Final Theses
The basis for the first discussion of the thesis is a 2-3 page synopsis in which you present your research interest, research object and theoretical-conceptual foundations of your work as well as - in the case of an empirical project - the planned methodological approach and establish connections to existing research debates in geography.
Appointments for consultation hours can be made via doodle. Please send the synopsis by e-mail at least two days before the consultation date.
Topics for final theses
Conceptual Work
- On theoretical foundations of social geography (governmentality and discourse theory in geography, feminist geographies, affective and emotional geographies, "new materialism" etc.)
- In the field of critical urban studies (neoliberal city, planetary urbanism, postcolonial urban theories, etc.)
- On topics in political ecology (neoliberal natures, geographies of food, etc.)
- On Science and Technology Studies (smart living, GMOs, vertical farming, etc.)
Work on topics related to geographic housing research
- Social transformation processes in housing
- Housing, technology and infrastructure
- Housing and nature
- Gender orders of housing
- Institutional housing in prisons, clinics, homes
- Housing in stigmatized neighborhoods
Work on topics of critical urban research
- social exclusion and urban marginality (e.g. regarding housing shortage, homelessness, social control in public space, neoliberal urban development, urban social movements, etc.)
- urban technopolitics (e.g., on privatization and remunicipalization of public services, right to infrastructure, governance of large-scale technological systems, etc.)
- knowledge and policy transfer between cities, urban policy mobilities
- urban agriculture
- "green" consumerism
Work on topics related to human-environment and human-animal relations
- Global and local food systems
- Land use conflicts (natural parks, agriculture, wildlife, local recreation)
- Alternative agricultural practices
- Conceptions of nature, culture, wilderness
- Conflicts about animals in urban areas
Notes on the preparation of theses
- Baade, J., Gertel, H. & Schlottmann, A. (2005). Wissenschaftlich arbeiten. Ein Leitfaden für Studierende der Geographie. Bern, Stuttgart, Wien: UTB.
- Citation Guide GIUB
- Notes on the scope of work
- The perfect guide for bad papers
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