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…
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…
For the Urban Political Podcast, Felicitas Kübler and I spoke with fellow Terra-R network members Antonie Schmiz, Gala Nettelbladt, Valentin Domann and Daniel Mullis about our research on authoritarian urbanism and the current situation in…
'European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism', edited by Noa K. Ha and Giovanni Picker, and including my essay on Parochial imaginations, is out now at Manchester University Press. You are cordially invited to a book…
Together with my colleagues Daniel Mullis (PRIF Frankfurt), Jan Simon Hutta (University of Bayreuth/TU Dresden) and Valentin Domann (HU Berlin), I have successfully raised funds from DFG, the German Research Foundation, for a new scientific…
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…