LUCAS Seminar: Stefan Ouma ‘Green Capital, Green Fixe(r)s: The Financialization of the Agrarian’

Location: Social Science Building, Room 11.13

Stefan Ouma is an assistant lecturer at the Institute for Human Geography, University of Frankfurt, since November 2007. He received a BA degree in Human/Development Geography (Major), Political Science and Cultural Studies (Minors) at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and a Master of Arts degree in African Development Studies in Geography at the University of Bayreuth in 2007.

His recent research has focused on institutions and institutional change in the Kenyan horticulture sector. His Master thesis has problematized the ongoing proliferation of environmental and social standards in global value chains and the perspectives of developing country producers’ integration into reflexive markets.