Anne Cathrin Ziegler M.A.

Anne Ziegler is a doctoral candidate in the Collaborative Research Centre Home(s): Phenomena, Practices, Representations, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Anne Ziegler studied political science and Interdisciplinary Latin American studies at Freie Universität Berlin. As part of an academic year abroad, she spent 2016 to 2017 at the Institute for International Relations at the University of São Paulo. After completing her studies, she worked in market and opinion research and as a research assistant at Technische Universität Berlin. Since October 2024, she has been working as a research assistant in the subproject ‘Kitchen and Garden: Home Practices of Latin American Activists’ (B07) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Renata Motta. In her dissertation project ‘Afro-indigenous cosmovisions, identity negotiation and the struggle for land,’ she examines the connections between cosmovisions, processes of identity formation, and activism around land rights in Brazilian Quilombo communities. Anne has additional experience from her work as a student trainee at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) and from an international youth volunteer service in San Marcos Sierras, Argentina, funded by the Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend.

• Political-ecological debates on territory, food and land rights in the context of social movements in Brazil
• Decolonial, feminist and multi-species perspectives on identity, belonging and space
• Afro-indigenous territorial activism in Brazilian Quilombola communities
• Social and ecological transformation processes