Dr. Anke Schwarz

Dr. habil. Anke Schwarz vertrat im Wintersemester 2023/2024 und Sommersemester 2024 die Professur für Humangeographie am Geographischen Institut der Universität Heidelberg. Sie ist Gründungsmitglied des DFG-geförderten wissenschaftlichen Netzwerks 'Territorialisierungen der radikalen Rechten', Fellow der Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG), und Mitglied des Research Committee 21 on Sociology of Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association (RC21).

Research areas

• Political Geographies
• Comparative Urban Studies
• New Cultural Geographies
• Future Geographies
• Geographies of Speculative and Science Fiction

Publications (selection)

SPECIAL ISSUES AND EDITORIAL WORK

• Schwarz, A. (ed.) (2023): Emparamol Shorts. Dresden: Selbstverlag. https://ankeschwarz.net/emparamol-shorts/
• de Aquino, E.; Müller, F. and Schwarz, A. (eds) (2021): Protagonists of Latin American Futures. Theme issue, Critical Reviews on Latin American Research – CROLAR 9 (1).
• Schwarz, A. and Streule, M. (eds) (2019): Contested Urban Territories: Decolonized Perspectives. Geographica Helvetica Special Issue 938.

MONOGRAPHY

• Schwarz, A. (2017): Demanding Water. A Sociospatial Approach to Domestic Water Use in Mexico City. Megacities and Global Change, Volume 22. Stuttgart: Steiner. https://www.steiner-verlag.de/Demanding-Water/9783515116862.

PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• Schwarz A and Streule M (2024): Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization. Progress in Human Geography, online first, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325241228600
• Schwarz, A. and Streule, M. (2023): Von Territorium zu Territorio: Land, Allmende und soziale Kämpfe in Mexiko-Stadt. In: Bauriedl, S./Carstensen-Egwuom, I. (eds.): Geographien der Kolonialität. Geschichten globaler Ungleichheitsverhältnisse der Gegenwart. Bielefeld: transcript.
• Schwarz, A. (2022): Parochial imaginations: The ‘European City’ as a territorialised entity. In: Ha, N./Picker, G. (eds.): European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
• Schwarz, A. and Streule, M. (2022): Rendering Territory (In)visible. Approaching Urban Struggles Through a Socio-Territorial Lens. In: Brighenti, A.M./Kärrholm, M. (eds.): Territories, Environments, Politics. Explorations in Territoriology. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
• Kübler, F., Schilk, F. and Schwarz, A. (2022): Rechte Räume reconstructed. Identitätsfassaden in Skopje und Dresden. In: Miggelbrink, J./Mullis, D. (eds.): Lokal extrem rechts. Analysen alltäglicher Vergesellschaftungen. Bielefeld: transcript.
• Schwarz, A. (2021): Hydraulic standby: Anticipating water in Mexico City. ephemera 21 (1), 173-196.
• Hutta, J.S. and Schwarz, A. (2021): Umkämpfte Differenzen. Für wen und mit wem Geographie machen? In: Schneider-Sliwa R., R. Wehrhahn, I. Helbrecht, B. Braun (eds.): Westermann Lehrbuch Humangeographie. Braunschweig: Westermann Bildungsmedien.
• Schwarz, A. (2020): The essential vat: Geographies of Food in Science Fiction. Lo Squaderno 56 – Urban Recipes, 13-16.
• Schwarz, A. and Streule, M. (2020): Introduction to the special issue “Contested urban territories: decolonized perspectives”. Geographica Helvetica 75 (1), 11-18.
• Schwarz, A. and Streule, M. (2016): A Transposition of Territory. Decolonized Perspectives in Current Urban Research. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40 (5), 1000–1016.

For a complete list of publications, please visit: https://ankeschwarz.net/publications/