Jill Philine Blau has published extensively on commons/ commoning, gender, collective land use, and pastoralism. Her upcoming book (2026) (Un)learning work, (re)learning justice? Working methods & commoning at the intersection of change and perpetuation focuses on self-organisation and urban commoning in and around Berlin.
Monograph
Land, Gender and Commons: Collective Land Use Strategies of Pastoralists in Ethiopia and German
In: Perspectives on Development, LIT, 2023
Articles
Was ist Commons?
In: Bäuerle, Lukas & Reinken, Rouven & Keil, Anna Katharina & Wasenitz, Stella (Ed.)
Grundfragen der Ökonomie. Eine themenzentrierte Einführung, Verlag Schäffer-Poeschel, 2026 (forthcoming)
Caring and commoning as pillars for transformation: intersectional feminist challenges in theory and practice
In: Agarwal, Arun & Varvarousis, Angelos: Commons, Commoning, and Social Change. Towards a research framework for studying transformative collective action
In: International Journal of the Commons 2025/ 26 (forthcoming)Asking the other question(s): Using an intersectional lens in development research, with Schultz, Ulrike
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Gender, age and commons among the Nyangatom in Southern Ethiopia
In: Britwum, Akua & Schultz, Ulrike (Ed.)
Negotiating Tenure Rights: Gender and Land Commodification, Nomos, 2024
Interdependencies, caring, and commoning: The case of herders in Ethiopia and Germany
In: Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space 4 (4),
pp. 1270–1290. DOI: 10.1177/25148486211022081; 2021
Commons Research and Pastoralism in the Context of Variability
In: Nomadic Peoples 24 (2),
pp. 272–285. DOI: 10.3197/np.2020.240207.2020
Wörterbuch Land – und Rohstoffkonflikte
In: Brunner, Jan; Dobelmann, Anna; Kirst, Sarah & Prause, Louisa (Ed.)
Pastoralismus. transcript; 2019
Making sense of past, present and future. Images of modern and past pastoralism among Nyangatom herders in South Omo, Ethiopia
In: Ahearn, Ariell & Sternberg, Troy
Arid Land System: Sciences & Society: Land (2018) 7/2, 2019Commoning und Wanderweidewirtschaft: Die Rechtler_innen im Oberallgäu,
In: Peripherie – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur 150/151, Heft 2-2018 Jenseits des Entwicklungsdenkens (150/151, 2018)
Edited Monographs in the name of Heinrich Böll Foundation
Co-Editor with Helfrich, Silke on behalf of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
Wem gehört die Welt?
Oekom, 2010
Co-Editor Hentschel, Gitti on behalf of the Heinrich Böll Foundation
Roadmap to 1325, Resolution for gender-sensitive peace and security politics
Barbara Budrichs, 2010