Sarah Klosterkamp
LightNews LightNews
banner
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Sarah Klosterkamp
@sklosterkamp.bsky.social
890 followers 170 following 94 posts
Urban geographer | Exploring how housing markets work — and for whom | Mapping the human side of finance, property & legal institutions | Editorial Board @AcmeJournal
Posts Replies Media Videos
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
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
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
▶️ 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
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
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
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
Wir haben theoretische Ansätze & Forschungsperspektiven geteilt:
– wie beeinflussen Geschlecht, Rassismus & rechtliche Hürden Wohnverhältnisse?
– Warum ist Wohnraum oft unsicher & ungleich verteilt?
– Was müsste eine Justiz im Bereich des Wohnens leisten, die gerecht & fürsorglich ist? ⤵️
April 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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
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
#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
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Vielen Dank an das Team um Selina Hammer, Lotte Dinse, Heiner Blum und Jakob Sturm, die diese Plattform geschaffen haben, um über diese wichtigen Themen zu sprechen und zu diskutieren.
January 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Ein zentraler Fokus lag darauf, wie deutsche Amtsgerichte rechtlich Wohnraum entziehen und welche Rolle Instandhaltungs- und Verwertungslogiken dabei spielen. Wer wird hier eigentlich entmietet und warum? Und wie tragen bürokratische Prozesse zu einem Kreislauf von Wohnprekarität bei?
January 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
In meinem Eröffnungsvortrag "Moving Boxes, Moving Stories" habe ich beleuchtet, wie rechtliche, ökonomische und geopolitische Dynamiken zusammenwirken und zu prekären Wohnverhältnissen führen.
January 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
✨ Gestern durfte ich gemeinsam mit Leonie Englert und ihr Kunstprojekt "Finding Shelter" die neue Reihe "Moving Boxes" des Naussaischen Kunstvereins in Wiesbaden eröffnen und gemeinsam über eines der dringendsten Themen unserer Zeit sprechen: die alltäglichen Geographien des Wohnungsverlustes. ✨
January 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Last week, I had the great pleasure of welcoming Katherine Brickell to Goethe-Universität Frankfurt ! 🌍✨

💡During her visit, Katherine delivered a powerful keynote on "The Debt Trap", shedding light on the complex intersections of debt, housing precarity, and social justice. #geosky 1/3
December 22, 2024 at 8:41 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
🔇 Diese Woche wird im IGLU der erste Teil von SOLD CITY – "Wenn Wohnen zur Ware wird" – gezeigt. Der neue "FILM VON UNTEN" von Leslie Franke und Herdolor Lorenz. Wird sicher gut! Kommt vorbei ⤵️

🗓️Do, 04.07.2024, 18 Uhr
July 2, 2024 at 5:13 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
🔇Gemeinsam mit Tabea Latocha und organisiert vom Asta der Goethe Universität Frankfurt geht's schon bald auf zur nächsten Veranstaltung - ich freu mich drauf!

🗓️ Wann und wo? 03.07.2024 | K4 Studierenhaus Campus Bockenheim (Mertonstr. 26-28, 60325 Frankfurt am Main) | 18 Uhr
Plakat. Titel: "Zum Zusammenhang von Wohnen und Prekarität. Ansätze und Perspektiven einer feministischen Wohnungspolitik".
June 25, 2024 at 10:52 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Vergangenen Mittwoch war ich zu Gast bei “Schöner Wohnen - Der Podcast zur Wohnungsfrage”, gehostet von Niklas Schenker und Philipp Möller. Worum es geht und wo ihr noch mehr zum Thema findet, seht ihr hier ⤵️

open.spotify.com/episode/27P2...
March 11, 2024 at 4:02 PM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
🔇Das nächste Vernetzungstreffen des AK Feministische Geographien steht und findet statt unter dem Titel "Unerhört!". Organisiert wird es von der Ortsgruppe Bonn. Mehr Details zum Call und Ausrichtung findet ihr anbei und hier: ak-feministische-geographien.org/2034-2/

#GeoSky
February 20, 2024 at 7:58 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
Lisa Flower and I got a 20% discount code for everyone interested in buying our #CourtroomEthnography anthology, published with @Palgrave - valid until Mar 13, 2024 ⤵️

#geosky geolegal
The discount code is: YTY9B7afrAJKRp
February 15, 2024 at 5:46 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
🔇Want to know more about Courtroom Ethnography? Come along to our digital book launch!

🔜1st Feb, 7pm CET

with
@LisaFlower
@AnwarTasniem
@JessHambly and more!

➡️Meeting ID: 620 4997 2964 ➡️Passcode: 080042
January 29, 2024 at 2:25 PM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
🔇Du studierst an der Goethe Universität Frankfurt (Bachelor oder Master) und interessierst dich für Themen des AK Kritische Geographie, insbesondere für die #GeographischeWohnforschung?

Dann bewirb dich jetzt – wir suchen studentische Unterstützung im DFG-Projekt "Zwangsgeräumt" ⤵️

#Geosky #Jobs
January 25, 2024 at 8:16 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
🔇Die Reihe Raumproduktionen hat eingeladen und ich komme sehr gerne – am 19.01.2024 zum Workshop "Recht, Kriminalisierung und Raum" an der TU Berlin.

Zu besprechen gibt es vieles, u.a. auch neue Bücher. Eins davon ist von mir ➡ www.dampfboot-verlag.de/shop/artikel...
January 11, 2024 at 8:39 AM
sklosterkamp.bsky.social
A few weeks ago, Birgit Hoinle and I shared some observation about the relation of foodjustice and social-ecological inequalities when it comes to public catering. More of this as well as some feminist mapping here ⤵️ www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

#geosky #foodjustice #feminstmapping
January 10, 2024 at 3:06 PM