Clemens Greiner Appointed Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape

Clemens Greiner, researcher in Project C02 Energy Futures, Academic Coordinator of the Global South Studies Center (GSSC) and adjunct Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Cologne, has recently been appointed Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. The appointment marks the culmination of years of collaboration between Greiner and UWC, in particular the University’s Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS).

Alongside Professor Ruth Hall, the newly appointed director of PLAAS, Greiner recently received third-party funding by the Volkswagen Fundation for a research project titled Medium-Scale Farmers in Rural Africa: Transformations in Belonging, Property, Kinship and Power, which also features Prof. Michael Bollig (Project A04 Future Conservation), Prof. Kojo Amanor (University of Ghana), Prof. Emmanuel Sulle (Aga Khan University, Arusha Climate and Environmental Research Centre, Tanzania) as project leaders. Sulle and Hall are both set to become a project leader in the Collaborative Research Centre Future Rural Africa, pending a successful review for a third funding phase.