Anthropology and Development Studies

Anthropology and Development Studies

How do bottom-up initiatives of people striving for racial justice, political change or climate change awareness arise and evolve?

This anthropology & development Master's expands your knowledge and research skills. Let’s contribute to society!

Ecological livelihoods and environmental justice
How can the diversity of views on global warming, biodiversity loss, or sustainability be explained? In this track, you study the social nature of human relatedness to the environment from an interdisciplinary perspective. You learn about the complex and changing capacity of solidarity within the more-than-human world, focusing on classical social domains such as gender, religion and kinship, and how these are shaped through diverse understandings and lived practices in a multi-species environment. Understanding the diversity of ecological livelihoods also implicates a critical focus on volatile structures of socio-political and economic inequalities concerning land, the increasing depletion of natural resources and the transition to renewable energies. This track invites you to delve deeper into the multifaceted questions of the Anthropocene.