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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

a thread 🧵
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
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
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
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 · 26d
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
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
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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desireefields.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
October 15, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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ctemenos.bsky.social
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
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
✨ 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
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
📢 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
Reposted by Sarah Klosterkamp
thegj.bsky.social
📢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
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
On the train home from Birmingham after an inspiring @rgsibg.bsky.social conference, I’ve been reflecting on some of the many highlights of the past days. One that will stay with me for a long time is the @acme-geography.bsky.social plenary on “What is Critical Geography, What Can, and Must,it Be?”
Large lecture hall filled with geographers attending the ACME plenary at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference in Birmingham. A panel of speakers sits at the front, with a presentation projected on the screen behind them. View along Birmingham’s city centre canals on a sunny day, with narrowboats moored along the water, brick buildings, and a pedestrian walkway lined with trees. City centre canals in Birmingham at dusk, with calm water reflecting the lights of nearby buildings and bridges, creating a peaceful atmosphere.
August 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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mtslep.bsky.social
The panel “What Is Critical Geography, and What Can, and Must, It Be?” yesterday was so necessary to think about the futures we aspire to have - whilst having to address all sorts of emergencies now. Thank you @sklosterkamp.bsky.social for convening! #RGSIBG25
A photo of the panelists and convenors. From left to right: Elsa Noterman, Marlene H. Jacobsen, Jay Todd, Matej Blazem, Sarah Klosterkamp, Negar-Eloise Behzadi and James Esson.
August 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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mhoussayh.cpesr.fr
For those in Birmingham (I'm not): this will be real cool I'm sure.
sklosterkamp.bsky.social Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · Aug 27
Tomorrow morning at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference, we are hosting a panel on “What is, can be, and must be critical geography,” organized as part of @acme-geography.bsky.social

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#geosky #RGSIBG2025 #ACMEJournal #CriticalGeography
August 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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rc21.bsky.social
Call for sessions for the RC21 conference in Vienna, 20-22 July, 2026. Deadline for submissions: 6th of October 2025. rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-ses... #urban #sociology
August 27, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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ctemenos.bsky.social
Looking forward to discussing Yu-Shan Tseng's Liquid Democracy at today's #RGS. An important read for anyone interested in understanding contemporary urban democracy!
@rgsibg.bsky.social
ctemenos.bsky.social Cristina Temenos @ctemenos.bsky.social · Jul 7
Arrived today. Looking forward to discussing this @rgsibg.bsky.social in August! #RGS25
August 27, 2025 at 8:36 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Tomorrow morning at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference, we are hosting a panel on “What is, can be, and must be critical geography,” organized as part of @acme-geography.bsky.social

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#geosky #RGSIBG2025 #ACMEJournal #CriticalGeography
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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humangeowue.bsky.social
Vor einigen Wochen erschien das "Handbuch Mobile Methoden in der Sozial- und #Raumforschung" bei @transcript-verlag.bsky.social, hrsg. von Matthias Naumann und Anke Strüver (@uni-graz.at), u.a. mit Beiträgen von @borismichel.bsky.social und @sklosterkamp.bsky.social
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August 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
🔇We are currently working on a proposal for a symposium to @ijurresearch.bsky.social - if you are a #geosky person and work around #dept or the #housing question, please consider to submit something ⤵️
kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Katherine Brickell @kbrickell.bsky.social · Jul 21
📣 Call for Papers:
Debt Urbanism and the Housing Question

ℹ️ I'm putting together a symposium proposal to The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) with co-editors @sklosterkamp.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki

🗓️ Deadline for abstracts 22 August 2025

🏹 Please spread the word!
July 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🚨 New publication #geosky!
Together, Alex Jeffrey and I explore the spatial politics of international justice in our co-authored piece:
“From The Hague to the margins: The ICC, feminist geopolitics and alternative legal futures”
📄 Now out in The Geographical Journal
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/geoj...
The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This commentary critically examines the International Criminal Court (ICC) through the lens of feminist geopolitics and legal geography, highlighting how its structures reproduce global inequalities.....
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June 16, 2025 at 6:12 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Yesterday I gave a talk at the Geographical Colloquium at the University of Halle-Wittenberg on a topic that remains urgent: #Evictions in times of overlapping crises 🏠⚖️

What happens when legal arguments meet existential #housing loss? And how do #courts become driving forces of urban displacement?
April 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Gestern in der MONAliesA – feministische Bibliothek & archiv Leipzig:

Meine Kollegin, Tabea Latocha und ich, durften zum Thema Feministische Wohnungspolitik sprechen. 🏠💜

▶️ Wie hängen Wohnen und Prekarität zusammen?
▶️ Was bedeutet es, sich zuhause zu fühlen – und wer wird davon ausgeschlossen?
April 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Huge shoutouts to Andrea Lara-Gracia! So much deserved!! ⤵️
legalgeography.bsky.social Legal Geography @legalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 28
🏆 We're thrilled to announce that Andrea Lara-Garcia (UC Berkeley) is one of two winners of this year’s Legal Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Presentation Award at #AAG2025 in Detroit

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@geographers.bsky.social #geosky @legalgeography.bsky.social ⤵️
March 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Shout outs to Hannah K. Friedrichs. So well deserved!! ⤵️
legalgeography.bsky.social Legal Geography @legalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 28
🏆 Huge congratulations to Hannah K. Friedrich (University of Arizona), one of two of this year’s Legal Geography Specialty Group Graduate Student Presentation Award winners at #AAG2025 in Detroit!

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@geographers.bsky.social @legalgeography.bsky.social #AAG2025 #geosky ⤵️
March 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
2 more hours to go, so excited already about this much timely and important keynote ⤵️
legalgeography.bsky.social Legal Geography @legalgeography.bsky.social · Mar 27
Happening today at 4.10pm, Level 3, Room 330A - come by!
March 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Some exciting news: I’ve been awarded last night the Rickie Sanders Junior Faculty Award by the @geographers.bsky.social’s Feminist Geography Specialty Group at this year's AAG 2025 in Detroit!

The award honors intersectional and anti-racist contributions to geography scholarship #AAG2025 #geosky
This picture shows the announcement of the Rickie Sanders Junior Faculty Award by the Award committee and Dr. Sarah Klosterkamp
March 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
🎉 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

a thread 🧵
March 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
#AAG2025 is coming up and we have a very nice bunch of awesome grad students presenting their work on and with @legalgeography.bsky.social on Monday, March 24th ⤵️
March 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM