Vita

Anke Schwarz is a senior researcher and scientific team leader at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg’s European Center of Just Transition Research. Originally trained as an urban planner, she holds a PhD in Human Geography from University of Hamburg, and completed her habilitation at TU Dresden, also in Human Geography. She has been a visiting researcher at UNAM in Mexico City, UNINA in Naples, and York University in Toronto. Research interests: As an urban and political geographer, Anke specializes in theories of territorialization, international urbanization, future geographies, and geographies of Speculative and Science Fiction. Her work has been published in Progress in Human Geography, ephemera, cultural geographies, Geographica Helvetica, and Territory, Politics, Governance, amongst others.