Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences - Cultural and Social Geography

Research Foci

Urban Studies

  • postcolonial urban research
  • gentrification, displacement and strategies to staying
  • housing markets
  • touristification and tourism policies
  • urban social movements and urban governance
     

Political Geography

  • geographic imaginations (SFB 1265)
  • geography of health / biopolitics
     

New Cultural Geography

  • superdiversity and age(ing) (DFG-project)
  • public space
  • culture(s) and the city
  • geography and psychoanalysis
     

Qualitative Methods

  • visual methods
  • ethnography

 

Information about current publications can be found on the billboard on the 3rd floor inside the geography department and on the individual staff pages on the institute website.

 

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