Peter Lindner
Geosciences / Geophysics
Frankfurt University
Germany
Biography
Prof. Dr. Peter Lindner ,Since 2006,lectured and conducted research at the Department of Human Geography at the Goethe-University/Frankfurt. Before that, he was a visiting fellow at the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University and at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences in Moscow. he has done his PhD and habilitation were gained from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Research Interest
his main research interests are in the fields of globalization and transformation studies where I am primarily interested in the question of how goods and markets are created, legitimized, reproduced and changed. What often appears as a self-evident fact like e.g. the existence of private property rights, the anonymous buying and selling of products or trust in the efficiency of markets becomes from this perspective a contextual practice, a permanently constructive performance, which is anything but self-evident or natural. Practices, institutions and objects as the building blocks of this continuous process are – with varying degrees of emphasis – at the center of my work.
