Sebastian Zug

PhD Student

Research Assistant

Office: 333.1

Phone: +41 26 300 90 24

Fax: +41 26 300 97 46

email: sebastian.zug@unifr.ch

GG.0353 Qualitative Methoden II

GG.0352 Analyse von Geodaten in der Humangeographie

GG.0221 Methoden der Humangeographie II

development studies

urban geography

the social embeddedness of markets

the logic of the gift

water distribution

infrastructure failure

study regions: Bangladesh and Sudan

Between moral and interests. Water supply in peri-urban Khartoum.

In my PhD project I reconstruct water supply in a peri-urban neighbourhood in Khartoum. Water is delivered by a malfunctioning water network, informal water vendors and – to satisfy basic needs of all – redistributed among neighbours for free. In its ‘biography’, water is embedded into different contexts, which are never completely based on market mechanisms, but are always – to more or less degree – related to motives which are not based on economic profit. The different constellations in which water is transferred are analysed in the framework of Bourdieu’s ‘Theory of Practice’ which is confronted with people's ethics as an antipode to Bourdieu’s focus on power and capital exchange.

2006 - 2008 M.A. Development Management (University of Bochum) Thesis: The Impact of Agricultural Mechanization on Poverty Alleviation in a Seasonal Environment - A Project Evaluation from Northern Bangladesh.

2002 - 2005 B.A. African Development Studies in Geography (University of Bayreuth) Thesis: Der Einfluss des Tourismus auf Herstellung und Handel von Kunsthandwerk in Ägypten. (The Impact of Tourism on Production and Trade of Handicrafts in Egypt) pdf

2011 (Draft) When Water Leaves the Market. Gifting and Social Redistribution of Water in Khartoum, Paper for ECAS 4, Uppsala 15-18.6.2011. pdf

2010 (with D. Müller-Mahn, S. M. Abdalla and A.-S. Beckedorf) “Wasserversorgung und Stadtentwicklung in Khartum�, Geographische Rundschau, 62, 10, p.38-44.

2009 “Wasser teilt die Städte Afrikas�, Universitas, Le Magazine de l'Université de Fribourg, March 2009, p.33-34. pdf

2008 The Impact of Agricultural Mechanisation on Poverty Alleviation in a Seasonal Environment: a Project Evaluation from Northern Bangladesh, IEE Working Papers, Volume 188, Bochum: Institut für Entwicklungsforschung und Entwicklungspolitik, 98 p. pdf

2006 “Monga - Seasonal Food Insecurity in Bangladesh - Bringing the Information Together�, in The Journal of Social Studies, No. 111 July-Sept 2006, p. 21-39. pdf

2005 “Das Holzkästchen. Ein komplexes kunsthandwerkliches Produkt unter dem Einfluss von Tourismus und Massenproduktion�, in Kemet 4/2005, p. 66-69.

1. Informelle Nutzung städtischen Raums. Etablierung, Bewirtschaftung und Räumung einer Kleingartensiedlung im Zentrum Freiburgs.

2. Zwischen Markt und Gabe: Dekommodifizierung von Lebensmitteln am Beispiel der 'Schweizer Tafel'.

More information available in Gestens