Projects

Just Capital: Transition Regimes in Globalised Energy Governance

This project examines transnational green financialization of socio-ecological structural change processes, focusing on initiatives like Just Transition Funds (JTFs) and Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs), as well as Germany’s innovative climate protection agreements (KSV).

Ambiguous Liminalities – Emotional Attachments and Socially Contested Potentials of Vacant Spaces in a Structural Change Region

What happens to buildings that are no longer in use—yet have not disappeared? In regions undergoing structural transformation, vacancy is more than mere dereliction or a promise of capital accumulation: it constitutes an emotional, social, and political in-between. This project explores the ambivalent potentials of such spaces, situated between memory, appropriation, and exclusion.