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Sarah Klosterkamp
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Urban geographer | Exploring how housing markets work — and for whom | Mapping the human side of finance, property & legal institutions | Editorial Board @AcmeJournal
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Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · Mar 23
🎉 Exciting news: I've received seed funding through the FOKUS program at @goetheuni.bsky.social for a new research project i’m launching:

“Geographies of Debt: Law, Space, and Social Inequalities in the Context of Housing Crises” 🏘️💸 #geosky

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Das neue JAM Heft @jungeakademie.bsky.social ist da und ich bin mit dabei - schaut gerne rein ⤵️
jungeakademie.bsky.social Die Junge Akademie @jungeakademie.bsky.social · 12d
📣Das JAM #32 ist da! Das aktuelle Postermagazin widmet sich der gesellschaftlichen Rolle von #Wissenschaft und dem Spannungsfeld zwischen "wissen – handeln". U.a. mit @sklosterkamp.bsky.social, @nadinemengis.bsky.social und @fmichl.bsky.social
Hier bestellen: www.diejungeakademie.de/de/publikati...
Illustration mit zwei Feldern. Die linke Tafel auf hellblauem Hintergrund zeigt eine vertikal geteilte Figur innerhalb eines weißen Kreises: die linke Hälfte trägt einen weißen Laborkittel und hält eine Flasche mit rosa Flüssigkeit, die rechte Hälfte trägt ein grünes Hemd und blaue Jeans und hält ein Megaphon; am Rand des Kreises steht "wissen" und "handeln". Das rechte Feld ist einfarbig rot mit weißem Text "JUNGE AKADEMIE MAGAZIN #32".
January 22, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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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
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January 9, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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📚✨ 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:
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Lehrstühle an Universitäten: Schafft die Lehrstühle ab!
Hierarchien an den Unis sind starr und ungerecht. Manche Hochschulen machen es längst besser.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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🎙️ 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:
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PANGEO 014: Legal Geographies
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December 12, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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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
areajournal.bsky.social Area @areajournal.bsky.social · Nov 26
New in Area:

'Fleshing out law: Embodied encounters and the material geographies of legal space' by @sklosterkamp.bsky.social

This paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork in German district courts to explore how legality is produced through embodied encounters in courtrooms.

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Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Sarah Klosterkamp (2025) entitled: 'Fleshing out law: Embodied encounters and the material geographies of legal space' with a black banner at the top. This paper explores how legality is made material, affective and meaningful through the human body. Drawing on courtroom ethnography conducted in German District Courts—particularly in cases of eviction and housing insecurity—it examines how legality emerges not only through texts and rulings but through bodily presence, sensory atmospheres and everyday encounters. Grounded in feminist legal geography and affect theory and building on the concepts of encounter and slow violence, the paper develops a conceptual framework around three interrelated modalities of legal embodiment: appearing, suspending and filtering. These modalities illuminate how bodies both absorb and resist legal authority—not passively, but through subtle acts of endurance, adjustment and refusal. By tracing the mundane yet charged practices of waiting, moving and being seen, this article argues for a more embodied approach to legal geography—one that takes seriously how law is enacted, lived and contested through flesh, posture and breath.
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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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...
Recht verständlich machen? | sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung
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November 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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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
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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🔇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. ⤵️
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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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This article explores how legality is produced, negotiated and contested through embodied encounters in urban courtrooms. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in German district courts, it develops the ...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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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
November 21, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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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
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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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
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.
November 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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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
sklosterkamp.bsky.social Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · Oct 20
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
sklosterkamp.bsky.social Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · Oct 13
✨ 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. 🏡🌿💭
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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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
sklosterkamp.bsky.social Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · Oct 13
✨ 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. 🏡🌿💭
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.
October 20, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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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
October 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Reminder for this #AAG2026 session. Abstracts due October 20th!
sklosterkamp.bsky.social Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · Oct 3
📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky
Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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
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
October 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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✨ 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. 🏡🌿💭
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.
October 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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▶️ We’re organizing an #AAG2026 session on ordinary crisis & everyday urbanism.

📩 Abstracts due Oct 20

Send abstract (≤250 words) + short bio → klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

#HousingCrisis #LegalGeography #Urbanism
A pdf with the second half of the pdf, saying: We invite empirical, conceptual, and methodological contributions that explore how crisis is lived and made, and how legal, political-economic, and infrastructural formations shape (and are shaped by) everyday urbanism. Possible themes include: Housing precarity, eviction, displacement & debt as ordinary geographies Materiality of housing & infrastructures of insecurity Everyday endurance, resistance & solidarity Urban governance, austerity & normalization of crisis Grassroots housing justice & alternative futures Critical/experimental methods (ethnography, walking, mapping, audiovisual) Comparative & translocal perspectives
October 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky
Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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📢New Issue of The GJ!📢

𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡

September's Issue features the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section alongside 9 papers, 3 commentaries, and records of the 2025 RGS-IBG Medals and Awards ceremony.

Take a look here ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959...
A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles showing the Special Section 'Legacies of Austerity', with the names of papers in the issue. The names of the papers and authors are as follows: 1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall 2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al. 3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock 4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou 5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali 6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al. 7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull 8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'The rise of education-featured gated communities in Chinese cities: (Re)producing the enterprising self via the entrepreneurial local state–capital nexus' by Shenjing He 2) 'Policy-driven education-led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics: Evidence from Shanghai, China' by Rong Cai, Lirong Hu & Shenjing He 3) 'The market formation of private sector, purpose built student accommodation in Sheffield 2000–2019' by Carl Lee 4) 'Evaporation losses from residential swimming pools and water features under climate variability and change' by Alicia Cumberland & Robert Wilby 5) 'Forecasting urban shifts post-earthquake: LULC change analysis in Elazığ, Turkey using ANN and Markov models' by Fatih Sunbul, Enes Karadeniz, Mustafa Taner Sengun & Muhammed Kocaoglu 6) 'Care-ful encounters: A case for empathetic youthful encounters with coastal environments' by Mark Holton 7) 'How do you like your rivers? Portraying public perception and preference for urban rivers in China via a combined visual and textual analysis' by Yixin Cao, Wendy Yan Chen & Karl Matthias Wantzen 8) 'Understanding place-to-place interactions using flow patterns derived from in-app mobile phone location data' by Mikaella Mavrogeni, Justin van Dijk & Paul Longley 9) 'Gender difference in space–time fixity from household structure in urban China: A case study of Beijing' by Hongbo Chai, Patrick Witte, Stan Geertman & Dick Ettema A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with commentaries and RGS-IBG Regulars, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On commons, state institutions and capitalism' by Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen & Nikos Kapitsinis 2) 'From The Hague to the margins: The ICC, feminist geopolitics and alternative legal futures' by Sarah Klosterkamp & Alex Jeffrey 3) 'Everyone's talking about climate change actions, but can we learn from Wales’ approach?' by Lynda Yorke, Athanasios Dimitriou, Sonya Hanna, Corinna Patterson, Sara Parry & Georgina Smith 4) 'Presidential address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2025' by Dame Jane Francis 5) 'Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2025' by Jane Francis, Murray Gray, Børge Ousland, Gillian Rose, Susan Smith & Dariusz Wójcik
September 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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A big thank you to the panelists – Elsa Noteman, Jay Todd, Malene H. Jacobsen, Elodie Negar Behzadi & James Esson – for such an inspiring session! Hope to see you all soon again!
August 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Leaving Birmingham, I feel re-energised to take these conversations back into my own work on law, housing, and debt, and to keep building the solidarities and collaborations that make critical geography not just a scholarly endeavour, but a practice of hope and accountability.
August 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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The discussion cut right to the heart of what it means to do critical geography today—how we engage with structures of inequality, how we situate ourselves in relation to power, and how we make space for different voices, methods, and struggles.
August 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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It was a powerful reminder of the intellectual and political commitments that shape our field: to question, to unsettle, and to imagine otherwise.
August 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM