Projects
Loss – A Perspective on Socio-Ecological Transformation in the City
Drawing on empirical research conducted among others in Halle (Saale), the project explores the significance of experiences, practices, and sites of loss within processes of socio-ecological transformation in cities.
Stories of Transformation, Spaces of Possibility: Participatory Approaches to Exploring Experiences of Change and Future Imaginaries in Wolfen-Nord
This participatory knowledge-transfer project develops innovative formats at the interface of research and practice. It addresses a central question: How can diverse experiences of transformation be made visible and brought into dialogue—and how might these conversations generate ideas for socially just, ecological, and democratic urban and neighbourhood development?
Pedagogical Places and (De-)Pedagogised Spaces. Just Transitions for Children and Young People in the Context of Regional Structural Change
How are social (educational) spaces created in the context of regional structural change, and what significance do they hold for children’s and young people’s participation and visions for the future?
Analytical traceability of lithium raw materials
Evaluation of the analytical possibilities to ensure the traceability of mineral lithium raw materials and thereby secure a sustainable supply of raw materials
Educational work in rural areas as enabler of participation in structural change
Educational work in rural areas as enabler of participation in structural changeJust Transitions, Educational and Participation Opportunities for Children, Youth, and Adults How can community-based educational work contribute to shaping structural change? The...
More-than-human geographies of transformation: Hydropolitical spaces of contamination in and around Bitterfeld-Wolfen (Eastern Germany)
How are water, pollutants, and industrial legacies in the Bitterfeld-Wolfen region politically, ecologically, and socially negotiated, and how do these negotiations shape the transformation of hydropolitical spaces?
Between Marginalization and Emancipation: Negotiations of Belonging and “Being Eastern German” in the Transformations of Southern Saxony-Anhalt
How are “being Eastern German” and belonging locally interpreted, experienced, and renegotiated in southern Saxony-Anhalt under conditions of structural change?
Animals, Power, and Space: More-than-Human Political Geographies of Animal Health
How are borders produced, legitimized, shifted, or contested in the context of the management of animal health? This research project examines more-than-human governance practices as they emerge through the management of infectious animal diseases, such as African swine fever and avian influenza.
Postmigrant Perspectives on Just Transition: Transforming Care and Health in Eastern Germany
How are care and health negotiated in peripheral regions of southern Saxony-Anhalt in the course of a just transition, and what role do migration, as well as migration-related expectations and narratives, play in this process?
Energy transition below ground? Subterranean Geographies of Transformation and the Geothermal Use of Mine Water in Mansfeld-Südharz
How is subterranean mine water negotiated, regulated, and valorized for geothermal use within contemporary debates on energy transitions in eastern Germany? This project investigates how energy transitions unfold “below ground,” while simultaneously illuminating the contested political negotiations and more-than-human relations that take shape “above ground.”