Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Geographisches Institut

Publikationen/Publications

 

 

Books
2021 [Un]Grounding: Post-foundational geographies. Wiesbaden: transcript, co-edited with Friederike Landau & Nikolai Roskamm. 346 pages.

Contributors: Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl & Nikolai Roskamm (Introduction); Lucas Pohl & Erik Swyngedouw; Jens Kaae Fisker; Nikolai Roskamm; Oliver Marchart; Matthew G. Hannah; Mark Davidson & Kurt Iveson; Friederike Landau; Clint Burnham; Lucas Pohl & Paul Kingsbury; Tomas Martilla; Gabu Heidl & Drehli Robnik; Anneleen Kenis & Matthias Lievens; Sören Groth; Mohamed Saleh; Daniel Mullis.
 
Reviews: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (Bettina Engels); sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung (Valerie Scheibenpflug); Geographica Helvetica (Dominik Winkler); Urban Studies Book Review Symposium (Lazaros Karaliotas, Joe Blakey, Matina Kapsali und Nicola Guy)

 

Journal articles
2024 Geographies of the impossible. Dialogues in Human Geography 14(2): 366-370.
2023 Towards a post-foundational geography: Spaces of negativity, contingency and antagonism. Progress in Human Geography: online first, with Friederike Landau-Donnelly.
2023 Enjoying climate change: Jouissance as a political factor. Political Geography 101: online first, with Erik Swyngedouw.
2023 “What does not work in the world”: The specter of Lacan in critical political thought. Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 24(1): 1-19, with Erik Swyngedouw.
2023 Geopolitical caesuras as time-space-anchors of ontological (in)security: The case of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Geopolitics 28: 392-415, with Carolin Genz, Ilse Helbrecht & Janina Dobusskin.
2022 Gebaute Umwelten als Objekte des Begehrens [Built environments as objects of desire]. Kommentar zu Jan Hutta und Nina Schuster „Infrastrukturen städtischer Intimität“. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 10(2/3): 157-169.
2022 Imaginäre Naturverhältnisse: Psychoanalytische Einsichten zur Herstellung ontologischer Sicherheit in Berlin, Vancouver und Singapur [Imaginary nature relations: Psychoanalytic insights on the production of ontological security in Berlin, Vancouver, and Singapore]. Geographica Helvetica 77: 389-401, with Ilse Helbrecht.
2022 The empty city: COVID-19 and the apocalyptic imagination. CITY: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action 26(4): 706-722.
2022 Need for shelter, demand for housing, desire for home: a psychoanalytic reading of home-making in Vancouver. Housing Studies 37(9): 1650-1668, with Carolin Genz, Ilse Helbrecht & Janina Dobrusskin.
2022 The love of nature: Imaginary environments and the production of ontological security in postnatural times. Geo: Geography and Environment 9: e00106, with Ilse Helbrecht.
2022 Decentering the subject, psychoanalytically: Researching imaginary spacings through image-based interviews. The Professional Geographer 74(9): 540-548, with Ilse Helbrecht.
2022 Aura of decay: Fetishizing ruins with Benjamin and Lacan. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 47(1): 153-166.
2021 Ruins as pieces of the Real: Images of a post-apocalyptic present. Geoforum 127: 198-208.
2021 The sublime object of Detroit. Social & Cultural Geography 22(8): 1063–1079.
2021 Ruined museums: Exploring post-foundational spatiality. ephemera: theory & politics in organization 21(1): 197-228, with Friederike Landau.
2020 Ruins of Gaia: Towards a feminine ontology of the Anthropocene. Theory, Culture & Society: 37(6): 67-86.
2020 Object-disoriented geographies: The Ghost Tower of Bangkok and the topology of anxiety. cultural geographies: 27(1): 71-84.
2019 Das urbane Unbewusste: Psychoanalyse und kritische Stadtforschung [The urban unconscious: Psychoanalysis and critical urban studies]. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 7(3): 47-64.
2019 Hegel and the Shadow of Materialist Geographies. ACME – An International Journal for Critical Geographers 18(2): 285-307. [translated into Spanish in: Narváez León, Ángelo, Vargas Muñoz, Roberto & Ivo Gasic Klett (2022) (eds.): Capital y dominación social. Hacia una crítica de la economía política del espacio. Chile: Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado: 121-159].
2018 Die unsterbliche Stadt: Das Unbehagen in den Wolkenkratzern von Detroit [The Immortal City:  Uneasiness in the skscrapers of Detroit]. dérive 70: 13-18.
2017 Kunst des Gehens: Taktiken im Ort des Automobils [The art of walking: Tactics at the place of the automobile]. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 5(1/2): 257-266, with Sören Groth  & Jakob Hebsaker.
2016 Social Protest and its Policing in the “Heart of the European Crisis Regime”: The case of Blockupy in Frankfurt, Germany. Political Geography 55: 50-59, with Daniel Mullis, Bernd Belina, Tino Petzold & Sebastian Schipper.

 

Chapters in edited volumes
2025 Endgames: Enjoying crisis. In: Marcel Wissenburg & Amanda Machin (eds.): Handbook of Environmental Political Theory in the Anthropocene. Cheltenham: Elgar: in press, with Erik Swyngedouw.
2024 Practising post-foundationalism: Encountering conflict and contingency in pandemic everyday life. In: Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Hanna Carlsson & Arnoud Largendijk (eds.): Reflecting on Practices: New Directions for Spatial Theories. New York: Agenda Publishing: 89-106, with Friederike Landau-Donnelly.
2021 The catastrophic drive. In: Doug Specht & Earl Harper (eds.): Imagining Apocalyptic Politics in the Anthropocene. London: Routledge: 142-157, with Samo Tomšič.
2021 Rem(a)inders of loss: A Lacanian approach to new urban ruins. In: Cian O’Callaghan & Cesare Di Feliciantonio (eds.): The New Urban Ruins: Vacancy, urban politics, and international experiments in the post-crisis city. Bristol: Policy Press: 21-34.
2021 The World and the Real: Space and the political after Lacan. In: Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl & Nikolai Roskamm (eds.): [Un]Grounding: Post-foundational geographies. Bielefeld: transcript: 43-62, with Erik Swyngedouw
2021 The Most Sublime Geographer: Žižek with place, distance, and scale. In: Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl & Nikolai Roskamm (eds.): [Un]Grounding: Post-foundational geographies. Bielefeld: transcript: 197-216, with Paul Kingsbury
2021 Ontological security, globalization and the geographical Imagination. In: Angela Million, Christian Haid, Ignacio Castillo Ulloa & Nina Baur (eds.): Spatial Transformations: The effect of mediatization, mobility and social dislocation on the re-figuration of spaces. London: Routledge, with Ilse Helbrecht, Janina Dobrusskin & Carolin Genz. 
2021 Imaginationen der Globalisierung [Imaginaries of Globalization]. In: Martina Löw, Volkan Sayman, Jona Schwerer & Hannah Wolf (eds.): Am Ende der Globalisierung. Bielefield: transcript: 307-336, with Ilse Helbrecht, Janina Dobrusskin & Carolin Genz.
2021 Localizing the void: From material to immaterial materialism. In: Paul Kingsbury & Anna Secor (eds.) A Place More Void. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press: 285-301.
2018 Architectural enjoyment: Lefebvre and Lacan. In: Ilan Kapoor (eds.): Psychoanalysis and the Global. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press: 142-163.
2017 Blockupy fights back: Global city formation in Frankfurt am Main after the Financial Crisis. In: Xuefei Ren & Roger Keil (eds.): The Globalizing Cities Reader. London: Routledge, with Sebastian Schipper, Tino Petzold, Daniel Mullis & Bernd Belina.
2017 Imaginary politics of the branded city: Right-wing terrorism as a mediated object of stigmatization. In: Paul Kirkness & Andreas Tijé-Dra (eds.): Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment: The production and contestation of territorial stigma. London: Routledge: 27-41.
2015 Wie ein toter Wal: Zur Sprengung des AfE-Turms und der Unmöglichkeit urbaner Monstrosität [Like A Dead Whale: The demolition of the AfE-Tower and the impossibility of urban monstrosity]. In: Minna-Kristiina Ruokonen-Engler, Lucas Pohl, Anna Dichtl, Jessica Lütgens & David Schommer (eds.): Turmgeschichten: Raumerfahrung und -aneignung im AfE-Turm. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot: 144-159.
2014 Die Möglichkeit von Irrelevanz: Zur stadtpolitischen Auseinandersetzung um selbstverwaltete (Frei-)Räume am Beispiel des „Instituts für vergleichende Irrelevanz“ in Frankfurt am Main [The Possibility of Irrelevance: On the urban policies about autonomous spaces – the case of the „Institut für vergleichende Irrelevanz“ in Frankfurt]. In: Susanne Heeg & Marit Rosol (eds.): Gebaute Umwelt. Aktuelle stadtpolitische Konflikte in Frankfurt am Main und Offenbach. Frankfurt: Forum Humangeographie: 81-97, with Franziska Vaessen.
2013 Verräumlichung von Stigmatisierungsdiskursen: Zur städtischen Problematisierung von Rechtsextremismus am Beispiel der „Zwickauer Terrorzelle“ [The Spatialization of Discourses about Stigmatization: On the urban problematization of right-wing extremism – the case of the „Zwickauer Terrorzelle“]. In: Helmut Kellershohn & Paul Jobst (eds.): Der Kampf um Räume. Neoliberale und extrem rechte Konzepte von Hegemonie und Expansion. Münster: Unrast: 58-74.

 

Miscellaneous works (Book reviews, Encyclopedia entries, Editorials, etc.)
2024 Affect and geography.In: Barney Warf (ed.): The Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Heidelberg: Springer, with Jan Simon Hutta.
2024 The world as abject: On less-than-human geographies. Book review forum “The World as Abyss”. Dialogues in Human Geography: 1-3
2023 What’s the matter with the unconscious? Dialogues in Human Geography. online first.
2023 Psychoanalytic geographies. In: Loretta Lees & David Demeritt (eds.) Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Cheltenham: Elgar: 307–311.
2023 Book review: Decay and Afterlife: Form, Time, and the Textuality of Ruins by Aleksandra Prica. The German Quarterly. 
2021 Introduction. In: Friederike Landau, Lucas Pohl & Nikolai Roskamm (eds.): [Un]Grounding: Post-foundational geographies. Bielefeld: transcript: 9-40, with Friederike Landau & Nikolai Roskamm.
2020 Book review: Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment by Erik Swyngedouw. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 8(1/2): 287-292.
2020 Psychoanalysis. In: Audrey Kobayashi (eds.): International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Second Edition. Volume 11. Amsterdam: Elsevier: 61-64.
2018 Book review: Curated Decay: Heritage beyond Saving by Caitlin DeSilvey. Canadian Geographer 62(4): e26-e27.
2018 Eine Stadt im Zerfall: Vorwort zum Schwerpunkt Detroit [A Crumbling City: Foreword to the special issue on Detroit]. dérive 70: 4-5.
2018 Jenseits der Erfolgsgeschichten: Ein Gespräch zwischen Margit Mayer und Ingrid LaFleur [Beyond Success Stories: An interview with Margit Mayer and Ingrid LaFleur]. Detroit-Berlin: Once Circle: 6-9.
2018 Book review: Die unbesetzte Stadt. Postfundamentalistisches Denken und das urbanistische Feld by Nikolai Roskamm. Geographica Helvetica 73: 75-77
 
Translations
2022 Slavoj Žižek: Schrägsicht: Lacan mit Populärkultur – eine Einführung. Frankfurt: Neue Deutsch-Französische Jahrbücher [German translation of Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture. Cambridge: MIT Press].