David Drengk
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NameDavid Drengk M.A.
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Curriculum Vitae
- Since 10/2022 research and teaching assistant at the chair of History of Technology and Economy
- 2017 - 2023 Research assistant/PhD ERC research project “A Global History of Technology, 1850-2000” (ERC AdG 742631), Institute of History, Technical University Darmstadt
- 2016 Research assistant for the COMIFAC Summer School in Frankfurt, Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies (Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Afrikaforschung, ZIAF)/Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Frankfurt, Germany
- 2015 - 2017 Public relations and communication officer at the AMBERO Consulting Gesellschaft mbH – Services for International Development, Kronberg i.Ts, Germany
- 2014 - 2015 M.A. oral history research project in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
- 2013 - 2015 M.A. African Studies Research, African Studies Centre Leiden (ASC)/Leiden University, the Netherlands
- 2012 - 2013 Assistant to the CEO, Exhibition Scout, Haarlem, the Netherlands
- 2012 - 2013 B.A. research project in Chemboma and Likotima, Malawi
- 2011 - 2012 B.A. ERASMUS exchange African Languages and Cultures, African History, Leiden University, the Netherlands (B.A. studies)
- 2010 - 2013 B.A. Area Studies Asia/Africa, Agricultural Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Member of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), the African Studies Centre Leiden Community, the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Afrikastudies (NVAS)
Publications:
Drengk, David/Madugu, Yusuf . "The Technological Landscape of Human and Animal Transportation: Cases from Northern Nigeria and Southern Côte d'Ivoire." Journal of Transport History 45:2 (2024), forthcoming online Open Access 2023.
Drengk, David, "Reparaturwerkstätten als kritische Infrastruktur: Eisenbahnalltag entlang ivorischer Gleise im Regenwald", in: Weber, Heike/Venn, Astrid/Rüsewald, Jörg/Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (Hrsg.), Reparieren, Warten, Improvisieren: Technikgeschichte des Unfertigen. Neue Berliner Beiträge zur Technikgeschichte und Industriekultur, Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, 2023, 119-126.
Drengk, David. “Maintenance and Repair as the Backbone of Colonial Railways. Centralized and Mobile Workshops and Infirmaries in the Ivorian Forest “, Technikgeschichte 89:2 (2022): 149-180. https://doi.org/10.5771/0040-117X-2022-2-149
Osorio Tarazona, Alejandra, Drengk, David and Animesh Chatterjee. “Rethinking Global History of Technology from Alternative Archives”, Technikgeschichte 88: 2 (2021): 202-206. https://doi.org/10.5771/0040-117X-2021-2-202
Drengk, David. “Beyond South Africa’s draconian racial segregation: Transkeian surfing narratives, 1966 – 1994”, in: Cleveland, Todd, Tarminder Kaur, Gerard Akindes (eds.), 2020, Sports in Africa, Past and Present, Ohio University Press. (Shortlisted for the 2021 North American Society for Sport History Book Prize (anthology)).
Drengk, David, “Mysterious Wild Coast”, Waves & Woods 2:3 (2018): pp. 118–23.
Drengk, David, Dohm, Stephan. “Lima- Peru: Anpassung der städtischen Wasserwirtschaft an den Klimawandel”, Beratende Ingenieure – Fachmagazin für Planen und Bauen 11/12 (2017): 34–37.
Drengk,David, Charzinski, Jürgen. "Unterstützung beim Aufbau der maritimen Industrie: Timor-Leste – maritimer Sektor”, Beratende Ingenieure – Fachmagazin für Planen und Bauen 11/12 (2015): 34–37.
Drengk, David, Maik Hamjediers, Lisa Reiber, Stefanie Reuter, Hannes Storm, Paula Zöhl. Entwicklungshilflos? Entwicklungshilflos? (Documentary), 2013, Berlin, online available at: https://entwicklungshilflos.wordpress.com/film-2/ [accessed 10 Oct. 2022].
Theses:
- “People, Materiality, and Nature in Everyday Life: The Technological Landscape of the Rainforest in Côte d’Ivoire, 1890-1930”, PhD, Technical University Darmstadt, 2022.
- David Drengk. 2015. “Pushing Social Boundaries: Social history of Surfing and People between 1960 and 1990 at South Africa’s Wild Coast.” M.A., African Studies Centre Leiden (ASC), 2015.
- “Social Order and Hierarchy in Che Mboma and Likotima village: Of the Transformation from Deprived Children to Knowledgeable Leading Lights – The Social Positioning of Jacaranda Children in Their Respective Communities.” B.A., Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2013.
Presentations (Selection):
| 12/2023 | "Umbruchstimmung in der Technikgeschichte: Neue Akteure, Weltregionen und Alltagsnarrative", Technikgeschichte global denken: Neue Ansätze und Perspektiven: studium dekoloniale? – Forschung, Bildung und Vermittlung in postkolonialer Perspektive, Dresden, 12.12.2023. |
| 01/2023 | "A Social History of Everyday Cycling Life in Zomba, 1895-2020", Technology and Material Culture in African History: Challenges and Potentials for Research and Teaching, 4-8 January 2023, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 5 January 2023. |
| 01/2023 | "People, Technology, and Nature: Interactions in the Evergreen Rainforest of lower Côte d'Ivoire", Technology and Material Culture in African History: Challenges and Potentials for Research and Teaching, 4-8 January 2023, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 5 January 2023. |
| 11/2022 | "A History of Everyday Cycling Life in Zomba: Bicycle Transport and Repair Workshops Along the Road", 3rd African Urban Mobility (AUM) Workshop: Historical and Scalar Dimensions of Contemporary Mobility Practices in Urban Africa, 2-4 November 2022, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 November 2022. |
| 10/2022 | "Forschung an disziplinären Schnittstellen: Die Alltagsgeschichte einer technischen Regenwaldlandschaft in Westafrika”, presentation in the research coloquium at the institute of history, Technische Universität Dresden, 17 October 2022. |
| 09/2022 | “Labour Recruitment, Guerrilla Warfare, and Everyday Railway Maintenance in a Technological Landscape: Colonial Côte d’Ivoire”, Point Sud Workshop „New Approaches to Mobility, Transport, and Infrastructure in Africa”, Venue: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana in Accra, 28 September 2022. |
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06/2022 |
“Im Fluss kolonialer Imperien: Zirkulation und Ko-Existenz von Pflanzen, Infrastrukturen und Wissen in Westafrika Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts”, guest lecture at the institute for history at the Technical University Dresden, Germany. |
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05/2022 |
“Mensch, Technik und Natur: Alltag in der technischen Waldlandschaft der südlichen Côte d’Ivoire, c. 1890-1930”, presentation at the Goethe University Frankfurt/ZIAF (Center for Interdisciplinary African Studies). |
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03/2022 |
“Coping with Disruptions: The role of maintenance and repair work in the everyday railway life of Southern Côte d’Ivoire”, presentation at the Europalia Arts Festival “Trains and Tracks in Africa”, Leuven and Gent, Belgium. |
| 11/2021 |
“People, technology, and nature: Interactions in the evergreen rainforest of lower Ivory Coast”, the Annual T2M Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic & Mobility in Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 10/2019 | “Controlling the African Forest: Daily Gun Use during the Abbey Revolt of 1910”, at the Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Milano, Italy. |
| 07/2019 |
“Meeting in the Technological Landscape of the Ivorian Forest: Global and Local Perceptions of Space and Technology”. Workshop “Writing Global History of Technology from a Local Perspective: Stories from the South”, Darmstadt. |
| 06/2019 | “Hunting the Iron Horse: Disruption of French infrastructure and social organisation in colonial Côte d'Ivoire“, 8th European Conference on African Studies 2019 (ECAS) “Africa: Connections and Disruptions”, Research Network of African Studies Centres in Europe AEGIS, Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 12/2018 | „Mehr als nur Importwaren: Eine transnationale Technikgeschichte von Schusswaffen in Westafrika”, Africa-Colloquium, Lecture of the Department of African Studies, Wien. |
| 07/2018 |
“(Transnational) West African history of weapon technology, 1850-2000.” ICOHTEC Summer School 2018 „Does technology drive history?“, Jean Monnet University, St. Étienne, France. |
| 07/2018 |
“From Fragmentation to Comprehensiveness: Towards a Profound and well-balanced African History of Technology”, The 45th ICOHTEC Symposium “Technological drive from past to future? 50 Years of ICOHTEC”, St. Étienne, France. |
| 04/2017 |
“Searching for Waves and Peace: Transkeian surfing under apartheid rule”, presentation at the conference Sporting Subalternities and Social Justice, Institute For Reconciliation And Social Justice, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa (10.-13.04.2017). |
| 10/2016 | “Stories from a deserted beach: Social History of surfing and people in the former Transkei at South Africa’s Wild Coast between 1960 and 1990”, presentation at the biennial conference of the Dutch Association of African Studies (NVAS) „Sports in Africa“, Utrecht, the Netherlands (15.10.2016). |
Research experience:
Malawi, South Africa (oral history research)
Togo, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, France (archival research)