Team > MA Julian Hollstegge

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography

Biography

Dissertation project

“Geographies of border-making at the South Sudan/Uganda border: tracing the travels of international bordering technologies”

Drawing on border studies in Political Geography, borderlands research in Africa and approaches to the geographies of policy mobility, this project analyses border-making in post-independence South Sudan. It explores the interplay of travelling bordering technologies – border management-related expertise, models, policy concepts, discourses, material techniques and infrastructures mobilised within international agendas –, the bordering practices of the South Sudanese state and its agents, and people’s experiences of everyday border crossing in the South Sudan/Uganda borderland. It asks how travelling bordering technologies are materialized, (re-)assembled and translated in the daily management of trade and migration in the newly independent state. Through empirical research among international organisations, state institutions and along the South Sudan/Uganda border, the project highlights how global circulations are made through the local. Through a grounded geopolitical account of international border management interventions, sovereignty production and the postcolonial state in this context, it contributes towards a more ‚international’ perspective on the contemporary remaking of borders, both empirically and theoretically. 

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography

Research interests

• Political, social and cultural geographies
  
• border studies
  
• qualitative approaches and methods
  
• South Sudan, Uganda
  

Teaching
 

• Winter semester 2016/17 Seminar on political geography; tutorial on study and work techniques
  
• Summer Semester 2016 Seminar on economic geography of Africa
  
• Summer Semester 2015 tutorial on qualitative methods (with integrated field exercise on “borderland geographies”); tutorial on qualitative methods and field exercise on „urban geography in Bayreuth“; organization of the des geographical colloquium
• Winter semester 2014/15 Seminar on political geography (with Martin Doevenspeck); tutorial on study and work techniques, organization of Geographical Colloquium
• Summer semester 2014 Seminar on social geography; tutorial on qualitative methods (with integrated field exercise on “borderland geographies”)
• Winter semester 2013/14  Seminar on political geography, excursion “Remembered border: Schirnding and Mödlareuth” (with Martin Doevenspeck); tutorial on study and work techniques
• Summer semester 2013 Seminar on social geography; seminar on global structures
• Winter semester 2012/13 Tutorial on study and work techniques 
  

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography

Publications

Faculty of Biology, Chemistry & Earth Sciences
Political Geography

MA Julian Hollstegge

Room: 153, GEO II

Office hours : consultation by arrangement

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2285
E-mail: julian.hollstegge@uni-bayreuth.de