden Produkten und ländlichen Möglichkeitsräumen. Inwertsetzung, Ausdeutungen und Entgrenzungen ruraler Wirtschaftspraxen in einer tschechischen Obstbrennerei. In: Braun, K. et al (ed.): Wirtschaften. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven. 653-660.
Decker, A. 2018. Eine Tiefkühltruhe voller Fleisch. Selbstversorgerlandwirtschaft im Kontext sozialer Ungleichheit. [A Freezer full of Meat. Subsistence Farming in the Context of Social Inequality] Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 114(2): 213-235.
Decker, A. 2017. Ein tschechischer Kleinstbauer zwischen Subsistenz-und Warenproduktion. Überlegungen zur Rolle der Kleinstlandwirtschaft im Kontext der Prekarisierung ländlicher Lebenswelten. In: Berliner Blätter 74: 63-80.
Selected Publications
The Mobility Interview: Triangulating Interview and GPS Data to Explore the Role of Mobility in Everyday Life
2024, van Dülmen, Christoph, Šimon, Martin, Bischof, Susann, et al.
Projects
Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities: East-Central Europe Case Study
Project Duration: 2023 - 2025
Inconspicuous innovations and resilience in the urban context: Researching global questions through Central and Eastern European cities
Project Duration: 2021 - 2025
Utváření a performance občanství skrze dluhy v České republice
Project Duration: 2020 - 2023