Markus Kröger

Meritförteckning

Markus Kröger

Professor, Global Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki

Utbildning 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

Forskningsintressen

• 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

Information om forskning och undervisning

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.