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…
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…
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…
'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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…