Philipp Wolfesberger

Philipp Wolfesberger is a research associate (post-doc), lecturer, and managing director at the Center for InterAmerican Studies at Bielefeld University. He holds a doctoral degree in political science from the University of Vienna. During a postdoctoral fellowship in multidisciplinary regional studies at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, he conducted qualitative and theoretical research on territorialization, radical democracy, and indigenous autonomous collectivity. His additional research and teaching interests are state formation in Latin America, organized crime, violence, and solidarity. He is an associated researcher at the international project “Turning Land into Capital”, funded by VW-Foundation.