Master Theses at Political Geography Unit
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The following MA theses are/were supervised by the Political Geography unit:
Ongoing
Gantenbein Basil | Nachfrageseitige Qualitätsforderungen für die projektbasierte CO2-Kompensation im Ausland (Joëll de Sépibus, Universität Bern) |
Hess Monika | Tamil Transnational Politics after May 2009. Tamil Youth in Switzerland (Supervision: Benedikt Korf and Pia Hollenbach) |
Imoberdorf Ilona | Die Debatte um den Wolf im Wallis (Supervision: W. Zimmermann (ETHZ), B. Korf) |
Suter Pirimin | Zur politischen Geographie des Röstigrabens (Supervision: Michael Hermann) |
Completed
2011
Graf Samuel | Small-scale gold mining in Ghana: Legalised - but legal? The organisation and legitimation of small-scale gold mining and trade operations |
Moser Michael | State failure and reconstruction of security - A critical discours analysis of the OECD's influence on the debate |
Weilenmann Barbara | A Critical Analysis of Discourse: A Case Study on DFID's Persception and Representation of State Failure (Supervision: Tobias Hagmann) |
2010
Emmenegger Rony | Decentralization to the household in Oromia, Ethiopia (Supervision: Tobias Hagmann/ Sibilo Keno) |
Ganz Patric | The transnational social space of post-tsunami aid - A case study of the Catholic Diaspora in Switzerland (Supervision: Mark Starmans) |
Haile Selassie Yared | The ballot or the bullet? Role and radicalization of Ethiopian Diaspora political groups after the 2005 elections (Subpervision: Albert A. Stahel/ Tobias Hagmann) |
Heiz Marina | The relationship between systemic risk in yield losses and physical-geographic characteristics: A regression analysis with Swiss case regions (Supervision: Prof. Dr.Bernhard Lehmann und Raushan Bokusheva/ ETHZ) |
Ruf Christian | Orte im funktionalen und räumlichen Kontext: Zwei Masse für die Eigen- und Frendzentralität der Schweizer Gemeinden (Supervison: Christoph Craviolini) |
Waldburger, Doris | Motivation für ein ethisches Konsumverhalten: Eine Studie zum Moraldiskurs ethischer Konsumenten (Supervision: Pia Hollenbach) |
2009
Corradi Corinne | Access to health care among nomadic pastoralist in Chad -Using the livelihood approach (Supervision: Tobias Hagmann, Ulrike Müller-Böcker) |
Kallenberger Pascal | Howrah the other Kolkata . The planning and making of poverty in a contemporary Indian city - a critical analysis (Supervision: Christian Schmid) |
Meier Matthias | Corporate Social Responsibility in globalen Lieferketten - Strategien von Schweizer Bekleidungsunternehmen, zur Übernahme von Verantwortung (Supervision: Mark Starmanns) |
Wittek Janine | The transnational social space of post-tsunami aid: A case study of the Catholic Tamil disapora in Switzerland (Supervison: Benedikt Korf) |
2008
Ehrler Sabine | Interfaces of a local NGO in Global Health Governance (Supervision: Benedikt Korf) |
Kramer Michael | Entwicklungspolitischer Diskurs in österreichischen und deutsch-schweizer Printmedien (Supervision: Benedikt Korf) |
Schürmann Veronika | Wof washa - cave of birds: Dynamics of a forest at the eastern escarpment of the Ethiopian Highlands (Diplomarbeit) (Supervision: Benedikt Korf) |