Prof. Dr. Kristina Dietz

Professor in International Relations with a focus on Latin America

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+49 561 804-3516
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Department
International Relations with a focus on Latin America
Location
Nora-Platiel-Straße 5
34127 Kassel
Room
Nora-Platiel 5, Raum 3214
Consultation Hours

Office hours in the winter semester 25/26


November 12, 2025, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
November 26, 2025, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

New dates for office hours will be published shortly.

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  • Since 2023 Professor at the Department of International Relations with a focus on Latin America at the University of Kassel
  • 2020-2022 substitute professor at the Institute for International and Intersocietal Relations, Universität Kassel
  • 2014-2019 Director of the Junior Research Group “Global change – local conflicts? Land conflicts in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa in the context of interdependent transformation processes” (with Bettina Engels), Freie Universität Berlin
  • 2013-2014 Fellow, ”International Research Network on Interdependent Inequalities in Latin America“, desiguALdades.net, Ibero-American Institute - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut der Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz), Berlin
  • 2009-2013 Postdoctoral Researcher and Co-Director of the Junior Research Group “Fair-Fuels? - Between dead end and energy transition: A social-ecological multilevel analysis of transnational biofuel policy.” (with Bernd Hirschl, Institute for Ecological Economy Research - IÖW)
  • 2010 Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Universität Kassel, Subject of doctoral thesis: ”Complex vulnerabilities: Political and socio-ecological dimensions of climate-vulnerability”
  • 2007 Predoctoral Researcher, Department of Social Sciences, Universität Kassel. Coordination of the PhD program "Global Social Policy and Governance“
  • 2004-2007 Predoctoral Researcher at the Otto Suhr Institute (Otto-Suhr-Institut), FU Berlin. Research project “Global Governance and Climate Change: a multi-level analysis of the Conditions, Risks and Chances of Social-Ecological Transformations”
  • Development studies
  • International environmental, climate, energy and resource politics
  • Political Ecology, socio-ecological crisis and transformation
  • Global political economy
  • Democracy theory and politics
  • Social movements studies and contentious politics
  • Critical Agrarian Studies and rural transformation
  • Regional focus: Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa
  • Latin America and transregional research

2025

2024

  • Dorn, Felix Malte; Dietz, Kristina (2024): Legitimizing lithium mining: Global energy transition and green developmentalism in Jujuy, Argentina. in: European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. No. 118 (2024): July-December, pp. 43-66. https://doi.org/10.32992/erlacs.11121
  • Dietz, Kristina (2024): The geopolitics of the energy transition - shifts in the global power structure: What role does Latin America play? in: ila 475 05/2024, pp. 4-7. https://www.ila-web.de/ausgaben/475.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2024): Global Energy Transitions and Green Extractivism, in: Lang, Miriam; Manahan, Mary Ann; Bringel, Breno (eds.): The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism. Pluto Press: London, p. 27-39. www. plutobooks.com/9780745349343/the-geopolitics-of-green-colonialism/

2023

2022

2021

  • Dietz, Kristina (eds.) (2021) The Edward Elgar Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies (with Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Bettina Engels, Ben McKay). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. https://ebookcentral-1proquest-1com-14da9i91g0910.han.ub.uni-kassel.de/lib/unikassel/detail.action?docID=6827845
  • Dietz, Kristina (2021) An Introduction to the Handbook of critical agrarian studies (with Haroon Akram-Lodhi, Bettina Engels and Ben McKay). In: Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon/Dietz, Kristina/ Engels, Bettina/McKay, Ben M. (eds.): Handbook of critical agrarian studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1-9. https://ebookcentral-1proquest-1com-14da9i91g0910.han.ub.uni-kassel.de/lib/unikassel/reader.action?docID=6827845&ppg=27
  • Dietz, Kristina (2021) Political Ecology. In: Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon/Dietz, Kristina/ Engels, Bettina/McKay, Ben M. (eds.): Handbook of critical agrarian studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 601-609. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972468
  • Dietz, Kristina (2021) Digital agriculture (with Franza Drechsel). In: Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon/Dietz, Kristina/ Engels, Bettina/McKay, Ben M. (eds.): Handbook of critical agrarian studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 568-580. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972468
  • Dietz, Kristina (2021) Radical transformation: Creating alternatives to capitalism in the countryside (with Bettina Engels). In: Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon/Dietz, Kristina/ Engels, Bettina/McKay, Ben M. (eds.): Handbook of critical agrarian studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 666-675. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788972468
  • Dietz, Kristina (2021) Course Reader: Gender, Nature, Body - Ecological Crises and Conflicts over Nature from Feminist Perspectives (with Alina Heuser and Karin Hülsmann). https://www.programa-trandes.net/Ressources/Manuales/Manual_Dietz_Heuser_Huelsmann.pdf
  • Dietz, Kristina (2021) From planetary to societal boundaries: An argument for collectively defined self-limitation (with Ulrich Brand, Barbara Muraca, Éric Pineault, Marlyne Sahakian, Anke Schaffartzik, Andreas Novy, Christoph Streissler, Helmut Haberl, Viviana Asara, Miriam Lang, Ashish Kothari, Tone Smith, Clive Spash, Alina Brad, Melanie Pichler, Christina Plank, Giorgos Velegrakis, Thomas Jahn, Angela Carter, Qingzhi Huan, Giorgos Kallis, Joan Martínez Alier, Gabriel Riva, Vishwas Satgar, Emiliano Teran Mantovani, Michelle Williams,Markus Wissen and Christoph Görg). In: Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 17:1, 265-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2021.1940754
  • Dietz, Kristina (2021) Conflicts over mining and environmental democracy in Colombia (with María Cecilia Roa). In: Peters, Stefan; Rohland Eleonora; Kaltmeier, Olaf; Burchardt, Hans-Jürgen; Schnepel, Christina (eds.): Krisenklima. Environmental conflicts from a Latin American perspective. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 67-83. doi.org/10.5771/9783748923381
  • Dietz, Kristina (2021) Raw materials boom and exploitation. The looming expansion of mining destroys livelihoods. In: OXI Wirtschaft anders denken, 4/21, 15-16. https://www.land-conflicts.fu-berlin.de/ueber_glocon/vorgestellt/21_04_Dietz_OXI.pdf

2020

  • Dietz, Kristina (2020) Analyzing land conflicts in times of global crises (with Bettina Engels), Geoforum, 2020, 111, 208-2017.Dietz, Kristina (2020) Pandemic meets crisis(es). COVID-19 in Latin America. PERIPHERY No. 159/160, 40 (3-4), 455-472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.02.019
  • Dietz, Kristina (2020) Contrarrestando reclamos de democracia. El poder de las narrativas y la disputa por la jurisdicción en los sectores extractivos en Colombia. In: Revista Controversia, 215, 277-310. https://doi.org/10.54118/controver.vi215.1215
  • Dietz, Kristina (2020) Investigar las desigualdades desde una perspectiva socioecológica. In: Motta, Renata; Jelin, Elizabeth; Costa, Sérgio (eds.): Repensar las desigualdades. Buenos Aires, siglo veintiuno, 111-133
  • Dietz, Kristina (2020) Violence against líderes sociales. Challenges to the peace process in Colombia (with Sascha Menig). In: Peters, Stefan (ed.): Violence and Conflict Transformation in Latin America. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 71-89. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845298597-71
  • Dietz, Kristina (2020) The socio-ecological consequences of e-mobility. Conflicts over resource extraction in the Global South (with Louisa Prause). In: Brunnengräber, Achim; Haas, Tobias (eds.): Baustelle Elektromobilität. Social science perspectives on the transformation of (auto)mobility, Bielfeld: transcript Verlag, 329-354. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839451656-015
  • Dietz, Kristina (2020) Analyzing land conflicts in times of global crises (with Bettina Engels). In: Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.02.019

2019

  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Contesting claims for democracy: The role of narratives in conflicts over resource extraction. The Extractive Industries and Society, 6(2): 510-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2019.03.004
  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Direct democracy in mining conflicts in Latin America: Mobilizing against Colombia's La Colosa project. Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 40(2), 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2018.1467830
  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Biodiversity, environmental economics and extractivism. In: Günther Maihold et al. (eds.): Latin America. Handbook for Science and Studies. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, pp. 504-513. doi.org/10.5771/9783845294278
  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Extractivism. In: Claudia von Braunmühl/Heide Gerstenberger/Ralf Ptak/Christa Wichterich (eds.): ABC der globalen (Un)Ordnung. From "Anthropocene" to "Civil Society", Hamburg: VSA Verlag, p. 64/65. https://www.vsa-verlag.de/uploads/media/VSA_ABC_der_Globalisierung_Netz.pdf
  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Agrarfrage (with Bettina Engels). In: Jan Brunner, et al. (eds.): Dictionary of Land and Resource Conflicts. Bielelfeld: transcript, pp. 25-30. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839444337
  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Control. In: Jan Brunner, et al. (eds.): Dictionary of Land and Resource Conflicts. Bielelfed: transcript, pp. 205-210. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839444337
  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Materiality of nature. In: Jan Brunner, et al. (eds.): Dictionary of Land and Resource Conflicts. Bielelfed: transcript, pp. 245-251. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839444337
  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Territorialization (with Anne Hennings). In: Jan Brunner, et al. (eds.): Dictionary of Land and Resource Conflicts. Bielelfed: transcript, pp. 292-295. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839444337
  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Drones, robots, synthetic food: digitalization in agriculture (with Franza Drechsel). In: Butollo, Florian / Nuss, Sabine (eds.): Marx and the robots. Networked production, artificial intelligence and living labor, Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag, pp. 178-195.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Contesting claims for democracy: The role of narratives in conflicts over resource extraction. In: The Extractive Industries and Society, 6(2), pp. 510-518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2019.03.004
  • Dietz, Kristina (2019) Direct democracy in mining conflicts in Latin America: Mobilizing against the La Colosa project in Colombia. In: Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement, 40(2), pp. 145-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2018.1467830

2018

  • Dietz, Kristina (2018) Social conflicts over Extractivsm in Latin America: Concepts, Theories and Empirical Evidence (with Bettina Schorr). In: trAndeS Material Docente, No. 9, Berlin: trAndeS - Postgraduate Program on Sustainable Development and Social Inequalities in the Andean Region.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2018) Contested extractivism: Actors and strategies in conflicts over mining (with Bettina Engels). In: Middell, Matthias (ed.), Handbook of Transregional Studies, London: Routledge, pp. 275-282.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2018) Colombia: Peace through violence? (with Jonas Wolff). In: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik, 7, pp. 25-28.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2018) Structural Transformation in the Countryside (with Bettina Engels). In: Review of African Political Economy/ROAPE Online.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2018) Climate Change in Africa. Social and Political Impacts. Conflicts and Strategies (with Bettina Engels, ed.). Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2018) Researching Inequalities from a Socio-ecological Perspective. In: Costa, Sérgio; Jelin, Elizabeth & Renata Motta (eds.): Global Entangled Inequalities. London: Routledges, pp. 76-92.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2018) Consultas populares mineras en Colombia: Condiciones de su realización y significados políticos. El caso de La Colosa. In: Colombia Internacional, 93, pp. 93-117.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2018) Field of Conflict: A relational approach to analyzing conflicts over land (with Bettina Engels). In: GLOCON Working Paper Series, No. 1, Berlin. https://www.land-conflicts.fu-berlin.de/_media_design/working-papers/Working-Paper-No-1.pdf
  • Dietz, Kristina (2018) Danger zone environmental protection. Nowhere are more environmental activists murdered than in Latin America. In: iz3w 364, pp.6-8. https://www.land-conflicts.fu-berlin.de/_media_design/IZ3W-Januar2018.pdf

2017

  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) Struggles over mining and the possibilities of democratic transformation. The case of La Colosa in Colombia, in: PROKLA 189: 535-551.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) Mining and extractivism. In: Fischer, Thomas / Klengel, Susanne / Pastrana Buelvas, Eduardo (eds.): Colombia today. Politics, economy, culture. Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert Verlag, pp.363-380.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) With citizens' decisions against mining and fracking (with Neelke Wagner). In: GLOCON Policy Paper Series, No. 2. Berlin. http://www.land-conflicts.fu-berlin.de/publikationen/policy-papers/policy-paper-buergerentscheide-gegen-bergbau/index.html
  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) Direct democracy in mining conflicts in Latin America: the La Colosa gold mine project in Colombia. In: GLOCON Working Paper Series, No. 4, Berlin. https://www.land-conflicts.fu-berlin.de/publikationen/working-papers/Working-Paper-No-4/index.html
  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) Contested extractivism: actors and strategies in conflicts over mining (with Bettina Engels). In: DIE ERDE 148 (2-3): 111-120.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) Spatial dynamics of resource-based development. In: Burchardt, Hans-Jürgen / Peters, Stefan / Weinmann, Nico (eds.): Development theory of today - development policy of tomorrow. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp.205-222.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) Grüne Ökonomie: Strategien, Widersprüche und blinde Stellen 'grün-ökonomischer' Krisenbearbeitung (with Carla Noever Castelos). In: Peters, Stefan / Burchardt, Hans-Jürgen (eds.): Environment and Development in Global Perspective: Resources - Conflicts - Degrowth. Frankfurt (Main): Campus, pp.181-204.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) Less state daring: Latin America's left facing a new beginning (with Ulrich Brand & Miriam Lang). In: Leaves for German and International Politics, 2/2017. p.93-98.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) Contested Extractivsm, Society and the State: Struggles over Mining and Land. Bettina Engels & Kristina Dietz (eds.), palgrave macmillan.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) With local referendums against industrial mining? The conflict over the La Colosa gold mine in Colombia. In: Research Journal Social Movements, Issue 1, 2017. p.62 - 70.
  • Dietz, Kristina (2017) Politics of Scale and Struggles over Mining in Colombia. In: Engels, Bettina & Dietz, Kristina (eds.): Contested Extractivism. Society and the State: Struggles over Mining and Land, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.127-148.

Dissertation

  • Dietz, Kristina (2011) Climate change as a question of democracy. Socio-ecological and political dimensions of vulnerability in Nicaragua and Tanzania. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot