Dr. Bleta Arifi
Chair of Sustainability Governance
Institute of Environmental Social Sciences and Geography
Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg
Tennenbacher Straße 4
Room No. 04047
Telephone: +49 761 203 67942
E-Mail: bleta.arifi@envgov.uni-freiburg.de
Research Interests | Professional Experience | Education | Teaching | Publications
Research interests
Bleta is an environmental social scientist with a background in philology and environmental governance. Her research interests include:
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Energy policy and politics
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Transformation of energy systems
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Energy Justice
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Environmental and energy governmentality
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Environmental Movements
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Environmental conflicts
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Methods of qualitative research
Research projects
„ReSET - Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equity“ (External Project Webpage)
Professional Experience
Since August 2020
- Chair of Sustainability Governance, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg
Postdoctoral Researcher in the research project „ReSET - Reconfiguring Energy for Social Equity“
Since February 2019
- Chair of Sustainability Governance, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg
Researcher
Since November 2014
- Centre for Renewable Energy, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg
Researcher/Doctoral candidate at the interdisciplinary cooperative graduate school Decentralized Sustainable Energy Systems
Dissertation title: "Objects and subjects of dissent: Analysing opposition to wind and coal-based energy infrastructures in Germany and Kosovo"
April 2013- October 2014
- Chair of Environmental Governance, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg
Module Coordinator for the Master of Environmental Governance Programme and Junior Researcher
August 2007-September 2010
- Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH in Kosovo
Project Assistant and Local Expert in projects on the reform of the Kosovan Vocational Education and Training System
Education
2010-2012
- M.Sc. in Environmental Governance at Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg
2003 - 2007
- B.A. in German Language and Literature at the University of Prishtina, Kosovo
Teaching
- Environmental Conflict Management and Participation
- Human-Environment Interactions
- Environmental Sociology
- Governance Research and Skills
Publications
- Hoffman, J., Davies, M., Bauwens, T., Späth, P., Hajer, M.A., Arifi, B., Bazaz, A. and Swilling, M., 2021. Working to align energy transitions and social equity: An integrative framework linking institutional work, imaginaries and energy justice. Energy Research & Social Science, 82, p.102317.
- Arifi, B. and Winkel, G., 2021. Wind energy counter-conducts in Germany: understanding a new wave of socio-environmental grassroots protest. Environmental Politics, 30(5), pp.811-832.
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Arifi, B. and Späth, P., 2018. Sleeping on coal: Trajectories of promoting and opposing a lignite-fired power plant in Kosovo. Energy research & social science, 41, pp.118-127.
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Arifi, B., Winkel, G. and Ruppert-Winkel, C., 2017. 9 Landscape Stewardship in Wind Energy Conflicts. The science and practice of landscape stewardship, pp.167-181.
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Arifi, B., Shaw, B.J., Winkel, G. and Ruppert-Winkel, C., 2017. Case 8 The Simmern Solidarity Pact–Reconciling Income Imbalances Between Villages. The Science and Practice of Landscape Stewardship, pp.182-183.