Kerstin Schopp

Nature and Sustainable Development

Kerstin Schopp is a research assistant in the project “ BATATA - Bioökonomie als gesellschaftlicher Wandel - Modul 2(2): Whose Bioeconomy? Tracing Visions of Socio-ecological Transformation abd their Ethical Deliberation in Tanzania”. She studied Biology and Culture & Society of Africa with a focus on Developmental Sociology and African History in Karlsruhe (KIT) and at the University of Bayreuth.

Areas of Expertise

Sustainable development: sustainable land use, sustainable bioeconomy
Social-ecological consequences after human interventions in nature and societies
The equestrian statue in Windhoek, Namibia
(Neo-)colonialism

Background

Since November 2019 research associate in the project “BATATA - Bioökonomie als gesellschaftlicher Wandel - Modul 2(2): Whose Bioeconomy? Tracing Visions of Socio-ecological Transformation abd their Ethical Deliberation in Tanzania”
From August 2018 through October 2019 research associate at the Competence Center for Sustainable Development at the University of Tübingen.
From August 2018 through June 2019 research associate in the project “Ethical Implications of IT Export to Sub-Saharan Africa (ELISA)”
From October 2017-July 2018, a certified scientific assistant at the Competence Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Tübingen.
From October 2016 to October 2017, certified research assistant in the project “Fundamentals of Organisational Ethics” in the Department of Ethics and Education at the IZEW of the University of Tübingen.
From March-September 2016, certified research assistant in the Bachelor's and Master's application process in the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tübingen.
From 2012-2015 Master's programme “Culture and Society of Africa” with focus on Development Sociology/Development Policy and African History at the University of Bayreuth with research stay at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Cameroon.
From 2011-2012 postgraduate studies in African Studies at the University of Bayreuth.
From 2007-2010 Bachelor of Science in Biology at KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Publications

2026: Oguche, Maria; Schopp, Kerstin; Kariuki, Juliet; Kouam, Jaurès Simo; Etchu, Kingsley; Teguia, Alexis; Niba, Aziwo Tatanja; Meutchieye, Félix; Chagunda, Mizeck & Potthast, Thomas: Non-conventional livestock species production for food security in Cameroon: Recontextualising understandings of animal welfare, ethics, and trade-offs – A transdisciplinary interactive approach. Tübingen: IZEW, Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften, Band 28.
2026: Schopp, Kerstin: “We are Africans, but we are not really in Africa”. In: BedenkZeiten-Blog: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/299607 (letzter Zugriff: 21.07.2026).
2025: Schopp, Kerstin; Irion, Maximilian; Bornemann, Matthias; Grundmann, Diana; Potthast, Thomas: Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz und Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit an Hochschulen - Grundlagen und Beispiele gelingender Ansätze der Transformation. In: Filho, W. Leal und Scherenberg, V. (Hg.): Maßnahmen zum Klimaschutz, Globale Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung. Springer. S. 133-149. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-70588-9_8#DOI
2025: Schopp, Kerstin: A pluriversal approach to realtional valuation of nature. Insights from agroecological smallholder farmers on the slopes of Mount Meru and Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. In: GAIA 34(2): 106-114. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.34.2.21
2023: Schopp, Kerstin; Chagunda, Mizeck; Kariuki, Juliet; Oguche, Maria; Potthast, Thomas: Keeping livestock in Africa. On 'neglected' livestock species, Sustainable Development, and ethics. In: BedenkZeiten-Blog: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/256919 (letzter Zugriff: 19.12.2023)
2023: Schopp, Kerstin: From theory to reality: Evaluating smallholder farmers’ attitudes toward nature in Tanzania. In: Social Sciences & Humanities Open 8(1): 100737. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100737
2023: Albiez, Marius; Schopp, Kerstin: Das Ende der Bonusmeile. Sollten Flugreisen begrenzt werden? In: Brand, Cordula; Meisch, Simon; Frank, Daniel; Ammicht-Quinn, Regina (Hg.): "Ich lehne mich jetzt mal ganz konkret aus dem Fenster: [...]". Eine Festschrift für Thomas Potthast. Tübingen: Tübingen Library Publishing: 163-171.
2022: Schopp, Kerstin und Albiez Marius: Postcolonial Gladiators?! Eine Analyse des Reality Formats Global Gladiators, die Afrika Edition. In: Meisch, Simon; Brand, Cordula und Müller, Uta (Hg.): Ethik in Serie Staffel 2. Tübingen: Tübingen Libraray Publishing (Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften): 103-114. https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10900/125317/IZEW_Bd_14_Ethik_in_Serie_Staffel_2_OA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
2022: Ouma, Stefan; Pissarskoi, Eugen; Schopp, Kerstin; Singo, Leiyo: Beyond Productivity: Reimagining Futures of Agriculture and Bioeconomy. In: RAOPE Blog (letzter Zugriff: 17.02.2022)
2022: Schopp, Kerstin: Genug geACKERt in Tansania? In: Blog Postwachstum (letzter Zugriff: 31.01.2022)
2021: Pawelec, Maria; Schopp, Kerstin; Heesen, Jessica: Information justice in Africa: Insights on Information Ethics connected to Nelson Mandela's thinking. In: Coetzee Bester, Johannes Britz, Rafael Capurro and Rachel Fischer (eds.): Nelson Mandela - A Reader on Information Ethics. In Cooperation with the Nelson Mandela Foundation: 87-132.
2020: Pissarskoi, Eugen; Ouma, Stefan; Schopp, Kerstin; Singo, Leiyo; Potthast, Thomas: Welche Bio_Ökonomie für welche Zukunft? Zur Repolitisierung eines Diskurses im Globalen Norden durch Einsichten aus Tansania. In: PERIPHERIE Nr. 159/160, 40. Jg. 2020, S. 258-283. DOI: doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v40i3-4.03
2020: Schopp, Kerstin: Analyzing Coping Strategies and Adaptation after Resettlement - Case Study of Ekondo Kondo, Cameroon and Ekondo Kondo Model of Adaptation. In: Sustainability 2020, 12, 9615. DOI: doi.org/10.3390/su12229615
2020: Schopp, Kerstin: Reflexionen zu einem (noch) nicht-stattgefundenen Feldaufenthalt in Tansania. In: BedenkZeiten-Blog: uni-tuebingen.de/de/176028 (letzter Zugriff: 16.02.2021)
2020: Schopp, Kerstin; Bornemann, Matthias; Potthast, Thomas: The Whole-Institution Approach at the University of Tübingen: Sustainable Development set in Practice. In: Sustainability 2020, Vol. 12, Issue 3, 861. DOI: 10.3390/su12030861
2019: Schopp, Kerstin: Les réinstallations forcées: le cas d'Ekondo Kondo au Cameroun. In: Diawara, M. et Röschenthaler, U.: Normes étatiques et pratiques locales en Afrique subsaharienne. Entre affrontement et accomodement. Éditions Manucius: Paris: 135-156.
2019: Heesen, Jessica; Schelenz, Laura; Schopp, Kerstin; Pawelec, Maria (Hg.): Digitalization in the Global South, TATuP, Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis 28 (2), 2019.
2019: Schopp, Kerstin; Schelenz, Laura; Heesen, Jessica und Pawelec, Maria: Ethical questions of digitalization in the Global South. In: TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, Vol. 28, No 2: 11-16, 8. Juli 2019. doi.org/10.14512/tatup.28.2.s11
2018: Albiez, Marius und Schopp, Kerstin: Schöne neue Streamingwelt: Zwischen Binge Watching und Nachhaltigkeitsutopie. In: Brand, Cordula und Meisch, Simon (Hg.): Ethik in Serie. Eine Festschrift zu Ehren von Uta Müller. Tübingen: Tübingen Libraray Publishing (Materialien zur Ethik in den Wissenschaften): 339-351.
2018: Schelenz, Laura and Schopp, Kerstin: Digitalization in Africa: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Technology, Development, and Justice. In: International Journal of Digital Society (IJDS), Vol. 9, Issue 4, December 2018: 1412-1420. DOI: 10.20533/ijds.2040.2570.2018.0175
2016: Schopp, Kerstin: People facing resettlement in Ekondo Kondo, Cameroon. In: Diawara, Mamadou; Röschenthaler, Ute (eds.), 2016: Competing norms: state regulations and local praxis in sub-saharan Africa. Campus: Frankfurt, New York: 145-166.

Keynotes

2026: Schopp, Kerstin und Kramm, Matthias: "Sustainable Conferencing" - Wie lassen sich Konferenzen und Workshops nachhaltig organisieren? Vortrag auf den Fraunhofer Nachhaltigkeitstagen. Eingeladen von Fraunhofer. Online: 06.05.2026.
2023: Oguche, Maria; Schopp, Kerstin; Kariuki, Juliet Kariuki; Potthast, Thomas; Shemlon, Glory; Kouam, Jaurès Simo; Etchu, Kingsley; Mekongo, Ursule; Teguia, Alexis; Niba, Aziwo Tatanja; Meutchieye, Félix; Chagunda, Mizeck: Redefining frameworks for animal welfare, ethics, and trade-offs in non-conventional livestock species production: The case of Cameroon. Vortrag auf dem Tropentag 2023, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 21.09.2023.
2023: Oguche, Maria; Potthast, Thomas; Giese, Marcus; Kariuki, Juliet; Schopp, Kerstin; Chagunda, Mizeck: Minor livestock species for food production in Africa, zoonotic diseases, and One Health. Vortrag auf der Bio-Geosphere Africa Conference - BioGARD, Universität Hohenheim, 14.09.2023.
2023: Schopp, Kerstin: Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft in Tansania: Kleinbauern und -Bäuerinnen, Globalisierung und Ethik. Vortrag der Tagung "Menschenwürdige Globalisierung". Eingeladen vom Weltethos-Institut. Universität Tübingen, 13.09.2023.
2023: Schopp, Kerstin: Tanzanian smallholder coffee farmers - (how) are their conceptions of a good life and their perspectives on land and nature interconnected? Vortrag auf der ECAS - European Conference on African Studies "African Futures". Universität Köln, 01.06.2023.
2022: Schopp, Kerstin; Potthast, Thomas: Sustainable Development, Ethics, and One Health. Vorlesung der "One Health Summer School", LUANAR, Lilongwe, Malawi, 19.09.2022.
2021: Schopp, Kerstin: Tanzanian agricultural development and degrowth - a(n) (im)possible symbiosis? Vortrag auf der ISEE-ESSE Degrowth Conference "Building alternative livelihoods in times of ecological an political crisis". Online-Konferenz, 08.07.2021.
2021: Schopp, Kerstin: Digital divides on various levels - implications for digitalization efforts in the field of education in the Global South. Vortrag auf dem Online-Workshop "Digitalization and Education in the Global South" des IZEW, Universität Tübingen, 16.04.2021.
2020: Schopp, Kerstin: Visions of bioeconomy and discourses on agricultural development - a comparative analysis with focus on Tanzania. Vortrag auf dem Workshop "It's the (bio)economy, stupid!" der Nachwuchforschungsgruppe "flumen - Mentalities in Flux". Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena, 08.10.2020.
2020: Schopp, Kerstin: Human-nature relationships at the heart of the bioeconomy and agricultural development. Vortrag auf den Vienna Antropology Days (VANDA). Online-Konferenz, 01.10.2020.
2019: Schmidt, Maximilian; Schopp, Kerstin, Albiez, Marius: Methane and CO2 in Lake Kivu - an Interdisciplinary Investigation in Respect of the Sustainable Development Goals. Vortrag auf der Kosmos Konferenz „Navigating the Sustainability Transfomration in the 21st Century“. Humboldt Universität, Berlin, 30.08.2019.
2019: Schopp, Kerstin: Loss and new opportunities: An investigation of female coping strategies after resettlement in Ekondo Kondo, Cameroon. Vortrag auf der NORA Conference „Border Regimes, Territorial Discourses & Feminist Politics“. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 23.05.2019.
2014: Schopp, Kerstin: Changes in local knowledge of resettled populations – the example of Ekondo Kondo. Vortrag auf dem Workshop „State Regulations and Local Praxis“ des Exzellenzclusters „Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen“. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M.

Teaching

Summer semester 2025:
- Seminar session “Blue Biotechnology, Veganism, and Environmental Ethics” (module “Advanced Ethics in the Life Sciences II 3061” and master's modules, University of Tübingen)
- Seminar session “Animal Welfare and Ethics Issues in the Tropics and Subtropics” (module “Promotion of Livestock in Tropical Environments,” University of Hohenheim, external teaching assignment)
- Introduction into Sustainable Development (seminar, Studium Oecologicum, University of Tübingen)

Winter semester 2024/25:
- University, city, life – everything sustainable, or what? Ideas for implementing sustainable development (course at Ambrosianum College) together with Matthias Bornemann
- Sustainable development, biology, agriculture (seminar, B.Sc. Biology, University of Tübingen)

Summer semester 2024:
- Seminar session “Blue Biotechnology, Veganism, and Environmental Ethics” (module “Advanced Ethics in the Life Sciences II 3061” and master's modules, University of Tübingen)
- Seminar session “Animal Welfare and Ethics Issues in the Tropics and Subtropics” (module “Promotion of Livestock in Tropical Environments,” University of Hohenheim, external teaching assignment)

Winter semester 2023/24: Sustainable Development, Biology, Agriculture (seminar, B.Sc. Biology, University of Tübingen)

Summer semester 2023: University, city, life – everything sustainable, or what? Ideas for implementing sustainable development (course at Ambrosianum College) together with Matthias Bornemann

Summer semester 2022: University, city, life – everything sustainable, or what? Ideas for implementing sustainable development (course at Ambrosianum College) together with Matthias Bornemann

Summer semester 2021: University, city, life – everything sustainable, or what? Ideas for implementing sustainable development (course at Ambrosianum College) together with Matthias Bornemann

Summer semester 2020: University, city, life – everything sustainable, or what? Ideas for implementing sustainable development (course at Ambrosianum College) together with Matthias Bornemann