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.
• 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; 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