Jorma Apelt

Jorma Apelt studied Political Science (MA) at Free University Berlin and Global Political Economy (MA) at Goldsmiths University London. During his studies, he received a scholarship from the Hans-Böckler-Foundation and worked as a student research assistant for the Research Group 'Globalization, Work, and Production' at the Berlin Social Science Center.

Research Interests

Political economy of natural resource production and agriculture
Global Value Chains and Global Production Networks
Political ecology
Labour geography
Industrial relations

Thesis Advisory Committee

Prof. Niels Fold
Dr. Larry Digal
PD. Dr. Oliver Pye
Dr. Caroline Hambloch

Publications

Apelt, Jorma. ‘Raum für Gegenmacht: Arbeitskämpfe im Lithiumabbau in der Atacama-Salzwüste in Chile’. PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft 55, no. 220 (2025): 569–86. https://doi.org/10.32387/prokla.v55i220.2198.