Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann

Research
Publications

• Studied Cultural Anthropology and Political Science at Freiburg University
• 2018 PhD in Political Science
• 2016-2021 Postdoc researcher in the junior research group “Bioeconomy and Social Inequalities”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and based at the University of Jena in Germany
• Since 2012 Associate researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) at the University of Freiburg
• Member of the editorial team of the journal Peripherie. Politik – Ökonomie – Kultur, an interdisciplinary journal for development theory and politics
• Since April 2021 HCIAS Juniorprofessor of "Innovation and Sustainability in Ibero-America"

Research

Rosa Lehmann is interested in the social dimension of the transition from a fossil fuel economy to a sustainable society and economy that is based on renewable resources. She situates herself in the interdisciplinary research field of political ecology and her research is guided by the assumption that the appropriation of nature, e.g. for biomass production or wind energy generation, just as the necessary technological innovations do not happen in a vacuum but are inextricably bound to social relations. In her research, she focuses on the social impacts and challenges of the energy transition and the transition to a bioeconomy by taking into account existing socio-ecological inequalities including power assymmetries between actors, and competing narratives on innovation and sustainability. The regional focus of her work is Ibero-America, particularly Latin America/Mexico, and she considers transnational ties and international dependencies in her work.

Rosa Lehmann wants science to take place not only in the ivory tower and concerns herself with the transfer of academic research and debates as well as the communication of research results to both students as well as a wider public.

• PCG - Interacting Actors in Polycentric Climate Governance
  supported by the Heidelberg Center for the Environment

The goal of this project is to understand how transnational forums established in recent years to address climate change affect the discussion, selection, and convergence of climate change policies. To achieve this, we will examine the policy preferences and perceptions of different groups of actors (bureaucrats, civil society actors, and business actors) in Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, determine the impact of cross-level learning on policy convergence, and examine the representation of included and excluded actors.

Principal investigators: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rosa Lehmann (HCIAS), Prof. Dr. Jale Tosun (Institute of Political Science), Prof. Dr. Johannes Glückler (Institute of Geography), Prof. Dr. Óscar Loureda (HCIAS)

Project Contributors: Alejandra Irigoyen, M.Sc.; Emiliano Levario Saad, M.A.

Publications

Monographs

• Lehmann, Rosa (2019): Der Konflikt um Windenergie in Mexiko. Partizipation, Diskurse und die ungleiche Gestaltung der Naturverhältnisse im Isthmus von Tehuantepec. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien.

Edited volumes

• Backhouse, Maria; Lehmann, Rosa; Lorenzen, Kristina; Lühmann, Malte; Puder, Janina; Rodríguez, Fabricio; Tittor, Anne (ed.) (2021): Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production across South America, Asia, and Europe. Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Jenss, Alke; Lehmann, Rosa; Boos, Tobias (Ed.) (2021): Sozialstrukturen in Lateinamerika. Dynamiken und Akteure im 21. Jahrhundert. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Scientific Articles and Literary Contributions

• Jenss, Alke; Lehmann, Rosa; Boos, Tobias (2021): "Einleitung: Sozialstrukturen in Bewegung". In: Alke Jenss, Rosa Lehmann, Tobias Boos (Ed.): Sozialstrukturen in Lateinamerika. Dynamiken und Akteure im 21. Jahrhundert. Wiesbaden, Springer VS. Pg. 1-23.
• Lehmann, R. & Tittor, A. (2021): Contested renewable energy projects in Latin America: bridging frameworks of justice to understand ‘triple inequalities of decarbonisation policies’, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning.
• Backhouse, Maria; Lehmann, Rosa; Lorenzen, Kristina; Puder, Janina; Rodríguez, Fabricio; Tittor, Anne (2021): "Contextualizing the Bioeconomy in an Unequal World: Biomass Sourcing and Global Socio-Ecological Inequalities". In: Backhouse, Maria; Lehmann, Rosa; Lorenzen, Kristina; Lühmann, Malte; Puder, Janina; Rodríguez, Fabricio; Tittor, Anne (ed.): Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production across South America, Asia, and Europe. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 3-22.
• Lehmann, Rosa (2021): "Knowledge, Research, and Germany’s Bioeconomy: Inclusion and Exclusion in Bioenergy Funding Policies". In: Backhouse, Maria; Lehmann, Rosa; Lorenzen, Kristina; Lühmann, Malte; Puder, Janina; Rodríguez, Fabricio; Tittor, Anne (ed.): Bioeconomy and Inequalities. Socio-Ecological Perspectives on Biomass Sourcing and Production across South America, Asia, and Europe. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 107-129.
• Lehmann, Rosa (2021): „Erneuerbare Energien in Südmexiko: Der sozialökologische Konflikt um Windenergieanlagen im Isthmus von Tehuantepec“. In: Stefan Peters; Eleonora Rohland; Olaf Kaltmeier; Hans-Jürgen Burchardt; Christina Schnepel (Ed.): „Krisenklima. Umweltkonflikte aus lateinamerikanischer Perspektive“. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 113-128.
• Lehmann, Rosa (2021): "Wissensproduktion und Energiegerechtigkeit: Ein- und Ausschlüsse in der Bioenergie-Forschungsförderungspolitik im Kontext der deutschen Bioökonomiestrategie". In: Fehr, Lukas; Johler, Reinhard (Ed.): Bioökonomie(n). Ethnografische Forschungszugänge und Felder. Tübingen: TVV, 107-129.
• Lehmann, Rosa (2020): "PERIPHERIE-Stichwort: Bioökonomie". Peripherie 159/160. 
• Backhouse, Maria; Lehmann, Rosa (2020): "New ‘renewable’ frontiers: contested palm oil plantations and wind energy projects in Brazil and Mexico". Journal of Land Use Science 15 (2-3), 373-388. Online: 16 August 2019. Peer-review.
• Backhouse, Maria; Büttner, Melissa; Greifenberg, David; Herdlitschka, Theresa; Lehmann, Rosa; Schaller, Evamaria; Thiel, Janine (2020): "Erneuerbare Energien von unten? Perspektiven aus der Praxis auf dezentrale Energiesysteme". Bioeconomy and Inequalities Working Paper No. 14, Jena.
• Jenss, Alke; Lehmann, Rosa (2019): "Multi-Scalar Struggles: The Selectivity of Development Governance in Southern Mexico". ABI Working Papers Series No. 11, Freiburg.
• Lehmann, Rosa (2018): "The conflict surrounding wind power projects in the Mexican Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Wind energy, conflict, and politics of scale". Bioeconomy & Inequalities Working Paper No. 3, Jena. 
• Friede, Stephanie; Lehmann, Rosa (2015): "Consultas, Corporations, and Governance in Tehuantepec, Mexico". Peace Review 28(1). San Francisco University: Taylor and Francis/Routledge Publishing Company.
• Lehmann, Rosa (2015): "Ohne offenen Ausgang. Die indigene Befragung in Juchitán als Machtinstrument zur Durchsetzung eines Mega-Windparks". In: Marcus Hawel & Redaktionskollektiv (ed.): Work in Progress – Work on Progress. Doktorand_innen-Jahrbuch der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Berlin.
• Lehmann, Rosa (2014): "Mehr als nur (heiße) Luft? Windparks im mexikanischen Bundesstaat Oaxaca verfestigen Ungleichheiten". Peripherie 136, 427-444. Peer-review.
• Burchardt, Hans-Jürgen; Lehmann, Rosa; Lühmann, Malte (2011): "Lateinamerika zwischen ungleicher Sicherheit und sicherer Ungleichheit". In: Burchardt, Hans Jürgen; Öhlschläger, Rainer; Wehr, Ingrid (ed.): Lateinamerika: Ein (un)sicherer Kontinent? Baden-Baden: Nomos, 99-115.

Coordination of Special Issues

• 2020
  • „Bioökonomie“. Peripherie 159/160.
• 2018
  • „Bioökonomie – Kapital am Gedeihen“. iz3w 368.

Further Publications 

• Hernández Westphal, Rafael und Lehmann, Rosa (2022): Mexiko: Abbau von Lithium zwischen Verstaatlichung, Spekulation und Konfusion. In: iz3w 389.
• Lehmann, Rosa; Backhouse, Maria (2021): "Der Protektionismus der Großen hält an. Dezentrale und demokratische Ansätze der Energiewende". In: Politische Ökologie 166. Pg. 22.
• Lehmann, Rosa; Backhouse, Maria; Puder, Janina (2020): "Widersprüchliche Ziele. Neue Bioökonomiestrategie der Bundesregierung". Weltwirtschaft & Entwicklung 01-02/2020, 5-6.
• Godding, Sarah; Holz, Jana; Lehmann, Rosa; Wagner, Louise (2019): Postfossile Wirtschaft – Postfossile Gesellschaft?! Bericht von der Doppelsession „Postfossile Wirtschaft – postfossile Gesellschaft? Konturen des Sozialen nach Kohle und Öl: Eine Diskussionsrunde zu zivilgesellschaftlichen Praxen für eine Transformation des Energiesystems“, Doppelsession auf der DGS-Regionalkonferenz „Great Transformation: Die Zukunft moderner Gesellschaften“, Jena, 23-27 September 2019.
• Lehmann, Rosa (2019): "Fragen kostet nichts. Die Konsultationen Indigener in Lateinamerika sind scheindemokratisch". iz3w 374, 8-9.
• Backhouse, Maria; Lehmann, Rosa; Lühmann, Malte; Tittor, Anne (2018): "Bioökonomie als technologische Innovation. Zur Notwendigkeit alternativer Forschung und einer gesellschaftlichen Debatte". Forum Umwelt & Entwicklung Rundbrief 1/2018, 14-15.
• Backes, Martina; Lehmann, Rosa (2018): "Gärungsprozesse – Die Bioökonomie verspricht viel und hält bisher wenig". iz3w 368, 14-17.
• Lehmann, Rosa (2017): "Beben und Gegenwind". Jungle World 46.
• Lehmann, Rosa (2015): "Mexiko: Gute grüne Geschäfte. Projekte erneuerbarer Energien führen zu sozialen Konflikten". iz3w 349, 12-13.
• Lehmann, Rosa; Lühmann, Malte (2010): "Politik der harten Hand. Ungleiche Sicherheit und sichere Ungleichheit in Zentralamerika". iz3w 320, 26-27.

Reviews 

• 2018
  • Grefe, Christiane (2016): "Global Gardening. Bioökonomie – neuer Raubbau oder Wirtschaftsform der Zukunft?" Munich: Verlag Antje Kunstmann. iz3w 368.