Dr. Sebastian Garbe
Research Coordinator FGCSS & Principal Investigator at the DFG Research Cluster "Shaping Future Societies" (SaFe)
Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building
34,
Room
506
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda
Consultation hours: by appointment via e-mail
CV
- since 07/2024
Sub-project leader in the DFG research impulse SaFe "Shaping Future Societies" at the Fulda University of Applied Sciences - since 04/2021
Academic coordinator of the Fulda Graduate Centre of Social Sciences (FGCSS) at Fulda University of Applied Sciences - from 05/2021 to 07/2021 and 01/2024 to 06/2024
Parental leave - 04/2022 - 12/2023
Academic coordinator of the doctoral research group "Human Rights & Social Justice" at Fulda University of Applied Sciences - 10/2020 - 04/2021
academic participation in the ERASMUS+ project BRIDGES (Building Inclusive Societies: Diversifying Knowledge and Tackling Discrimination through Civil Society Participation in Universities). - 2020
Doctoral degree in sociology with summa cum laude from the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences, Justus Liebig University Giessen. - 10/2013 - 03/2022
academic participation at the professorship of General Sociology with Prof. Dr Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Institute of Sociology, Justus Liebig University Giessen. - 2012
Mag. phil. with honours in Cultural and Social Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Vienna.
Areas of Research
- Critical social and cultural theories with a special focus on post- and decolonial theory, posthumanism and relational ontologies as well as critical racism and gender studies
- Conceptual specialisation: Practices and concepts of solidarity
- Thematic focus: protest and social movements with a focus on ecological, indigenous and diasporic activism as well as internationalism
- Regional focus: Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Methodological focus: translocal ethnographic research and empirical social research with a specialisation in qualitative, participatory and digital research methods
Research Projects
a) Research projects
- "Ecological Solidarity (PROTEST)" within the Research Impulse "Shaping Future Societies" (SaFe), 2024 - 2029
- Research project "Defenders of Nature - Women* in the Global South in the fight against climate crisis and for environmental justice" within the research and development funding of the Fulda University of Applied Sciences, 2024 - 2025
- Research project "Law on Forests" as part of the research and development funding programme of Fulda University of Applied Sciences, 2023 - 2024
- Research and public relations project "Postcolonial references in the history of democracy" (together with frankfurt postkolonial) as part of the 175th anniversary of St Paul's Church, supported by the City of Frankfurt, 2023 - 2024
b) Ongoing doctoral projects (second supervision)
- Johann Erdmann: "Glocal spaces: Everyday negotiations of cultural identity in marginalised neighbourhoods."
- Katrin Metzger: "Brokerage in extractivist societies in Chile"
Memberships
- Member of the editorial board of the journal PERIPHERIE(https://www.zeitschrift-peripherie.de)
- Member of the DGS (German Sociological Association): Section for Developmental Sociology and Social Anthropology
- Network for Sociological Forest Research(https://sociohub-fid.de/s/netzwerk-soziologische-waldforschung/)
- FG DeKolonial e.V. - professional association for racism-critical, postcolonial and decolonial theory and practice(https://fg-dekolonial.com)
- Member of the COST (European Coordination in Science & Technology) Action Group "Decolonising Development" (from 2020 to 2024)
Publications
to the complete list of publications: link
Current publications
- 2025: Struggles for Hope: Negotiating Future(s) in Times of Global Crises. Special Issue of the Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 41, 2-2025, edited by Corinna Land, Sebastian Garbe and Eva Gerharz
- 2025: together with Corinna Land and Eva Gerharz: Struggles for Hope: Negotiating Future(s) in Times of Global Crises, Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 41, 2-2025, 4-13
- 2024: Decolonising Solidarity? 50 years of the Transnational Mapuche Advocacy Network, Alternautas, 11(1), 182-208.
- 2024: Solidarity in Context of Global Inequalities. In: Jodhka, S.S., Rehbein, B. (eds) Global Handbook of Inequality. Springer, Cham.
- 2024: Digital Mapuche activism between decolonisation and digital warfare. Third World Quarterly, 46(10), 1156-1172.
Monographs