Nives Kinunda Ngullu - global dis:connect

the centre
- The Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, investigates globalisation as a dynamic process shaped by the interplay of integration, disconnection, and disintegration. Our work focuses on understanding how connections emerge, fail, or remain absent, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
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research
- global dis:connect approaches globalisation through the lens of dis:connectivity, focusing on absences, detours and interruptions that shape historical and contemporary global processes. Rather than assuming linear integration, we examine the gaps, delays and disruptions that make globalisation uneven and socially significant.
  
  Our research is structured around six key areas – absences, detours, interruptions, laboratories, cultural infrastructures and temporalities – which foster interdisciplinary dialogue without normative assumptions or claims of completeness.
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fellows
- The cornerstone of global dis:connect is the fellowship programme, in which approximately ten scholars come to Munich each year. They research dis:connectivity on site and in close contact with the directors and their peers. Fellows also have the opportunity to host workshops on the topics of their research.
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events
- Here is where to find out about coming events, new publications, press releases and other news from global dis:connect.
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outreach
- At global dis:connect, research is meant to circulate. Through publications, media formats and artist events, we connect academic research with public debate and artistic perspectives.
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  - gd:c blog
  - static
  - podcast
- global dis:connect publishes innovative interventions on dis:connectivity across a range of media, from the blog, which covers the latest news, research and art at gd:c, to static, a periodical containing the best work from within and beyond global dis:connect, in addition to traditional scholarly formats.
- publications
  - aperiodic open-access publications

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Nives Kinunda Ngullu

Nives is a lecturer at the Dar es Salaam University College of Education (DUCE). She earned her PhD in history from the University of Göttingen (Germany) in 2019, following previous degrees from the University of Dar es Salaam. Her research focuses on agriculture, women farmers, gender, education, slavery and female empowerment in East Africa. From 2021 to 2024, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the ERC project on the aftermath of slavery in East Africa (ASEA) at Gent University. She is also a member of the Indian Ocean World Centre, a McGill Research Centre, since 2024.

Resistance and interruptions in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area’s tourism activities in northern Tanzania

At gd:c, Nives is studying the nature and dynamics of dis:connectivity and globalisation processes of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) in northern Tanzania. The area has witnessed international enterprises interacting with indigenous people and diverse wildlife. They have attracted resistance and interruptions to the globalisation values of the area. The focus of the project is on the impact of resistance and interruption as factors that disrupted the historical dynamics of globalisation in the area from 1920 to 2000.

Have a look at Nives’ research poster about her project.

Contact

Click HERE to mail Nives and HERE for a list of her publications.