Katja Mielke
Researcher
Political Science
Bonn International Center for Conversion
Germany
Biography
Katja studied at Freie Universität and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and completed her PhD at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of the University of Bonn. She has an interdisciplinary study background in social sciences; her research, analyses and policy advice are empirically grounded. In her PhD dissertation, Katja analysed local politics and the effects of intervention in rural Afghanistan. For a post-Doc project, she looked at the nexus of spatial and social mobility and respective mobilization dynamics in low-income neighbourhoods of peri-urban Lahore, Karachi and Kabul.
Research Interest
Political sociology at the intersection of conflict, migration and development research: state-society interfaces; social mobilisation; local politics; power, legitimacy, and representation in rural and urban contexts; knowledge orders (‘area studies’ debate); mobility and migration.
Publications
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Yarash N, Smith P, Mielke K. The fuel economy of mountain villages in Ishkamish and Burka (Northeast Afghanistan): Rural subsistence and urban marketing patterns. ZEF Working Paper Series; 2010.
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Yarash N, Smith P, Mielke K. The fuel economy of mountain villages in Ishkamish and Burka (Northeast Afghanistan): Rural subsistence and urban marketing patterns. ZEF Working Paper Series; 2010.
