Dr. Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino
I am part of the RASS coordinating team and am thrilled to be part of this energetic group and research agenda. In the context of RASS, I will be looking at peace and security in the context of Cold War regionalism, specifically focused on African-Asian Solidarities and their strategies of worldmaking. I want to contribute to an understanding of the ambivalent and complex interrelationships between the locally rooted social dynamics, regional politics, and global change after decolonization. I am particularly interested in these situations in which African subjectivities are subject to constant (re)negotiation and the question of how Africans use these positionalities that are embedded in historical and geographical interdependencies in a globalized context.
Research fields: Peace and Conflict Studies and Critical Security Studies, Historical and Sociologic Global Studies and Post/Decolonial Theories
Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient
Maria Ketzmerick-Calandrino is an international relations scholar focusing on peace, conflict, and security. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the project CRAFTE at Leibniz- Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Berlin. Before joining ZMO, Ketzmerick-Calandrino was a lecturer at the
Chair for Sociology of Africa and a Principal Investigator in the Hierarchies Network at the University of Bayreuth. After studying Political Science, International Law, and Global Studies (University of Münster, IEP Lyon, Roskilde University, and Leipzig University), she was a doctoral researcher at the collaborative research center „Dynamics of Security“
Ketzmerick-Calandrino research focuses on topics within post/decolonial security research, historical and sociological international relations in a regional, transnational, and global context, and (global) peace and conflict research.
