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Dr. des. Jana Hönke
SFB 700 - Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood
Research Associate
| Address: |
Ihnestraße 22 Room 117b 14195 Berlin |
| Telephone: | +49 (0)30 838 58532 |
| Fax: | +49 (0)30 838 55920 |
| E-Mail: | jana.hoenke@fu-berlin.de |
Research interests
Reconfiguration of political orders and space; Contentious politics around transnational interventions
Non-state actors, esp. business; politics in the security and development fields; local dynamics of interventions and transnational governance
Discourse and practice theories, sociological approaches to IR, postcolonial methodologies, political anthropology;
Regional Focus
Sub-Saharan Africa
Transnational spaces
Biography
Jana Hönke works as a postdoctoral researcher at the SFB 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood”, Freie Universität Berlin. She wrote her dissertation on forms of security governance in transnationalised economic spaces at the FU Berlin. Using case studies on mining areas in South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo, she showed the relevance of different transnational discourses and fields of practices for the understanding of the heterogeneous local security practices of international companies. Meanwhile she worked as research associate in a project on companies and corporate social responsibility at the SFB 700. Jana was a visiting post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (ESAPI) at the University of Ottawa, as well as a visiting scholar at the Centre of Criminology at Cape Town University, and at the Sociology of Work Unit at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Before joining the FU Berlin, she worked as a research assistant in the DFG project "Governance beyond the state: Donor policies in Africa's new social spaces" at the African Studies department at the University of Leipzig and at the Environmental Research Centre Leipzig-Halle. She studied African Studies, Political Science and Economics at the University of Leipzig and the Centre d'Étude d'Afrique Noir at the Institut d‘Études Politiques in Bordeaux.
Publications
Hönke, Jana. Security Governance and Transnational Companies. Securing Business Spaces, London: Routledge (forthcoming).
Hönke, Jana and Markus-Michael Müller (eds.). Governing (In)Security in the Postcolonial World, Special issue of Security Dialogue (forthcoming).
Hönke, Jana, and Markus Lederer. Development and International Relations, in: Handbook of International Relations. Edited by Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse, and Beth Simmons. London: Sage (in press).
Hönke, Jana, with Esther Thomas. Governance for whom? Capturing the inclusiveness and unintended effects of governance, SFB Working Papers Series, DFG Sonderforschungsbereich 700, Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin (in print).
2012 Hönke, Jana. Multinationals and Security Governance in the Community. Participation, discipline and indirect rule, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding (in press).
2011 Börzel, Tanja A. and Hönke, Jana. From Compliance to Practice. Mining Companies and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo, SFB Working Paper N° 25, Berlin.
2011 Book Review of Werthmann, Katja (2009), Bitteres Gold. Bergbau, Land und Geld in Westafrika, Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag; Africa Spectrum.
2010 'Peace and Security’ as Counterterrorism? Old and New Liberal Interventions and their Social Effects in Kenya, in: African Affairs 109 (434) (with Jan Bachmann).
2010 Transnational pockets of territoriality. Topographies of security governance and extraction in Katanga/DRC, Working Paper Series Critical Junctures of Globalisation, Graduate Centre Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Leipzig.
2009 Sicherheits-Governance in Räumen begrenzter Staatlichkeit, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte 8/2009, 15-21.
2009 Extractive Orders. Transnational Mining Companies in the Nineteenth and in the Twenty-First Century in the Central African Copperbelt, in: Southall, Roger/Melber, Henning (eds.): A New Scramble for Africa, Scottsville: KZN Press, pp. 274-298.
2008 Hönke, Jana / Nicole Kranz / Tanja A. Börzel / Adrienne Héritier. Fostering Environmental Regulation? CSR in South Africa, SFB Working Paper Series N°9, DFG Collaborative Research Centre 700, Berlin, January.
2005 Fragile Staatlichkeit und der Wandel der Afrikapolitik nach 1990 [Fragile Statehood and Changing Africa Policies after 1990] , University of Leipzig Papers on Africa N° 77, Leipzig.
Selected Papers and Presentations
2011 A Research Agenda on Multinational Companies, Commercialisation and Security, Private Security Workshop, October 8, University of Ottawa.
2011 The politics of the governed: Company community policies and local repertoires of action, European African Studies Conference, June 15-18, Uppsala.
2011 Governance For and Against Whom? Business contributions to collective goods and bads in Sub-Saharan Africa, Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: By Whom, for Whom, and to What Effect? Conference, May 26-28, Research Centre 700 and Freie Universität Berlin.
2011 New Political Topographies, Questions Around the Extraction of Natural Resources in Africa AEGIS Thematic Conference, April 14-15, Madrid.
2011 Norms versus heterogeneous practice regimes of transnational governance,Interrogating the Use of Norms in International Relations, Working Group at the International Studies Association Conference hosted by the International Political Sociology Section, March 15, Montreal.
2010 Co-existing 'cultures', contradictory practices: Multinational companies and trans-nationalised security governance in South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, talk at School of Oriental and African Studies, 3 December 2010, London.
2010 Business and Governance Research going local: entanglement and plural practices, presentation at the workshop “The Role of Business in Global Governance”, 16-17 September 2010, Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Frankfurt.
2010 Hybrid security cultures in the 19th and 21st century: Governing security in transnational business enclaves, paper presented at the SGIR September 9-11, 2010 in Stockholm.
2010 From Compliance to Practice: Mining Companies and the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (with Tanja A. Börzel), paper presented at the APSA 2010, Washington.
Extractive Industries and Security Governance in Africa. Globalised Knowledge - Local Practices, talk at the Centre for International Policy Studies/University of Ottawa, May 4 2010.
2010 Panel Transnational Security Governance and Local Political Order in Africa, Latin America and Asia (with Markus M. Müller, LAI FU Berlin), International Studies Association Conference 17-21 February, New Orleans. Paper: Security governance in transnationalised business spaces in South Africa and the DRC – a practice approach.
2010 Business in Security Governance: ‘Global’ Discourse and Everyday Practices in the Hybrid Space of an African Extraction Enclave, Paper presented at the workshop 'Glocal' Practices of Security Governance in the Postcolony, January 22-23 2010, FU Berlin.
2009 Panel We tried but they failed – Critical perspectives on Interventionism in Africa (with Jan Bachmann, U Bristol), Panel Topographies of Rule, European Conference of African Studies 4-7 June 2009, University of Leipzig.
2009 Understanding Security Governance in Enclaves of Extraction. The structuring effect of the transnationalised security and extractive industries fields, paper prepared for the workshop “Analysing the Security Field: Mapping Privatisation and Internationalisation”, 23 – 24 April at the Copenhagen Business School, Fredericksberg.
2008 Organisation and introduction to the working group "Companies in Local Security Governance" at the workshop "Business and Local Governance – Potentials and Pitfalls", organised by the SFB 700/FU Berlin and the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, September 19, Capetown.
2008 Topographies of Rule and Areas of Extraction. Katanga and Witwatersrand, presentation at the workshop "Governing Security and Making Space" organised by the GKL “Critical Junctures of Globalization”, University of Leipzig with the SFB 700, FU Berlin, September 5, Berlin.
2008 Governing Security in the Context of Weak Postcolonial Statehood. Private Self-help, Partnership Policing or Shadow Networks of Public-private Rule, paper presented at the „American Political Science Conference”, Boston, MA, (August 27-31).
Teaching
Plurale policing and transnational security governance, graduate seminar, Otto-Suhr-Institut of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
Practice turn! How cultural theories understand transnational politics in the peripheries of the world, graduate seminar, Otto-Suhr-Institut of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin (with Anke Draude)
Governing ‚beyond‘ the state in Sub-Saharan Africa, BA Seminar Otto-Suhr-Institut of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin
Postcolonial Perspectives: An Introduction to Postcolonial Studies, joined course for the Master program Erasmus Mundus Global Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of Leipzig (with Stefan Kausch).
