I Helbrecht
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 26148 |
|---|---|
| NOME | I Helbrecht |
| PRENOMES | I |
| SOBRENOME | Helbrecht |
| ASSINATURA | HELBRECHT I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6992-6002 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 145 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1993 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Infrastructures and feelings of ontological (in)security in times of crisis
In government guidelines the strengthening of rural infrastructure is often seen as a central building block to create economically prosperous, well‐developed rural regions and to support the well‐being of local communities. We challenge this assumption by analyzing the subjective handling of infrastructures in a remote rural area in British Columbia, Canada. Based on the analysis of empirical material from photography‐supported interviews, we ar…
Geographical Sensemaking
Wetland gentrification
There is growing scholarly interest in notions of ecological gentrification – whereby environmental improvements drive up real estate prices, with the subsequent displacement of low-income residents – particularly in the global North. Drawing on an integrative review of extant literature on African urbanism, urban greenery encroachment and gentrification, this paper argues that the Western notion of ecological gentrification has little or no appl…
Geopolitical Caesuras as Time-Space-Anchors of Ontological (In)security
The paper reviews the concept of ontological (in)security as an analytical tool to shed light on (dis)continuous narratives of selfhood engendered by geopolitics. It contributes to a growing body of empirically grounded research by addressing the necessity of a multi-dimensional understanding of individuals’ senses of ontological (in)security. The paper is based on qualitative research conducted in Berlin with participants of various age groups a…
Imaginäre Naturverhältnisse
A central diagnosis driving research around social relations of nature is the thesis of the “end of nature”. In an era marked by climate change and global warming, the image of nature as a pristine and stable foundation of human existence seems outdated. In light of this, recent scholarship demonstrates how environmental changes and conflicts increasingly affect people's daily lives and present significant threats to psychic well-being. In contra…
The love of nature
The existence of nature is vehemently called into question in the Anthropocene. The standard image of nature as a pristine, harmonious, and stable background no longer holds, especially as ecological changes increasingly penetrate the collective consciousness. Consequently, there has been growing interest in the psychological effects of this end of nature. A recent wave of scholarship shows how climate change and the Anthropocene more generally a…
Negotiations of Urban Ontological Security
Housing insecurity has rendered urban life inherently unpredictable owing to the constant increase in rent. Consequently, housing insecurity impacts urban residents’ well-being and feelings of security. Considering this fact, this study aims to understand renters’ subjective perceptions of rental housing insecurity by exploring the ties between housing and ontological insecurity. Drawing on qualitative interviews and photo-elicitation with partic…
Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana
Conventional forms of entrepreneurial urban governance are characterized by strong municipal urban governments, who have the autonomy to use and decide over innovative financing instruments and public–private partnerships, and whose decisions are not overly influenced by the national political interests of central government authorities. This article examines the extent to which this conceptualization applies in an African context, particularly G…
Need for shelter, demand for housing, desire for home
Home is often dually conceptualized as a physical space of living and a psycho-social place of belonging. To engage with this dual nature of home, housing scholars refer to the concept of ontological security to understand how different forms of housing affect subjective well-being. This paper extends the scope of this research. Developing a framework inspired by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, we aim to understand what kind of psycho-spatial ar…
That is when you realize your age”—A spatial approach to age(ing)
Age is a conceptual challenge for geographical research due to its twofold character as a marker of difference (age) and a dynamic process (ageing). The fluidity of the ageing process makes it difficult to employ age as an analytic variable for empirical research, perhaps even more so than for other social categories such as gender, ethnicity, social status, or sexual orientation. Drawing on qualitative research with 18 expert interviews and 4 fo…
Decentering the Subject, Psychoanalytically
Since the more-than-human turn, geographers have increasingly called for a decentering of the human subject by breaking away from a classically modern understanding of subjectivity and by treating humans as one of many players. In this article, we offer an alternative way of decentering the subject by following the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Far from being subject-centered, psychoanalysis aims to understand the subject as a radically decentered…
Imaginationen der Globalisierung
Anerkennung und ontologische (Un-)Sicherheit von migrantischen Care-Arbeiterinnen in Singapur
Migrant domestic workers in Singapore are situated in a highly hierarchical environment, requiring them to live and work in the same place. This spatial situation leads to a lack of space and time for the female workers which challenges their psychosocial well-being. We ask how the women, nevertheless, develop psychosocial well-being, based on their recognition and subjective embodied positioning, analytically grasped through the concept of ontol…
Understanding diversity in later life through images of old age
This article aims to enhance the conceptual debate on diversity in old age by exploring the interplay of diversity in later life and images of old age. We argue that the analysis of images of old age on the micro-level is a fruitful methodology in order to unravel the meaning of diversity in later life. Drawing on findings from qualitative research in Berlin, we explore how new and diverse imaginations, experiences and lifestyles of old age emerg…
Does spatial proximity supplant family ties? Exploring the role of neighborly support for older people in diverse, aging cities
The aging population, coupled with increasing diversification, is currently altering the social fabric of cities worldwide. At the local level, social ties within a neighborhood play a key role in enabling older people to age in familiar surroundings. However, family ties in the neighborhood become less common implying that older people become more dependent on alternative support systems such as friends and neighbors. Drawing from a mixed-method…
Urban regeneration and politically-induced displacement in a secondary African city
Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017
The forum includes a research paper, preceded by a brief introduction and followed by five short responses from Pablo Mendez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton‐Roberts, Ilse Helbrecht, and Alison Mountz. Mountz's introduction sets the context for the paper and makes some framing remarks on David Ley's career. The main paper examines the housing question in Vancouver, in the period from 1972 to 2017. Re‐examining a number of Ley's research projects ov…
The urban dimension of Chinese infrastructure finance in Africa
For many years, Chinese infrastructure finance has been secured by African governments to provide infrastructure of national significance, while cities continue to lack fiscal tools for the provision of large-scale urban infrastructure. This article not only demonstrates that Chinese infrastructure finance is being extended to municipal authorities in Africa to undertake critical urban infrastructure but also scrutinizes the urban dynamics and lo…
Urban governance and its implications for the micro-geographies of market trading in Ghana
Changing urban governance in Ghana
This article examines traders’ resistance practices in Kumasi, Ghana and their significance for changing urban governance in Africa. Conceptually, we introduce “activism” as a new variable into the present concept of urban governance as decentralization, entrepreneurialism and democratization (DED). From an empirical study in Kumasi, Ghana, findings reveal that activism by non-state actors does not only occur at the crucial earlier phases of the …
Manufacturing marginality. (Un-)governing the night in Berlin
Ungleichheit, Intersektionalität und Alter(n) – für eine räumliche Methodologie in der Ungleichheitsforschung
This article explores the interplay of inequality, space and age(ing) from an intersectional perspective. It argues, that a spatial research methodology is most fruitful in order to include age(ing) in debates on intersectionality and inequality. Drawing on geographical gerontology and inequality research, we scrutinize the research gap at the intersection of these fields: While age is a neglected factor in intersectional debates on inequality, q…
Seeing through African protest logics
Protests in Africa have a long history. Yet, for many years, western misconceptions in protest studies have hindered our understanding of the particularities and commonalities of African protests. In this study, we scrutinize the historical continuity and discontinuity of protests in Africa, using Ghana as a case. We situate a longitudinal analysis of protests in Ghana within the theoretical model of protest logics, using the institutional-analyt…
Recovering the politics of planning
The goal of this paper is to recover the politics of planning with a focus on the state-planning tool ‘developer contributions’. We draw on David Harvey’s theory of accumulation by dispossession [(2003). The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press] and Spaces of Hope [(2000). University of California Press] to identify not only (new) spaces of inequality, but also cracks in contemporary capitalism—material and discursive spaces for alter…
The housing careers of younger adults and intergenerational support in Germany’s ‘society of renters’
Through narrative interviews with younger adults and their parents, this paper explores how the housing transitions of younger adults, both within the rental sector and into homeownership, are shaped through intergenerational intra-family support in Germany’s society of renters. Our findings highlight the profound qualitative differences between regular transfers for establishing and retaining residential independence in the rental sector and int…
The housing careers of younger adults and intergenerational support in Germany’s ‘society of renters’
Through narrative interviews with younger adults and their parents, this paper explores how the housing transitions of younger adults, both within the rental sector and into homeownership, are shaped through intergenerational intra-family support in Germany’s society of renters. Our findings highlight the profound qualitative differences between regular transfers for establishing and retaining residential independence in the rental sector and int…
Urban regeneration and politically-induced displacement in a secondary African city
Conceptualising marketplaces in Anglophone West Africa
Everyday urban encounters as stratification practices
Geographies of urban encounter explore how people live with difference in contemporary, super-diverse cities. For a deeper understanding of the role of encounters for living with cultural and social differences, we conceptualise encounters as manifestations of Foucauldian micro-mechanisms of power conducted by affects. Affects, understood as complex, reflexive states of being, are direct responses to social or environmental stimuli. Our main poin…
Need for shelter, demand for housing, desire for home
Home is often dually conceptualized as a physical space of living and a psycho-social place of belonging. To engage with this dual nature of home, housing scholars refer to the concept of ontological security to understand how different forms of housing affect subjective well-being. This paper extends the scope of this research. Developing a framework inspired by the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, we aim to understand what kind of psycho-spatial ar…
Changing urban governance in Ghana
This article examines traders’ resistance practices in Kumasi, Ghana and their significance for changing urban governance in Africa. Conceptually, we introduce “activism” as a new variable into the present concept of urban governance as decentralization, entrepreneurialism and democratization (DED). From an empirical study in Kumasi, Ghana, findings reveal that activism by non-state actors does not only occur at the crucial earlier phases of the …
Negotiations of Urban Ontological Security
Housing insecurity has rendered urban life inherently unpredictable owing to the constant increase in rent. Consequently, housing insecurity impacts urban residents’ well-being and feelings of security. Considering this fact, this study aims to understand renters’ subjective perceptions of rental housing insecurity by exploring the ties between housing and ontological insecurity. Drawing on qualitative interviews and photo-elicitation with partic…
Decentering the Subject, Psychoanalytically
Since the more-than-human turn, geographers have increasingly called for a decentering of the human subject by breaking away from a classically modern understanding of subjectivity and by treating humans as one of many players. In this article, we offer an alternative way of decentering the subject by following the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Far from being subject-centered, psychoanalysis aims to understand the subject as a radically decentered…
The urban dimension of Chinese infrastructure finance in Africa
For many years, Chinese infrastructure finance has been secured by African governments to provide infrastructure of national significance, while cities continue to lack fiscal tools for the provision of large-scale urban infrastructure. This article not only demonstrates that Chinese infrastructure finance is being extended to municipal authorities in Africa to undertake critical urban infrastructure but also scrutinizes the urban dynamics and lo…
Urban governance and its implications for the micro-geographies of market trading in Ghana
Geopolitical Caesuras as Time-Space-Anchors of Ontological (In)security
The paper reviews the concept of ontological (in)security as an analytical tool to shed light on (dis)continuous narratives of selfhood engendered by geopolitics. It contributes to a growing body of empirically grounded research by addressing the necessity of a multi-dimensional understanding of individuals’ senses of ontological (in)security. The paper is based on qualitative research conducted in Berlin with participants of various age groups a…
Hybrid entrepreneurial urban governance in post-colonial Ghana
Conventional forms of entrepreneurial urban governance are characterized by strong municipal urban governments, who have the autonomy to use and decide over innovative financing instruments and public–private partnerships, and whose decisions are not overly influenced by the national political interests of central government authorities. This article examines the extent to which this conceptualization applies in an African context, particularly G…
Does spatial proximity supplant family ties? Exploring the role of neighborly support for older people in diverse, aging cities
The aging population, coupled with increasing diversification, is currently altering the social fabric of cities worldwide. At the local level, social ties within a neighborhood play a key role in enabling older people to age in familiar surroundings. However, family ties in the neighborhood become less common implying that older people become more dependent on alternative support systems such as friends and neighbors. Drawing from a mixed-method…
Recovering the politics of planning
The goal of this paper is to recover the politics of planning with a focus on the state-planning tool ‘developer contributions’. We draw on David Harvey’s theory of accumulation by dispossession [(2003). The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press] and Spaces of Hope [(2000). University of California Press] to identify not only (new) spaces of inequality, but also cracks in contemporary capitalism—material and discursive spaces for alter…
Situational places
Cities in general and public urban spaces in particular have re‐emerged as important places where strangers from different social and cultural backgrounds interact. The growing number of intercultural encounters assumed by contemporary urban studies calls for a theoretical examination of how these encounters are conducted. In this article we therefore critically examine the interplay between cultures, strangers, performances, encounters, and urba…
Die Beobachtung der Situation
The paper analyses the role of affections and affect in two encounters between strangers in Berlin. Affections are construed as states of being of the affected body, whereas affect is the transition between different states of being. Drawing on recent work on affects in social geography the paper conceptualises affect as a theoretical tool for the empirical analysis of bodies in encounters. Affect be understood as the main force behind the collec…
Understanding diversity in later life through images of old age
This article aims to enhance the conceptual debate on diversity in old age by exploring the interplay of diversity in later life and images of old age. We argue that the analysis of images of old age on the micro-level is a fruitful methodology in order to unravel the meaning of diversity in later life. Drawing on findings from qualitative research in Berlin, we explore how new and diverse imaginations, experiences and lifestyles of old age emerg…
Resident Perceptions of New Urban Tourism
Research on urban tourism has focused on the search for alternative, authentic, lively, and mundane urban neighbourhoods by visitors. This so-called new urban tourism is characterised by the increasing quest by tourists for contact with mundane life in ordinary residential quarters. The intrusion of new urban tourism into day-to-day life also affects residents' perceptions of visitors, which are prone to become stereotypes and prejudices rather t…
That is when you realize your age”—A spatial approach to age(ing)
Age is a conceptual challenge for geographical research due to its twofold character as a marker of difference (age) and a dynamic process (ageing). The fluidity of the ageing process makes it difficult to employ age as an analytic variable for empirical research, perhaps even more so than for other social categories such as gender, ethnicity, social status, or sexual orientation. Drawing on qualitative research with 18 expert interviews and 4 fo…
Wetland gentrification
There is growing scholarly interest in notions of ecological gentrification – whereby environmental improvements drive up real estate prices, with the subsequent displacement of low-income residents – particularly in the global North. Drawing on an integrative review of extant literature on African urbanism, urban greenery encroachment and gentrification, this paper argues that the Western notion of ecological gentrification has little or no appl…
The love of nature
The existence of nature is vehemently called into question in the Anthropocene. The standard image of nature as a pristine, harmonious, and stable background no longer holds, especially as ecological changes increasingly penetrate the collective consciousness. Consequently, there has been growing interest in the psychological effects of this end of nature. A recent wave of scholarship shows how climate change and the Anthropocene more generally a…
The Bologna Process
Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017
The forum includes a research paper, preceded by a brief introduction and followed by five short responses from Pablo Mendez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton‐Roberts, Ilse Helbrecht, and Alison Mountz. Mountz's introduction sets the context for the paper and makes some framing remarks on David Ley's career. The main paper examines the housing question in Vancouver, in the period from 1972 to 2017. Re‐examining a number of Ley's research projects ov…
Die Münchner Olympischen Spiele von 1972 als Instrument der Stadtentwicklungspolitik
Die Münchner Olympischen Spiele gelten als eines der ersten Beispiele für eine Festivalisierung der Stadtpolitik. Verglichen mit den anderen Beiträgen in diesem Band, die allesamt Aussagen zu einem neuartigen Phänomen der Politik in den Städten treffen, unterliegt das Münchner Fallbeispiel einer Besonderheit: 21 Jahre sind seit den Spielen vergangen, 30 Jahre muß man zurückgehen, wenn man die Ausgangssituation einbeziehen will. Der Zeithorizont d…
Stadtmarketing“
Niemand schreibt eine Arbeit allein, erst recht keine Doktorarbeit. Und so ist es für mich nicht nur eine Frage des guten Stils, sondern ein ehr liches Anliegen, mich bei den Mitgliedern des Geographi
Stadtstrukturen in Kanada und den USA im Vergleich. Die Dialektik von Stadt und Gesellschaft
Postmetropolis
Seit den ausgehenden 1980er Jahren sieht sich die Stadtforschung mit einem Trendbruch in der Raumentwicklung konfrontiert. Die Modelle, die die Agglomeralionslogiken der industriellen Stadt noch präzise fassten, können die neuen Konturen postindustrieller Urbanisierung nicht mehr durchgreifend erklären. Die Postmetropolis erscheint uns als Sphinx, weil sie Widersprüchliches in sich vereint. Mittels des Konzepts der Ökonomie der Zeichen und einer …
Bare Geographies in Knowledge Societies – Creative Cities as Text and Piece of Art
What roles do cities play in knowledge societies? Do places still matter? To what extent are knowledge production processes place-bound and city-specific? This paper examines some dimensions of the multiple relationships between physically experiencing and mentally constructing the city. Primarily, this is a conceptual exercise. Thus, I read part of the literature on cities and creativity through two different conceptual lenses: representational …
The Bologna Process
Stadt und Performanz
Die Stadt ist ein Untersuchungsgegenstand, der an Komplexität kaum zu überbieten ist (Wirth 1938). So verändert sich die Perspektive auf die Reichhaltigkeit des Objekts je nachdem, welche theoretische Grundhaltung man zu ihm einnimmt. Es rücken unterschiedliche Dimensionen, Fragestellungen und Phänomene von Stadtleben, städtischen Räumen, Urbanität oder Urbanisierung in den Mittelpunkt, je nachdem ob wir aus einer handlungstheoretischen, polit-ök…
Die Beobachtung der Situation
The paper analyses the role of affections and affect in two encounters between strangers in Berlin. Affections are construed as states of being of the affected body, whereas affect is the transition between different states of being. Drawing on recent work on affects in social geography the paper conceptualises affect as a theoretical tool for the empirical analysis of bodies in encounters. Affect be understood as the main force behind the collec…
Der Kieler Geographentag 1969
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Situational places
Cities in general and public urban spaces in particular have re‐emerged as important places where strangers from different social and cultural backgrounds interact. The growing number of intercultural encounters assumed by contemporary urban studies calls for a theoretical examination of how these encounters are conducted. In this article we therefore critically examine the interplay between cultures, strangers, performances, encounters, and urba…
Everyday urban encounters as stratification practices
Geographies of urban encounter explore how people live with difference in contemporary, super-diverse cities. For a deeper understanding of the role of encounters for living with cultural and social differences, we conceptualise encounters as manifestations of Foucauldian micro-mechanisms of power conducted by affects. Affects, understood as complex, reflexive states of being, are direct responses to social or environmental stimuli. Our main poin…
Resident Perceptions of New Urban Tourism
Research on urban tourism has focused on the search for alternative, authentic, lively, and mundane urban neighbourhoods by visitors. This so-called new urban tourism is characterised by the increasing quest by tourists for contact with mundane life in ordinary residential quarters. The intrusion of new urban tourism into day-to-day life also affects residents' perceptions of visitors, which are prone to become stereotypes and prejudices rather t…
Seeing like a tourist city
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to clarify the administrative problematisations of conflict-prone urban tourism (e.g. noise) as political processes predetermining the future of city tourism. It is shaped by today’s administrative ways of knowing increasing visitor pressure as an issue for urban (tourism) development. Design/methodology/approach The problematisation of conflictive urban tourism in Berlin is used as case study and lens to anal…
Manufacturing marginality. (Un-)governing the night in Berlin
Ungleichheit, Intersektionalität und Alter(n) – für eine räumliche Methodologie in der Ungleichheitsforschung
This article explores the interplay of inequality, space and age(ing) from an intersectional perspective. It argues, that a spatial research methodology is most fruitful in order to include age(ing) in debates on intersectionality and inequality. Drawing on geographical gerontology and inequality research, we scrutinize the research gap at the intersection of these fields: While age is a neglected factor in intersectional debates on inequality, q…
Seeing through African protest logics
Protests in Africa have a long history. Yet, for many years, western misconceptions in protest studies have hindered our understanding of the particularities and commonalities of African protests. In this study, we scrutinize the historical continuity and discontinuity of protests in Africa, using Ghana as a case. We situate a longitudinal analysis of protests in Ghana within the theoretical model of protest logics, using the institutional-analyt…
Recovering the politics of planning
The goal of this paper is to recover the politics of planning with a focus on the state-planning tool ‘developer contributions’. We draw on David Harvey’s theory of accumulation by dispossession [(2003). The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press] and Spaces of Hope [(2000). University of California Press] to identify not only (new) spaces of inequality, but also cracks in contemporary capitalism—material and discursive spaces for alter…
The housing careers of younger adults and intergenerational support in Germany’s ‘society of renters’
Through narrative interviews with younger adults and their parents, this paper explores how the housing transitions of younger adults, both within the rental sector and into homeownership, are shaped through intergenerational intra-family support in Germany’s society of renters. Our findings highlight the profound qualitative differences between regular transfers for establishing and retaining residential independence in the rental sector and int…
Conceptualising marketplaces in Anglophone West Africa
The urban dimension of Chinese infrastructure finance in Africa
For many years, Chinese infrastructure finance has been secured by African governments to provide infrastructure of national significance, while cities continue to lack fiscal tools for the provision of large-scale urban infrastructure. This article not only demonstrates that Chinese infrastructure finance is being extended to municipal authorities in Africa to undertake critical urban infrastructure but also scrutinizes the urban dynamics and lo…
Urban governance and its implications for the micro-geographies of market trading in Ghana
Changing urban governance in Ghana
This article examines traders’ resistance practices in Kumasi, Ghana and their significance for changing urban governance in Africa. Conceptually, we introduce “activism” as a new variable into the present concept of urban governance as decentralization, entrepreneurialism and democratization (DED). From an empirical study in Kumasi, Ghana, findings reveal that activism by non-state actors does not only occur at the crucial earlier phases of the …
Does spatial proximity supplant family ties? Exploring the role of neighborly support for older people in diverse, aging cities
The aging population, coupled with increasing diversification, is currently altering the social fabric of cities worldwide. At the local level, social ties within a neighborhood play a key role in enabling older people to age in familiar surroundings. However, family ties in the neighborhood become less common implying that older people become more dependent on alternative support systems such as friends and neighbors. Drawing from a mixed-method…
Urban regeneration and politically-induced displacement in a secondary African city
Housing Vancouver, 1972–2017
The forum includes a research paper, preceded by a brief introduction and followed by five short responses from Pablo Mendez, Loretta Lees, Margaret Walton‐Roberts, Ilse Helbrecht, and Alison Mountz. Mountz's introduction sets the context for the paper and makes some framing remarks on David Ley's career. The main paper examines the housing question in Vancouver, in the period from 1972 to 2017. Re‐examining a number of Ley's research projects ov…
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