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Dr. Christiane Heisse
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Chair of Economic Geography
I am a political economist with a strong interdisciplinary background in the critical social sciences. Broadly construed, my research interests lie in the relationship between environment and economy under capitalism. This includes questions of uneven development, of the systemic and intersectional exploitation of socio-ecological relations, of degrowth, and of the political economy of food systems. I also have a strong interest in how different traditions approach these topics, specifically mainstream vs. heterodox economics and Marxist economic geography.
Before joining the Chair of Economic Geography in Bayreuth, I worked towards my PhD in development economics at SOAS. During this time, I also was a visiting doctoral student at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität in Munich.
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Chair of Economic Geography
Publications
Article in a journal (peer-reviewed)
Heisse, Christiane
Economics imperialism : a rejoinder to Ambrosino, Cedrini, and Davis
in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2026)
doi:10.1080/09672567.2026.2674651 ...
Heisse, Christiane
Talking a Lot, Yet Little to Say: Economics Imperialism in the Economics of Climate Change
in Review of Radical Political Economics (2026)
doi:10.1177/04866134251415573 ...
Heisse, Christiane
Whither economics imperialism? Debating Ambrosino, Cedrini and Davis
in The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought vol. 32 (2025) issue 1. - pp. 136-156
doi:10.1080/09672567.2024.2433980 ...
Heisse, Christiane; Morimoto, Risa
Climate vulnerability and fertilizer use : panel evidence from Tanzanian maize farmers
in Climate and Development vol. 16 (2024) issue 3. - pp. 242-254
doi:10.1080/17565529.2023.2206373 ...
Bagnall, A. M.; Trigwell, J.; Heisse, Christiane; Quick, A.; Southby, K.; Woodward, J.; South, J.; Button, D.
Impact of a community empowerment programme in disadvantaged UK neighbourhoods : results o ...
in European Journal of Public Health vol. 30 (2020) issue Suppl. 5
doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.146 ...
Online post
Heisse, Christiane; Mutlu Sirakova, Sevgi
Power to the microbes : Reclaiming traditional foods for a degrowth food future
in degrowth
09. Dezember 2024
https://degrowth.info/en/blog/power-to-the-microbe ...
Scurrah, Emily; Heisse, Christiane
The race to slash "red tape" in post-Brexit Britain has begun. How can it be resisted?
in openDemocracy
25. Februar 2020
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/the-ra ...
Heisse, Christiane; Luciano, Elena; Yehia, Yasmina
The British Government is Fuelling Climate Disaster
in Tribune Magazine Blog
09. Dezember 2019
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/12/the-british-gover ...
Doctoral thesis
Heisse, Christiane
Natural Capital as Economics Imperialism : History, Political Economy, and Ecological Crit ...
London, UK, 2025. - 219 pp.
doi:10.25501/soas.00822678 ...
(thesis, , SOAS University of London)
Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Chair of Economic Geography
Dr. Christiane Heisse
Research Associate
Room: 131
Office hours: upon appointment
Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2050
E-mail: christiane.heisse@uni-bayreuth.de