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Franziska Paul
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Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Glasgow.
Researching ownership and transformation. Interested in de-privatisation, democratisation, and development.
Currently (re)reading Rosa Luxemburg.
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📢March Issue of Area📢

The latest Issue of Area brings together a 'Thinking with Methods' Special Section - 'Inside the Notebook' - alongside 6 standard papers.

11 of the 15 papers are #OpenAccess and available to read here ⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky
A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Inside the Notebook'. The papers are: 1) Opening the notebook: How and why human geographers take fieldnotes Russell Hitchings, Alan Latham & Tatiana Thieme 2) Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago Soledad Martinez 3) Losing the notebook: An evolving study of the life of a Berlin square Julia Dzun 4) Sharing fieldnotes: Collaborative learning at the summer music festival Eveleigh Buck-Matthews 5) Field notes and Polaroids: Engaging with Black lives in West London Nathaniel Telemaque 6) Voice notes in the car: Capturing immediate emotions from fieldwork with Sri Lankan refugees Charishma Ratnam 7) Fieldnotes as never really 'raw' data: Analysing the social life of public space on London's South Bank Alasdair Jones 8) The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood Tatiana Thieme 9) Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park Jack Layton A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) Training young co-researchers to interview their parents: The transformative potential of intergenerational interviews Catherine Walker & Ellen von Holstein 2) Feminist visualisation challenges: Methodological innovation, opportunities, and lessons learned Kate Coddington & Jill Williams 3) Pedals and throttles: Ride-along experimental journeys with Hanoi's cycle and motorbike taxi drivers Sarah Turner & Binh Nguyen 4) (Pragmatist) geographies of rankings Gerhard Rainer 5) Visualising and mapping historical networks of international diplomatic training Jonathan Harris 6) Demanding ownership: Energy democracy and environmental labour geographies Franziska Paul
April 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Wrote a wee piece on public banking, economic democracy and public ownership for @justmoney.bsky.social - you can read it on their website as part of a new roundtable 💸✊
justmoney.bsky.social Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · Mar 5
📢New installment of our Public Banking series! 🏦 In 'A Radically Open Future?' Professors @franziskapaul.bsky.social and Andrew Cumbers contextualize the public banking movement in the U.S. as part of a broader grassroots push against neoliberal capitalism. Check it out! 👇
Roundtable: Public BankingA Radically Open Future? The US Public Banking Movement and the Creation of Economic Alternatives
Franziska Paul and Andrew Cumbers
justmoney.org
March 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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New #OpenAccess paper in Area:

'Demanding ownership: Energy democracy and environmental labour geographies' by @franziskapaul.bsky.social

This paper argues that the question of ownership is central to environmental labour movements and their geographies.

doi.org/10.1111/area...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Franziska Christina Paul (2024) entitled 'Demanding ownership: Energy democracy and environmental labour geographies' with a black banner at the top.
January 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Deadline extended until Wednesday, 29 January!
franziskapaul.bsky.social Franziska Paul @franziskapaul.bsky.social · Jan 7
A last minute call for papers for the Global Conference in Economic Geography at Clark University in Worcester, MA (USA) from 4-8 June 2025.

Please consider submitting an abstract to session:

Democratising the economy: theories, approaches, and case studies of alternative economic development
January 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
franziskapaul.bsky.social
A last minute call for papers for the Global Conference in Economic Geography at Clark University in Worcester, MA (USA) from 4-8 June 2025.

Please consider submitting an abstract to session:

Democratising the economy: theories, approaches, and case studies of alternative economic development
January 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
franziskapaul.bsky.social
Posting prolifically today but happy to share that my newest publication is now out in Area (early view): I'm discussing ownership, transformation, energy democracy, labour environmentalism and its geographies.

You can (openly and freely!) access it here: doi.org/10.1111/area...
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper contributes an ‘ownership perspective’ to the spectrum of labour environmentalist enquiries, and positions environmental labour geographies within a wider political economy of transformati...
doi.org
December 5, 2024 at 6:34 PM
franziskapaul.bsky.social
Timely, comprehensive and important work from @tninstitute.bsky.social as always.

A must read for everyone interested in de-privatisation and public & collective ownership in the energy sector!
December 5, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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I do believe that my life would be much improved if I was one of these academics who writes their papers to Shostakovich symphonies but what actually works for me is Will I Am ft Britney Spears - Scream and Shout and that’s the burden I will have to carry
December 5, 2024 at 11:41 AM