Take root among the stars? Emancipatory homemaking as critical worldbuilding in Octavia Butler’s Parables. Paper in ‘cultural geographies’

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In this paper, we explore strategies of emancipatory homemaking in Octavia E. Butler's Earthseed novels. We examine homemaking as a strategy, first, of persistence and, second, of adaptability. This allows us to define the home…

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‘Parochial territorializations. Towards a critique of insular worldbuilding’ research seminar @ York University, Toronto, Sept 19, 2024

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Testing the umbrella term of the parochial, this talk by CITY Institute senior visiting scholar Anke Schwarz will address authoritarian and nativist spatial imaginations and practices as well as exclusionary territorializations. Reading the urban as…

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Holding space for strangeness. In favor of critical utopianism in urban geography. Paper in ‘Geographica Helvetica’

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What could urban geographers continue to learn and unlearn from critical utopianism and emancipatory futurities? In this contribution, I seek to recover transformative academic practices and work towards didactics of speculative estrangement. Specifically, I propose…

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‘Didactics of estrangement through Science Fiction’ paper & ‘Future techniques, protagonists and spaces’ session @ RGS-IBG London, Aug 28 and 29, 2024

At the 2024 RGS-IBG conference in London, I co-hosted a GFGRG and PolGRG sponsored session and presented a paper. Didactics of estrangement through Science Fiction Paper presented by Anke Schwarz Despite the limitations implied by…

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Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization. Paper in ‘Progress in Human Geography’

How are territories and subjects entwined in a state of becoming-rather-than-being? So delighted that 'Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization', a major paper by Monika and me, has been published in…

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‘Regression als Aufbruch. Kritische Geographien rechter Zukunftsentwürfe’ @NKG 2024, Münster, 24.05.2024

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Kann Regression je Aufbruch sein? Gilt ‚die Zukunft‘ alltagssprachlich oft als Synonym für Fortschritt, so werden rechte Erzählungen und Praktiken eher mit einer Orientierung an angeblich verlorenen oder von Verlust bedrohten Traditionen in Verbindung gebracht.…

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Broken Binary Shorts. 37C3 Flash Fiction Anthology

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Revering glitches, the Broken Binary Shorts anthology presents five flash fiction pieces by sirenensang, lemon, blueA and smettbo, written in December 2023 at the Chaos Communication Congress (37C3) in Hamburg. In a Glitch Feminism-inspired creative…

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Emparamol Shorts. Flash Fiction nach O.E. Butler und K.S. Robinson

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Ist Science Fiction Empowerment oder Eskapismus? Wozu überhaupt noch Zukunft in Zeiten multipler globaler Krisen? Als Emparamol Shorts veröffentliche ich vier Kurzgeschichten von Eskwe, Johanna Maria Gläßer, Livia Beier und Niklas Becker, die 2022/2023 im…

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Diskriminierungsfrei Wohnen: Utopie und Wirklichkeit. Öffentliche Online-Ringvorlesung, WiSe 2023-2024

Fragen der sozialen Wohnungsversorgung bestimmen seit vielen Jahren stadt- und wohnungspolitische Debatten um ausreichend Wohnraum und Mietpreissteigerungen. Nur wenig thematisiert werden dabei jedoch Wohnbedarfe einer diversen und marginalisierten Bevölkerung. Doch gerade für diese Bevölkerungsgruppen bestehen…

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