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Weszkalnys, Gisa

Dr Gisa Weszkalnys  

Department

Position held

Department of Anthropology

Assistant Professor in Anthropology

 

Experience keywords:

Africa; CSR; agriculture; civil society participation; ethnography; expectation management; land; natural resources; oil; place; the state; urban planning; youths

Research summary > [Click to expand]

Dr Gisa Weszkalnys specialises in the ethnographic study of natural resources, specifically oil in Africa. In the past, she has carried out intensive research on the politics of urban planning in Germany. She also worked on interdisciplinary research policy and practice in Europe and the US. Dr Weszkalnys has carried out consultancy research in the field of natural resources and development, for example, with UNDP in São Tomé and Príncipe and with the Open Society Institute in Angola.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Consultancy; Energy; Environment; Policy and Regulatory Bodies; Public Administration

Countries and regions to which research relates:

Angola; Germany; São Tomé and Principe; UK

Languages:

German [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]; Portuguese [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Intermediate]

Media experience:

TV

Contact Points

LSE email:

g.weszkalnys@lse.ac.uk

Alt email:

g.weszkalnys.97@cantab.net

Publications

2016

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2016) A doubtful hope: resource affect in a future oil economy Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 22 (S1). 127-146. ISSN 1359-0987

2015

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2015) Geology, potentiality, speculation: on the indeterminacy of "first oil" Cultural Anthropology, 30 (4). 611-639. ISSN 1548-1360

2014

Richardson, Tanya and Weszkalnys, Gisa (2014) Introduction: resource materialities Anthropological Quarterly, 87 (1). 5-30. ISSN 1534-1518

Weszkalnys, Gisa and Richardson, Tanya (2014) Resource materialities: new anthropological perspectives on natural resource environments: introduction Anthropological Quarterly, 87 (1). 5-30. ISSN 0003-5491

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2014) Anticipating oil: the temporal politics of a disaster yet to come The Sociological Review, 62 (S1). 211-235. ISSN 0038-0261

2013

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2013) Oil’s magic: materiality and contestation In: Strauss, Sarah and Rupp, Stephanie and Love , Thomas, (eds.) Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies . Left Coast Press Inc, Walnut Creek, California, USA, 267-283. ISBN 9781611321654

Abram , Simone and Weszkalnys, Gisa, eds (2013) Elusive promises: planning in the contemporary world Dislocations, 11. Berghahn Books, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780857459152

Weszkalnys, Gisa and Barry, Andrew (2013) Multiple environments: accountability, integration, ontology In: Barry, Andrew and Born, Georgina, (eds.) Interdisciplinarity: Reconfigurations of the Social and Natural Sciences. CRESC. Routledge, New York, USA, 178-208. ISBN 9780415578929

2011

Abram , Simone and Weszkalnys, Gisa (2011) Elusive promises: planning in the contemporary world Focaal, 61. ISSN 0920-1297

Abram, Simone and Weszkalnys, Gisa (2011) Anthropologies of planning, temporality,imagination, and ethnography Focaal, 2011 (61). 3-18. ISSN 09201297

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2011) Cursed resources, or articulations of economic theory in the Gulf of Guinea Economy and Society, 40 (3). 345-372. ISSN 1469-5766

2010

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2010) Re-conceiving the resource curse and the role of anthropology Suomen Anthropologi, 35 (1). 87-90. ISSN 0355-3930

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2010) A citizenly engagement with place In: Färber, Alexa, (ed.) Stoffwechsel Berlin: Urbane Präsenzen und Repräsentationen. Panama Verlag, Berlin, Germany, 112-127. ISBN 9783938714126

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2010) Berlin, Alexanderplatz: transforming place in a unified Germany Berghahn Books, New York, USA. ISBN 9781845457235

2009

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2009) Príncipe eclipsed: commemorating the confirmation of Einstein's theory of general relativity Anthropology Today, 25 (5). 8-12. ISSN 1467-8322

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2009) The curse of oil in the Gulf of Guinea: a view From Sao Tome and Principe African Affairs, 108 (433). 679-689. ISSN 0001-9909

2008

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2008) Hope & oil: expectations in São Tomé e Príncipe Review of African Political Economy, 35 (117). 473-482. ISSN 0305-6244

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2008) A robust square: planning, youth work, and the making of public space in post-unification Berlin City and Society, 20 (2). 251-274. ISSN 0893-0465

Barry, Andrew and Born, Georgina and Weszkalnys, Gisa (2008) Logics of interdisciplinarity Economy and Society, 37 (1). 20-49. ISSN 1469-5766

2007

Weszkalnys, Gisa (2007) The disintegration of a socialist exemplar: discourses on urban disorder in Alexanderplatz, Berlin Space and Culture, 10 (2). 207-230. ISSN 1206-3312

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