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GLAAB, Katharina, M.A.


Institute for Political ScienceKathi Glaab
Room 314
Scharnhorststrasse 100
D-48151 Muenster
Tel.: +49 251 83-25341
Fax: +49 251 83-25383

Office hours:

Monday, 10:00-11:00 pm (please send an email in advance). ATTENTIOn: The next office hours will take place on June 18.

Academic CV:

02/2012-03/2012 Visiting Researcher, Fridtjof Nansen Institute, Oslo, Norway
12/2010-02/2011 Visiting Researcher,  Centre for Studies in Science Policy (CSSP), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
09/2010-11/2010 Visiting Researcher, Tsinghua University and UNDP, Beijing, PR China
08/2010 Chinese Language Training, BLCU, Beijing, PR China
Since 05/2008 Research Fellow at the Chair of International Relations and Development; Institute of Political Science, Muenster
11/2007-05/2008 Research Assistant at the Chair of Southeast Asian Politics, WWU Muenster
4/2006-10/2007 Student Assistant at the Chair of Southeast Asian Politics, WWU Muenster
08/2004-07/2005 Study of Modern Chinese, Renmin University, Beijing, PR China
04/2002-10/2007 Study of Political Science, Sinology, Modern History at the University of Muenster

Research interests:

  • Global Governance
  • Normtheory in International Relations
  • Theoretical Approaches to Power
  • China and India
  • Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology

Publications:

Please find more under Publications.

Contributions to journals and edited volumes:

2011. "Material Power and Normative Conflict in Global and Local Agrifood Governance: the Lessons of 'Golden Rice' in India." Food Policy 36 (6), 729-735. (with Doris Fuchs) [peer-review]
2011. Guest Editor of the Special Section. "Between the Global and the Local, the Material and the Normative: Power Struggles in India's Agrifood System." Food Policy 36 (6). (with Doris Fuchs) [peer-review]
2011. "Internationale Unternehmen in der globalisierten Welt." In Globalisierung im Fokus von Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, eds. T. Mayer, R. Meyer, L. Miliopoulos, H. P. Ohly, and E. Weede. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 93-103. (with Doris Fuchs)
Forthcoming. "Food Security in the Era of Retail Governance." In The Challenges of Food Security, eds. Rosemary Rayfuse und Nicole Wiesfeldt. Houndsmills: Edward Elgar. (with Doris Fuchs, Agni Kalfagianni, und Richard Meyer-Eppler)
Forthcoming. "Hegemonie." In Einführung in die Internationalen Beziehungen. Ein Lehrbuch, eds. Susanne Feske, Erik Antonczyk, and Simon Oerding. Opladen: Budrich.
Forthcoming. "Globalisierung und Global Governance." In Einführung in die Internationalen Beziehungen. Ein Lehrbuch, eds. Susanne Feske, Erik Antonczyk, and Simon Oerding. Opladen: Budrich. (with Doris Fuchs)
2010. "Retail-Governance and Agrifood Sustainability. Insights and Research Needs." Münster: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität. Sustainable Governance Discussion Paper 01/2010. (with Doris Fuchs, Agni Kalfagianni, and Richard Meyer-Eppler)
2008. "Konferenzbericht. Workshop der DGA-Nachwuchsgruppe Asienforschung zum Thema "Interdisziplinarität"." ASIEN (109) (with Stephan Engelkamp).

Conference papers:

Hegemonic Practices - The Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology. Presented at the International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, San Diego, 1-4 April 2012.
Power as Hegemonic Practice - Material and Ideational Dimensions of Normative Change. Presented at the 'International Politics' Section Conference of the DVPW, Munich, 6-7 October 2011.
'Writing Norms' - Norm Research as Scholarly Practice. Presented at the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, Reykjavik, 25-27 August 2011and at the Millennium Conference, London, 22-23 October 2011. (with Stephan Engelkamp)
Constructing Meaning of Agricultural Biotechnology - framing 'Golden Rice' in India. Presented at the Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) Conference 'Discursive Spaces, Politics, Practices and Power', Cardiff, 14-15 June 2011.
Retail Food Governance and International Studies. Presented at the ISA Annual Convention, Montréal, 16-19 March 2011. (with Doris Fuchs, Agni Kalfagianni, Richard Meyer-Eppler)
Sustainability and Legitimacy in Governance of Agricultural Biotechnology. Presented at the Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), Hyderabad, 10-14 January 2011.
Non-State Actors in Global Governance. Sources of Power and Learning. Presented at the Workshop "The Political Power of Non-State Actors - Assessment and Implications", Greifswald, 18-19 October 2010. (with Doris Fuchs and Lena Partzsch)
Norms that (get) Diffuse. Exploring the Role of Myths in Local Norm Adaptation. Presented at the Millennium Conference, London, 16-17 Oktober 2010; IPA Conference 'Discourse and Policy Practices', Grenoble, 23-25 June 2010; ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, 17-20 February 2010; 1st Junior Researcher Conference of the Cluster of Excellence 'Normative Orders', Frankfurt a.M., 23-25 October 2009. (with Stephan Engelkamp)
Bread and Genes. Power and Legitimacy in Agricultural Biotechnology Politics in China and India. Presented at the Conference of the DVPW-Junior Researcher group 'International Politics', Arnoldshain, 28-30 May 2010.
Material Power or Normative Conflict. Determinants of the Interaction between Global and Local Agrifood Governance. Presented at the ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, 17-20 February 2010; 4th Annual Conference of the GARNET Network 'Food Security and Development', Rome, 11-13 November 2009. (with Doris Fuchs)
Agricultural Biotechnology Politics in China and India. Some Ideational Perspectives. Presented at the Conference of the Junior Research group of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA), Bonn, 3-5 July 2009; International Conference "China and India in Energy and Environmental Politics", Münster, 18-19 June 2009.
China and India in Energy and Environmental Politics. Connecting the Global and National Levels. Presented at the international Conference 'China and India in Energy and Environmental Politics', Münster, 18-19 June 2009. (with Doris Fuchs)

Other:

  • Speaker of the junior research group of the section 'International Politics'  of the DVPW http://www.ib-nachwuchsgruppe.de/
  • Scholarship of the DAAD for a 6-month research stay in the PR China and India, September 2010 - February 2011
  • Scholarship of the DAAD for a Chinese language course, BLCU, Beijing, August 2010
  • Member of the German Association of Political Research (DVPW)
  • Member of the International Studies Association (ISA)
  • Member of the German Association for Asian Studies (DGA)
  • Member of the Young Researcher Group on Asian Studies

Teaching:

An overview of the Chair for International Relations and Development Policy's current and past taught courses can be accessed under Teaching.

BA Supervision:

  • 2-Subject-B.A. Political Science + X
  • BA Public Administration
  • BA Politics and Law
  • BA Politics and Economics
  • BA International and European Governance

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