Landolt
Biographic Data
| ID | 26569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Landolt |
| FAMILY NAME | Landolt |
| SIGNATURE | LANDOLT |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5444-346X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Parental responsibilisation and camouflaging class-based inequalities: An Ethnography of a Highly Selective Educational Transition
This paper contributes to the study of mechanisms of parental responsibilisation and involvement that solidify unequal educational opportunities and camouflage these, especially from pupils. Drawing on data from Zurich, the biggest city in Switzerland, the authors find that parental responsibilisation plays a crucial role in ensuring that class-based educational inequalities remain unrecognised by pupils at the selective educational transition fr…
Marketization of Shadow Education in Switzerland: How “Edupreneurs” Promote Preparation Programmes for a Selective School Transition
Private supplementary tutoring (PST) is a flourishing market for edupreneurs whose services relate closely to mainstream education. While international research elaborates on geographical variations in PST and edupreneurs’ marketing strategies, the PST market in Switzerland has been largely understudied. This paper contributes to fill this research gap by presenting a thematic analysis of the websites of edupreneurs offering preparation programme…
The marketization of a selective school transition in Switzerland
This article seeks to contribute to ongoing debates on geographies of marketization, which are used in social and geographical research on education to account for the performativity and inherent inconsistencies of markets. This case study draws on students' transition to the state-funded academically focused school track of Gymnasium in Zurich, Switzerland, which merges intellectual and social selectivity in a central entrance examination. This …
We learn Latin, they learn to cook: Students', Principals', and Teachers' Coproductions of Exclusive Public Secondary Schools
Recent years have seen growing interest in the role of selective public secondary schools as places of state-funded privilege production. Students' experiences in and perceptions of these schools are still under-researched. Focusing on the transition to Gymnasium, highly selective public secondary schools in Zurich, this article analyses how students are addressed by principals, teachers, and education policies and how they perceive the Gymnasium…
Studying region, network, fluid, and fire in an educational programme working against social inequalities
Debates on the neoliberalization and privatization of education have recently contributed fresh impulses to the critical engagement of geographies of education, which is known for its longstanding interest in the reproduction of social inequalities. This paper furthers this engagement in two ways. First, it draws on an empirical study of a private, nonprofit preparatory programme that trains aspirational students from disadvantaged backgrounds fo…
Youth nightlife at home: Towards a feminist conceptualisation of home
This paper explores home as a space of youth nightlife and drinking through a feminist lens. It draws on feminist geographical scholarship on home and 40 semi-structured interviews with young people aged 16–25 in Switzerland in the context of a larger interdisciplinary study. We find that the home figures as a central space of nightlife for young people beyond pre-drinking or home parties. At the same time, privacy and intimacy are important to y…
Capturing drinking and nightlife behaviours and their social and physical context with a smartphone application – investigation of users’ experience and reactivity
Background: Many addictive behaviours are influenced by the context in which they occur, but methods for simultaneously capturing the characteristics of a behaviour and its context are scarce. This study describes a smartphone application developed to document young adults’ nightlife and drinking behaviours and investigates its impact on participants’ lives.Methods: 241 participants, aged 16–25 (46.5% women), were asked to document 10 Friday and …
The emotional entanglements of smartphones in the field: On emotional discomfort, power relations, and research ethics
Despite human geographers’ growing recognition of the need to explore how digital technologies are increasingly co‐producing geographies, the methodological implications of such forms of data production are rarely discussed. This paper explores how smartphones co‐constitute fieldwork when they are used as research instruments. Drawing from a research project on young people's nightlife in Switzerland, we use Ahmed's ideas of emotions to show how …
Introduction to the special issue “Young People and New Geographies of Learning and Education”
No abstract available
Highly skilled migrants entering the labour market: Experiences and strategies in the contested field of overqualification and skills mismatch
Unaccompanied minor asylum seekers – processes of subject formation and feelings of belonging in the context of educational experiences in Switzerland
This article addresses unaccompanied minor asylum seekers' (UAMs) educational experiences in Switzerland. Drawing on ethnographic research we explore what it means for UAMs to get an education and how having access or not having access to particular forms and spaces of education plays a part in the process of their subject formations. We get insights into such processes in diverse spaces of education and in phases of transition between them. We p…
Development of the Geographical Proportional-to-size Street-Intercept Sampling (GPSIS) method for recruiting urban nightlife-goers in an entire city
We developed the Geographical Proportional-to-size Street-Intercept Sampling (GPSIS) method in order to obtain a sample of nightlife-goers which accounted for the diversity of spaces, patrons and locations within two Swiss cities. Popular nightlife zones were identified and quantified using social media data and local experts’ knowledge. Young people were recruited in the streets on Friday and Saturday nights on three consecutive weekends using t…
Flirting in the field: Shifting positionalities and power relations in innocuous sexualisations of research encounters
In the last few decades, an engaged and sophisticated discussion about the production of data and power relations has developed within feminist methodology. Positionality, i.e. the set of relations constituting informants' and researchers' subject positions, has been widely used as an analytical tool to account for the complicated ways in which data are co-constructed in fieldwork. Based on our own experience of fieldwork conducted in the city of…
Youth Drinking in Public Places: The Production of Drinking Spaces in and Outside Nightlife Areas
This article explores youth drinking in Zurich, Switzerland, on both public squares away from nightlife areas, referred to as ‘square street drinking’ and on the street within the vicinity of nightclubs, defined as ‘club street drinking’. Taking a relational space approach, the analysis adds a social perspective to the dominant economic-political perspective to drinking in urban nightlife zones. The results suggest that the normative landscapes o…
Sobald Luca ins Quartier kommt, wird er verprügelt“ – Positionierungen Jugendlicher in Erzählungen zu Pöbeleien und Jugenddelinquenz im öffentlichen Raum
Theoretically, the paper draws on conceptualisations of fluid identities and space; methodologically, it is informed by positioning analysis. The case of the delinquent youth clique "FX Fighters" shows that members produce their neighborhood as a challenging space and simultaneously position themselves in this space: sometimes as powerful and fearless youths who dictate rules and keep others in check, sometimes as a youth clique whose vengeance f…
Co-productions of neighbourhood and social identity by young men living in an urban area with delinquent youth cliques
Despite the fact that young people's experiences of public space have received substantial scholarly and public attention, there is only a small body of research concerning narratives of youth delinquency that focuses on the interlinking production of space and identity by young people living outside high-crime areas. To broaden this research I analyse three complementary narratives of groups of young men from working-class families who live in t…
Alkoholkonsum von Jugendlichen als Praxis der Raumaneignung am Beispiel der Stadt Zürich
Vor dem Hintergrund öffentlicher Debatten, die Alkoholkonsum von Jugendlichen mit fehlender «Sauberkeit und Ordnung» im öffentlichen Raum verbinden und Restriktionen fordern, werden aus einer konstruktivistischen Perspektive die in Verbindung mit Alkoholkonsum stattfindenden Raumaneignungen Jugendlicher untersucht. Die empirische Basis bilden Gruppengespräche mit Jugendlichen. Es zeigt sich, dass Jugendliche unterschiedlicher Schichten an verschi…
Flirting in the field: Shifting positionalities and power relations in innocuous sexualisations of research encounters
In the last few decades, an engaged and sophisticated discussion about the production of data and power relations has developed within feminist methodology. Positionality, i.e. the set of relations constituting informants' and researchers' subject positions, has been widely used as an analytical tool to account for the complicated ways in which data are co-constructed in fieldwork. Based on our own experience of fieldwork conducted in the city of…
Highly skilled migrants entering the labour market: Experiences and strategies in the contested field of overqualification and skills mismatch
Youth Drinking in Public Places: The Production of Drinking Spaces in and Outside Nightlife Areas
This article explores youth drinking in Zurich, Switzerland, on both public squares away from nightlife areas, referred to as ‘square street drinking’ and on the street within the vicinity of nightclubs, defined as ‘club street drinking’. Taking a relational space approach, the analysis adds a social perspective to the dominant economic-political perspective to drinking in urban nightlife zones. The results suggest that the normative landscapes o…
Studying region, network, fluid, and fire in an educational programme working against social inequalities
Debates on the neoliberalization and privatization of education have recently contributed fresh impulses to the critical engagement of geographies of education, which is known for its longstanding interest in the reproduction of social inequalities. This paper furthers this engagement in two ways. First, it draws on an empirical study of a private, nonprofit preparatory programme that trains aspirational students from disadvantaged backgrounds fo…
Parental responsibilisation and camouflaging class-based inequalities: An Ethnography of a Highly Selective Educational Transition
This paper contributes to the study of mechanisms of parental responsibilisation and involvement that solidify unequal educational opportunities and camouflage these, especially from pupils. Drawing on data from Zurich, the biggest city in Switzerland, the authors find that parental responsibilisation plays a crucial role in ensuring that class-based educational inequalities remain unrecognised by pupils at the selective educational transition fr…
The emotional entanglements of smartphones in the field: On emotional discomfort, power relations, and research ethics
Despite human geographers’ growing recognition of the need to explore how digital technologies are increasingly co‐producing geographies, the methodological implications of such forms of data production are rarely discussed. This paper explores how smartphones co‐constitute fieldwork when they are used as research instruments. Drawing from a research project on young people's nightlife in Switzerland, we use Ahmed's ideas of emotions to show how …
Co-productions of neighbourhood and social identity by young men living in an urban area with delinquent youth cliques
Despite the fact that young people's experiences of public space have received substantial scholarly and public attention, there is only a small body of research concerning narratives of youth delinquency that focuses on the interlinking production of space and identity by young people living outside high-crime areas. To broaden this research I analyse three complementary narratives of groups of young men from working-class families who live in t…
The marketization of a selective school transition in Switzerland
This article seeks to contribute to ongoing debates on geographies of marketization, which are used in social and geographical research on education to account for the performativity and inherent inconsistencies of markets. This case study draws on students' transition to the state-funded academically focused school track of Gymnasium in Zurich, Switzerland, which merges intellectual and social selectivity in a central entrance examination. This …
Youth nightlife at home: Towards a feminist conceptualisation of home
This paper explores home as a space of youth nightlife and drinking through a feminist lens. It draws on feminist geographical scholarship on home and 40 semi-structured interviews with young people aged 16–25 in Switzerland in the context of a larger interdisciplinary study. We find that the home figures as a central space of nightlife for young people beyond pre-drinking or home parties. At the same time, privacy and intimacy are important to y…
Development of the Geographical Proportional-to-size Street-Intercept Sampling (GPSIS) method for recruiting urban nightlife-goers in an entire city
We developed the Geographical Proportional-to-size Street-Intercept Sampling (GPSIS) method in order to obtain a sample of nightlife-goers which accounted for the diversity of spaces, patrons and locations within two Swiss cities. Popular nightlife zones were identified and quantified using social media data and local experts’ knowledge. Young people were recruited in the streets on Friday and Saturday nights on three consecutive weekends using t…
We learn Latin, they learn to cook: Students', Principals', and Teachers' Coproductions of Exclusive Public Secondary Schools
Recent years have seen growing interest in the role of selective public secondary schools as places of state-funded privilege production. Students' experiences in and perceptions of these schools are still under-researched. Focusing on the transition to Gymnasium, highly selective public secondary schools in Zurich, this article analyses how students are addressed by principals, teachers, and education policies and how they perceive the Gymnasium…
Alkoholkonsum von Jugendlichen als Praxis der Raumaneignung am Beispiel der Stadt Zürich
Vor dem Hintergrund öffentlicher Debatten, die Alkoholkonsum von Jugendlichen mit fehlender «Sauberkeit und Ordnung» im öffentlichen Raum verbinden und Restriktionen fordern, werden aus einer konstruktivistischen Perspektive die in Verbindung mit Alkoholkonsum stattfindenden Raumaneignungen Jugendlicher untersucht. Die empirische Basis bilden Gruppengespräche mit Jugendlichen. Es zeigt sich, dass Jugendliche unterschiedlicher Schichten an verschi…
Co-productions of neighbourhood and social identity by young men living in an urban area with delinquent youth cliques
Despite the fact that young people's experiences of public space have received substantial scholarly and public attention, there is only a small body of research concerning narratives of youth delinquency that focuses on the interlinking production of space and identity by young people living outside high-crime areas. To broaden this research I analyse three complementary narratives of groups of young men from working-class families who live in t…
Sobald Luca ins Quartier kommt, wird er verprügelt“ – Positionierungen Jugendlicher in Erzählungen zu Pöbeleien und Jugenddelinquenz im öffentlichen Raum
Theoretically, the paper draws on conceptualisations of fluid identities and space; methodologically, it is informed by positioning analysis. The case of the delinquent youth clique "FX Fighters" shows that members produce their neighborhood as a challenging space and simultaneously position themselves in this space: sometimes as powerful and fearless youths who dictate rules and keep others in check, sometimes as a youth clique whose vengeance f…
Flirting in the field: Shifting positionalities and power relations in innocuous sexualisations of research encounters
In the last few decades, an engaged and sophisticated discussion about the production of data and power relations has developed within feminist methodology. Positionality, i.e. the set of relations constituting informants' and researchers' subject positions, has been widely used as an analytical tool to account for the complicated ways in which data are co-constructed in fieldwork. Based on our own experience of fieldwork conducted in the city of…
Youth Drinking in Public Places: The Production of Drinking Spaces in and Outside Nightlife Areas
This article explores youth drinking in Zurich, Switzerland, on both public squares away from nightlife areas, referred to as ‘square street drinking’ and on the street within the vicinity of nightclubs, defined as ‘club street drinking’. Taking a relational space approach, the analysis adds a social perspective to the dominant economic-political perspective to drinking in urban nightlife zones. The results suggest that the normative landscapes o…
Unaccompanied minor asylum seekers – processes of subject formation and feelings of belonging in the context of educational experiences in Switzerland
This article addresses unaccompanied minor asylum seekers' (UAMs) educational experiences in Switzerland. Drawing on ethnographic research we explore what it means for UAMs to get an education and how having access or not having access to particular forms and spaces of education plays a part in the process of their subject formations. We get insights into such processes in diverse spaces of education and in phases of transition between them. We p…
Development of the Geographical Proportional-to-size Street-Intercept Sampling (GPSIS) method for recruiting urban nightlife-goers in an entire city
We developed the Geographical Proportional-to-size Street-Intercept Sampling (GPSIS) method in order to obtain a sample of nightlife-goers which accounted for the diversity of spaces, patrons and locations within two Swiss cities. Popular nightlife zones were identified and quantified using social media data and local experts’ knowledge. Young people were recruited in the streets on Friday and Saturday nights on three consecutive weekends using t…
Introduction to the special issue “Young People and New Geographies of Learning and Education”
No abstract available
Highly skilled migrants entering the labour market: Experiences and strategies in the contested field of overqualification and skills mismatch
Capturing drinking and nightlife behaviours and their social and physical context with a smartphone application – investigation of users’ experience and reactivity
Background: Many addictive behaviours are influenced by the context in which they occur, but methods for simultaneously capturing the characteristics of a behaviour and its context are scarce. This study describes a smartphone application developed to document young adults’ nightlife and drinking behaviours and investigates its impact on participants’ lives.Methods: 241 participants, aged 16–25 (46.5% women), were asked to document 10 Friday and …
The emotional entanglements of smartphones in the field: On emotional discomfort, power relations, and research ethics
Despite human geographers’ growing recognition of the need to explore how digital technologies are increasingly co‐producing geographies, the methodological implications of such forms of data production are rarely discussed. This paper explores how smartphones co‐constitute fieldwork when they are used as research instruments. Drawing from a research project on young people's nightlife in Switzerland, we use Ahmed's ideas of emotions to show how …
Youth nightlife at home: Towards a feminist conceptualisation of home
This paper explores home as a space of youth nightlife and drinking through a feminist lens. It draws on feminist geographical scholarship on home and 40 semi-structured interviews with young people aged 16–25 in Switzerland in the context of a larger interdisciplinary study. We find that the home figures as a central space of nightlife for young people beyond pre-drinking or home parties. At the same time, privacy and intimacy are important to y…
Studying region, network, fluid, and fire in an educational programme working against social inequalities
Debates on the neoliberalization and privatization of education have recently contributed fresh impulses to the critical engagement of geographies of education, which is known for its longstanding interest in the reproduction of social inequalities. This paper furthers this engagement in two ways. First, it draws on an empirical study of a private, nonprofit preparatory programme that trains aspirational students from disadvantaged backgrounds fo…
Marketization of Shadow Education in Switzerland: How “Edupreneurs” Promote Preparation Programmes for a Selective School Transition
Private supplementary tutoring (PST) is a flourishing market for edupreneurs whose services relate closely to mainstream education. While international research elaborates on geographical variations in PST and edupreneurs’ marketing strategies, the PST market in Switzerland has been largely understudied. This paper contributes to fill this research gap by presenting a thematic analysis of the websites of edupreneurs offering preparation programme…
The marketization of a selective school transition in Switzerland
This article seeks to contribute to ongoing debates on geographies of marketization, which are used in social and geographical research on education to account for the performativity and inherent inconsistencies of markets. This case study draws on students' transition to the state-funded academically focused school track of Gymnasium in Zurich, Switzerland, which merges intellectual and social selectivity in a central entrance examination. This …
We learn Latin, they learn to cook: Students', Principals', and Teachers' Coproductions of Exclusive Public Secondary Schools
Recent years have seen growing interest in the role of selective public secondary schools as places of state-funded privilege production. Students' experiences in and perceptions of these schools are still under-researched. Focusing on the transition to Gymnasium, highly selective public secondary schools in Zurich, this article analyses how students are addressed by principals, teachers, and education policies and how they perceive the Gymnasium…
Parental responsibilisation and camouflaging class-based inequalities: An Ethnography of a Highly Selective Educational Transition
This paper contributes to the study of mechanisms of parental responsibilisation and involvement that solidify unequal educational opportunities and camouflage these, especially from pupils. Drawing on data from Zurich, the biggest city in Switzerland, the authors find that parental responsibilisation plays a crucial role in ensuring that class-based educational inequalities remain unrecognised by pupils at the selective educational transition fr…
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