Department of Agricultural Economics,
Agricultural and Food Policy Group
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
(Visitors’ Address: Hannoversche Str. 27, Haus 12)

Research Interests

Political Ecology, Nature-Society Relations, Economic Geography, Science and technology studies, Climate Change, Climate Justice

Research and Teaching Experience

Member of the research unit ‘Environment & Justice’, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin (2020-2024)

Member of the research unit ‘Politics of Resources’, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin (2014 – 2019)

Lecturer at University of Potsdam and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (since 2014)

Professional Experience

Fulltime news editor, taz, die tageszeitung, Berlin (2011-2014)

Correspondent and author, Cairo, Egypt (2011)

Freelance journalist, author and consultant (since 2007)

Education

PhD, Economic and Social Geography, University of Potsdam (2021)

M.Sc. Geoecology, University of Potsdam (2013)

M.A. in Political Science and Philosophy, University of Potsdam (2009)

Grants

Andrea von Braun-Stiftung, Research Grant (2020-2021)

Dissertation Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2014-2018)

Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2001-2009)

Recent Publications

Books

Schumacher, J.: Die Regierung des Waldes. Klimawandel, Kohlenstoffmärkte und neoliberale Naturen in Marokko. Bielefeld, Transcript, 2022.

Articles

Lange, K., Schumacher, J. (2024): Appropriations, Representations, Productions: Engagements with “Nature” in the Middle East and North Africa since the 19th Century. Arab Studies Journal XXXII, 8-14.

Schumacher, J./Hilbrandt, H. (2024): Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice, Political Geography 108, 103037, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103037.

Schumacher, J. (2023): Framing REDD+: political ecology, actor–network theory (ANT), and the making of forest carbon markets. Geographica Helvetica 78, 255–265, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-255-2023.

Studies and working paper

Schumacher, J. (2024): Umweltgerechtigkeit – Fragen und Antworten. Berliner Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Berlin.

Schumacher, J. (2022): Connected Contradictions. Climate Policy in the Middle East and North Africa“. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Berlin.

Schumacher, J. (2022): Zwischen Sprachen – zur persönlichen Interdisziplinarität, Special Issue. Briefe zur Interdisziplinarität 2/2021. München, Oekom Verlag.

Schumacher, J. (2021): Green New Deals. A big deal for fair climate protection or just the latest version of the capitalist model? An Introduction. Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Brussels.