Erwin Schweitzer, Mag.

Erwin Schweitzer
MA in Social & Cultural Anthropology (University of Vienna)

Short Biography
born 1981 in Vienna; studied Social & Cultural Anthropology and German as Foreign Language (DaF) from 2001 to 2007 in Vienna and 2004 to 2005 in Hamburg; since October 2007 PhD student and research fellow at University of Vienna.

Phd Topic
Indigenous Collective Action: Strategies and Relationships of Griqua Organisations in the Struggle for Land in South Africa

Positions
Since 04/2010 Affiliated Fellow at the Vienna School of Governance
10/2007 - 03/2010 Fellow at the Vienna School of Governance

Research Interests
Political anthropology, anthropology of governance, political economy, anthropology of land, medical anthropology, ethnographic research methods, power & empowerment, ethnicity, cultural identity, indigeneity, Southern Africa, Southeast Asia

Publications
2008 Publishing South-East Asian Studies: Open Access, Thematic Pluralism, Internationality (with Alfred Gerstl). ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 1 (1), pp. 1-3. (in German)
2008 How Black Farm Workers become Land and Business Owners: Actors, Resources, Contexts and Outcomes of Black Empowerment Projects in the South African Wine Industry. Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies, 8 (14), pp. 31-53. (in English)
2008 Inequalities and Contradictions: The Economic  Transformation of the South African Wine Industry within the Scope of Local and Global Processes (with Thomas Bernhardt) in Zips, Werner (Ed.). To BEE or not to be? Black Economic Empowerment in the South African Wine Industry (pp. 145-184). Wien: Lit. (in German)
2008 Wine, Power, History (with Daria Huss und Carolin Kohlweiss) in Zips, Werner (Ed.). To BEE or not to be? Black Economic Empowerment in the South African Wine Industry (pp. 65-96). Wien: Lit. (in German)

Presentations
11/2009 Griqua, Inc. – The Use of Culture in the Struggle for Land of Indigenous Organisations in Post-Apartheid South Africa, presentation at the international “FOCUS: AFRICA” conference, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna (in German)
11/2008 To BEE or Not To Be (with Werner Zips, Stephan Handl), presentation in “Wednesday Seminar”, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna (in German)
06/2008 The Governance of Distributive Justice - Black Economic Empowerment in the South African Wine Industry, guest lecture in “Justice, Equality and Political Transformation in Conflict Society” course at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna (in English)
04/2008 Why Governance? The Value of Using a Governance Approach in Social Anthropology, presentation at the “4th Days of Social and Cultural Anthropology”, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna (in German)
04/2007 Restructuring Paternalism - Power Relations in the South African Wine Industry in Post-Apartheid South Africa, presentation at the “3rd Days of Social and Cultural Anthropology” at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna (in German)
01/2007 The Transformation of the South African Wine Industry: Inequalities, Contradictions and Prospects (with Thomas Bernhardt), lecture at the Southern Africa Documentation and Cooperation Centre (SADOCC), Vienna (in German)

Fieldwork
02/2009 – 08/2009 South Africa (Western Cape, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal). Field research for PhD Thesis
04/2006 – 07/2006 South Africa (Western Cape). Field research for M.A. Thesis
10/2005 – 11/2005 South Africa (Western Cape). Team field research led by Prof. Werner Zips (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology/University of Vienna)

Co-organized Conferences & Workshops
06/2008 “(In)Equalities in South-East Asia” - 3rd South-East Asian Studies Conference at the Department of Geography, University of Vienna
04/2008 “Anthropology & Governance” workshop at the “4th Days of Social and Cultural Anthropology”, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
06/2007 “Integration & Cooperation in South-East Asia/Islam in South-East Asia” - 2nd South-East Asian Studies Conference at the Department of Geography, University of Vienna 
06/2006 “Potentiality of the Tsunami” - 1st South-East Asian Studies Conference at the Renner Institute in Vienna

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