Dr. Matthias Gebauer

Research Group Social Geography

Presentations (Selection)

06/2021: Black Islam South Africa: Religiöse Territorialität, Konversion und die Transgression geordneter Indigenität. Arbeitskreis Subsahara-Afrika, Gießen.

11/2019: Black Islam South Africa. Global passages of racialized Muslim identities and the bringing about of African indigeneity in a post-colonial society. American Academy of Religion, San Diego.

06/2018: Township Hijra: Konversion, Emigration und der Traum von einer neuen Gesellschaft jenseits der Post-Apartheid Stadt. GEOS SMIGG Talk, University of Osnabrück.

07/2016: South Africa’s Islamic shore on the Black Indian Ocean. Summer school The Indian Ocean World and Eurasian Connections: „Networks of Connectivities: Routes, Commodities, and the Politics of the Indian Ocean”.

10/2012 und 04/2013: Festivalisation of Urban Governance in the Context of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Summer school SPP 1448, Maputo (10/2012); Urban Affairs Association Conference, San Francisco and Association of American Geographers Conference, Los Angeles (04/2013).

09 and 12/2011, 03/2013: ‘The food may grow but the city is starving’ – a critical perspective on urban agriculture under South African conditions of local social dynamics. CRESC Conference, Manchester (09/2011), GAPSYM, Gent (12/2011), Land Divided Conference, Cape Town (03/2013).

07/2012: Watana und seine Stämme: von ‘Reichweiten und Grenzen’ eines geographisch-analytischen Konzeptes von Heimat. Workshop Muslim Diasporas II, Erlangen.

Research Group Social Geography

Research Priorities

• Social Geography and Society-Environment-Interactions
• Human-Technology-Relations
• Social and Spatial Orderings and Inequalities
• Transatlantic Entanglements of Africa and America
• Geographies of Religion with Focus on Global Communitiess

Current Regional Priorities

• Islands of the Atlantic Ocean
• Lusophone Regions of Africa
• Southern Africa
• North America
  

Research Group Social Geography

Dr. Matthias Gebauer

University of Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
Room 154, GEO II

Phone: +49 (0)921/55-2258
E-mail: matthias.gebauer@uni-bayreuth.de
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