Anja Decker, M.A.

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.