Dr. Juliane SCHUMACHER
Senior Lecturer and Researcher
Tel.: +49 931-31 82697
E-Mail: juliane.schumacher@uni-wuerzburg.de
Institute of Geography and Geology
Am Hubland
97074 Wuerzburg
Campus Hubland South
Geography Building
Room 129
- Economic Geography
- Political Ecology
- Science and Technology Studies
- Climate Change
- Climate Justice
- Digital Natures
- Regions: North Africa, Westafrica, Mediterranean
Fall semester 2025/2026
- Spezielle Humangeographie 1: Geographien der Finanzialisierung [Geographies of Financialization]
- Regionale Geographie 2: Zwischen Aufbruch und Abhängigkeit – (Wirtschafts)Geographien Westafrikas [Between Emergence and Dependency – (Economic) Geographies of West Africa]
Research experience
2024-2025
Post-doctoral researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Thaer-Institut of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Research project „BioMaterialities“
2015-2024
Associate Researcher, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, Member of the research units Politics of Resources (2014-2019) and Environment and Justice (2020-2024)
2014-2024
Lecturer, University of Potsdam and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Professional Experience
2011-2014
Fulltime news editor, taz, die tageszeitung, Berlin
2011
Correspondent and author, Cairo, Egypt
Since 2007
Freelance journalist, author and consultant, focus on environmental issues and global economy, Middle East, North Africa and Latinamerica
Education
2021
PhD, Economic and Social Geography, University of Potsdam
2013
M.Sc. Geoecology, University of Potsdam
2009
M.A. in Political Science and Philosophy, University of Potsdam
Scholarships and Grants
2021-2022
Research Project „Green New Deals“, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels
2020-2021
Research Grant, Reserch Project „Mehr als eine Sprache – zur persönlichen Interdisziplinarität in den Wissenschaften“, Andrea von Braun-Stiftung, München
2020, 2021
Fellowships, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin
2014-2018
Dissertation Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes Scholarship, 2001- Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2001–2009
Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
Books
SCHUMACHER, J. (2022): Die Regierung des Waldes. Klimawandel, Kohlenstoffmärkte und neoliberale Naturen in Marokko. Bielefeld, Transcript.
Articles
LANGE, K. & J. SCHUMACHER (2024): Appropriations, Representations, Productions: Engagements with "Nature" in the Middle East and North Africa since the 19th Century. Arab Studies Journal XXXII, 8-14.
SCHUMACHER, J. & H. HILBRANDT (2024): Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice. Political Geography 108, 103037. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103037.
SCHUMACHER, J. (2023): Framing REDD+: political ecology, actor–network theory (ANT), and the making of forest carbon markets. Geographica Helvetica 78, 255–265. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-255-2023.
Studies and working paper
SCHUMACHER, J. (2024): Umweltgerechtigkeit – Fragen und Antworten. Berliner Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin.
SCHUMACHER, J. (2022): Connected Contradictions. Climate Policy in the Middle East and North Africa. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin.
SCHUMACHER, J. (2022): Zwischen Sprachen - zur persönlichen Interdisziplinarität. Special Issue. Briefe zur Interdisziplinarität 2/2021. München, Oekom Verlag. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35102.20805.
SCHUHMACHER, J. (2021): Green New Deals. A big deal for fair climate protection or just the latest version of the capitalist model? An Introduction. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Brussels. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.19876.55681.
