Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Curriculum vitae
Markus Kröger
Professor, Global Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki
Education information
Title of Docent in Development Studies 2014, University of Helsinki
D.Soc.Sc. Political Science/World Politics 2010, University of Helsinki
MA Latin American Studies/Intercultural Encounters 2005, University of Helsinki
BBA International Business 2002, Helsinki School of Economics
Research interests
- Brazilian studies
- Global natural resource politics
- Tree plantation expansion
- Forestry (particularly pulp and paper) and mining (particularly iron ore) investment and conflicts
- Social movement strategies and economic outcomes
- Political economy, development and globalization in Latin America, India and the Arctic
- Critical agrarian studies
- Future of forestry, forest policy, and deforestation
- Global land rush in the Tropics and the Arctic
- Methodology of comparative politics and world politics, especially QCA and multi-sited political ethnography
Description of research and teaching
A lecturer in several fields since 2006, designing and teaching several new courses on all levels of teaching (bachelor, master, doctoral), as well as designing and scoring literature exams. I have also supervised several PhD and Master and Bachelor theses in varied fields, and graded several theses. I have been active in teaching in the following fields: Latin American Studies, Political Science, Development Studies, Bioethics, Intercultural Encounters, Forestry, and general Social Sciences and Environmental and Agricultural Sciences.
Examples of courses given: Development Studies and Social Science PhD seminars on Environmental Politics and Economics; Political Science BA-level methodology course on Qualitative Comparative Analysis; MA-level lecture-course on Power Relations in Brazil. Several courses in Development Studies: e.g. Theories of Development, Gender and Development, Master thesis seminars, My Methodological Paths, Political Ecology and Resource Politics, Environment and Politics, Contemporary Societies Seminar, and others.
Fields of Science
- 5203 Global Development Studies
- Natural resource politics
- Political ecology
- Political Economy
- World-ecology
- Rural development
- India
- Arctic
- Climate Change
- 5172 Global Politics
- Brazil
- Extractivism
- Conflict
- 5141 Sociology
- Social movements
- Social Theory
- Rural and economic sociology
- 5171 Political Science
- Investment politics
- Qualitative research methodology
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
- 512 Business and Management
- Mining
- Agriculture and the environment
- Steel
- Iron ore
- 6160 Other humanities
- Latin American Studies
- Multi-sited political ethnography
- 4112 Forestry
- Plantation Forestry
- Deforestation
- Forest policy
- Tree plantations
- 1172 Environmental sciences
- Sustainability
- Socio-environmental impacts
- Climate change
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Extractivisms, Existences, and Extinctions: Monoculture Plantations and Amazon Deforestation
Kröger, M., 2021, Abingdon: Routledge. 176 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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Studying Complex Interactions and Outcomes Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis: A Practical Guide to Comparative Case Studies and Ethnographic Data Analysis
Kröger, M., 25 May 2021, Abingdon: Routledge. 150 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
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Socio-ecological crises and global climate tipping points as difficulties for expanding extractivisms: prognoses on the Arctic
Kröger, M., 8 Sept 2022, In: Globalizations. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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The adoption of earth-observation technologies for deforestation monitoring by Indigenous people: evidence from the Amazon
González, N. C. & Kröger, M., 3 Apr 2023, In: Globalizations. 20, 3, p. 415-431 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
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Iron Will: Global Extractivism and Mining Resistance in Brazil and India
Kröger, M., 24 Nov 2020, University of Michigan Press.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
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Political economies of deforestation: The impact of regionally dominant resource sectors in the forest politics of Brazil, Peru and Finland
Kröger, M. (Project manager), Hagolani-Albov, S. (Participant), Hokkanen, S. M. (Participant) & Yasav, M. S. (Participant)
Suomen Akatemia Projektilaskutus
01/09/2018 → 30/08/2023
Project: Research Council of Finland: Academy Research Fellow's research expenses
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TreesForDev: The socio-ecological and politico-economic dynamics of ecological restoration through tree planting schemes in the global South
Kröger, M. (Co-Principal Investigator), Hagolani-Albov, S. (Participant), Mölkänen, J. (Participant), Ollinaho, O. (Participant) & Vuola, M. P. S. (Participant)
Ulkoministeriö Kehityspoliittinen osasto
01/09/2023 → 31/12/2026
Project: Ministry funding
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Trees For Development Podcast Series
Hagolani-Albov, S. (Project manager), Chagnon, C. W. (Editor), Kröger, M. (Participant), Ehrnström-Fuentes, M. (Participant), Ollinaho, O. (Participant) & Vuola, M. P. S. (Participant)
27/02/2024 → 26/11/2024
Project: Other project
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Agroforestry practices and cosmologies as tools of sustainability transformations in Brazil?
Kröger, M. (Project manager) & Ollinaho, O. (Principal Investigator)
01/06/2018 → 30/05/2020
Project: Research project
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Ympäristö, maankäytön muutokset ja globaali resurssitalous
Lassila, M. (Participant), Mölkänen, J. (Participant), Kaartinen, T. (Project manager) & Kröger, M. (Participant)
01/09/2011 → 01/07/2015
Project: Research project
Activities
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CIFOR
Kröger, M. (Visiting researcher)
18 Feb 2019 → 22 Feb 2019Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Academic visit to other institution
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International Studies Association Conference 2022
Kröger, M. (Speaker: Presenter)
29 Mar 2022Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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The crisis of democracy in post-2016 Brazil
Kröger, M. (Keynote speaker)
12 Mar 2022Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Global Extractivisms and Alternatives (EXALT) Conference 2021
Kröger, M. (Member of organizing committee), Kröger, M. (Speaker: Presenter), Kröger, M. (Speaker: Chair) & Kröger, M. (Speaker: Opponent/discussant)
25 Oct 2021 → 27 Oct 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
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Certification and Due Diligence Systems in Developing Countries
Kröger, M. (Invited speaker)
16 Nov 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Press/Media
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The Amazon fires aren't a natural disaster. 'Bolsonaro has created the perfect conditions for this perfect storm,' one researcher said.
29/09/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Maailman keuhkot palavat Amazonin alueella, kauppasopimusten jäädyttäminen voisi auttaa
22/08/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Forskare om finländsk cellulosafabrik i Uruguay: "Varken hållbart eller nyttigt"
31/07/2019
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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