Bettina Engels is assistant professor in conflict and African studies at Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research and teaching focusses on agrarian change, conflicts over land and mining, social movements and political protest, and qualitative research methods. She has conducted field research in Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Benin, and Ethiopia. Her PhD thesis, submitted to the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, was titled “Motives of non-state armed actors: The Forces Nouvelles rebellion in Côte d’Ivoire”.

She is co-editing the Edward Elgar Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies (with Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Kristina Dietz, and Ben McKay, forthcoming 2020).

Bettina Engels est professeure adjoint en études africaines à l’Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science de la Freie Universität à Berlin. Ses recherches comme ses enseignements portent sur les changements agraires, les conflits liés au foncier et à l’extraction minière, ainsi qu’aux mouvements sociaux et protestataires. Elle recourt principalement aux méthodes qualitatives, sur des terrains variés au Burkina Faso, en Côte d’Ivoire, au Bénin et en Ethiopie. Sa thèse, soutenue au Department of Political and Social Sciences de la Freie Universität, s’intitulait Motives of non-state armed actors: The Forces Nouvelles rebellion in Côte d’Ivoire. Elle a co-dirigé l’ouvrage Edward Elgar Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies, à paraître en 2020.

Recent publications include:

A stolen revolution: Popular class mobilisation in Burkina Faso, in: Labor History 60 (2), 110-125 (2019)

Nothing will be as before: Shifting political opportunity structures in protests against gold mining in Burkina Faso, in: The Extractive Industries and Society 5 (2), 354-362 (2018)

Contested Extractivsm, Society and the State: Struggles over Mining and Land, ed. Bettina Engels & Kristina Dietz, London: palgrave macmillan (2017)

Different Means of Protest, Same Causes: Popular Struggles in Burkina Faso, in: Review of African Political Economy, 42 (143), 92-106 (2015).

E-mail: bettina.engels[at]fu-berlin.de

Website: www.land-conflicts.net

www.mining-conflicts-burkina.net

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