Arne Rieber
Postdoctoral Researcher & Lecturer @UniBonn Geography / interested in economic geography, political economy, political ecology, industrial policy, infrastructure and hydropolitics and all connected policy dilemmas and societal trade-offs
- Hey #geosky kindly share this CfP for this years RGS-IBG conference 🙂 @theobromin.bsky.social and myself are hosting a session on infrastructure, the politics of deception and breaking the future! Deadline for submission is February 20!
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- ‼️Two open ECR positions in Economic Geohraphy based at @giubresearch.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social as part of the Collaborative Research Center ‚Future Rural Africa‘. Project C02 investigates industrial development visions in the context of renewables in 🇰🇪 crc-trr228.de/available-po...
- Reposted by Arne RieberCongratulations to Dr. @arnerieber.bsky.social! Arne received the Dr. Hohmann Award 2025 by the Cologne Geographical Society @unicologne.bsky.social for his research project on "German Industrial Transformation: Geoeconomy and the Role of the State in the Chemical Industry". tinyurl.com/mr3upmvd
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- Reposted by Arne RieberJournalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
- Reposted by Arne Rieber#mittwochsimGIUB Tomorrow, Prof. Dr. Andrew Cumbers (@uofglasgow.bsky.social | Visiting Professor @unibonn.bsky.social) will give a talk on "The Future of the Public and the Struggle for the Democratic Economy" When? Nov. 18, 5:15pm Where? Lecture Hall, Dept. of Geography #geosky #geography
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- ‼️There's a PhD or Postdoc position open in my working group ‼️Let's be colleagues 🥹 Economic Geography in Bonn Application deadline 22 November 2025 Due to teaching obligations, fluency in German is required
- Today's session on the responsible use of AI in geography for incoming Master's students showed that: a) students are using AI, and b) they would like much clearer guidelines (and guidance). Simply telling them not to use it because it's evil will not be sufficient.
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- First day in my new position 🎉 Excited to join the economic geography group at @giubresearch.bsky.social as a postdoctoral researcher. Moving from political ecology to political economy, in the next years I will focus on the role of the state in the geoeconomy and industry policy.
- Reposted by Arne RieberCongrats to @arnerieber.bsky.social who completed his dissertation this summer! 🎉 Arne worked in @crctrr228.bsky.social on on future-making in large-scale hydraulic infrastructure projects in East Africa. Read more: bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle... #geosky #PoliticalEcology #geography
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- Reposted by Arne RieberA man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
- In 2022 the High Grand Falls Dam was announced by UK and Kenyan governements, to irrigate 400,000ha and produce 1 GW. By 2025 it was cancelled again. What remained in the region was no material change, but the violence of broken promises impacting future-making and everyday actions of those affected
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- Very happy and proud to share that today I’ve successfully defended my dissertation. So grateful to the @unibonn.bsky.social @giubresearch.bsky.social @crctrr228.bsky.social, my supervisors, reviewers and wonderful colleagues in Bonn who guided and supported me over the last three years!
- Reposted by Arne Rieber📢June Issue of Area📢 This latest issue pulls together the fully #OpenAccess 'Rivers as Borders' Special Section alongside papers on topics including de-development, AI, and diary methods. Read all the papers here: rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky
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- Reposted by Arne RieberPolitical Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference in Barcelona, June 2026. Help us disseminate the event and submit your articles, please! @icta-uab.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social pollenpoliticalecology.network/pollen-2026/
- Hey Bonn/Cologne people. The KritGeo group at our department is hosting an event next week that speaks for itself in terms of urgency or relevance.
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- Really happy to see our article in JPE! In it, we discuss the 'non-economy of anticipation', a double vision in the construction phase of infrastructure, where future promises collide with the actual realities of implementation. We show how this leads to apathy and infrastructural violence.
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- Oh I love these! Political communication at its best. The one photo taken in the rainy season, the other taken in the dry season. I mean how could a month matter in a semi-arid area? The link in the post takes you nowhere and when we research Ecosia activities in Ethiopia we get absolutely nothing.
- Claim-making in hydrosocial spaces. We have a new article in Area discussing the temporality of displacement! Using the heuristic of 'time knots', we discuss in the article how 'legal forum shopping' is being used by government institutions to make claims on dam reservoirs and adjacent lands. 1/2
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- Our article in Futures is finally out! It took some time, but it was a lot quicker than the dam project we researched - one that was supposed to be fast-tracked. So, why being sassy about the promise of the dam being fast-tracked? Because it matters: shorturl.at/eq5HL @theobromin.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Arne RieberVery happy to announce the 2025 Wageningen Political Ecology Spring school (7-11 april): Political Ecologies of the Countryside: agrarian roots, environmental transformations and capitalist conflicts Please spread the word or consider joining! www.wur.nl/en/activity/...
- Online first! Our new article, part of an exciting SI on unintended consequences of infrastructures in Review of Regional Research: "Political Arenas of Infrastructure Development—the Case of a Dam Project in Kenya" together with Detlef Müller-Mahn doi.org/10.1007/s100... #geosky #crc228
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- I love how Seth Oliver‘s banner remained from the previous session to put some activism into background when discussing the futures of the anticipation discipline @ Anticipation 2024 in Lancaster
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- #POLLEN24 – (Latest) Call for papers Political Arenas around Infrastructuring Africa's Future - Negotiation and Contestation in times of new growth agendas and infrastructure-led development models Abstracts to fttheodory@mzumbe.ac.tz and arieber@uni-bonn.de by end of next week #geosky
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