Dr. Johannes Plagemann is research fellow at the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, Germany. He was a post-doctoral member of the Sofja-Kovaleskaja research group on 'Background Justice between States: Global Institutional Design to Foster Sovereign Statehood' at the Technical University Darmstadt (2014) and research fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs (2010-2014). He teaches at the University of Hamburg and publishes in scholarly journals such as Globalizations and Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric. Johannes Plagemann studied Philosophy and Economics in Bayreuth and Sao Paulo (BA) and Political Sciences in Hamburg and Bordeaux (MA). He did fieldwork in Mozambique, Brazil, South Africa, and India.