Dr. Sarah Klosterkamp im Gespräch mit Gerichtsvollzieher Dirk Wolowski
Danke an alle Beteiligten für den offenen Austausch, die kritischen Fragen und die inspirierenden Gespräche für ihre spannenden Beiträge und Impulse.
✨ Takeaway: Interdisziplinärer Dialog schafft Räume, in denen komplexe soziale Fragen wirklich verstanden werden können.
Zu sehen ist der Konferenz- und Arbeitsraum mit allen Teilnehmenden an Tischen in U-Form
Zwischen wissenschaftlichen Analysen, Einblicken aus Justiz und Sozialer Arbeit sowie Diskussionen über mediale Darstellungen prekärer Haushalte wurde deutlich: Schulden sind nicht nur Zahlen, sondern prägen Lebensrealitäten, Chancen und Zukunftsperspektiven.
Zu sehen sind drei Broschüren des Workshops auf pinken Fotohintergrund.
Zwei intensive Tage beim Workshop & Symposium „Schulden – Alltag, Institutionen, Folgen“ (@jungeakademie.bsky.social & @goetheuni.bsky.social) in Hamburg liegen hinter uns – und sie haben einmal mehr gezeigt, wie zentral das Thema Verschuldung für das Verständnis sozialer Ungleichheit ist.
Dunkelgrauer Hintergrund mit dem Wort "SCHULDEN" in weißen Blockbuchstaben, das viermal in einem vertikalen Stapel wiederholt wird. Dutzende von undurchsichtigen rosa Kreisen sind dicht über den beiden mittleren Wiederholungen angeordnet und verdecken sie teilweise, während weitere rosa Punkte über die Leinwand verstreut sind. Grafikdesign: Marie Teigler & Philip Bellmann
#Schulden - Alltag, Institutionen, Folgen. Die von @sklosterkamp.bsky.social und Thorsten Merl organsierte Veranstaltung widmet sich heute und morgen den sozialen, rechtlichen und alltäglichen Dimensionen von #Verschuldung, ihren Ursachen und Folgen.
🔗 www.diejungeakademie.de/de/veranstal...
🗓️ Am 18.02. geht es in der @bbaw.bsky.social um #Staatsschulden. An der Diskussion nimmt auch unser Mitglied @andreabinder.bsky.social teil. Sie ist in der Jungen Akademie gemeinsam mit @sklosterkamp.bsky.social Sprecherin der AG "Geld und Gesellschaft": www.diejungeakademie.de/de/arbeitsgr...
Dankeschön 🥰
I’m deeply grateful to my collaborators and partners, and excited to embark on this next chapter of research at the intersection of housing, technology, and justice.
More soon! 🚀
Hosted at King’s, and working closely with local authorities and civil society, the project will combine ethnography, policy analysis, and critical mapping to generate new knowledge and contribute to more equitable, accountable digital transitions in urban housing.
UROP asks:
🔹 Do visions of “smart” and “sustainable” housing sideline affordability and justice?
🔹 What kinds of PropTech are being rolled out, and how do they shape everyday life in social housing?
🔹 How are law and policy responding to new risks around surveillance, data, and tenant rights?
As smart technologies such as data-driven tenant monitoring, digital platforms, and automated energy systems become central to climate and housing strategies, they are often framed as “win-win” solutions. But what does this digital turn actually mean for tenants, governance, and housing justice?
The project — “Uncovering the New Rise of PropTech in London’s Social Housing: Surveillance, Justice and Green Futures (UROP)” — will critically examine the growing role of #digital #technologies in #London’s social housing sector.
🌟 Thrilled to share some exciting news 🌟
I have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship, which I will be carrying out at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social in collaboration with @kbrickell.bsky.social, Westminster City Council, and @justinkadi.bsky.social.
More details here ⤵️
Das neue JAM Heft @jungeakademie.bsky.social ist da und ich bin mit dabei - schaut gerne rein ⤵️
What happens when extraordinary housing crises are governed through ordinary justice? ⚖️🏙️
My new EPC article, “Ordinary justice in extraordinary times,” looks at how everyday legal reasoning in eviction cases quietly shapes urban displacement. ⤵️
Open Access here: tinyurl.com/yf9dh973
📚✨ Diese Woche sind Thorsten Merl und ich mit einem Gastbeitrag in der @zeit.de vertreten.
Wir schreiben über alte und neue Machtstrukturen, und darüber, was das Department-Modell für Zusammenarbeit, Karrierewege und die Zukunft der Hochschulen bedeutet.
Online hier:
www.zeit.de/2025/54/lehr...
🎙️ Die neue PaNGeo-Podcastfolge ist online!
Ich spreche darin über Legal Geographies – warum Recht immer räumlich wirkt – und gebe Einblicke in mein DFG-Projekt „Zwangsgeräumt“ zu Mietstreitigkeiten und Alltag im Amtsgericht.
Hier könnt ihr reinhören:
open.spotify.com/episode/6zGV...
So delighted to see this piece out in @areajournal.bsky.social — a journal I value enormously for its sharp, thoughtful and boundary-pushing work in geography.
The article grows out of my research on eviction hearings and explores how legality is lived, felt and negotiated in court. ⤵️
#geosky
New issue of sub\urban is out today — and our team has a piece in it!
📝 “Recht verständlich machen?”
A reflection on using a fold-out legal map as a visual intervention in the context of eviction and housing loss.
👉 Article link: zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.ph...
The workshop is funded through my “Geographies of Debt” seed funding from the Fokus-Förderung at @goetheuni.bsky.social, with additional support from @jungeakademie.bsky.social.
More details soon — really looking forward to the conversations ahead.
#geosky #GeographiesOfDebt
🔇Excited to share that Thorsten (Merl) and I are co-organizing a Workshop on Debt together.
We’ll bring together researchers, practitioners & community actors to talk about how debt shapes daily life — from courtrooms and enforcement routines to the emotional and moral weight households carry. ⤵️
I develop three modalities of legal embodiment — appearing, suspending, filtering — to think about how people endure, adjust, and subtly resist #legal authority.
If you’re interested in feminist legal geography, #affect, or court ethnography — this one’s for you.
👉 Link: tinyurl.com/49vp8dwn
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🔇 New paper out in AREA!
Based on my DFG-funded ethnographic work on eviction trials in German district courts, the paper explores how legality is felt, lived, and negotiated through bodies, atmospheres, and everyday encounters.
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#geosyk #courtroomethnography #legalgeography #evictions
When middle- or upper-class households are involved, the process feels calmer, more flexible. For those with fewer resources, it’s faster, harsher, less forgiving.
Each file, each exchange in the hallway, tells a story about housing, dignity, and justice. 2/2
Entrance door of the Hamburg-Mitte District Court — a glass and metal doorway set in a light stone facade with the sign “Exit” above it.
Two days at the District Court of Hamburg-Mitte, observing eviction hearings — a window into how law and everyday life collide.
What stands out again and again: how differently these cases unfold depending on who’s in the room. 1/2 ⤵️
#geosky #legalgeography
Thank you to everyone who reached out and expressed interest in our @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting 2026 session!
The call is now closed, the session is registered — and we’re already looking forward to seeing everyone in San Francisco next year. 🌉
#geosky #urbanresearch #feministfutures
Exciting news: We have a few spots left for this lovely session below ⬇️
Please consider submitting an abstract if you haven't already! #geosky #aag2026 @geographers.bsky.social
It’s your lucky day! We have identified your profile as a winner, but time is running out to claim your reward. Just send us 250 words within the next three days so we can process your claim. Act now! #AAG2026
Reminder for this #AAG2026 session. Abstracts due October 20th!
Possible themes include (but are not limited to) • Feminist speculative and fabulative methods in housing research • Storytelling, fiction, and imagination as critical urban practice • Queer and feminist reimaginings of home, property, and belonging • Visual, sonic, or material experiments in fabulative world-building • Housing utopias and dystopias in literature, film, and art or architecture • Debt, care, and repair through feminist future-making • Collaborative and community-based fabulations of housing justice By centering feminist fabulative approaches, this session explores how imagining otherwise becomes a practice of survival, critique, and transformation - an urban politics of hope amid ongoing crises. Organizers: Dr. Sarah Klosterkamp, Goethe University Frankfurt Dr. Tabea Latocha, Bauhaus University Weimar / Goethe University Frankfurt Deadline: October 20, 2025 If interested, please reach out and send us your abstract (max 250 words) + short bio to: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de and tabea.carlotta.latocha@uni-weimar.de
Interested in joining? Think feminist world-making, sonic/visual experiments, collective dreaming, and critical housing politics.
📅 Deadline for abstract submission: Oct 20, 2025
📩 klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de / tabea.carlotta.latocha@uni-weimar.de
#geosky #housingfutures
Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco Feminist Fabulative Futures: Imagining Housing Otherwise In the midst of intersecting housing, debt, as well as climate and democracy crises, imagination becomes a political act. Feminist scholars and artists have long turned to the speculative and the fabulative to envision worlds that could be otherwise – worlds where care, interdependence, and collective dwelling replace dispossession, extraction, and foreclosure (McElroy 2023; Thieme 2021; Netzwerk Feministische Wohnforschung 2025). This session invites contributions that take seriously the feminist call to imagine differently in the face of deepening urban precarity. Rather than treating the housing crisis as a failure of politics and finance alone, we approach it as a failure of imagining housing and its politics radically otherwise. Following feminist and decolonial traditions of world-making (e.g. Haraway 2013), we ask: What narratives, aesthetics, and speculative practices can help us re-story housing beyond ownership and enclosure? How can fabulation-as method, theory, or art-expand what we understand as home, property, or repair? And how might feminist engagements with fiction, film, sound, and design open pathways toward inhabiting more just and caring futures? We seek creative, conceptual, and empirical contributions that explore how feminist fabulative thinking reshapes our understanding of housing and urban life – both in theory and in practice.
✨ CfP AAG 2026, San Francisco ✨
Tabea Latocha and I are teaming up feminist fabulative futures and we’d love for you to join us.
Our proposed session explores how storytelling, speculation, and fabulation can help us imagine housing otherwise — beyond ownership, extraction, and displacement. 🏡🌿💭
