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Dr. Sarah Becklake
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Dr. Sarah Becklake
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Dr. Sarah Becklake
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Centre for Atlantic and Global Studies
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Sociology Department
Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre
- Sociological Theory, Global Political Economy, International Political Sociology
- (Under-)Development, (In)Security, and Human Spatial (Im)Mobilities
- Geo- and Body-Political Inequalities, Global Coloniality
- Global Tourism Mobilities, Touristic Competition, and Touristic Security
- Ethnography; Latin America
Short Bio:
I´m a research associate in the Institute for Sociology at Leibniz University Hannover (LUH). Before joining LUH, I worked in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lancaster, where I completed my PhD in 2016. My research focuses on the intersection of development politics, geo-/body-political inequalities, human spatial (im)mobilities, and human security/processes of (in)securitisation. My empirical research has primarily been focused on the development-security-tourism nexus and practices of touristic competition and touristic security in the context of Guatemala and Latin America more broadly.
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Ausbildung
2016
PhD in Sociology, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom (completed forthwith = summa cum laude)2010
MA in Global Political Economy, University of Kassel, Germany (final grade: 1.1; 1.0 = highest grade)2006
BA in Sociology (major) and Political Science (minor). Simon Fraser University, Canada (final grade: 3.98; 4.0 = highest grade) -
Research interests
My research interests include:
- system/assemblage/practice theories,
- global human (im)mobilities,
- development,
- security,
- (de-)coloniality,
- geo- and body-political inequalities,
- new technologies,
- social change and
- Latin America.
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Mitgliedschaften und Ämter
I am a member of the Centre for Global and Atlantic Studies.
I am currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University (UK) and a permanent Associate Member of the Centre for Mobilities Research at the University of Lancaster (UK).
Since 2007 I have been a Ständige Mitarbeiterin with the journal 'Peripherie: Zeitschrift für Politik und Ökonomie in der Dritten Welt' (Münster, Germany), helping edit English language abstracts.
I am also an Associate Member of the British NGO ‘Equality in Tourism’ and an occasional contributor to the Catalan NGO ‘Alba Sud’.
I have academic memberships to:
- Guatemalan Scholars Network
- Slum Tourism Network
- Latin American Studies Association
- British International Studies Association
- European International Studies Association
- International Studies Association
- Royal Geographical Society
- American Association of Geographers