Team > Amiel Bize

Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Ethnologie

Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang

• 2018: Ph.D. Anthropology, Columbia University, "Black Spots: Roads and Risk in Rural Kenya"  
• 2003: B.A, Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Arbeitserfahrung / Work Experience

• seit April 2018: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und akademische Rätin am Lehrstuhl Ethnologie (Prof. Katharina Schramm)
  
• Sep. 2016-March 2018: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Fachbereich ASL (Architektur, Stadtplanung und Landschaftsplanung), Universitaet Kassel
• 2010-2016: PhD Fellow, Anthropology Department, Columbia University  
• 2007-2010: PhD Fellow, Anthropology Department, Graduate Center CUNY

Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Ethnologie

Research Focus

My research focuses on social and economic transformations at capitalist margins. My current book project examines risk and “post-agrarian” rural life in East Africa, where decades of austerity have produced new configurations of value and social life.

Examining the entangled and shifting roles of road, land, and forest as sources of value for rural residents, the project demonstrates new configurations of rural life in the face of speculative accumulation, the celebration of entrepreneurial risk-taking, and a general rural abandonment.

Two new projects extend these themes in different directions. First, research on climate-sensitive pastoralist insurance examines the imbrication of development and financialization, while also considering the complexities of both pastoralists and “the environment” as objects of knowledge and governance that have historically been difficult to apprehend within national-territorial and capitalist frames. Second, an investigation of gleaning - an ancient form of redistribution, organized around harvest leftovers - considers the ongoing significance of the concept of remainder in moral-economic life.

I also have ongoing interests around roads and road accidents, scrap metal salvage, and storage infrastructure.

Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Ethnologie

Publikationen

Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Ethnologie

Amiel Bize
Akademische Rätin am Lehrstuhl für Ethnologie

Universität Bayreuth
Gebäude: GW II
Raum: 00.21
Universitätsstraße 30
​D-95447 Bayreuth

Telefon: +49 (0)921 / 55-4207
E-Mail: amiel.bize@uni-bayreuth.de
Homepage: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie | Universität Bayreuth