Research

Erschienen: Regression als Aufbruch? Kritische Geographien rechter Zukunftsentwürfe. Debatte in ‘sub\urban’

Cover of sub_urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung, volume 13(1), 2025

'Regression als Aufbruch? Kritische Geographien rechter Zukunftsentwürfe' ist der Titel einer soeben in der zeitschrift sub\urban erschienenen Debatte, kuratiert von Johann Braun und Anke Schwarz. Darin argumentieren wir, dass gerade die utopischen Momente rechter Zukunftsentwürfe…

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‘Transformation fatigue? Ordinary landscapes of multiple ruination in Eastern Germany’ talk @AAG Detroit, March 26, 2025

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In the regions targeted by the European Union's Just Transition Fund, a pressing need to move towards post-fossil economies meets various aspects of ongoing yet contradictory ruination. The small towns and mining zones of Saxony-Anhalt…

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

Sharepic der Buchvorstellung 'Das Ende rechter Räume', Pöge-Haus, 13.03.2025, 19 Uhr

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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‘Imagining urban futures through speculative fiction’ talk @ The British Academy, London, Jan 17, 2025

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How can a geographical lens support much-needed social change – and how does that relate to literature? When it comes to imagining urban futures, what could we learn and, indeed, unlearn by reading and writing…

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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’

Black-and-white photograph of a façade bearing a spray-painted anarchist symbol between two windows.

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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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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