Dr. Irit Eguavoen
Research assistant
Research focus
Urban ethnology, development research
Human-Environment Relations
Spontaneous & Planned Urban Development in the Global South
Political anthropology, legal anthropology, African urbanism, urban political ecology
Ethnography, qualitative social research, ethnographic census, visual methods
West Africa (Côte d'Ivoire), South Asia
Curriculum Vitae
2003 Magistra Artium Ethnology & African Studies, FU Berlin
2007 Dr. Phil Ethnology, University of Cologne
2007 till 2019 Research Associate, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn
2015- Scientific reviewer & lecturer (freelance)
2021- Research Associate, GIUB, University of Bonn
Publications
2022
Reclamation and expulsion. Frontiers of city expansion and the loss of public and communal space at Abidjan’s lagoonal waterfronts. Urban Forum (open access). Link
2021
Geschäfte mit illegalen Mietobjekten in Westafrika. Akute Wohnungsnot in Abidjan. Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit 12: 27-28. Link
“We do the social.” Deal-making by non-accredited estate agencies, small-scale investors and tenants around low-cost rental housing in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Afrika Focus 34(2): 183-212.
2020
Book Review: Paul Stacey. 2019. State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins of Accra. London: Zed Books. African Studies Quarterly, 19(3-4): 72-73.
Mit P. Attemene, F. Kouame, E.G. Konan, C.A. Madhy, & K. Gleisberg-Gerber Dernier refuge ou presqu'île d'opportunités? Démographie et conditions de vie à Adjahui-Coubé, un habitat spontané à Abidjan. ZEF Working Paper 187.
2019
Kabran, Estelle G. (mit I. Eguavoen) Ferry transportation in Abidjan. Establishment, operation and sustainability of a paratransit system. ZEF Working Paper 179.
2017
Tan, J. (mit I. Eguavoen) Digital environmental governance in China. Information disclosure, pollution control, and environmental activism in the Yellow River Delta. Water Alternatives, 10(3): 910-929.
2016
Lauer, H. (mit I. Eguavoen) Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development in the Gambia: A window of opportunity for transformative processes? In: Filho Leal, W. (Hrg.) Innovation in climate change adaptation. Springer, pp. 87-98.
2015
Eguavoen, I. (mit K. Schulz, S. de Wit, F. Weisser & D. Müller-Mahn) Political dimensions of climate change adaptation. Conceptual reflections and African examples. In: Filho Leal, W. (Hrg.) Handbook on climate change adaptation, Springer, pp. 1183-1199.
2013
Far from basic rules. Social dynamics, legal regulations and access to household water in Northern Ghana 1965-2012. Canadian Journal of African Studies 47(3): 483-500.
Climate change and trajectories of blame in Northern Ghana. Anthropological Notebooks 19(1): 5-24.
2012
Mit W. Tesfai Social impact and impoverishment risks in the Koga irrigation scheme, Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia. Afrika Focus 25(1): 39-60.
Mit Sisay Demeku Derib, Tilaye Teklewold Deneke, M. McCartney, B.A. Otto & S.S. Billa Digging, damming or diverting? Small-scale irrigation in the Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia. Water Alternatives 5(3): 304-325.
further publications Research Gate
Scholarships/Funding
Fritz Thyssen Foundation for the Promotion of Science, 10.20.2.003EL (Nov. 2020 - Oct. 2022)
Research Project: Everyday entanglements of social-economic extremes and negotiations in anticipation of development-induced displacement in Mumbai and Abidjan.
GIUB Project
German Research Foundation, own office, EG 381/1-1 (Dec. 2017 – Nov. 2019)
Research Project: Waterfront Metropolis Abidjan. Between Everyday Urbanity, Spontaneous Settlement, Urban Planning and Real Estate Development.
Teaching
WS 2020/21 MSc. Geography: political ecology in cities of the Global South. (4 SWS)
Membership
German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA)
DGSKA AG Urban Ethnology