Prof. Dr. Tobias Haller

Prof. Dr. phil. Tobias Haller

Institut für Sozialanthropologie
Universität Bern
Länggassstr. 49 a
3000 Bern 9

Büro B109
Tel. 031 631 89 99
Fax 031 631 42 12
E-Mail: haller@anthro.unibe.ch

Short overview in English (PDF).

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Wirtschaft, Ökologie, Ressourcennutzung, Common-Pool Resource Management, New Institutionalism, Schutzgebiete, Ideologien

Forschungsregion

Afrika (Kamerun, Sambia, Mali, Tansania, Botswana)

Schwerpunkt der Lehre

Nachhaltiges Ressourcenmanagement, Entwicklung von Institutionen/Zugangsregelungen zu Ressourcen, Ideologien und Macht, Umweltwahrnehmung, Vergleichende Ansätze

Kurzbiographie

Studium Ethnologie, Geographie und Soziologie in Zürich, Diss (2001) und Habilitation (2007) am Ethnologischen Seminar der Universität Zürich. Feldforschung in Kamerun und in Sambia. Forschung zu Umwelt und Ressourcenthemen in Afrika, Kollektivressourcenmanagement, Institutionen, Schutzgebiete, Indigene Völker, Bauern. Stellen: Assistent am ESZ (1995-2001, 2006), Projektkoordinator NCCR North-South, Projekte zu Indigenen Völkern, Multinationale Konzerne und Erdölförderung, Kollektivressourcenmanagement in afrikanischen Flussfeuchtgebieten (AFWeP), Partizipative Ansätze in Schutzgebieten. Direktor des Swiss Network for International Studies (2008-9). Assistenzprofessor an der Unviersität Bern (Institut für Sozialanthropologie; seit 2009).

Publikationen

Bücher
In Kürze erscheinend	The Contested Floodplain: Institutions for the Management of Common Pool Resources, Power Relations and Conflicts among the Ila, Tonga and Batwa, Kafue Flats, Zambia (Habil) Pdf Teil 1 Pdf Teil 2
2010	Disputing the Floodplains: Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African Wetlands. African Social Studies Series. Leiden: Brill. (With a foreword by Elinor Ostrom)
2008	mit Dr. Marc Galvin. People, Protected Areas and Global Change, for NCCR North South, Perspectives Series.
2007	Fossile Resources, Indigenous Peoples and Oil Companies. Lit-Publishers, Hamburg, London.
2001	Leere Speicher, erodierte Felder und das Bier der Frauen. Reimer Verlag; Dissertation.

Artikel in Zeitschriften
2009	mit DeMotts R., T., P. Hoon und Saum R. (2009). Dynamics of common pool resource management in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Development Southern Africa 26, 4: 569−583.
	mit Chabwela. (2009). Managing common pool resources in the Kafue Flats, Zambia: from common property to open access and privatisation. Development Southern Africa 26, 4:555−567.
	mit Mvula, M. P. (2009). Common pool resource management in Lake Chilwa, Malawi: a wetland under pressure. Development Southern Africa 26, 4: 540−553.
	mit Mafaniso Hara, Stephen Turner, und Frank Matose. Governance of the commons in southern Africa: knowledge, political economy and power. Development Southern Africa 26(4): 521−538.
	mit Merten, S. Whose Logic? The Local Redistribution of Food Aid Targeting Old and Chronically Sick People in Zambia. Human Organisation. Volume 68(1): 89−102.
2008	mit Shabaz, B, Gimbage, M. 2008. Trees, Trust and the State: A Comparison of Participatory Forest Management in Pakistan and Tanzania. In: Journal of International Development 20:641–653.
	mit Galvin, M, Meroka, P., Alca, J, Alvarez, A. Who gains from community conservation? Intended and unintended costs and benefits of participative approaches in Peru and Tanzania. In: Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 17(2):118–144.
	mit Merten, Sonja. Property rights, food security and child growth: Dynamics of insecurity in the Kafue Flats of Zambia. In: Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 33(5), pages 434–443, October.
	mit Merten, Sonja. ”We are Zambians – don’t tell us how to fish!” Institutional Change, Power Relations and Conflicts in the Kafue Flats Fisheries in Zambia. In: Human Ecology 36(5): 699–715.
2007	mit Merten, Sonja. Culture, changing livelihoods, and HIV/AIDS discourse: Reframing the institutionalization of fish-for-sex exchange in the Zambian Kafue Flats. In: Culture, Health & Sexuality, January-February 9(1): 69–83.
2006	mit Merten, Sonja. „No capital needed!“ De facto open access to Common Pool Resources, Poverty and Conservation in the Kafue Flats, Zambia. In: Policy Matters No.14. IUCN: Gland, Switzerland:103–113.
2004	mit Fokou, Gilbert und Jakob Zinsstag. A la recherche des déterminants institutionnels pour le bien-être des populations sédentaires et nomades dans la plaine du Waza-Logone de la frontière camerounaise et tchadienne. In: MedTrop 64:474–478.
2002	Common Property Resource Management, Institutional Change and Conflicts in African Floodplain Wetlands: Presentation of a research project and reflections on institutional change and conflicts. In: The African Anthropologist, Vol. 9, No.1, March 2002:25–35.
2000	„Bodendegradierung und Ernährungskrise bei den Ouldeme und Platha. Umwelt- und Ernährungsprobleme bei zwei Feldbauerngruppen in den Mandarabergen Nord-Kameruns: Eine Folge der Adaptation an Monetarisierung und Wandel traditioneller institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen“. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 124 (1999): 335–354.

Buchkapitel
2010	Institutional Change, Power and Conflicts in the Management of Common-Pool Resources in African Floodplain Ecosystems: An Introduction. In Haller, T (ed). Disputing the Floodplains: Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African Wetlands. African Social Studies Series. Leiden: Brill. 1-76.
	With Merten, S. ? We had cattle and did not fish and hunt anyhow!? Institutional Change and Contested Commons in the Kafue Flats Floodplain (Zambia) In Haller, T (ed). Disputing the Floodplains: Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African Wetlands. African Social Studies Series. Leiden: Brill. 301-360.
	Between Open Access, Privatisation and Collective Action: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Change Governing Use of Common-Pool Resources in African Floodplains. In Haller, T (ed). Disputing the Floodplains: Institutional Change and the Politics of Resource Management in African Wetlands. African Social Studies Series. Leiden: Brill. 413-444.
	Common pool resources, legal pluralism and governance from a new institutionalist perspective: lessons from the African Floodplain Wetlands Research Project (AFWeP). In Eguavoen, I&Laube,W. (Eds), Negotiating local governance. Natural resource management at the interface of communities and the state. Münster: Lit Verlag. 137-180.
2008	mit Galvin, Marc. Introduction: The Problem of Participatory Conservation. In: Galvin M, Haller T, editors. People, Protected Areas and Global Change: Participatory Conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Perspectives of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, University of Bern, Vol.3. Bern: Geographica Bernensia. 13–34.
	mit Meroka P. Government wildlife, unfulfilled promises and business: Lessons from participatory conservation in the Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania. In: Galvin M, Haller T, editors. People, Protected Areas and Global Change: Participatory Conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Perspectives of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, University of Bern, Vol.3. Bern: Geographica Bernensia. 177–219.
	mit Fokou G. Are local stakeholders conservationists? Livelihood insecurity and participatory management of Waza National Park, North Cameroon. In: Galvin M, Haller T, editors. People, Protected Areas and Global Change: Participatory Conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Perspectives of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, University of Bern, Vol.3. Bern: Geographica Bernensia. 325–360.
	mit Galvin, Marc. Conclusion. Participation, Ideologies and Strategies: A Comparative New Institutionalist Analysis of Community Conservation. In: Galvin M, Haller T, editors. People, Protected Areas and Global Change: Participatory Conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Perspectives of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, University of Bern, Vol.3. Bern: Geographica Bernensia, 507–550.
2007	Is there a culture of sustainability? What social and cultural anthropology has to offer 15 years after Rio, in: Burger, P. and Kaufmann-Hayoz, R. 15 Jahre nach Rio - Der Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften: Perspektiven – Leistungen – Defizite. Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes und Sozialwissenschaften, Bern, Switzerland.
2005	mit Merten, Sonja. Polygamy and Livestock. Security during the 2002 Drought in an Ila chiefdom in Zambia, in: Mayor, A., Roth, C. and Droz, Y (eds). Soziale Sicherheit und Entwicklung/Sécurité Sociale et Développement. Werkschau Afrikastudien 5. Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Afrikastudien, Basel. Münster: Lit Verlag. 69–90.
2003	“Rules which pay are going to stay: Indigenous institutions, sustainable resource use and land tenure among the Ouldeme and Platha, Mandara Mountains, Northern Cameroon”. In: Le Meur, Pierre-Yves and Lund, Christian (Eds.). Everyday Governance of Land in Africa. APAD-Bulletin No 22. Münster, Hamburg, London: Lit. 117–134.
2002	„Spiel gegen Risiken in der ‘Natur’“, In: Ch. Giordano and A. Boscoboinik (ed.). Constructing Risk, Threat, Catastrophe. Anthropological Perspectives. University Press Freiburg, Switzerland: Freiburg.
1999	Migration, Bierproduktion und Umweltkrise: Anpassungsstrategien an die monetäre Umwelt in den Mandarabergen Nord-Kameruns. In: L. Roost-Vischer, A. Mayor, D. Henrichsen (Hgs.), Brücken und Grenzen/Passage et frontières (Le forum suisse des africanistes 2). Münster: Lit-Verlag. 116–135.

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