Dr. Andreas Benz
Research associate
Human Geography and Transition Research
Phone: | +49 821 598 - 2290 |
Email: | andreas.benz@geo.uni-augsburggeo.uni-augsburg.de () |
Room: | 2032 (B) |
Open hours: | by appointment |
Address: | Alter Postweg 118, 86159 Augsburg |
Current Research Interests
- Transition Studies
- Human-Environmental Relations
- Discourses on Development and the Environment
- Natur conservation and rewilding
- Migration and Translocality
- Education and Development
- Regional Focus: Cuba, South Asia
Memberships
- Association of Geographers at German Universities (VGDH)
- Environmental Science Center, 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Augsburg
- Study Group Geographical Development Theories
- Study Group High Mountains
- Study Group Latin America
- Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft (Alumni Network of the Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Teaching
(applied filters: semester: current | institute: Institut für Geographie | lecturers: Andreas Benz | course types: all)
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Gro?e Exkursion / Gel?ndeseminar Vertiefung Estland 2025 | summer semester 2025 | Exkursion |
Vorbereitungsseminar Estland | summer semester 2025 | Seminar |
Entwicklung und Umwelt - Development and Environment | summer semester 2025 | Seminar |
Grundkursvorlesung Humangeographie 2 | summer semester 2025 | Vorlesung |
Denkwerkstatt Lehre | summer semester 2025 | Arbeitsgemeinschaft |
Tutorium HG2 | summer semester 2025 | Tutorium |
Publications
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2008
2023 |
Benz, Andreas, V?lkening, Niklas (2023): Kubanische Diskurse zu Umwelt und Entwicklung: das Framing des Klimawandels durch den kubanischen Staat. In Teresa Millesi, Nora Zapf, Martin Coy (Eds.): Kulturen im Anthropoz?n: eine interdisziplin?re Herausforderung (pp. 303-321). München: oekom. https://doi.org/10.14512/9783987262074 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2022 |
Benz, Andreas, Schmidt, Matthias (2022): Planetare Grenzen im Anthropoz?n: ein Leitkonzept für die sozial?kologische Transformation?. Geographische Rundschau, 74(6), 4-8. BibTeX | RIS | URL |
V?lkening, Niklas, Benz, Andreas, Schmidt, Matthias (2022): The transformation of tourism and urban space in Havana, Cuba. Tourism Planning & Development, 19(5), 413-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2021.1894598 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2021 |
Benz, Andreas (2021): Das Ergrünen der Revolution: der Wandel des Naturbildes in Fidel Castros kubanischem Sozialismus. In Matthias Schmidt, Hubert Zapf (Eds.): Environmental Humanities: Beitr?ge zur geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Umweltforschung (pp. 143-160). G?ttingen: V&R Unipress. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
2020 |
V?lkening, Niklas, Benz, Andreas (2020): Konkurrenzen in Kuba: Bergbau und Tourismus versus Umwelt- und Naturschutz. Geographische Rundschau, 72(5), 22-27. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
Benz, Andreas (2020): The greening of the revolution: changing state views on nature and development in Cuba's transforming socialism. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 29(4), 243-248. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.29.4.9 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2019 |
V?lkening, Niklas, Benz, Andreas, Schmidt, Matthias (2019): International tourism and urban transformation in Old Havana. Erdkunde, 73(2), 83-96. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2019.02.01 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas, V?lkening, Niklas (2019): Politische ?kologie am Riedberger Horn. In Matthias Schmidt, Serge Leopold Middendorf, Sebastian Purwins (Eds.): The Power of Political Ecology: Tagungsband zur ersten augsburger.forschungswerkstatt (pp. 67-74). Augsburg: Institut für Geographie, Universit?t Augsburg. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
Alff, Henryk, Benz, Andreas (2019): The multi-dimensionality of space - an analytical framework for the empirical investigation of the production of place. Erdkunde, 73(2), 111-125. https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2019.02.03 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2018 |
Benz, Andreas (2018): Mobility (in)justice, positionality and translocal development in Gojal, Pakistan. In Nancy Cook, David Butz (Eds.): Mobilities, Mobility Justice and Social Justice (pp. 201-214). Abingdon: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780815377047-14 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2017 |
Benz, Andreas (2017): Kubas Umweltpolitik im Zeichen der Krise. In Matthias Schmidt (Ed.): Vielfalt und Ver?nderung: aktuelle Beitr?ge der Augsburger Humangeographie (pp. 85-98). Augsburg: Institut für Geographie, Universit?t Augsburg. PDF | BibTeX | RIS | URL |
Benz, Andreas (2017): Pakistan: das gef?hrlichste Land der Welt?. In Fred Scholz (Ed.): L?nder des Südens: fragmentierende Entwicklung und Globalisierung (pp. 142-146). Braunschweig: Westermann. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
Benz, Andreas (2017): Positionality and the relational production of place in the context of student migration to Gilgit, Pakistan. In Katja Mielke, Anna-Katharina Hornidge (Eds.): Area studies at the crossroads: knowledge production after the mobility turn (pp. 103-119). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59834-9_6 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Schmidt, Matthias (Ed.) (2017): Vielfalt und Ver?nderung: aktuelle Beitr?ge der Augsburger Humangeographie. Augsburg: Institut für Geographie, Universit?t Augsburg. PDF | BibTeX | RIS |
2016 |
Benz, Andreas (2016): Framing modernization interventions: reassessing the role of migration and translocality in sustainable mountain development in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Mountain Research and Development, 36(2), 141-152. https://doi.org/10.1659/mrd-journal-d-15-00055.1 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas (2016): Rezension: Dame, J.: Ern?hrungssicherung im Hochgebirge: Akteure und ihr Handeln im Kontext des sozio-?konomischen Wandels in Ladakh, Indien. Erdkundliches Wissen 156. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. Mountain Research and Development, 36(4), 565-566. https://doi.org/10.1659/mrd.mm195 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas (2016): The power of translocal networks and remittances. In S. Wymann von Dach, F. Bachmann, A. Borsdorf, T. Kohler, M. Jurek, E. Sharma (Eds.): Investing in sustainable mountain development: opportunities, resources and benefits (pp. 36-37). Bern: Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 of Bern, with Bern Open Publishing (BOP). https://doi.org/10.7892/boris.74058 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
2015 |
Benz, Andreas (2015): The ‘Karachi Factor’: the mobilizing power of religious networks in promoting migration and development in Ismaili communities of the Karakoram. In Stephan Conermann, Elena Smolarz (Eds.): Mobilizing Religion: Networks and Mobility (pp. 21-39). Berlin: EBVerlag. BibTeX | RIS |
2014 |
Benz, Andreas (2014): Education for development in Northern Pakistan: opportunities and constraints of schooling for rural households. Karachi: Oxford 伟德国际_伟德国际1946$娱乐app游戏 Press. BibTeX | RIS Teilw. zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2011 |
Alff, Henryk, Benz, Andreas, Schmidt, Matthias (2014): Mobilities in Asian contexts [Editorial]. Internationales Asienforum, 45(1-2), 7-23. https://doi.org/10.11588/iaf.2014.45.3975 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas (2014): Mobility, multilocality and translocal development: changing livelihoods in the Karakoram. Geographica Helvetica, 69(4), 259-270. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-69-259-2014 PDF | BibTeX | RIS | DOI |
Benz, Andreas (2014): Multilocality as an asset: translocal development and change among the Wakhi of Gojal, Pakistan. |