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

Facade of reconstructed buildings in downtown Frankfurt

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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‘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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‘Lokal extrem Rechts. Analysen alltäglicher Vergesellschaftungen’ – book launch, May 11, 2022, Leipzig

Ursachen und Hintergründe für das Erstarken extrem rechter Politik werden in Wissenschaft und Medien intensiv diskutiert. Dabei fehlt es gerade in wissenschaftlichen Debatten zumeist an qualitativen Analysen und differenzierten räumlichen Betrachtungen jenseits von Stadt-Land- oder…

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