PD Dr. Anne Tittor

Equal Opportunity Representative

Anne Tittor studied sociology, political science and peace and conflict research in Marburg and studied a year abroad in Santiago de Compostela/Spain. She completed her doctorate in political science in Kassel on the driving forces of commodification in the health sector in Argentina and El Salvador and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Bielefeld on a project on the valorization of nature in Central America. She has conducted many research stays in Latin America, especially in Argentina, Nicaragua and El Salvador. From 2016-2022, Anne Tittor worked in the BMBF junior research group "Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Interdependencies and entanglements in the bioenergy sector from a transnational perspective", which she also headed as a parental leave substitute. At the beginning of 2023, she completed her habilitation in sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. In the summer semester of 2023, Anne Tittor was a visiting professor at the University of Vienna. 

Her research interests are development theory, transnational entanglements and globalization, environmental, social and health policy, social inequality, extractivism, political ecology, social movements with a regional focus on Latin America.

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Scientific publications
  • Tittor, Anne; Relly, Eduardo; Backhouse Maria (2023): “¿De quién es y quién decide sobre la biodiversidad? Un análisis crítico del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológic”, In: Ecología Política, Nr. 66 Crisis ecológica y pérdida de biodiversidad, 2023.
  • Tittor, A.; Backhouse, M.; Lühmann, M. (2023): “Extraktive Bioökonomie: Implikationen des globalen Sojakomplexes.”, In: Paula-Irene Villa (ed.): Polarisierte Welten: Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2022, 26.-30. Sept. 2022, Universität Bielefeld. München: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS).
  • Tittor, Anne (2022): “Inwertsetzung/Kommodifizierung/Finanzialisierung”, In: Daniela Gottschlich, Sarah Hackfort, Tobias Schmitt, Uta von Winterfeld (Hrsg.) (2022): Handbuch Politische Ökologie. Theorien, Konzepte, Begriffe und Methoden. Bielefeld. Transcript Verlag, 399-405.
  • Backhouse, Maria; Lühmann, Malte; Tittor, Anne (2022): “Global Inequalities in the Bioeconomy: Thinking Continuity and Change in View of the Global Soy Complex”, In: Sustainability 14, 5481. DOI: 10.3390/su14095481
  • Maria Backhouse; Rosa Lehmann; Kristina Lorenzen; Malte Lühmann; Janina Puder; Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor (Eds.) (2021): Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production, London: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
  • Tittor, Anne (2021): “Towards an Extractivist Bioeconomy? The Risk of Deepening Agrarian Extractivism when Promoting Bioeconomy in Argentina”, In: Maria Backhouse; Rosa Lehmann; Kristina Lorenzen; Malte Lühmann; Janina Puder; Fabricio Rodríguez, Anne Tittor (Hrsg.): Bioeconomy and Global Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 309-330.
  • Lehmann, Rosa & Tittor, Anne (2021): “Contested renewable energy projects in Latin America: bridging frameworks of justice to understand ‘triple inequalities of decarbonisation policies”, In: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.2000381.
  • Tittor, Anne (2021): “The key role of the agribusiness and biotechnology sectors in constructing the economic imaginary of the bioeconomy in Argentina”, in: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Vol 23:2, 213-226 DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2021.1893162.
  • Tittor, Anne (2020): “Land”, In: Olaf Kaltmeier, Anne Tittor, Daniel Hawkins und Eleonora Rohland (Hrsg.): The Routledge Handbook to the Political Economy and Governance of the Americas: London und New York: Routledge, 159-172.
  • Tittor, Anne & Toledo López, Virginia (2020): “Struggling against the consequences of bioethanol production. Narratives of a local environmental justice movement in Córdoba, Argentina”, In: DIE ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 151(2-3), 142-153.
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