Annapia Debarry
Research Associate
PhD student
Annapia Debarry
RG Müller-Mahn
U1.032
Geozentrum - Meckenheimer Allee 176
53115 Bonn
Consultation hours
By arrangement
Research Areas
- Gender and Feminist Geographies
- (Feminist) Political Ecology
- Qualitative Methodology, Ethnography
- Regional focus: East Africa, especially Ethiopia
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2019: Research Associate and PhD Candidate at AG Müller-Mahn, Department of Geography, University of Bonn (GIUB)
2019: Scholarship holder DAAD, research stay in Ethiopia
2017-2018: Research fellow at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), NutriHAF-Africa
2015 - 2017: Research Assistant at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Program of Accompanying Research for Agricultural Innovation (PARI) and NutriHAF-Africa
2013 - 2016: MSc studies in Geography, focus on Geographic Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany
2009 - 2012: BA studies in cultural geography, sociology and journalism, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Research
Conceptually grounded in feminist political ecology and emotional geographies, I explore lived experiences of marginalized populations in changing waterscapes in Ethiopia in the context of water-focused visions of development. In the multi-sited research, I examine embodied and emotional dimensions of food-waterscapes in urban and rural settings to draw attention to subjective experiences, feelings, and embodied practices that are often overlooked and rendered invisible. The dissertation aims to contribute to the "intimate" (Elmhirst, 2015, p. 524) approaches in feminist political ecology that have emerged in the wake of the emotional turn. In a further vein, the research is designed to contribute to a more comprehensive and critical gender discourse in Ethiopia, as well as to the implementation of equity-driven development visions.
Lectures and Workshops (selection)
2021
Researching in and with the Global South: Approaching decolonial and feminist research practices in agricultural research and rural development. Workshop during the Tropentag Conference, September 15 - 17, 2021, online.
2020
Gendered experiences with irrigation technology in Northern Ethiopia. Gender Summit “Agriculture through the Gender Lens: From Surviving to Thriving in a Climate Changing World”, November 23 – December 2, 2020, online.
2018
Translation of Gender Awareness into Practice: Experiences from a Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Project in Yayu, Southwestern Ethiopia. Poster presentation, Tropentag Conference, September 17-19, 2018 Ghent, Belgium.
Gender justice through hydro dams? Feminist Perspectives on Socio-Ecological Transformation in the Blue Nile Mountains of Ethiopia. “Work in Progress” Presentation, Summer School “Gender and Space”, September 10-14, 2018, Herzberg, Switzerland.
2017
Reducing women's workload in smallholder households and the introduction of nutrition-sensitive agriculture in Ethiopia. Annual Meeting “AK Sub-Saharan Africa”, November 24-25, 2017, Erlangen, Germany.
A case study on drivers and impacts on food sovereignty of smallholder farmers in Myanmar. Junior Researchers Conference of the German Association for Asian Studies, January 27 - 29, 2017, Rothenfels am Rhein, Germany.
Publications
Müller-Mahn, D., Gebreyes, M., Allouche, J., Debarry, A., 2022. The Water-Energy-Food Nexus Beyond “Technical Quick Fix”: The Case of Hydro-Development in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia. Front. Water 4.
Teaching
WiSe 22/23
Introduction to qualitative methods in Human Geography)
SoSe 22
Introduction to qualitative research: Participatory methods in Geography
WiSe 21/22
Introduction to qualitative methods in human geography: methodological diversity from a gender-critical perspective
SoSe 21
Methodological foundations of human geography
WiSe 20/21
Introduction to the geographies of rural areas in the context of development
Introduction to qualitative methods for development research: participatory, visual and ethnographic research
SoSe 20
Postcolonial and gender geographies: practical perspectives (project seminar)
SoSe 18
Introduction to gender geographies in a global context
Scholarships
DAAD Research Fellowship for PhD Students
DAAD-PROMOS Scholarship for Master's Thesis