Deutsch Intern
European Ethnology

Ramona Hägele M.A.

  • Science and Technology Studies
  • Ethnographic Research Methods
  • Marine Social Sciences
  • Knowledge Production
  • Intersectionality

Since April 2024: Researcher at the Chair of European Ethnology

Since April 2022: PhD Candidate at Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn. Working title: Time to turn the tide in marine sciences? Interdisciplinary and transcultural knowledge production processes in marine carbon observations

October 2018 - April 2024: Researcher at the Department Environmental Governance and Transformation to Sustainability, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Bonn, Germany

2018: Master of Arts in International Relations and Development PolicyUniversity of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, and Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea

November 2017 - October 2018 Research Assistant in the Project Implementing the Agenda 2030: Integrating Growth, Environment, Equality and Governance, German Development Institute, Bonn, Germany 

February 2016 - February 2017: Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

July 2015:  Bachelor of Arts in Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria

 

  • EASST/4S, “From trash to treasure – and back? Perceptions, politics, and pragmatism in Sargassum algae management in the Caribbean” with Laura Otto, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 2024
  • EASST/4S, “Follow the float in murky waters: marine carbon observations and their geo-political embeddedness as technoscientific intra-actions” with Laura Otto, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2024
  • EASA, “Rooted Resilience? Caring for Seagrasses in Mexico” with Laura Otto, Barcelona, Spain, 2024
  • Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg- Institute for Advanced Studies, “Narrating Expeditionary Experience Ethnographically: Bodily Communication and Sensory Landscapes on German Research Vessels”, Delmenhorst, Germany, June 2024
  • EU COST Action RethinkBlue Conference, “Transnational Intersectionality at Sea: Gender, Ethnicity, Age and Marine Knowledge Production”, Zadar, Croatia, April 2024
  • Leakage – Inaugural Conference of stsing,  Panel Chair of Feminist STS meets Artistic Research and (Un)Leaking marine and coastal ecosystems (together with Tanja Bogusz and Nane Pelke), Dresden, March 2024  
  • RGS Conference, “What happens on the vessel stays on the vessel”: An Assemblage of Entanglements, (Epistemic) Hauntings of the past, the present and the future, London, UK, August 2023
  • DGSKA Konferenz, „Follow the scientists: Knowledge production processes on a research vessel viewed through a material-discursive lens”, Munich, Germany, July 2023
  • MARE Conference, “Sensing Seagrass, Sensing Sediment: Understanding Scientific Knowledge Production in Light of Blue Fear”, together with Laura Otto, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2023
  • Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Scientific Expedition Narratives Workshop, “Sociologists on board”, Delmenhorst, Germany, June 2023
  • STS.hub Conference, “Follow the float in murky waters: Joint techno-human forces”, Aachen, Germany, March 2023
  • ICOS Konferenz, “Introduction to a social science perspective on marine carbon observations”, together with Mirja Schoderer, Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany, December 2022
  • KDM, “Follow the scientists: Knowledge production processes on a research vessel viewed through a material-discursive lens”, Bremen, Germany, November 2022
  • ESG Conference, “Follow the scientists: Knowledge production processes on a research vessel viewed through a material-discursive lens”, online, October 2022
  • UN Ocean Decade Conference, “An Accessible Ocean: Accessible according to whom? Notions of access and consequences for ocean science”, online, May 2022
  • Wissenschaftsnacht, “Auf Meeresforschungsexpedition für die 17 Ziele”, Bonn, Germany, May 2022
  • TG Polar- und Meeresforschung, DVPW, “Everyday life and knowledge production processes on a German research vessel in the Labrador Sea: Heterotopia par excellence?”, online, February 2022
  • KDM, “Everyday life and knowledge production processes on a German research vessel in the Labrador Sea: Heterotopia par excellence?”, online, October 2021
  • Maritime Conflicts and Promise in History and Present Conference, “Everyday life and knowledge production processes on a German research vessel in the Labrador Sea: Heterotopia par excellence?”, online, November 2021
  • MARE, “How do we know when the sink is full? - Knowledge systems and communicative practice of marine CO2 observations”, online, June 2021
  • ECPR Conference, “Groundwater Governance in Light of the 2030 Agenda - The Case of Competition for Groundwater in Azraq, Jordan”, online, August 2020
  • Climate Opportunity Conference: Co-Benefits for Just Energy Futures, “Just energy transitions in Germany and South Africa”, Berlin, Germany, October 2019
  • Transitions in Water-/Energy-/Food-Infrastructures, ““Just energy transitions in Germany and South Africa”, Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 2019

2024

Journal articles, peer reviewed

Hägele, R., Following a Deep-Sea Channel in: Nature and Culture Volume 19 Issue 2

2023

Journal articles, peer reviewed

Oberhauser, D., Hägele, R. & Dombrowsky, I. (2023). Unravelling hidden factors explaining competition for and overuse of groundwater in Azraq, Jordan: Digging deeper into a network of action situations, Sustainability Science 18, 235–249.

2022

Journal articles, peer reviewed

Hägele, R., Iacobuţă, G. & Tops, J. (2022). Addressing climate goals and the SDGs through a just energy transition? Empirical evidence from Germany and South Africa, Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences 19 (1), 85-120.

Books and book chapters

Dombrowsky, I., Hägele, R., Behrenbeck, L., Bollwein, T., Köder, M., Oberhauser, D. & Schamberger, R. Al-Naber, M., Al-Raggad, M. & Salameh, E. (2022). Natural resource governance in light of the 2030 Agenda: the case of competition for groundwater in Azraq, Jordan, Studies 106.

2021

book chapters

Hägele, R. (2021). Praxeological investigation of knowledge production on a research vessel
in: S. Krastel / [...] / R. Hägele et al. (Hrsg.), Giant turbidite systems of the deep sea: mechanisms of sediment (and nutrient) transport and delivery to the deep sea, as exemplified in the morphology, stratigraphy and sedimentary record of the Northwest Atlantic Mid-Ocean Channel, Labrador Sea (Cruise No. MSM102, 23.07.21 - 09.09.21): Gutachterpanel Forschungsschiffe, 37-40.

2020

book chapters, peer reviewed

Chan, S., Iacobuta, G., & Hägele, R. (2020). Maximizing goal coherence in sustainable and climate resilient development? Polycentricity and coordination in governance. In: S. Chaturvedi, H. Janus, S. Klingebiel, X. Li, A. d. M. e. Souza, E. Sidiropoulos, & D. Wehrmann (Eds.), Handbook on development cooperation for achieving the 2030 Agenda. Palgrave Macmillan.

Before 2020

book chapters, peer reviewed

Hägele, R. (2019). Nudging with Chinese Characteristics: An Adapted Approach from the Global North to Achieve a Sustainable Future? In: N. Noesselt (Ed.), Reassessing Chinese Politics: National System Dynamics and Global Implications, Tectum Wissenschaftsverlag, 172-199.

Podcast „Internationale Stadt“, Radio free FM, Eine Forscherin auf hoher See, May 2022

Video on knowledge production processes in marine carbon observations in Brazil, YouTube, March 2023

Video on sports for education and (gender) equality in Rio de Janeiro, YouTube, December 2023

Video on how digitalization can enable female empowerment in Germany and Brazil, YouTube, July 2023

Hägele, R. & Kramer, L. (2016). Neue Seidenstraße: Das Tor zum Westen. In: Alte Seidenstraße in neuem Gewand. Chinas Globalisierungsoffensive. Stiftung Asienhaus. Beilage in taz, die tageszeitung, 28.10.16, 3.

Heuwinkel, Sabrina/ Hägele, Ramona (2024):
What science communication can learn from constructive journalism (idos-research.de)
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Die aktuelle Kolumne vom 25.03.2024

Hägele,Ramona / Juliana Arcoverde Mansur (2023)
Wie Digitalisierung und Technologie die Arbeit von Frauen auf See und entlang des Amazonas stärken
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Die aktuelle Kolumne vom 19.06.2023

Schoderer, Mirja / Ramona Hägele (2022)
Erkenntnisse aus dem ersten Jahr der UN-Dekade für Ozeanforschung
Bonn: German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Die aktuelle Kolumne vom 19.09.2022

Hägele, Ramona (2021)
Auf Meeresforschungsexpedition für die 17 Ziele
published on 17ziele.de, 03.11.2021

Hägele, Ramona / Mirja Schoderer (2021)
Warum die Wissensproduktion über marine Kohlenstoffbeobachtungen so wichtig ist
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Die aktuelle Kolumne vom 28.06.2021

Hägele, Ramona / Okka Lou Mathis (2020)
Von COVID-19 zur Klimapolitik
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Die aktuelle Kolumne vom 25.05.2020

Schwachula, Anna / Okka Lou Mathis / Daniele Malerba / Ramona Hägele (2019)
Sind klimaschädliche Dienstreisen ein notwendiges Übel?
Bonn: German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), (Die aktuelle Kolumne vom 27.09.2019)

Hägele, Ramona / Linda Kramer (2016)
Alte Seidenstraße in neuem Gewand: Chinas Globalisierungsoffensive
in: Taz - die tageszeitung (Sonderbeilage), 38 (43)

  • EU HORIZON, PRODIGEES: Funding for research secondments on digitalisation and sustainability to partner countries, 2019-2027
  • FORMAS: Aligning climate action and reduced inequalities, responsible for WP4, 2021-2025
  • BMBF, FONA: Towards marine carbon observations 2.0, responsible for WP3.2, 2021-2024
  • PROMOS DAAD Scholarship, Southkorea, 2017

Current research

 

DFG-Project: Making Algae (In-)Visible: Tourism, Responsibility and Governance in the Caribbean

While microplastics, industrial waste entering the ocean and overfishing are the most common anthropogenic threats to the ecological integrity of the oceans, much less attention has been paid to a more recent development: harmful algae that threaten both oceans and coasts. These algae cause erosion of beaches, prevent photosynthesis of corals and seagrasses and lead to long-term changes in the water and on land. The frequency of their occurrence, their volume and the areas in which they spread are increasing. This phenomenon can currently be observed particularly well in several Caribbean countries in Central and Latin America, where Sargassum algae have been washed ashore in atypical high quantities in recent years. The algae threaten local tourism, the ecosystem and human health. Sargassum algae and emerging practices of dealing with them are the central focus of the research project. The project, which runs until 2025, locates the phenomenon along the Caribbean coasts of Mexico and Barbados, where the “algae problem” is most prominent. In this context of anthropogenic environmental change, questions of responsibility and governance will be answered on the basis of ethnographic field research.

 

The project addresses the following research questions: How is anthropogenic environmental change dealt with along the Caribbean coast? How are commodification, responsibility-making and (in-)formal governance negotiated with and through anthropogenic environmental change in the everyday life of the actors along touristified coastal zones? Methodologically, the project is based on ethnographic field work and is designed as a multi-sited, multi-actor and multi-species study. The project is situated at the nexus of cultural studies, cultural anthropology and within the “naturecultures” debate, with the analytical-theoretical concepts of commodification, responsibility and governance playing a central role.