Minorities, Mobility and Development. Towards a Theory of the Transformative Potential of Minorities

Dr. Ute Rietdorf (SFB 1199)

I am an African studies’ specialist trained in development economics with minors in anthropology and business management. I received my PhD from the Leipzig University in 2002 for a dissertation about the role of the Asian minority in development processes in Tanzania. After that, I worked for the postgraduate programme “Small Enterprise Promotion and Training” (SEPT) and the Leipzig University and the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg. My research interests include development theory, sustainable and rural development, and imaginations of development facilitated by Information and communications technology (ICT)