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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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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Introduction to the special issue ‘Contested Urban Territories: Decolonized perspectives’

Over the last two years, Monika Streule and Anke Schwarz co-edited the Geographica Helvetica special issue 'Contested Urban Territories: Decolonized Perspectives'. All seven papers of the special issue are available at https://www.geogr-helv.net/special_issue938.html Now we are…

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