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

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.

Europe's Border Geographies (Seminar)
Human Geographies of Water (Seminar)

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, 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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