Rebekka KANESU, M.A. - Chair of Economic Geography

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Economic geography, especially agriculture
Marketing and social media
Feminist geographies
Human-environment relations in the Anthropocene
Political ecologies of water
More-than-human geographies
Border geographies
(Post)qualitative methodologies
Agential realism, assemblage theory, new materialism

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, Rebekka (under review): Boating the border: rethinking bordertextures through performative b/ordering events. In: Christian Wille, Astrid M. Fellner, Eva Nossem (eds.): Bordertextures: A Complexity Approach to Cultural Border Studies. Transcript.

KANESU, Rebekka, LAMB, Vanessa, MCGRATH, Eva (2025): Editorial: Rivers as Borders? Navigating in-between the tensions of water-state-society geographies. In: Area, e70001. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.70001. Open Access.

KANESU, Rebekka (2024): Liquid Lines: Exploring the Moselle River between France, Luxembourg and Germany. In: Area: 1-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12935.

ALBA, Rossella, KANESU, Rebekka (2024): Working with water: a dialogue on care, infrastructure and labour. In: Territory, Politics, Governance, 1–17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2024.2313584. Open Access.

FELLNER, Astrid M., KANESU, Rebekka (2022): Border as Method. UniGR-CBS Border Glossary. Open Access. (PDF)

FELLNER, Astrid M., KANESU, Rebekka (2022): Border Thinking. UniGR-CBS Border Glossary. Open Access. (PDF)

KANESU, Rebekka (2022): Rezension: Kulturökologie und ökologische Kulturen in der Großregion/Écologie culturelle et cultures écologiques dans la Grande Région. In: Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, Bd. 2021, Iss. 2: 78–83. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/kwg-2021-0006. Open Access.

BRUNS, Antje und KANESU, Rebekka (Hg.) (2020): B/ordering the Anthropocene: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Nature-Culture Relations. Borders in Perspective - UniGR-CBS thematic issue. Vol. 5, S. 24-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-2ef3-07f3. Open Access.

KANESU, Rebekka, BRUNS, Antje (2020): Durchlässige Grenzen im Anthropozän: über multiple Grenzverschiebungen und Wasser als räumliches, zeitliches und ontologisches Grenzobjekt. In: Antje Bruns, Rebekka Kanesu (Hg.): B/ordering the Anthropocene: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Nature-Culture Relations. Borders in Perspective - UniGR-CBS thematic issue. Vol. 5, S. 24-39. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-2ef3-07f3. Open Access.

WILLE, Christian, KANESU, Rebekka (Hg.) (2020): Bordering in Pandemic Times: Insights into the Covid-19 Lockdown. Borders in Perspective, thematic issue Vol. 4.. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25353/ubtr-xxxx-b825-a20b. Open Access.

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