Kathrin Hörschelmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 241516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathrin Hörschelmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathrin |
| FAMILY NAME | Hörschelmann |
| SIGNATURE | HÖRSCHELMANN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1652-5026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 478 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Research with Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Youth in European Cities
Research about the lived experiences of asylum-seeking and refugee youth can evoke powerful emotions for those involved. Young people who escaped perilous situations often bear strong emotions linked to their experiences of migration and displacement, as well as their encounters with disorientation, insecurity, isolation, discrimination and racism in unfamiliar contexts in the host society. Such emotions and emotionally charged places can be chal…
Mind the gap: Citizenship, Militarisation, and the Agencies of Children
Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space
Refugee Youth: Migration, Justice and Urban Space
This innovative edited volume is based on in-depth, qualitative research with young refugees and their perspectives on migration, social relations and cultural spaces. The chapters give voice to refugee youth from a wide variety of social backgrounds, including insights about their migration experiences, their negotiations of spatial justice and injustice, and the diverse ways in which they use urban space.
Catalysing urban transformation through women’s empowerment in cooperative waste management: The SWaCH initiative in Pune, India
Waste is the visible outcome of socioeconomic processes such as urbanisation and industrialisation. Yet the negative impacts of waste mismanagement are often externalised and invisibilised in the metabolism of cities, in which informal waste labourers often assume the heaviest burden. In this paper, we approach cities as sociocultural arenas in which agents work within and around structural constraints to allow transformation to take place. Our p…
What about Europe? European identity and spatial imaginaries of Europe among Polish migrants during post-Brexit negotiations in Scotland
This article takes the concept of spatial imaginaries to explore how the post-Brexit negotiations shifted meanings of ‘Europe’ for Polish migrants residing in Scotland. A flourishing subfield of ‘Brexit geographies’ has explored the meaning and consequences of Brexit (as an event, process and affect) for wide-ranging communities on the move and in place. Yet, the question of how ‘Europe’, and in particular ‘EUrope’, is being re-imagined and re-co…
Citizen participation in the governance of nature‐based solutions
The last half‐a‐century has seen a marked demand for authentic citizen participation in public policy‐and decision‐making, not least in the field of sustainability. The depth and forms of citizen engagement in nature‐based solutions (NBS), for example, and how such participation shapes their trajectories is gaining increasing attention. In this paper, we analyze current forms and implications of citizen participation in 58 NBS case studies conduc…
Applying for Settled Status: Ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland
This article contributes to scholarship concerning the effects of the UK Referendum on EU membership and Brexit on EU citizen rights in the UK (Botterill, McCollum and Tyrrell, 2018 ; Burrell and Schweyher, 2019 ; Gawlewicz and Sotkasiira, 2019 ; Huber, 2019 ). The paper focuses on applications for, and meanings of, ‘settled status’ among Polish nationals living in urban and rural Scotland. In particular we argue that the ‘simple’ act of applicat…
Clashing temporalities of care and support as key determinants of transformatory and justice potentials in urban gardens
Whose city? Whose nature? Towards inclusive nature-based solution governance
Preface: The Everyday Politics of Public Space
While in the past two decades a rich literature has emerged about the politics of public space, many of these theoretical works and empirical studies consider public space interactions and behaviors against the backdrop of deliberative or representative politics. In this special issue, to which this article is the preface, we offer some reflections on how the everyday and the micro-level can be sites of political expression, leading inevitably to…
Young people's everyday landscapes of security and insecurity
Debates about 'security' rarely feature children or younger people, whilst research with children and young people seldom focuses upon issues traditionally found within security studies. Building upon long-standing debates about political geographies of youth and political participation as well as feminist geopolitics and emerging discussions about children's and young people's geopolitics, we chart young people's everyday landscapes of security …
Special Section Introduction: Peripheral Visions: Security By, and For, Whom
In this introduction to the special issue on “Peripheral Visions: Security by, and for, whom?”, we summarise the core themes of the special issue and outline our relational approach to peripheralisation research in security studies. We explain how and why the papers that form part of the special issue address the power geometries that result from, and contour, uneven landscapes of resilience and (in)security. Taking our cue from current scholarsh…
Unbound emotional geographies of youth transitions
This paper makes the case for greater consideration of unbound emotional geographies in research on youth transitions, based on the biographical narratives of young people interviewed as part of a qualitative research project on understandings of (in)security in the German city of Leipzig (2014–2015). The need for more holistic approaches to the complex temporalities and spatialities of transitioning in young people's everyday lives and across th…
Perilous Journeys: "Visualising the Racialised "Refugee Crisis
This article explores the benign and malignant power of the visual in the racialised framing of the ongoing "European refugee crisis". Bringing together literatures on racial discourses, visuality, storytelling and decoloniality for the first time, this paper breaks new ground in our understandings of the political possibilities that visual storytelling offers in shifting "lines of sight" in an increasingly vitriolic anti-refugee climate. It does…
Entangled (In)Securities: Sketching the Scope of Geosocial Approaches for Understanding "Webs of (In)Security"1
This paper makes the case for a broadening of conceptual vocabularies in security studies by extending the sub-discipline’s predominantly geopolitical focus to the ‘geosocial’. Based on a review of work on human security and of feminist and anthropological research on (in)security and violence, we argue that there remains a need for further conceptual development to which geosocial approaches can make a significant contribution. They move us beyo…
Mobilities in Socialist and Post-Socialist States
This interdisciplinary collection explores what mobility meant, and still means, in the specific contexts of Soviet and East European socialist and post-socialist societies. Together the chapters cons
Introduction: Understanding Mobility in Soviet and East European Socialist and Post-Socialist States
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 it was interpreted by many as the dawn of a new era of unrestricted travel and free movement for socialist citizens who had been prevented until then from exercising those freedoms by an authoritarian political regime. Cold War understandings of socialism and capitalist market economies as two diametrically opposed systems led many to assume that mobility and freedom of travel were the preserve of citizens of wes…
Spaces of Masculinities
Children, Youth and the City
More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. Considering the causes and forms of social inequalities in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, ability and geographical location, this book discusses specific …
Transnational citizenship, dissent and the political geographies of youth
This paper brings a relational perspective to studies of citizenship beyond national borders. Analysing the responses of 16 to 19‐year‐old young people in Bradford ( UK ) to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, we demonstrate the complex entanglements of young people's lives with international politics and develop a relational conceptualisation of citizenship. Departing from the scalar logics and universalising assumptions upon which many definition…
Discussion of Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India
Change4Life for your kids’: Embodied collectives and public health pedagogy
Recent work in human geography has begun to explore the fluidity of bodily boundaries and to foreground the connectedness of bodies to other bodies/objects/places. Across multiple subdisciplinary areas, including health, children's and feminist geographies, geographers have begun to challenge the notion of a singular, bounded body by highlighting the importance of, for example, relations of care and intergenerationality to everyday embodied exper…
Theorising life transitions: Geographical perspectives
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Theorising life transitions: geographical perspectives’ makes the case for a greater focus on life transitions in geographical and social research on the life course. Echoing recent calls for a relational understanding of age, it discusses why and how ‘transition’ needs to be reconceptualised, however, to better capture the precariousness, unpredictability and diversity of life courses without ignoring t…
Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth
Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this book responds to political and media discourses that stigmatise 'unruly' youthful bodies, by combining the
History, Geography and Difference in the Post-socialist World: Or, Do We Still Need Post-Socialism
This paper seeks to build on ongoing work in east central Europe and the former Soviet Union-in geography and beyond-to think through the conceptualisation of post-socialism. The rationale for this is threefold. Firstly, we see a need to understand post-socialist conditions as they are lived and experienced by those in the region. Secondly, we seek to challenge the persistent tendency to marginalise the experiences of the non-western world in a d…
Ethnographies of postsocialist change
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 ethnographic research on postsocialist change to form part of such a re-envisaged, critical area studies. The paper seeks to demonstrate to what extent ethnographic research not only offers a better understan…
Performing the global through the local-globalisation and individualisation in the spatial practices of young East Germans
This paper aims to show how young people in former East Germany respond to the globalising processes that are part of the transformation of their society from a state-socialist to a capitalist one. It focuses particularly on the differential ways in which young people perform their identities as global/local subjects through the uses that they make of urban space. While emphasising the agency of young people, the paper seeks to examine the dialec…
Transnational citizenship, dissent and the political geographies of youth
This paper brings a relational perspective to studies of citizenship beyond national borders. Analysing the responses of 16 to 19‐year‐old young people in Bradford ( UK ) to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, we demonstrate the complex entanglements of young people's lives with international politics and develop a relational conceptualisation of citizenship. Departing from the scalar logics and universalising assumptions upon which many definition…
Populating the landscapes of critical geopolitics – Young people's responses to the war in Iraq (2003)
Perilous Journeys: "Visualising the Racialised "Refugee Crisis
This article explores the benign and malignant power of the visual in the racialised framing of the ongoing "European refugee crisis". Bringing together literatures on racial discourses, visuality, storytelling and decoloniality for the first time, this paper breaks new ground in our understandings of the political possibilities that visual storytelling offers in shifting "lines of sight" in an increasingly vitriolic anti-refugee climate. It does…
The geographies of children's and young people's bodies
how do bodies matter in the Children's Geographies which matter to you? (Horton and Kraftl 2006a, p. 79) This special issue emerges out of presentations and conversations1 that took place at an int
History after the end: Post‐socialist difference in a (post)modern world
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 interviews, it highlights the hierarchical time/space constructions and universalizing tendencies inherent in many proclamations of the postmodern epoch and contests the uncritical acceptance of the ‘end of h…
Whose city? Whose nature? Towards inclusive nature-based solution governance
Theorising life transitions: Geographical perspectives
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Theorising life transitions: geographical perspectives’ makes the case for a greater focus on life transitions in geographical and social research on the life course. Echoing recent calls for a relational understanding of age, it discusses why and how ‘transition’ needs to be reconceptualised, however, to better capture the precariousness, unpredictability and diversity of life courses without ignoring t…
Change4Life for your kids’: Embodied collectives and public health pedagogy
Recent work in human geography has begun to explore the fluidity of bodily boundaries and to foreground the connectedness of bodies to other bodies/objects/places. Across multiple subdisciplinary areas, including health, children's and feminist geographies, geographers have begun to challenge the notion of a singular, bounded body by highlighting the importance of, for example, relations of care and intergenerationality to everyday embodied exper…
Young people's everyday landscapes of security and insecurity
Debates about 'security' rarely feature children or younger people, whilst research with children and young people seldom focuses upon issues traditionally found within security studies. Building upon long-standing debates about political geographies of youth and political participation as well as feminist geopolitics and emerging discussions about children's and young people's geopolitics, we chart young people's everyday landscapes of security …
Entangled (In)Securities: Sketching the Scope of Geosocial Approaches for Understanding "Webs of (In)Security"1
This paper makes the case for a broadening of conceptual vocabularies in security studies by extending the sub-discipline’s predominantly geopolitical focus to the ‘geosocial’. Based on a review of work on human security and of feminist and anthropological research on (in)security and violence, we argue that there remains a need for further conceptual development to which geosocial approaches can make a significant contribution. They move us beyo…
Clashing temporalities of care and support as key determinants of transformatory and justice potentials in urban gardens
Experiencing Displacement: The Transformation of Women's Spaces in (Former) East Germany
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 divisions between “public” and “private” have affected women's sense of self and identity, cautioning against the notion that geographical restructuring will inevitably result in an empowering dissoluti…
Applying for Settled Status: Ambivalent and reluctant compliance of EU citizens in post-Brexit Scotland
This article contributes to scholarship concerning the effects of the UK Referendum on EU membership and Brexit on EU citizen rights in the UK (Botterill, McCollum and Tyrrell, 2018 ; Burrell and Schweyher, 2019 ; Gawlewicz and Sotkasiira, 2019 ; Huber, 2019 ). The paper focuses on applications for, and meanings of, ‘settled status’ among Polish nationals living in urban and rural Scotland. In particular we argue that the ‘simple’ act of applicat…
Young people's readings of a political cartoon and the concept of multimodal literacy
This article uses young people's responses to a newspaper cartoon as a way of exploring the concept of multimodal literacy. The discussion draws on data from a study which aimed to elicit the geopolitical views of 16–19-year-olds in a multi-ethnic British city by using cartoons as a way of encouraging them to talk about their thoughts and feelings towards recent political events. We argue that, contrary to popular perceptions, political cartoons …
Berlin is Not a Foreign Country, Stupid!'-Growing up 'Global' in Eastern Germany
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 the power differentials which shape globalisation, and draw on the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu to show how unequal access to social and cultural capital influences and is reflected in the 'gl…
Audience Interpretations of (Former) East Germany’s Representation in the German Media
Although there has been growing concern among analysts of German politics and society over the last 10 years about the persistence of a ‘cultural’,‘social’ or ‘psychological’ divide between (former) east and west Germany, most current research in this field shies away from a thorough investigation of the complex networks of socio-material, historical and spatial relations that contribute to the construction of social identities. Few studies exist…
Media networks in transition: The politics of cultural production in post-unification Germany
This paper responds to recent calls for a stronger engagement with the political, social and economic forces that influence cultural production with an analysis of the politico-economic contexts of media transformation in (post)unification Germany. Notwithstanding the specificity of the case presented, the wider aim is to illustrate the need for research in cultural geography to remain aware of the unequal power relations that open and foreclose …
Defining the subject of speech – Constructions of authorship in post-unification German media discourse
Breaking ground-marginality and resistance in (post) unification Germany
Ethical and Methodological Considerations in Research with Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Youth in European Cities
Research about the lived experiences of asylum-seeking and refugee youth can evoke powerful emotions for those involved. Young people who escaped perilous situations often bear strong emotions linked to their experiences of migration and displacement, as well as their encounters with disorientation, insecurity, isolation, discrimination and racism in unfamiliar contexts in the host society. Such emotions and emotionally charged places can be chal…
Special Section Introduction: Peripheral Visions: Security By, and For, Whom
In this introduction to the special issue on “Peripheral Visions: Security by, and for, whom?”, we summarise the core themes of the special issue and outline our relational approach to peripheralisation research in security studies. We explain how and why the papers that form part of the special issue address the power geometries that result from, and contour, uneven landscapes of resilience and (in)security. Taking our cue from current scholarsh…
Where the World Ended. Re-unification and Identity in the German Borderland
Audience Interpretations of (Former) East Germany’s Representation in the German Media
Although there has been growing concern among analysts of German politics and society over the last 10 years about the persistence of a ‘cultural’,‘social’ or ‘psychological’ divide between (former) east and west Germany, most current research in this field shies away from a thorough investigation of the complex networks of socio-material, historical and spatial relations that contribute to the construction of social identities. Few studies exist…
Breaking ground-marginality and resistance in (post) unification Germany
History after the end: Post‐socialist difference in a (post)modern world
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 interviews, it highlights the hierarchical time/space constructions and universalizing tendencies inherent in many proclamations of the postmodern epoch and contests the uncritical acceptance of the ‘end of h…
Media networks in transition: The politics of cultural production in post-unification Germany
This paper responds to recent calls for a stronger engagement with the political, social and economic forces that influence cultural production with an analysis of the politico-economic contexts of media transformation in (post)unification Germany. Notwithstanding the specificity of the case presented, the wider aim is to illustrate the need for research in cultural geography to remain aware of the unequal power relations that open and foreclose …
Experiencing Displacement: The Transformation of Women's Spaces in (Former) East Germany
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 divisions between “public” and “private” have affected women's sense of self and identity, cautioning against the notion that geographical restructuring will inevitably result in an empowering dissoluti…
Reimaging the nation‐state. The contested terrains of nation‐building
Performing the global through the local-globalisation and individualisation in the spatial practices of young East Germans
This paper aims to show how young people in former East Germany respond to the globalising processes that are part of the transformation of their society from a state-socialist to a capitalist one. It focuses particularly on the differential ways in which young people perform their identities as global/local subjects through the uses that they make of urban space. While emphasising the agency of young people, the paper seeks to examine the dialec…
Defining the subject of speech – Constructions of authorship in post-unification German media discourse
Radical Space: Building the House of the People
Berlin is Not a Foreign Country, Stupid!'-Growing up 'Global' in Eastern Germany
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 the power differentials which shape globalisation, and draw on the theoretical work of Pierre Bourdieu to show how unequal access to social and cultural capital influences and is reflected in the 'gl…
Populating the landscapes of critical geopolitics – Young people's responses to the war in Iraq (2003)
History, Geography and Difference in the Post-socialist World: Or, Do We Still Need Post-Socialism
This paper seeks to build on ongoing work in east central Europe and the former Soviet Union-in geography and beyond-to think through the conceptualisation of post-socialism. The rationale for this is threefold. Firstly, we see a need to understand post-socialist conditions as they are lived and experienced by those in the region. Secondly, we seek to challenge the persistent tendency to marginalise the experiences of the non-western world in a d…
Ethnographies of postsocialist change
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 ethnographic research on postsocialist change to form part of such a re-envisaged, critical area studies. The paper seeks to demonstrate to what extent ethnographic research not only offers a better understan…
Public Spheres after Socialism
Routes Through the City: Youth Identities and Spatial Practices in Leipzig
The geographies of children's and young people's bodies
how do bodies matter in the Children's Geographies which matter to you? (Horton and Kraftl 2006a, p. 79) This special issue emerges out of presentations and conversations1 that took place at an int
Contested Bodies of Childhood and Youth
Demonstrating the contested and differentiated nature of childhood and youth embodiment, this book responds to political and media discourses that stigmatise 'unruly' youthful bodies, by combining the
Young people's readings of a political cartoon and the concept of multimodal literacy
This article uses young people's responses to a newspaper cartoon as a way of exploring the concept of multimodal literacy. The discussion draws on data from a study which aimed to elicit the geopolitical views of 16–19-year-olds in a multi-ethnic British city by using cartoons as a way of encouraging them to talk about their thoughts and feelings towards recent political events. We argue that, contrary to popular perceptions, political cartoons …
Change4Life for your kids’: Embodied collectives and public health pedagogy
Recent work in human geography has begun to explore the fluidity of bodily boundaries and to foreground the connectedness of bodies to other bodies/objects/places. Across multiple subdisciplinary areas, including health, children's and feminist geographies, geographers have begun to challenge the notion of a singular, bounded body by highlighting the importance of, for example, relations of care and intergenerationality to everyday embodied exper…
Theorising life transitions: Geographical perspectives
This introduction to the special issue on ‘Theorising life transitions: geographical perspectives’ makes the case for a greater focus on life transitions in geographical and social research on the life course. Echoing recent calls for a relational understanding of age, it discusses why and how ‘transition’ needs to be reconceptualised, however, to better capture the precariousness, unpredictability and diversity of life courses without ignoring t…
Discussion of Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India
Spaces of Masculinities
Children, Youth and the City
More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. Considering the causes and forms of social inequalities in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, ability and geographical location, this book discusses specific …
Transnational citizenship, dissent and the political geographies of youth
This paper brings a relational perspective to studies of citizenship beyond national borders. Analysing the responses of 16 to 19‐year‐old young people in Bradford ( UK ) to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, we demonstrate the complex entanglements of young people's lives with international politics and develop a relational conceptualisation of citizenship. Departing from the scalar logics and universalising assumptions upon which many definition…
Sociology (35 works) · Political science (33 works) · Law (27 works) · Politics (22 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Social science (13 works) · Geography (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (9 works)