Dr. Hanna Werner

Curriculum Vitae

Hanna Werner studied anthropology, sociology and psychology at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis and received her PhD from Humboldt University Berlin in 2013. She has done research in India and Tanzania and taught at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Heidelberg, the University of Chicago, the Steinbeis University Berlin, the Humboldt University of Berlin, and the Technical University of Berlin. Since January 2019, she has been a Junior Fellow at the Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt.

Hanna Werner’s work focuses on modernity, postcolonial theory and criticism, the politics of cultural identity, nationalism, power/knowledge, governmentality, and social/environmental movements.

Books

• 2015. The Politics of Dams. Developmental Perspectives and Social Critique in Modern India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Articles and Book Chapters

• 2024. Ambivalent Allies? Environmentalism and Science in Contemporary India. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 149(1):107-126.
• 2024. (with Hynek Bečka, Samiksha Bhan, Desirée Kumpf, Claudia Lang, Hanna Nieber, and Julia Vorhölter). Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Universality in Pieces? Mobilizations of Science in a Fractured World.’ Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 149(1):1–11.
• 2023. (with Pramiti Negi) Himalayan Youth Resist through Art: Debunking ‘Development’ in Kinnaur. A Photo Essay. Dastavezi, the Audio-Visual South Asia 5(1):64-95.
• 2014. The (Im)Possibility of Development Critique. In Environment, Politics and Activism: The Role of Media. Somnath Batabyal, ed. Pp. 17-38. New Delhi: Routledge.
• 2014. Rivers, Dams and Landscapes. Engaging with the Modern on Contested Grounds. In Large Dams in Asia: Contested Environments between Technological Hydroscapes and Social Resistance. Marcus Nüsser, ed. Pp. 125-147. Dordrecht: Springer.
• 2013. Wasser als Gegenstand (kultur)politischer Debatten in Indien. Südasienchronik/South Asia Chronicle 3:214-241.
• 2006. Knowledge, Interpretation and Practice: The Dynamics of Traditional Healing and Local Knowledge in Rural Tanzania. In African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems: Triumphs and Tribulations. Essays in Honour of Gloria Thomas Emeagwali. Olayemi Akinwumi, Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, C. B. N. Ogbogbo, and Adoyi Onoja, eds. Pp. 333-356. Abuja: Roots Books & Journals.

Reviews

• 2009. Review of Debjani Ganguly and John Docker. eds., 2007. Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality. Global Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge. Asian Studies Review 33(4):553–555.
• 2006. Die Diskursivierung des Unverfügbaren. Review of Dominik Schrage, ed. 2005. Die Flut. Diskursanalysen zum Dresdner Hochwasser im August 2002. Ästhetik und Kommunikation 134(37):118-120.