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Ethnographies of postsocialist change (2008)
Journal Article
Hörschelmann, K., & Stenning, A. (2008). Ethnographies of postsocialist change. Progress in Human Geography, 32(3), 339-361. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132508089094

In this paper, we examine the value of ethnographic research for developing a critical area studies approach that promotes cosmopolitan scholarship and contributes to the decentring of universal knowledge claims. We focus on the potential of ethnogra... Read More about Ethnographies of postsocialist change.

Defining the subject of speech - Constructions of authorship in post-unification German media discourse (2007)
Journal Article
Hörschelmann, K. (2007). Defining the subject of speech - Constructions of authorship in post-unification German media discourse. Geoforum, 38(3), 456-468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.11.001

This paper analyses how the authority of west German media workers to produce ‘truthful’ representations about unification and eastern Germany after 1989 was discursively constructed. Rather than simply assuming the superiority of western knowledge,... Read More about Defining the subject of speech - Constructions of authorship in post-unification German media discourse.

Berlin in not a foreign country, stupid! : growing up 'global' in eastern Germany (2007)
Journal Article
Hörschelmann, K., & Schäfer, N. (2007). Berlin in not a foreign country, stupid! : growing up 'global' in eastern Germany. Environment and Planning A, 39(8), 1855-1872. https://doi.org/10.1068/a38384

In this paper we analyse how young East Germans come to be differentially placed in global network space through their socioeconomically and culturally specific engagements with globalised mediascapes and ethnoscapes. We call for greater awareness of... Read More about Berlin in not a foreign country, stupid! : growing up 'global' in eastern Germany.

Experiencing displacement: the transformation of women's spaces in (former) East Germany (2003)
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Hörschelmann, K., & van Hoven, B. (2003). Experiencing displacement: the transformation of women's spaces in (former) East Germany. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 35(4), 742-760. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1467-8330.2003.00348.x

Based on a comparison of two different research projects carried out in (former) East Germany, this paper analyses the effects of German (re)unification and postsocialist transformation as a specific, gendered form of displacement. We show how new di... Read More about Experiencing displacement: the transformation of women's spaces in (former) East Germany.

History after the end: post-socialist difference in a (post)modern world (2002)
Journal Article
Hörschelmann, K. (2002). History after the end: post-socialist difference in a (post)modern world. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 27(1), 52-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-5661.00041

This paper makes an intervention in the debates on postmodernism as dominant social and cultural order of the present from the perspective of post-socialist transformation. Grounded in an analysis of theoretical discourses and of qualitative intervie... Read More about History after the end: post-socialist difference in a (post)modern world.

Breaking ground - marginality and resistance in (post) unification Germany (2001)
Journal Article
Hörschelmann, K. (2001). Breaking ground - marginality and resistance in (post) unification Germany. Political Geography, 20(8), 981-1004. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0962-6298%2801%2900041-5

Drawing on postcolonial theory and recent geographical debates on subaltern speech and marginal positioning this paper asks what the relevance of ‘place’ is for attempts to ‘transgress’ and ‘resist’ the marginalisation of (former) East Germans in (po... Read More about Breaking ground - marginality and resistance in (post) unification Germany.