Team > Dr. Eric Cezne

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Eric Cezne was a PhD Candidate  at the Center for International Relations, Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen. His research looks at modalities of South-South relations through large-scale infrastructure investments and arrangements. The empirical focus lies on the engagement of Brazilian resource corporation Vale S.A. in Mozambique, approaching how mining infrastructures – beyond being mere technicalities – reflect a range of (geo)political, social and economic processes entangling the local and the global. Besides his PhD work, Eric is also a researcher within the broader ERC-funded INFRAGLOB project, led by Prof. dr. Jana Hönke, which analyzes the discourses and practices around Brazilian and Chinese large-scale mining and port investments in Africa.

Before joining the University of Groningen, Eric worked at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) as Research Assistant and Administrative Coordinator for the Norwegian Center for Humanitarian Studies. He holds an MA in International Relations at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU). His research interests include the political geographies of infrastructures, the extractive industries, South-South relations, the role of rising powers in global governance, and peace operations. 

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Publications

2024

Africa's Global Infrastructures : South–South Transformations in Practice. - Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, Yifan Mia Yang (Hrsg.). - London : Hurst Publishers, 2024.

Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, Yifan Mia Yang: Infrastructure Globalities : Emerging Practices at the African Frontier. In: Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, Yifan Mia Yang (Hrsg.): Africa's Global Infrastructures : South-South Transformations in Practice. - London : Hurst Publishers, 2024. - S. 1-28.

Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, Yifan Mia Yang: South–South Transformations in Practice : Conclusions and Outlook. In: Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, Yifan Mia Yang (Hrsg.): Africa's Global Infrastructures : South–South Transformations in Practice. - London : Hurst Publishers, 2024.

2023

Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne, Yifan Mia Yang: Liminally positioned in the South : Reinterpreting Brazilian and Chinese relations with Africa. In: Global Society, 37 (2023). - S. 197-224.
doi:10.1080/13600826.2022.2094222

2022

Eric Cezne, Jana Hönke: The multiple meanings and uses of South–South relations in extraction : The Brazilian mining company Vale in Mozambique. In: World Development, 151 (2022). - .
doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105756

2019

Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne: Africa's South-South relations : For instance: Mining and railway lines in Mozambique. In: Spektrum : The Science Magazine of the University of Bayreuth, 15 (2019). - S. 62-67.

Jana Hönke, Eric Cezne: Afrikas Süd-Süd-Beziehungen : Zum Beispiel: Bergbau und Eisenbahnstrecken in Mosambik. In: Spektrum, 15 (2019). - S. 62-66.

Eric Cezne: Forging transnational ties from below : Challenging the Brazilian mining giant Vale SA across the South Atlantic. In: The Extractive Industries and Society, 6 (2019). - S. 1174-1183.
doi:10.1016/j.exis.2019.10.007

Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Department of Sociology

Dr. Eric Cezne
Research Fellow and Postdoc, INFRAGLOB Project

E-mail: eric.cezne@rug.nl