Research focus

Socio-technical transitions, transformative sustainability research, environmental conflicts and justice, science and technology studies, qualitative research

Work experience and education

• Since 2019 Junior Research Group BioKum
• 2019 M.Sc. Geography: Resource analysis and management I Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• 2019 Scientific assistant „Politics of knowledge and non-knowledge: Agricultural biotechnology in India” I Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• 2017 Erasmus Mundus Inspire Scholarship I University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2016 B.Sc. Natural area and regional management I Hochschule für Forstwirtschaft Rottenburg am Neckar
• 2013-2016 Student assistant „Hochschultag ländlicher Raum“ I Hochschule für Forstwirtschaft Rottenburg am Neckar

Selected Publications:

peer-reviewed

2022

Friedrich J, Zscheischler J, Faust H (2022) Preservation, modernization, and transformation: contesting bioeconomic imaginations of “manure futures” and trajectories toward a sustainable livestock system. Sustainability Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01161-8

Friedrich J, Najork K, Keck M, Zscheischler J (2022) Bioeconomic fiction between narrative dynamics and a fixed imaginary: Evidence from India and Germany. Sustainable Production and Consumption. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spc.2021.12.026

Friedrich J, Stahl J, Hoogendoorn G, Fitchett J (2022) Locational Heterogeneity in Climate Change Threats to Beach Tourism Destinations in South Africa. In: Saarinen, J., Lubbe, B., Moswete, N.N. (eds) Southern African Perspectives on Sustainable Tourism Management. Geographies of Tourism and Global Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99435-8_14

Najork K, Friedrich J, Keck M (2022) Bt cotton, pink bollworm, and the political economy of sociobiological obsolescence: insights from Telangana, India. Agriculture and Human Values. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10301-w

2021

Friedrich J, Bunker I, Uthes S, Zscheischler J (2021) The potential of bioeconomic innovations to contribute to a social-ecological transformation – A case study in the livestock system. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10806-021-09866-z

Friedrich J, Zscheischler J, Faust H (2021) Social-ecological transformation and COVID-19: the need to revisit working-class environmentalism. GAIA – Ecologic Persepctives for Science and Society. doi: https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.1.5

2020

Friedrich J, Stahl J, Fitchett JM, Hoogendoorn G (2020) To beach or not to beach? Socio-economic factors influencing beach tourists’ perceptions of climate and weather in South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0035919X.2020.1716869

Friedrich J, Stahl J, Hoogendoorn G, Fitchett JM (2020) Exploring Climate Change Threats to Beach Tourism Destinations: Application of the Hazard-Activity Pairs’ Methodology in South Africa. Weather, Climate and Society. doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-19-0133.1