Selected Publications

I regularly publish in peer-reviewed academic journals, as well as academic books, blogs. In addition, I write poems and performative essays.

Books

2024 (in print): Handbuch Kulturpolitik, Springer, co-editors: Dr. Johannes Crückeberg, Prof. Dr. Julius Heinecke, Dr. Henning Mohr, Jan Kalbhenn, Katrin Lobeck.

2024 (artist book): AIA: 120-hour-book / 8 residents / and no pressure, edited by Studio the Future, contributors: Bernadett Jobbágy, Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Miriam Mallalieu, Roelant Meijer, Giulia Paradell, Amy Pezzin, Cristian Toro & Zoë Wonfor. Created during group residency Publishing as Artistic Practice, Museum of Loss & Renewal, Collemacchia, Italy.

2023: Reflecting on Practices New Directions for Spatial Theories, Agenda Publishing, co-editors: Hanna Carlsson, Arnoud Lagendijk.

2023: Curating Waste – Following the Politics of Plastic across Bodies of Water, Zine: ISBN 978-90-9037382-9, co-editors: Kirsty Robertson, Marlies van Hak. Design by Martine van Lubeek. e book available for free here.

2023: Konfliktuelle Kulturpolitik, Springer, co-editors: Anke Schad-Spindler, Stefanie Fridrik, Oliver Marchart.

2021: [Un]Grounding – Post-Foundational Geographies, transcript (Series Social and Cultural Geography), co-editors: Dr. Lucas Pohl & Prof. Dr. Nikolai Roskamm.

2019: Agonistic Articulations in the ‘Creative’ City: On New Actors and Activism in Berlin’s Cultural Politics, Routledge (Series Political Sociology).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2024: Infographic Ghostly Murals – Tracing the politics of public art in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley. In: DTES (Downtown Eastside) Research Access Portal. Designed by Veeramani, Divya.

2024: Studying and stimulating a sense of community through co-productive zine-making in public libraries. In: AreaRoyal Geographical Society with IGB, pp. n/a, co-authors: Rianne van Melik, Jamea Kofi.

2024: Social infrastructuring in public libraries: librarians’ continuous care in everyday library practice. In: Journal of Documentation, Vol 80, Issue 7, pp. 206-225, co-authors: Johanna Rivano Eckerdal, Lisa Engström, Alexa Färber, Marion Hamm, Rianne van Melik, Jamea Kofi.

2024: Holding Space for Conflict: Unpacking the Multi-Scalar Exhibition of Conflict at the Conflictorium – Museum of Conflict, Ahmedabad. In: Museum and Society, Vol 22, Issue 1, pp. 51-66.

2023: Reimagining hope through the political: A post-foundational reading of urban alternatives beyond postpolitics. In: Urban Studies , Vol 0, Issue 0, pp. 1-19, co-author: Mohamed Saleh.

2023: Water that will (never) forget itself: Tracing the knowledge politics of the spacetimeunconscious. In: Dialogues in Human Geography, Vol 0, Issue 0, pp. 1-4. 

2023: Towards a post-foundational geography: Spaces of negativity, contingency, and antagonism. In: Progress in Human Geography, Vol 0, Issue 0, pp. 1-19, co-author: Dr. Lucas Pohl.

2023: Conflictual Consensus in Austrian Cultural Politics: Urban Cultural Policy Research at the Intersection of Agonism and Situational Analysis. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum Qualitative Social Research, Vol 24, Issue 2, pp. 1-22, co-authors: Dr. Anke Schad-Spindler, Stefanie Fridrik.

2023: Ghostly murals: Tracing the politics of public art in Vancouver’s Hogan’s Alley. In: Environment and Planning C – Politics and Space, online first, Vol 0, Issue 0, pp. 1-19.

2023: Conflictual cultural politics: unpacking local tensions in three Austrian cities. In: International Journal of Cultural Policy, online first, pp. 1-16, co-authors: Dr. Anke Schad-Spindler, Stefanie Fridrik, Oliver Marchart.

2023: Aktivistische Allianzen. In: Handbuch Kulturpolitik, pp. N/A. Online First.

2022: The Agonistic Politics of Invitation: Narrating Moments of Cultural Policy Interventions in Berlin, New York and Vancouver. In: Journal of Cultural Management and Cultural Policy, Vol 2, Issue 1, pp. 33-57, co-author Prof. Dr. Alison Bain.

2022: Eine Konflikttheorie der Kulturpolitik. In: Handbuch Kulturpolitik, pp. N/A. Online First.

2022: Articulating a Museum from Absence: Emptiness in the Conflictorium beyond Pandemic Times. In: Museum International, Vol 73, Issue 3/4, pp. 168-179.

2022: Politics of (dis)assembling – (re)moving borders across Europe. In: cultural geographies, Vol 29, Issue 4, pp. 585-602.

2022: Contentious Walls. Inscribing Conflicts into Vancouver’s Chinatown Murals. In: Cadernos de Arte Pública / Public Art Journal, pp. 28-41.

2021: Generationing cultural quarters: the temporal embeddedness of relational places. In: Urban Geography, online first, co-author Prof. Dr. Alison Bain.

2021: Ruined Museums: Exploring Post-Foundational Spatiality. In: ephemera – theory & politics in organisation, co-author Dr. Lucas Pohl.

2021: Towards a Sensory Politics of the Anthropocene: Exploring Activist-Artistic Approaches to Politicizing Air Pollution. In: Environment and Planning C – Politics and Space 40 (3), co-author Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra Toland, pp. 629-647.

2020: Agonistic failures: Following policy conflicts in Berlin’s urban cultural politics. In: Urban Studies 58 (12), pp. 2531-2548.

2019: Luft sehen, sprechen, schützen – Das Anthropozän der (post)politischen Stadt. In: sub/urban – Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, co-author Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra Toland, pp. 117-136.

2019: Exploring the Affective Politics of Political Beauty – An Antagonistic Approach. In: conjunctions – transdisciplinary journal for cultural participation, pp. 1-16.

2018: Assessing the local embeddedness dynamics of the Baumwollspinnerei cultural quarter in Leipzig: introducing the POSES Star Framework. In: European Planning Studies 27 (8), co-author Prof. Dr. Alison Bain, pp. 1-24.

2018: [Un]Settling the City. In: engagée. Magazine for Political and Philosophical Interventions, co-author: Prof. Dr. Nikolai Roskamm, pp. 73-77.

2017: Artists, temporality, and the governance of collaborative place-making. In: Urban Affairs Review, co-author Prof. Dr. Alison Bain, pp. 1-23.

2017: Artist intermediaries in Berlin: cultural intermediation as an interscalar strategy of self-organizational survival. In: Urban Research and Practice, co-author Prof. Dr. Alison Bain, pp. 1-17.

2016: Kunstorte im Kampf um die Zukunft: Konsequenzen für Berlins (kultur- und raum-)politische Agenda. In: Common – Journal für Kunst und Öffentlichkeit, co-author Dr. Henning Mohr, pp. 44-54.

2016: Articulations in Berlin’s Independent Art Scene on New Collective Actors in the Art Field. In: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 36, Issue 9/10, pp. 596-612.

2015: Tagging the City. Berlin’s Independent Scene Rising for A City Tax for the Arts. In: EdgeCondition, Creative Placemaking Special Issue, Vol. 5, 2015, pp. 118-121.

Book Chapters

2023: Ghostly Heritage. In: Kahveci, Aysegül Dinccag, Hadju, Marcell, Höhne, Wolfram, Jesse, Darja, Karpf, Michael, Torres Ruiz, Marta (eds.): Censored. Conflicted Concepts of Cultural Heritage, pp. 74-89.

2023: The beauty of feeling: On the affective politics of sensing collectives. In: Voß, Jan-Peter, Rigamonti, Nora, Suárez, Marcela, Watson, Jacob (eds.): Sensing Collectives – Aesthetic and Political Practices Intertwined. pp. 219-237.

2022: [Un]settling Urban Cultural Politics. Dislocating Culture via New York’s People’s Cultural Plan. In: Viderman, Tihomir, Knierbein, Sabine, Kränzle, Elina, Frank, Sybille, Wall, Ed, Roskamm, Nikolai (eds.): Unsettled Urban Space – Routines, temporalities and contestations. pp. 224-235.

2022: Cultural Governance in Post-Industrial Cities. In:  Peake, Linda, Alison Bain (eds.): Urbanization in a Global Context, co-author Dr. Alison Bain, pp. 161-178.

2021: Konfliktraum Museum – Überlegungen für Museumstheorie und -praxis. In: Mohr, Henning, Diana Modarressi-Tehrani: Museen der Zukunft. pp. 341-362.

2021: Para-Infrastructures – Spatializing the Future of Museums. In: Baur, Joachim, schnittpunkt (ed.): Das Museum der Future pp. 173-179.

2021: [Un]Grounding Agonistic Public Space – Approaching Mouffe’s Spatial Theory via Radical Museums. In: Landau, Friederike, Pohl, Lucas, Roskamm, Nikolai (eds.): [Un]Grounding – Post-Foundational Geographies. pp. 153-174.

2019: A(nta)gonistische Artikulation – Ein postfundamentalistischer Zugang zu sozialen Bewegungen. In: Hagemann, Ingmar, Vey, Judith, Leinius, Johanna (eds.): Poststrukturalistische Perspektiven auf soziale Bewegungen, Handbuch für Ansätze, Methoden und Forschungspraxis, pp. 213-230.

2019: (Gegen-)Entwurf als Gesellschaftsgestaltung – Über Artikulationen von Kreativität. In: Großmann, Andreas (ed.): Kreativität denken, pp. 221-236.

2019: Blüten steigen aus Smog empor – eine Erkundung künstlerischer Strategien der Wachstumskritik. In: Die Postwachstumsstadt – Konturen einer solidarischen Stadtpolitik, co-author Dr. Alexandra Toland, pp. 204-224.

2019: [Dé]stabiliser la ville – [un]settled comme état d’urbanité. In: engagée (ed.) : Villes Radicale. Du droit à la ville à la démocratie radicale, co-author Dr. Nikolai Roskamm, pp. 45-53.

2018: Mobilizing Alternative Modes of Cultural Governance in Berlin. In Fisker, J.K., Chiappini, L., Pugalis, L., Bruzzese, A. (ed.): Enabling Urban Alternatives, Crises, Contestation and Cooperation, co-author Dr. Janet Merkel, pp. 109-132.

2017: Interventionen als kreative Praxisform: Die Suche nach Neuheit als gesellschaftliches Phänomen. In: Reinermann, Julia-Lena, Friederike Behr (ed.): ExperimentalstadtKreativität und die kulturelle Dimension der Nachhaltigen Entwicklung, co-author Dr. Henning Mohr, pp. 59-79.

2016: Diversifying the Stage of Policymaking – A New Policy Network in Berlin’s Cultural Field. In: Luger, Jason and Julie Ren (ed.): Art and the City –  Worlding the discussion through a critical artscape, pp. 72-86.

2016: Unpacking Conflictual Consensus in Berlin’s Cultural Policy-making. In: Ada, Serhan (ed.): Cultural Policy and Management Yearbook, Istanbul Bilgi University Cultural Policy and Management Research Center, pp. 28-37.

2013: Artist Networks in Berlin. In: van den Berg, Karen, Ursula Pasero (ed.): Art Production Beyond the Art Market, co-author Hergen Wöbken, pp. 165-189

2013: Galerienstudie 2013. Eine Positionsbestimmung., IFSE Publishing, co-author Hergen Wöbken.

Book Reviews

2021: Jarosław Suchan, Agnieszka Pindera, ‘The Avant-Garde Museum’. In: Third Text Online.

2021: Gabu Heindl, ‘Stadtkonflikte – Radikale Demokratie in Architektur und Stadtplanung’. In: Springerin.

2019: Nora Sternfeld, ‘Das radikaldemokratische Museum’. In: Third Text Online.

2015: Die Kunst des urbanen Handels – The Art of Urban Interventions. In: sub\urban. Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung.

Essays (Open Access)

2022: Künstlerischer Aktivismus als politische Bildung – Oder: Mut-Muskel trainieren In: Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, Heft 177 II/2022, Co-author Cesy Leonard (Radikale Töchter).

2021: Denk_Mal: Bühnen für Bedeutungskämpfe in öffentlichen Räumen. In: Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, Heft 171 IV/2020.

2020: Cultural Infrastructures of Vulnerability II: Cultural Institutions in (Post-)Pandemic Exposure. In: Arts of the Working Class.

2020: Cultural Infrastructures of Vulnerability: Reflections on Care during and after COVID-19. In: Arts of the Working Class.

2020: (Post)Politiken der Pandemie – Eine (Ver-)Sammlung von Fragen für kulturelle Infrastrukturen in und nach der Krise. In: KuPoGe: Corona-Essays.

2020: COVID-19 murals express hope and help envision urban futures. In: The Conversation, co-authors Eugene McCann and Lise Mahieus.

2018: Belonging in a “Creative” City. In: HowlRound Magazine.

2018: Berlin: Governing a “Creative” City. In: HowlRound Magazine.

2018: Konfliktuelle Kollaboration – Die Koalition der Freien Szene im fünften Jahr / Conflictual Collaboration – The Koalition der Freien Szene in ist fifth year of existence. In: Koalition der Freien Szene – Elf-Punkte-Programm.  

Poetry (published/performed)

2021: Holding Space for Conflict. In: Affect and Colonialism Weblab.

2021: Chipped Places. In: #PopPunkPolitik, Münchner Stadtbibliothek.

2021: Playing a Different Game of Ball: Postdoc Memories. In: Ethnographic Marginalia.

2020: Pandemic (post-)politics. In: Urban transcripts. Post(COVID)Cards.

2020: (re)member(s). Rhyme/Zine.

2019: The City of the Future is Multiple. In: Sense the City by adelphi, Berlin.