Universität Bonn

Abteilung für Südostasienwissenschaft

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Dr. Michaela Doutch

Michaela Doutch
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Dr. Michaela Doutch

0228-73-9743

Nassestraße 2

53113 Bonn

Michaela Doutch's main research focus is on labour and labour agency in global production networks; approaches to social reproduction and reproductive labour; women, gender, and feminism in development; and multi-scalar labour struggles and movements - with a regional focus on mainland Southeast Asia, particularly Cambodia.

  • Since 10/2022 Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn
  • 04/2022 – 09/2022 Lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn
  • 03/2021 – 03/2022 Research Assistant (WHK) at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn
  • Since 12/2020 Trainer and consultant of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit/Akademie für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ/AIZ) in Bonn
  • Since 2019 Supervisor and reviewer of BA and MA thesis in Southeast Asian Studies
  • 10/2018 – 03/2019 Lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn
  • 11/2018 – 12/2018 Research stay in Cambodia
  • 10/2017 – 03/2018 Lecturer at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn
  • 11/2017 – 12/2017 Research stay in Cambodia
  • 02/2015 – 03/2015 Research stay in Cambodia
  • 10/2014-04/2015 Student Assistant (SHK) at the German Development Institute (DIE) in Bonn
  • 10/2011-10/2012 Intern at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF) in Bonn
  • 02/2016 - 08/2022 PhD Candidate at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn
  • 10/2012 – 09/2015 Master of Arts in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Bonn
  • 10/2008 – 03/2012 Bachelor of Arts in Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn
  • Since 2023 Contested socio-ecological re/production. A systematic investigation of the Global Garment Re/Production Network (GRPN) from a feminist labour geography perspective by using the next node approach
  • 2022-2025 DFG-Research Network: Global Transformation and Socio-ecological Reproduction: Labor Geography Perspectives (in German-speaking countries)
  • 2016-2022 PhD project “Women workers in the garment factories of Cambodia. A feminist labour geography of global (re)production networks"
  • 05/2023 Gender Studies Prize 22 (total volume: 1000 €)
  • 01/2023 – 12/2024 Argelander Starter-Kit Grant (B) “Research Funds" (total volume: 36,000 €, including support by a student assistant (WHF) for 1 year)
  • 10/2016 – 12/2020 PhD scholarship of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS) in Berlin
  • 03/2015 – 04/2015 PROMOS scholarship of the BMBF/DAAD, sponsored by the University of Bonn

Forthcoming


  • Doutch, Michaela; López Ayala, Tatiana; Pye, Oliver; Hürtgen, Stefanie and Nadine Reis (forthcoming): Labour Geography in the German-Speaking Countries: A Work in Progress. In: Andrew Herod (eds.). Handbook Labour Geography. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 
  • Doutch, Michaela (forthcoming): Starting and staying with Labour: Eine moderierte feministische partizipative Aktionsforschung mit Arbeiter:innen aus dem Bekleidungssektor Kambodschas. In: Doutch, Michaela, Engelhardt, Anne, Lopéz, Tatiana, Premchander, Saumya and Miriam Wenner, (eds.): Arbeitswelten - Neue Perspektiven aus Räumen der Re/Produktion. Mannheim: Springer Nature.
  • Doutch, Michaela, Engelhardt, Anne, Lopéz, Tatiana, Premchander, Saumya and Miriam Wenner (eds.) (forthcoming): Arbeitswelten - Neue Perspektiven aus Räumen der Re/Produktion. Mannheim: Springer Nature.

2024

2022

2021

2020

  • Doutch, Michaela (2020): Kambodschanische Textil- und Bekleidungsarbeiter*innen kämpfen ums Überleben. In: Asienhaus und philippinenbüro e.V. (eds.): Corona in Asien: Menschenrechtsverletzungen und soziale Ungleichheit im Schatten der Pandemie-Bekämpfung. Cologne 2020, 24-27.

2019

2017

  • Doutch, Michaela (2017):Die Macht der Straße. In: Bretthauer, Bastian; Lenz, Susanne und Jutta Werdes (eds.): Kambodscha - Ein politisches Lesebuch. Regiospectra Verlag, Berlin, 2017, 173-180.
  • Doutch, Michaela (2017): Textilarbeiter*innen in Kambodscha: Zwischen Arbeit, Armut und Aktion. In: Asienhaus und philippinenbüro e.V. (eds.): Asien im Windschatten des Wachstums: Ungleichheiten, Extraktivismus, Bewegungen. Cologne 2017, S. 54-57.
  • 12/2024 „Kämpfe der Reproduktion im Bekleidungssektor Kambodschas. Eine feministische Labour Geography Perspektive auf das Globale Re/Produktionsnetzwerk von Bekleidung", lecture in frame of the self-organized lecture series (SOLV) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), Austria. 
  • 12/2024 „Emancipation, Participation and Activism“, lunch lecture within the series „Engaged Anthropology“ at the  University of Bonn, together with Prof. Dr. Kristina Großmann and PD Dr. Oliver Pye
  • 12/2023 Niedriglohnarbeit in Deutschland und Kambodscha: Erfahrungen aus der partizipativ- feministischen und kritisch-ethnografischen Arbeitsforschung, together with Peter Birke, presentation in frame of the research colloquium "Kritik-Forschung-Praxis" at the University of Jena.
  • 06/2023 „Emanzipatorische Forschungsansätze in der Praxis aus Südostasien“, lecture within the series „Anthropology matters“ at the  University of Bonn, together with PD Dr. Oliver Pye
  • 10/2021 „Wie Corona den Spiegel vorhält: Kambodschanische Textil- und Bekleidungs-arbeiter*Innen & ihr Kampf ums Überleben in Zeiten von COVID-19“, presentation at the session „Perspektiven der Labour Geography auf die Covid-19 Krise“ at the  #GeoWoche 2021.
  • 01/2021 „Towards a Gendered Labour Georgaphy: A feminist perspective on the Cambodian garment workers’ general strike of 2013/2014“, presentation at the University of Osnabrück.
  • 11/2019 „Geschlechterordnung in Südostasien: Strukturen und Kämpfe in Kambodscha, Myanmar und Indonesien“, presentation and discussion at the adult education centre in Bonn.
  • 09/2019 „The Cambodian Garment Workers' Movement: Linking Space, Agency and Gender“, presentation at the EuroSEAS conference in Berlin, 10.-23. September 2019.
  • 06/2019 „Space, Agency and Gender in the Cambodian garment workers’ general strike of 2013/2014”, presenation at the international workshop „Labour Conflicts and Development in the Global South” at the University of Nottingham, UK, 25.-26. Juni 2019.
  • 04/2019 „Kambodschanische Textilarbeiter*innen und politischer Aktivismus“, presentation at the workshop „Umkämpfte Geschlechterordnung: Rechte, Emanzipation und Rollback“ am 7. Asientag der Stiftung Asienhaus in Cologne.
  • 11/2018 „Kleider machen Leute – Arbeitsbedingungen und Arbeitskämpfe in der Textilindustrie“, presentation and discussion at the adult education centre in Bonn.
  • 11/2016 „Die Bewegung der kambodschanischen Textilarbeiter*innen: Labour und Labour Agency (Potential) im transnationalen Kontext“, presentation at the first student conference of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hamburg, 04.-06. November 2016.
  • 09/2016 „The Movement of Cambodian Garment Workers: Labour Agency (Potential) in the Global Garment Production Network”, presentation at the International Conference of Labour and Social History in Steyr, Austria, 15.-17. September 2016.
  • 09/2015  „Cambodian Garment Workers and their Struggles in a Transnational Context: Labour Agency (Potential) and Transnational Campaigns”, presenation at the international conference „Transnational Labour Rights Activism across Asia and Beyond”. University of Bochum, 17.-18. September 2015.