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

Black and white foto of copper tailings

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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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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