Research Focus

• Social-ecological conflicts and transformation
• Neo-extractivism
• Gender relations and feminist perspectives
• Regional focus: Latin America

Academic Career:

• Since October 2022: university assistant (prae-doc), Department of Development Studies, University of Vienna.
• Since October 2022: Candidate of the Doctoral Programme in Social Sciences in the field of Development Studies, University of Vienna.
• Since 2023: Doctoral candidate at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel.
  Since 2022: Associate member of the Graduate College Crisis and Social-Ecological Transformation at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin.
• 2025: University research stay at the University of Brighton, School of Applied Sciences, with Prof. Rebecca Elmhirst and at Northumbria University, Institute of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle with Prof. Katy Jenkins. (2 months)
• 2023-2025: Marietta Blau Scholarship from the OeAD and empirical field research in Peru (9 months).
• 2024: Two-month university research stay at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
• 2023: Two-month university research stay at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
• September 2021 - February 2022: Erasmus scholar at the Universidade de Coimbra, M.A. Anthropology, Globalization and Climate Change. 
• October 2020 - July 2021: Research assistant in the BMBF-funded junior research group "Global Change - local conflicts? Land conflicts in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of interdependent transformation processes (GLOCON).
• October 2019 - February 2022: Master´s degree (M.A.) in Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies at the Latin American Institute (LAI) of Freie Universität Berlin, Profile: Gender Relations, Ways of Life, Transformations.
• April 2019 - April 2022: Student Assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Johannes Kniffki and Prof. Dr. Stapf-Finé at Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin.
• August 2018 - December 2019: Student assistant in the program coordination of the M.A. Intercultural Conflict Management / Gestión de Conflictos Interculturales at the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin.
• August 2017 - August 2018: Study abroad at Pontificia Universidade Católica del Perú, B.A. Anthropology / Political Science and Government.
• October 2015 - September 2019: Bachelor´s degree (B.A.) in European Ethnology and Social Sciences at Humboldt University of Berlin.

Publications:

• Heuser, A. and Preiser, A. (forthcoming in 2025): Extractive Biopolitics: Conflicts over Bodies and Territories in Peru's Southern Mining Corridor. In: Graduate College >>Crisis and Social-Ecological Transformation<< (ed.): Struggles for Transformation. Critical Analyses and Interventions on the Social-Ecological Crisis. Bielefeld: transcript.
• Heuser, A. (forthcoming in 2025): Queering la reflexividad etnográfica en contextos mineros. In: Revista Anthropológica del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales, especial issue: Trabajar la reflexividad etnográfica en contextos mineros, Vol. XLIII (54), Lima: PUCP.
• Heuser, A. (forthcoming in 2025): El cuerpo como sujeto de resistencia. La defensa territorial frente al extractivismo de cobre en el Corredor Minero del Sur Andino desde una perspectiva de género. Centro Bartolomé de las Casas, Cusco.
• Heuser, Alina (2025): Geschlechterverhältnisse in Konflikten um Kupferbergbau. In: Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Kristina Dietz und Hannes Warnecke-Berger (Hg.): Grüne Energiewende in Lateinamerika. Baden-Baden: Nomos (Studien zu Lateinamerika, 49)
• Heuser; Alina (2024) Book Review: Verónica Gago: Für eine feministische Internationale. Wie wir alles verändern. Münster: Unrast, 2021. In: JEP Vol. XXXX Issue 1/2 2024; pp 234-237
• Heuser, Alina (2023): Feministische Solidarität als Möglichkeit eines dekolonisierenden Dialogs über Differenz. In:  Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen, vol. 36 (4), 563-567. DOI: 10.1515/fjsb-2023-0059
• Heuser, A. (2021). Ni la tierra, ni las mujeres somos territorio de conquista. Eine ethnographische Analyse der Widerstandspraktiken indigener Aktivist:innen gegen Bergbauextraktivismus auf Twitter und in den Valles Centrales de Oaxaca, Mexiko. Masterarbeit, Freie Universität Berlin. DOI: 10.17169/refubium-3391
• Heuser, Alina (2022). LITHIUM. Zwischen Green Mining und Umweltdesaster.
  Studentische Perspektiven auf den Lithiumabbau in Covas do Barroso, Portugal. AG Umweltethnologie:
  Link  (22. März 2022)
• Dietz, K., Heuser, A., & Hülsmann, K. (2021). Gender, Nature, Body – Ecological Crises and Conflicts over Nature from Feminist Perspectives. trAndeS Serie de Material Docente - Manual de curso Nr. 19. DOI: 10.17169/refubium-30511