Anja Decker, M.A.

Department:
Local and regional studies
Position: 
odborná pracovnice VŠ
Phone: 
777512313

Curriculum vitae

Education: 

2014 - ongoing PhD candidate, Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich, research project Ambiguous ruralities. Precarity as a framework for understanding social inequality in the Western Bohemian borderlands (working title)

2018 – 2019 Visiting student Faculty of Humanities, department of General Anthropology, Charles University Prague

2014 - 2018 Member of the International PhD program Transformations in European Societies, Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich

2002 - 2009 Magister studies of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität Berlin and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

 

Field of specialisation: 

precarity and precarisation, social inequality, diverse economies, gender relations, rurality, economic anthropology

 

Teaching activities: 

2019 (Spring term) Crisis as a norm?! Dealing with limited resources in times of uncertainty, seminar, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, University Basel
2017/18 (Winter term) Close up on food. Cultural anthropological perspectives on regional food and subsistence farming, seminar, Institute for European
Ethnology and Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich
2017 (Summer term) Contemporary rural life. Ruralities and rural everday-life in European societies, seminar - I:IMSK Universität Regensburg
2016 (Winter term) Ruralities and rural everyday-life. Contemporary transformations, discourses and problems, seminar, Institute for European Ethnology and
Cultural Analysis, LMU Munich

Biographic information: 

Selected publications

Bernard J., Contzen S., Decker, A., Shucksmith M. 2019. Poverty, social exclusion and marginalisation in diversified rural contexts. Sociologia Ruralis 59 (2).

Decker, A. 2019 The ambiguous experience of motherhood in the Western Bohemian countryside: Exploring rural gender inequalities through the framework of precarity. Sociologia Ruralis 59 (2).

Decker, A. 2019. A Freezer full of Meat. Subsistence Farming in the Context of Social Inequality. In: Journal for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis 3 (2).

Decker, A. 2018. Eine Tiefkühltruhe voller Fleisch. Selbstversorgerlandwirtschaft im Kontext sozialer Ungleichheit. [A Freezer full of Meat. Subsistence Farming in the Context of Social Inequality] Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 114(2): 213-235.

Bernard, J., Decker, A., Mikešová, R., Vojtíšková, K. 2016. Living and Dealing with Limited Opportunities: Social Disadvantage and Coping Strategies in Rural Peripheries. Sociální studia/Social Studies, 13(2): 29-53.

Projects

Změny vybavenosti venkovských obcı́ základnı́mi službami a dopady na jejich obyvatel
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Social disadvantage in rural peripheries in Czechia and in eastern Germany: opportunity structures and individual agency in a comparative perspective
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