Buchvorstellung ‘Das Ende rechter Räume’ @ Pöge-Haus, Leipzig (13.03.2025)

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Vielerorts ist die Rede von rechten Räumen. Völlig unscharf, bezeichnet der Begriff mal lokale Hegemoniebestrebungen der radikalen Rechten, mal pauschale Deutungen vom Braunen Osten oder dem abgehängten Land. Diesem Durcheinander geht das gerade im Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot erschienene…

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Erschienen: Buch ‘Das Ende rechter Räume’, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot

Book cover: Das Ende rechter Räume, Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R, 2025

Nach Jahren der gemeinsamen Diskussion und Monaten des kollektiven Schreibens erscheint in diesen Tagen unser Buch Das Ende rechter Räume. Zu Territorialisierungen der radikalen Rechten beim Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot. Erdacht, kuratiert und verfasst vom Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R nimmt es sich…

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For a Non-Exceptionalist Spatial Theory of Far-Right Mobilizations. Contribution by Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R in ‘Antipode Online’

'For a Non-Exceptionalist Spatial Theory of Far-Right Mobilization', our first publication as Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R, has just been published in Antipode Online. We propose to approach far-right geographies through the lens of territorialization. If one seeks…

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Capturing dissent: Forensic photography of graffiti in the late GDR. Paper in ‘Territory, Politics, Governance’

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Through a document analysis of archival materials, I explore visual landscapes of graffiti that were produced by the German Democratic Republic’s Ministry for State Security photographers in Leipzig between 1980 and 1989 in this recent…

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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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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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‘Mapping the Global Rise of Fossil Fascism’ lecture & ‘Stadtgeographie in Krisenzeiten’ panel @DKG 2023, Frankfurt, Sept 21, 2023

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Planetary Futures - der Deutsche Kongress für Geographie 2023 hat sich nicht wenig vorgenommen. Am 21.9. bin ich in Frankfurt/Main an zwei Veranstaltungen beteiligt: Lecture: Mapping the Global Rise of Fossil Fascism Speaker: Tatjana Söding…

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