In November 2020 I joined the Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg as a researcher and research coordinator, where we are setting up an interdisciplinary research program focusing on resources, structural change, energy, and post-extractive futures. Specifically, I am planning a research project on resource shifts in a Central German chemo-industrial complex. As the “Anthropocene” is “marked by major changes in the chemistry and chemical composition of the atmosphere” (Crutzen 2002) this project aims at tracing the chemical industry’s pivotal role in making and shaping the Anthropocene while also interrogating its possibly catalysing effects on broader energy and resource transitions.
I obtained my Master’s degree in European Ethnology and am currently finishing my doctoral thesis in Human Geography at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). My dissertation’s working title is “Transforming Rice Ecologies. A Case Study from Burkina Faso”. In this research I aim at understanding the course of project-driven land conversion to irrigated rice plains and the socio-ecological effects of the associated land-use changes in the Bagré region in South-east Burkina Faso. I have conducted fieldwork in Ouagadougou (2014 & 2017, 2018) and Bagré, BF (2017, 2018).
Contact: janine.hauer@hu-berlin.de | janine.hauer@zirs.uni-halle.de
Find me also at: ResearchGate | ZIRS | ORCiD
Publications
2022
Janine Hauer, Ruzana Liburkina
Assembling Rice Production Systems across Burkina Faso and Uruguay Journal Article
In: Berliner Blätter: ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge, vol. 86, pp. 9-27, 2022.
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In this paper, we introduce the rice production systems in Burkina Faso and Uruguay and analyze them as two divergent instantiations of global-local entanglements. We trace how global-local entanglements come into being and how seemingly similar practices of entangling result in contrasting configurations. Our empirical material shows how local understandings and concerns, as well as practices of enacting them, are constantly ordered to produce a fit between globalized and situated relations. In the case of the Uruguayan rice sector, these efforts constitute a harmonized, depoliticized web of relations, which prompt for particular kinds of doings and reflections to become unquestioned and preclude others. In Burkina Faso, in turn, comparable efforts and tools do not result in a hegemonic frame of reference but rather amplify divergences and contradictions between different understandings and activities revolving around rice production. Studying these two different orderings of fits between global forms and situated relations sheds light on de-/stabilizations of food systems and the ongoing work they require. Such a processual and comparative perspective allows for a multiplication of stories on global-local entangling. Thus, it goes beyond reproducing clear-cut categorizations and escapes dichotomies, such as the one of market integration and market failure.
2021
Janine Hauer
Future-making in Burkina Faso: ordering and materializing temporal relations in the Bagré Growth Pole Project Journal Article
In: Geographica Helvetica, vol. 76, pp. 163–175, 2021.
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Visions for the future drive current practices and shape daily lives. Recently, the future has also become a ubiquitous theme in the social sciences. Starting from the observation that the future serves as an explanation and legitimization for the doings and sayings of different groups of actors involved in the Bagré Growth Pole Project in Burkina Faso, this paper offers an analysis of two instantiations of future-making. Based on 9 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Burkina Faso, I examine how the future is addressed and made by ordering and materializing temporal relations. In the first part, I focus on how the past–present–future triad is constantly cut, the past blanked and the future prioritized. I argue that this imperative of the future serves to silence contestations and conflicts from which possibly alternative futures could be derived. In the second part, I turn to the material dimension of future-making through infrastructure construction and maintenance. Infrastructuring in Bagré permanently alters landscapes and creates “as-if” spaces, thereby producing path dependencies that will channel future possibilities of living in the area. Shedding light on how specific futures are (un)made in practice provides a lens which may inform discussions about alternative and eventually more just futures.
Janine Hauer, Friederike Faust, Beate Binder
Kooperieren – Kollaborieren – Kuratieren. Zu Formen des Zusammenarbeitens in der ethnografischen Forschung Journal Article
In: Berliner Blätter: ethnographische und ethnologische Beiträge, vol. 83, pp. 3-17, 2021.
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Friederike Faust, Janine Hauer (Ed.)
Kooperieren - Kollaborieren - Kuratieren. Positionsbestimmungen ethnografischer Praxis Collection
2021.
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2020
Patrick Bieler, Milena D. Bister, Janine Hauer, Martina Klausner, Jörg Niewöhner, Christine Schmid, Sebastian von Peter
Distributing Reflexivity through Co-laborative Ethnography Journal Article
In: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2020.
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Petra Beck, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Adina Dymczyk, Janine Hauer, Anna Heitger, Dženeta Hodžić, Ruzana Liburkina, Stefan Reinsch, Tim Seitz, Christine Schmid, Krystin Unverzagt
In: H-Soz-Kult, 2020.
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Janine Hauer, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen
Making land-use change and markets: the global-local entanglement of producing rice in Bagré, Burkina Faso Journal Article
In: Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, pp. 1-17, 2020.
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2019
Hannah L. Harrison, Janine Hauer, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Øystein Aas
Disputing nature in the Anthropocene: technology as friend and foe in the struggle to conserve wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) Journal Article
In: Ecology and Society, vol. 24, no. 3, 2019.
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Janine Hauer
Book Review: Ringel, Felix: Back to the Postindustrial Future. An Ethnography of Germany’s Fastest Shrinking City. New York 2018 Journal Article
In: H-Soz-Kult, 2019.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Ruzana Liburkina, Julie Sascia Mewes, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz (Ed.)
After Practice. Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally. Volume I Collection
Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2019.
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Jörg Niewöhner, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Ruzana Liburkina, Julie Sascia Mewes, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz (Ed.)
After Practice. Thinking through Matter(s) and Meaning Relationally. Volume II Collection
Panama Verlag, Berlin, 2019.
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Sabine Biedermann, Patrick Bieler, Milena Bister, Sascha Cornejo Puschner, Adina Dymczyk, Dennis Eckhardt, Janine Hauer, Maren Heibges, Dženeta Hodžić, Jonna Josties, Martina Klausner, Anja Klein, Céline Lauer, Ruzana Liburkina, Jörg Niewöhner, Stefan Reinsch, Christine Schmid, Tim Seitz, Itzell Torres, Krystin Unverzagt, Jorge E. Vega-Marrot
Current work in the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations: Doing research in a more-than-thought collective Journal Article
In: EASST Review, vol. 38, no. 2, 2019.
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From the Collaboratory Social Anthropology & Life Sciences to the Laboratory: Anthropology of Environment | Human Relations Journal Article
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Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Janine Hauer, Cecilie Friis
Toolbox: Capturing and Understanding Telecoupling through Qualitative Research Book Section
In: Cecilie Friis, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen (Ed.): Telecoupling. Exploring Land-Use Change in a Globalised World, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2019.
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2018
Franz Schug, Akpona Okujeni, Janine Hauer, Patrick Hostert, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Sebastian van der Linden
In: Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 210, pp. 217–228, 2018.
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Rapid urban population growth in Sub-Saharan Western Africa has important environmental, infrastructural and social impacts. Due to the low availability of reliable urbanization data, remote sensing techniques become increasingly popular for monitoring land use change processes in that region. This study aims to quantify land cover for the Ouagadougou metropolitan area between 2002 and 2013 using a Landsat-TM/ETM+/OLI time series. We use a support vector regression approach and synthetically mixed training data. Working with bi-seasonal image stacks, we account for spectral variability between dry and rainy season and incorporate a new class - seasonal vegetation - that describes surfaces that are soil and vegetation during parts of the year. We produce fraction images of urban surfaces, soil, permanent vegetation and seasonal vegetation for each time step. Statistical evaluation shows that a temporally generalized, bi-seasonal model over all time steps performs equally or better than yearly or mono-seasonal models and provides reliable cover fractions. Urban fractions can be used to visualize pixel-based spatial-temporal patterns of urban densification and expansion. A simple rule set based on a seasonal vegetation to soil ratio is appropriate to delineate areas of unplanned and planned settlements and, thus, contributes to monitoring urban development on a neighborhood scale.
Janine Hauer, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen, Jörg Niewöhner
Landscapes of hoping: Urban expansion and emerging futures in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Journal Article
In: Anthropological Theory, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 59–80, 2018.
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abstract = {Hope is much discussed as a future-oriented affect emerging from uncertain living conditions. While this conceptualisation illuminates the role that hope plays in shaping life trajectories, hope itself remains largely unaddressed. In this paper, we approach hope ethnographically as practice through the lens of material-semiotics. We draw on fieldwork in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where hoping turns out to be co-constitutive of peri-urban life and landscape. We challenge person-centred understandings of hope in order to bring materiality back in two ways: first, hoping in its various modes and forms is always situated in particular settings, thus, its enactment has to be reflected; and second, hoping “takes place”, it is co-constitutive of the transformation of urban life. Additionally, we consider the temporality of hoping and highlight how hoping persists through urban space. We conclude that a more profound and thoroughly materialised understanding of hoping’s generative and stabilising potential may strengthen the role of anthropology in current research on socio-ecological transformations.},
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Hope is much discussed as a future-oriented affect emerging from uncertain living conditions. While this conceptualisation illuminates the role that hope plays in shaping life trajectories, hope itself remains largely unaddressed. In this paper, we approach hope ethnographically as practice through the lens of material-semiotics. We draw on fieldwork in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where hoping turns out to be co-constitutive of peri-urban life and landscape. We challenge person-centred understandings of hope in order to bring materiality back in two ways: first, hoping in its various modes and forms is always situated in particular settings, thus, its enactment has to be reflected; and second, hoping “takes place”, it is co-constitutive of the transformation of urban life. Additionally, we consider the temporality of hoping and highlight how hoping persists through urban space. We conclude that a more profound and thoroughly materialised understanding of hoping’s generative and stabilising potential may strengthen the role of anthropology in current research on socio-ecological transformations.
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Janine Hauer
Landscapes of Hope: Urban Expansion in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso Masters Thesis
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, 2015.
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In my Master thesis I discuss the case of Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, West Africa to account for rapid urban expansion which is an important issue for many sub-Saharan cities. I ask (1) for the processes that underlie and accompany the growth of the city and (2) how they relate to the lives of the urban dwellers in the so-called «non-lotis» of Ouagadougou. During a three months field work from September to November 2014, I conducted 86 semi-structured interviews, informal conversations and participant observation. In the first part of my thesis I argue that the changing urban landscape can be examined and understood through the notion of infrastructuring; changing legal frameworks and planning schemes within a global marketisation of land and property are interwoven and co-constitute what is referred to as «lotissement» by the Burkinabé. In the second part of my thesis I focus more closely on how people deal with and navigate within the emerging and changing urban landscapes in their daily lives. Drawing together my ethnographic material with the anthropological literature on hope, I analyse daily practices of narrating, dwelling and waiting as effective engagements with uncertain futures. I argue that the hopes of the (peri-)urban dwellers are grounded in the urban landscape which is simultaneously shaped by these hopes. Hope in my account becomes a fruitful analytical tool to understand (a) way(s) of being in the world, connecting past, present and future and thus, keeping analyses open instead of ignoring or foreclosing possible futures. The latter potentially connects my own work to fields and discussions on lives in and under uncertain conditions beyond the regional context of and sub-Saharan Africa and the topic of rapid urban growth.