Christine Hentschel
Biographic Data
| ID | 215124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Hentschel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Hentschel |
| SIGNATURE | HENTSCHEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-3577-8118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Situational awareness: Sensing Insecurity and Coming Catastrophes
Thinking the Urban Impasse Beyond Lockdown: An Afterword
How can the lens of the ‘urban impasse’ help us make sense of the relationship between inequality, institutions and contemporary urban life? And how can urban studies benefit from feminist affect theory to explore the theoretical potential of the ‘urban impasse’? An impasse is a dead end; it connotes an experience of being stuck, lacking orientation or a sense of the future. Still, an impasse also bears transformative potential as a powerful way …
Recomposing the climate-security nexus: A conceptual introduction
Collapse awareness in the face of climate breakdown and urbicide
Stretches of imagination at the end of times: Affective workouts against apocalypse
This paper depicts imagination in the horizon of the posthumous condition as a number of “affective workouts” – emotionally demanding exercises of reaching out and relating that require routines, training, staging and a fearless will to connect. The conceptual inspiration comes from Günther Anders’ postwar writings on our blindness in the face of the apocalyptic threat of the nuclear bomb and his propositions of moral stretching exercises to trai…
Sense of an Ending: On Apocalyptic Maneuvers and Ethics of Collapse
On November 5, as U.S. votes were still being counted and Trump was losing key states while declaring his victory, Judith Butler noted: "The tyrant spiraling down calls for an end to testing, to counting, to science and even to electoral law, to all those inconvenient methods of verifying what is and is not true in order to spin his truth one more time. If he has to lose, he will try to take democracy down with him." A week later, on November 13,…
Im Raum des Virus: Affekt und Widerständigkeit in der Pandemie
Wie erfindet sich politische Öffentlichkeit neu in einem Regime, das uns einander vom Leib halten will? Christine Hentschel reflektiert in ihrem Beitrag die Proteste gegen die Pandemiemaßnahmen als Akte des physischen und affektiven Präsentwerdens im öffentlichen Raum, in einer Zeit, in der uns die »Körperwelt« da draußen suspekt geworden ist. Über ethnografische Beobachtungen der Demonstrationen in Hamburg erstaunt sie, wie vehement die Kategori…
Exposure« - Verletzlichkeit und das Politische in Zeiten radikaler Ungewissheit
»Exposure« bezeichnet das Moment des Ausgesetzt-Seins oder Sich-Aussetzens - ob gegenüber der Gewalt eines Naturereignisses, eines Terroranschlags oder dem wertenden Blick der Anderen. Wenn Verletzlichkeit eine Grundbedingung des Lebens ist, dann fragt das Konzept der »Exposure« danach, wie sich diese Verletzlichkeit in konkreten Situationen und Begegnungen zeigt, wie sie spürbar, fassbar und artikulierbar wird - und nicht zuletzt: wie sie produk…
Affective verticality: Decline and grandeur in right-wing times
The article develops the notion of affective verticality as a way of interrogating particular dynamics in affective arrangements in right-wing times. The gesture of elevation is key; it gives rise to a powerful claim to territory through affective presence, but also to grandeur and distinction. Concretely, the paper discusses the controversies surrounding two monuments recently installed in East Germany. In one case three buses were set up vertic…
Situational awareness’: Rethinking security in times of urban terrorism
The emergence of ‘situational awareness’ as a response to the perception of a new terrorism in European cities marks a significant shift in the conceptualization of security. Focusing on a recently introduced German Federal Police programme that trains ordinary officers in their capability to handle ‘complex life-threatening situations of police operation’, the article explores how situational awareness introduces a warrior logic into policing an…
Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds: A method for critical urban studies: Introduction
This collection of papers offers a critical look at the social work that infrastructure does. We argue that small-scale interactions with infrastructure are, literally, foundations of larger scale
Urban Citizenship and Right to the City: The Fragmentation of Claims
In this symposium, we explore how urban citizenship is about expressing, if not producing, difference, and how fragmentation of claims affects urban citizenship and right to the city movements with their universal, all-inclusive ideals. Investigating social movements, political participation and conflicting diversities in public space in Tel Aviv and Berlin, we see a trend towards a diversification of interests, a weakening of movements, and even…
Postcolonializing Berlin and The Fabrication of The Urban
Postcolonializing Berlin is an experiment in rethinking (Western) cities from the South. It embraces conceptual innovations from thinkers in African, Latin American and Asian urban studies to complicate the stories we tell about contemporary Berlin. My argument proceeds in four steps. I begin by asking what makes the North-South division in urban studies so problematic, and what needs to happen to shake up those categories. Then I share some of m…
The infrastructural passions of urban mutuality
The article suggests an “infrastructural” approach to mutuality in the city. What organises mutuality is less a matter of the common urban horizon or the grown community than of “enabling conditions” (Calhoun) we would call infrastructures: their makeup shapes how urbanites live together, share, partake, cooperate or make deals. Concretely, the article looks at three infrastructural experiments in Durban, South Africa, in recent years, all interv…
Outcharming crime in (D)urban space
This paper is an inquiry into the uses of space and emotions in the governance of urban dangers. Cities have always been affective assemblages, yet the role of both space and affect in the control of urban crime has dramatically changed over the century. What defines spatial urban management today, in Africa and elsewhere, are not the prohibitive, moralising or forcefully exclusionary techniques of the past; instead, the powers of seduction and a…
Urban Citizenship and Right to the City: The Fragmentation of Claims
In this symposium, we explore how urban citizenship is about expressing, if not producing, difference, and how fragmentation of claims affects urban citizenship and right to the city movements with their universal, all-inclusive ideals. Investigating social movements, political participation and conflicting diversities in public space in Tel Aviv and Berlin, we see a trend towards a diversification of interests, a weakening of movements, and even…
Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds: A method for critical urban studies: Introduction
This collection of papers offers a critical look at the social work that infrastructure does. We argue that small-scale interactions with infrastructure are, literally, foundations of larger scale
Situational awareness’: Rethinking security in times of urban terrorism
The emergence of ‘situational awareness’ as a response to the perception of a new terrorism in European cities marks a significant shift in the conceptualization of security. Focusing on a recently introduced German Federal Police programme that trains ordinary officers in their capability to handle ‘complex life-threatening situations of police operation’, the article explores how situational awareness introduces a warrior logic into policing an…
Postcolonializing Berlin and The Fabrication of The Urban
Postcolonializing Berlin is an experiment in rethinking (Western) cities from the South. It embraces conceptual innovations from thinkers in African, Latin American and Asian urban studies to complicate the stories we tell about contemporary Berlin. My argument proceeds in four steps. I begin by asking what makes the North-South division in urban studies so problematic, and what needs to happen to shake up those categories. Then I share some of m…
The infrastructural passions of urban mutuality
The article suggests an “infrastructural” approach to mutuality in the city. What organises mutuality is less a matter of the common urban horizon or the grown community than of “enabling conditions” (Calhoun) we would call infrastructures: their makeup shapes how urbanites live together, share, partake, cooperate or make deals. Concretely, the article looks at three infrastructural experiments in Durban, South Africa, in recent years, all interv…
Outcharming crime in (D)urban space
This paper is an inquiry into the uses of space and emotions in the governance of urban dangers. Cities have always been affective assemblages, yet the role of both space and affect in the control of urban crime has dramatically changed over the century. What defines spatial urban management today, in Africa and elsewhere, are not the prohibitive, moralising or forcefully exclusionary techniques of the past; instead, the powers of seduction and a…
Recomposing the climate-security nexus: A conceptual introduction
Collapse awareness in the face of climate breakdown and urbicide
Affective verticality: Decline and grandeur in right-wing times
The article develops the notion of affective verticality as a way of interrogating particular dynamics in affective arrangements in right-wing times. The gesture of elevation is key; it gives rise to a powerful claim to territory through affective presence, but also to grandeur and distinction. Concretely, the paper discusses the controversies surrounding two monuments recently installed in East Germany. In one case three buses were set up vertic…
Outcharming crime in (D)urban space
This paper is an inquiry into the uses of space and emotions in the governance of urban dangers. Cities have always been affective assemblages, yet the role of both space and affect in the control of urban crime has dramatically changed over the century. What defines spatial urban management today, in Africa and elsewhere, are not the prohibitive, moralising or forcefully exclusionary techniques of the past; instead, the powers of seduction and a…
The infrastructural passions of urban mutuality
The article suggests an “infrastructural” approach to mutuality in the city. What organises mutuality is less a matter of the common urban horizon or the grown community than of “enabling conditions” (Calhoun) we would call infrastructures: their makeup shapes how urbanites live together, share, partake, cooperate or make deals. Concretely, the article looks at three infrastructural experiments in Durban, South Africa, in recent years, all interv…
Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds: A method for critical urban studies: Introduction
This collection of papers offers a critical look at the social work that infrastructure does. We argue that small-scale interactions with infrastructure are, literally, foundations of larger scale
Urban Citizenship and Right to the City: The Fragmentation of Claims
In this symposium, we explore how urban citizenship is about expressing, if not producing, difference, and how fragmentation of claims affects urban citizenship and right to the city movements with their universal, all-inclusive ideals. Investigating social movements, political participation and conflicting diversities in public space in Tel Aviv and Berlin, we see a trend towards a diversification of interests, a weakening of movements, and even…
Postcolonializing Berlin and The Fabrication of The Urban
Postcolonializing Berlin is an experiment in rethinking (Western) cities from the South. It embraces conceptual innovations from thinkers in African, Latin American and Asian urban studies to complicate the stories we tell about contemporary Berlin. My argument proceeds in four steps. I begin by asking what makes the North-South division in urban studies so problematic, and what needs to happen to shake up those categories. Then I share some of m…
Affective verticality: Decline and grandeur in right-wing times
The article develops the notion of affective verticality as a way of interrogating particular dynamics in affective arrangements in right-wing times. The gesture of elevation is key; it gives rise to a powerful claim to territory through affective presence, but also to grandeur and distinction. Concretely, the paper discusses the controversies surrounding two monuments recently installed in East Germany. In one case three buses were set up vertic…
Situational awareness’: Rethinking security in times of urban terrorism
The emergence of ‘situational awareness’ as a response to the perception of a new terrorism in European cities marks a significant shift in the conceptualization of security. Focusing on a recently introduced German Federal Police programme that trains ordinary officers in their capability to handle ‘complex life-threatening situations of police operation’, the article explores how situational awareness introduces a warrior logic into policing an…
Im Raum des Virus: Affekt und Widerständigkeit in der Pandemie
Wie erfindet sich politische Öffentlichkeit neu in einem Regime, das uns einander vom Leib halten will? Christine Hentschel reflektiert in ihrem Beitrag die Proteste gegen die Pandemiemaßnahmen als Akte des physischen und affektiven Präsentwerdens im öffentlichen Raum, in einer Zeit, in der uns die »Körperwelt« da draußen suspekt geworden ist. Über ethnografische Beobachtungen der Demonstrationen in Hamburg erstaunt sie, wie vehement die Kategori…
Exposure« - Verletzlichkeit und das Politische in Zeiten radikaler Ungewissheit
»Exposure« bezeichnet das Moment des Ausgesetzt-Seins oder Sich-Aussetzens - ob gegenüber der Gewalt eines Naturereignisses, eines Terroranschlags oder dem wertenden Blick der Anderen. Wenn Verletzlichkeit eine Grundbedingung des Lebens ist, dann fragt das Konzept der »Exposure« danach, wie sich diese Verletzlichkeit in konkreten Situationen und Begegnungen zeigt, wie sie spürbar, fassbar und artikulierbar wird - und nicht zuletzt: wie sie produk…
Sense of an Ending: On Apocalyptic Maneuvers and Ethics of Collapse
On November 5, as U.S. votes were still being counted and Trump was losing key states while declaring his victory, Judith Butler noted: "The tyrant spiraling down calls for an end to testing, to counting, to science and even to electoral law, to all those inconvenient methods of verifying what is and is not true in order to spin his truth one more time. If he has to lose, he will try to take democracy down with him." A week later, on November 13,…
Stretches of imagination at the end of times: Affective workouts against apocalypse
This paper depicts imagination in the horizon of the posthumous condition as a number of “affective workouts” – emotionally demanding exercises of reaching out and relating that require routines, training, staging and a fearless will to connect. The conceptual inspiration comes from Günther Anders’ postwar writings on our blindness in the face of the apocalyptic threat of the nuclear bomb and his propositions of moral stretching exercises to trai…
Thinking the Urban Impasse Beyond Lockdown: An Afterword
How can the lens of the ‘urban impasse’ help us make sense of the relationship between inequality, institutions and contemporary urban life? And how can urban studies benefit from feminist affect theory to explore the theoretical potential of the ‘urban impasse’? An impasse is a dead end; it connotes an experience of being stuck, lacking orientation or a sense of the future. Still, an impasse also bears transformative potential as a powerful way …
Recomposing the climate-security nexus: A conceptual introduction
Collapse awareness in the face of climate breakdown and urbicide
Situational awareness: Sensing Insecurity and Coming Catastrophes
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works)