Rebekka KANESU, M.A.
Lecturer and Researcher
Tel.: +49 931 31-86817
E-Mail: rebekka.kanesu@uni-wuerzburg.de
Institute of Geography and Geology
Am Hubland
97074 Wuerzburg
Campus Hubland South
Geography Building
Room 128
About me
I work as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in economic geography. I am currently developing a new research project on the role of product queens in regional value creation and regional development in Germany. To this end, I am integrating feminist approaches to economic geography, symbolic economies and critical perspectives on regional and rural geographies.
In my doctoral thesis, I dealt with political ecologies of water in the context of the Anthropocene and using the example of the Moselle. One focus was on analyzing the border river from more-than-human perspectives using diffractive methodology and new materialist theory.
My disciplinary background is in social and cultural anthropology (Master) and human geography (PhD). I work predominantly in the ethnographic tradition and experiment with (post-)qualitative methodologies.
Appointments for office hours during the lecture-free period are available by arrangement.
Appointments for office hours in the summer semester 2025 are possible in person or via Zoom: Tuesdays from 11 am to 12 pm. Please register in advance by email.
I currently have capacity to supervise bachelor's theses. Please contact me by email if you would like to write your thesis under my supervision.
Economic geography
- Feminist economic geography
- Symbolic economies
- Regional development, regional and product marketing
Human-environment relations
- more-than-human geographies in the Anthropocene
- Political ecologies of water
Political and cultural geography
- Border geographies
Methodology and theory
- (Post)qualitative and diffractive methodologies
- Agential realism, assemblage theory, new materialism, bordertextures, feminist theory
Since 04/2025
Researcher at the Chair of Economic Geography
01/2018 - 12/2024
Research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Governance and Sustainability Lab (Human Geography) at the University of Trier
Topic: Diffracting Mo\u/sel\le/: Political river ecology in the patchy Anthropocene
01/2018 - 12/2020 and 03/2022 - 03/2023
Project officer in the Interreg project “UniGR-Center for Border Studies” at the University of Trier
10/2014 - 04/2017
MA studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
09/2011 - 04/2012
Stay abroad at the Université des Antilles (Guadeloupe); study of francophone Caribbean literature
10/2009 - 04/2014
BA Social and Cultural Anthropology /Romance Studies-French at the University of Cologne
KANESU, R., LAMB, V., & E. MCGRATH (2025): Editorial: Rivers as Borders? Navigating in-between the tensions of water-state-society geographies. Area e70001. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.70001. Open Access.
KANESU, R. (2024): Liquid Lines: Exploring the Moselle River between France, Luxembourg and Germany. Area, 1-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12935.
ALBA, R. & R. KANESU (2024): Working with water: a dialogue on care, infrastructure and labour. Territory, Politics, Governance, 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2024.2313584. Open Access.
FELLNER, A. M. & R. KANESU (2022): Border as Method. UniGR-CBS Border Glossary. Open Access. (PDF)
FELLNER, A. M. & R. KANESU (2022): Border Thinking. UniGR-CBS Border Glossary. Open Access. (PDF)
KANESU, R. (2022): Rezension: Kulturökologie und ökologische Kulturen in der Großregion/Écologie culturelle et cultures écologiques dans la Grande Région [Review: Cultural Ecology and Ecological Cultures in the Greater Region / Écologie culturelle et cultures écologiques dans la Grande Région]. Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift 2021(2), 78–83. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kwg-2021-0006. Open Access.
BRUNS, A. & R. KANESU (Hg.) (2020): B/ordering the Anthropocene: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Nature-Culture Relations. Borders in Perspective - UniGR-CBS thematic 5, 24-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-2ef3-07f3. Open Access.
KANESU, R. & A. BRUNS (2020): Durchlässige Grenzen im Anthropozän: über multiple Grenzverschiebungen und Wasser als räumliches, zeitliches und ontologisches Grenzobjekt [Permeable Boundaries in the Anthropocene: On Multiple Boundary Shifts and Water as a Spatial, Temporal, and Ontological Boundary Object.]. In: BRUNS, A. & R. KANESU (Hg.): B/ordering the Anthropocene: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Nature-Culture Relations. Borders in Perspective - UniGR-CBS, thematic issue 5, 24-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-2ef3-07f3. Open Access.
WILLE, Christian & R. KANESU (Hg.) (2020): Bordering in Pandemic Times: Insights into the Covid-19 Lockdown. Borders in Perspective, thematic issue 4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-b825-a20b. Open Access.
