Ali Heuser
Research assistant in International Relations with a focus on Latin America
- Telephone
- +49 561 804-7679
- ali.heuser[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
- Location
- Nora-Platiel-Str. 1
34127 Kassel
- Room
- 3215
- Since 2025: Research assistant at the Department of International Relations with a focus on Latin America at the University of Kassel.
- 2022-2025: University Assistant (prae-doc) at the Institute for International Development, Faculty of Political Science, University of Vienna.
- 2023-2025: Scholarship holder of the Marietta Blau Scholarship of the OeAD. PhD research stays at the University of Brighton (UK), Northumbria University (UK) and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
- Since 2022: PhD student at the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna, the University of Kassel (since 2023), and associated in the Research Training Group "Crisis and Social-Ecological Transformation" of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin. PhD topic (working title): Transformation of gender relations in contested territories: An analysis of the (re)production of patriarchal structures in protests against copper mining in the southern Andean region of Peru.
- 2019-2022: Master's program (M.A.) in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies at the Institute for Latin American Studies (LAI) at Freie Universität Berlin in the profile Gender Relations, Life Forms, Transformation.
- 2021-2022: Erasmus scholarship holder at the Universidade de Coimbra in the Master Anthropology, Globalization and Climate Change.
- 2020-2021: Student assistant in the BMBF junior research group "GLOCON: Global Change - Local Conflicts? Land Conflicts in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa in the Context of Interdependent Transformation Processes", FU Berlin.
- 2018-2021: Student assistant at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Program Coordination M.A. Intercultural Conflict Management/Gestión de Conflictos Interculturales and at the Chair of International Social Work and Social Policy.
- 2015-2019: Bachelor's degree (B.A.) in European Ethnology and Social Sciences at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
- 2017-2018: Study abroad at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Anthropology and Political Science.
- Socio-ecological crisis and global inequalities
- Conflicts over land, energy and raw materials from a transnational perspective
- Feminist political ecology
- Social movement and protest research
- Feminist theories, gender relations and transformation
- Latin America
2025
- Heuser, A. und Preiser, A. (2025): Extraktivistische Biopolitik: Konflikte um Körper und Territorien im südlichen Bergbaukorridor Perus. In: Graduiertenkolleg >>Krise und sozial-ökologsiche Transformation<< (Hg.): Kämpfe um Transformation. Kritische Analysen und Interventionen zur sozial-ökologischen Krise. Bielefeld: transcript. transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf/94/16/4c/oa9783839476178.pdf
- Heuser, A. (2025): Queering la reflexividad etnográfica en contextos mineros. In: Revista Anthropológica del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, número especial: Trabajar la reflexividad etnográfica en contextos mineros, Vol. XLIII (54), Lima: PUCP. Queering la reflexividad etnográfica: Minería y género en los Andes peruanos | Anthropologica
- Heuser, A. (2025): Grünes Kupfer? Öko-territoriale Konflikte des Kupferbergbaus in Peru. In: iz3w Magazin Heft 409. Grünes Kupfer? - informationszentrum 3. welt
- Heuser, A. (2025): El cuerpo como sujeto de resistencia. La defensa territorial frente al extractivismo de cobre en el Corredor Minero del Sur Andino desde una perspectiva de género. Centro Bartolomé de las Casas, Cusco. Núm. 61 (2024): Revista Andina N° 61 | Revista Andina
- Heuser, A. (2025): Geschlechterverhältnisse in Konflikten um Kupferbergbau in Peru. In: NOMOS Energiewende Lateinamerika. In: Hans-Jürgen Burchhardt, Kristina Dietz, Hannes Warnecke-Berger (Hrsg.): Grüne Energiewende in Lateinamerika. Reihe: Studien zu Lateinamerika. Baden-Baden: NOMOS, 168-180. Grüne Energiewende in Lateinamerika - 978-3-7560-1873-4 | Nomos
2024
- Heuser, A. (2024): Verónica Gago: Für eine feministische Internationale. Wie wir alles verändern. Buchrezension. In: JEP Vol. XXXX Issue 1/2 2024, 234-237. Book Review: Verónica Gago: Für eine feministische Internationale. Wie wir alles verändern. Münster: Unrast, 2021. - JEP Journal für Entwicklungspolitik
2023
- Heuser, A. (2023): Feministische Solidarität als Möglichkeit eines dekolonisierenden Dialogs über Differenz. Buchrezension. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, vol. 36 (4), 563-567. Feministische Solidarität als Möglichkeit eines dekolonisierenden Dialogs über Differenz
2022
- Heuser, A. (2022): Ni la tierra, ni las mujeres somos territorio de conquista. Eine ethnographische Analyse der Widerstandspraktiken indigener Aktivist:innen gegen Bergbauextraktivismus auf Twitter und in den Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, Mexiko. Berlin: FU Refubium. Refubium - Ni la tierra, ni las mujeres somos territorio de conquista
- Heuser, Al. (2022). Lithium. Zwischen Green Mining und Umweltdesaster. Studentische Perspektiven auf den Lithiumabbau in Covdas do Barroso, Portugal. AG Umweltethnologie. L I T H I U M: zwischen Green Mining und Umweltdesaster. Studentische Perspektiven auf den Lithiumabbau in Covas do Barroso, Portugal – AG Umweltethnologie
2021
- Dietz, K.; Heuser, A.; Hülsmann, K. (2021): Gender, Nature, Body – Ecological Crises and Conflicts over Nature from Feminist Perspectives. In: trAndeS Material Docente, No. 19, Berlin: trAndeS – Postgraduate Program on Sustainable Development and Social Inequalities in the Andean Region. Refubium - Gender, Nature, Body – Ecological Crises and Conflicts over Nature from Feminist Perspectives
- Gender, Nature and Body: Introduction to feminist environmental research (Tuu, 10-14 from 21.10.2025, bi-weekly)
Tuesdays and Wednesdays after prior registration by email (at least 1 week in advance) to ali.heuser[at]uni-kassel[dot]de, stating the topic to be discussed.