Martina Blank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3751365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martina Blank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martina |
| FAMILY NAME | Blank |
| SIGNATURE | BLANK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6161-2516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Writing with research partners ‘from the field’
Despite longstanding calls for more inclusive geographical research and the increasing adoption of participatory research designs, our non-academic research partners ‘from the field’ continue to be excluded from a central aspect of knowledge production: academic writing and publishing. This exclusion is not only an epistemological issue of limited knowledge perspectives but also an ethical problem of epistemic injustice (Fricker, 2007). While par…
Bordering and Debordering Spaces of Asylum in the City of Frankfurt
The segregation of refugees in collective accommodation centres represents an integral component of the European border regime and its complex interplay of inclusion and exclusion. The corresponding spatial, symbolic and discursive demarcations, however, are not simply implemented politically from above, but negotiated on the ground on a daily basis. One crucial group of actors in the German context are neighbourhood‐based volunteers. These group…
"Wir Schaffen Das!"? Spatial Pitfalls of Neighborhood-Based Refugee Reception in Germany-A Case Study of Frankfurt-Rödelheim
Refugee reception in Germany is a primarily municipal task that relies heavily on neighborhood-based volunteering. This paper asserts that there are fundamental spatial mismatches between municipal policies and neighborhood-based approaches that place additional burden on all of the stakeholders involved. Drawing from the case of Frankfurt-Rödelheim, which is a socially and ethnically mixed neighborhood in Frankfurt am Main, I show how the way th…
De-fetishizing the analysis of spatial movement strategies
Bordering and Debordering Spaces of Asylum in the City of Frankfurt
The segregation of refugees in collective accommodation centres represents an integral component of the European border regime and its complex interplay of inclusion and exclusion. The corresponding spatial, symbolic and discursive demarcations, however, are not simply implemented politically from above, but negotiated on the ground on a daily basis. One crucial group of actors in the German context are neighbourhood‐based volunteers. These group…
"Wir Schaffen Das!"? Spatial Pitfalls of Neighborhood-Based Refugee Reception in Germany-A Case Study of Frankfurt-Rödelheim
Refugee reception in Germany is a primarily municipal task that relies heavily on neighborhood-based volunteering. This paper asserts that there are fundamental spatial mismatches between municipal policies and neighborhood-based approaches that place additional burden on all of the stakeholders involved. Drawing from the case of Frankfurt-Rödelheim, which is a socially and ethnically mixed neighborhood in Frankfurt am Main, I show how the way th…
De-fetishizing the analysis of spatial movement strategies
De-fetishizing the analysis of spatial movement strategies
"Wir Schaffen Das!"? Spatial Pitfalls of Neighborhood-Based Refugee Reception in Germany-A Case Study of Frankfurt-Rödelheim
Refugee reception in Germany is a primarily municipal task that relies heavily on neighborhood-based volunteering. This paper asserts that there are fundamental spatial mismatches between municipal policies and neighborhood-based approaches that place additional burden on all of the stakeholders involved. Drawing from the case of Frankfurt-Rödelheim, which is a socially and ethnically mixed neighborhood in Frankfurt am Main, I show how the way th…
Bordering and Debordering Spaces of Asylum in the City of Frankfurt
The segregation of refugees in collective accommodation centres represents an integral component of the European border regime and its complex interplay of inclusion and exclusion. The corresponding spatial, symbolic and discursive demarcations, however, are not simply implemented politically from above, but negotiated on the ground on a daily basis. One crucial group of actors in the German context are neighbourhood‐based volunteers. These group…
Writing with research partners ‘from the field’
Despite longstanding calls for more inclusive geographical research and the increasing adoption of participatory research designs, our non-academic research partners ‘from the field’ continue to be excluded from a central aspect of knowledge production: academic writing and publishing. This exclusion is not only an epistemological issue of limited knowledge perspectives but also an ethical problem of epistemic injustice (Fricker, 2007). While par…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works)