Judith Keller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3758931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judith Keller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judith |
| FAMILY NAME | Keller |
| SIGNATURE | KELLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0557-2513 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nothing new to see here?! A critical (visual) discourse analysis of climate (im)mobility in IOM documents
This paper revisits critical climate mobility literature that explores the role of images and visual materials within policy briefs and papers, published about a decade ago, to contrast those findings with present-day policy documents. Based on a discourse analysis of 10 recent IOM reports and policy briefs, we show that the written discourse has changed within the documents from a language of migration/displacement/refuge to one that is akin to …
Reflections on place and trust in images of socio-ecological transformations
Transformation tends to be embedded within collective imaginaries. In the context of climate change, imaginaries of transformation can be sorted into representations of (1) business-as-usual; (2) techno-fixes and (3) apocalypse. Drawing on Sarah Pink's work, we reflect on the alternative approach of “trusted and emplaced futures” here. We put this concept to work by conducting a qualitative image analysis of a German hidden picture book for child…
Word by word, story by story
Rethinking employee housing
This article invites more substantial attention to the renaissance of employee housing. At a time when a wide range of people struggle to find affordable and adequate housing in urban areas close to their places of work and learning, the housing question is no longer only an individual challenge but threatens to undermine the functioning of intricate urban economies and social ecologies. The lack of affordable housing has thus reached a point whe…
Mobilizing the paradox of the everyday crisis
This essay uses the example of the housing affordability crisis, fleshing out how the everyday and its contestations are a fruitful lens in urban crisis research. Due to constant confrontations with the housing affordability crisis – in our streets and neighbourhoods, in the media, in public discourse, in our own homes – there is an everydayness to struggles over affordable and adequate housing, whether we are directly impacted by housing insecur…
Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act in Washington DC
This update looks into the history and the current contestation of Washington, D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA). TOPA provides tenants of rental housing with the right of first refusal when an owner seeks to sell a property. Enacted in the 1980s, TOPA has been a crucial tool in the fight of working-class people to win true housing justice in the U.S. capital, particularly for Black and Brown working-class residents who have long b…
Feeling-living-fighting the housing crisis
Archiving the Housing Conjuncture
The past months have continued to exacerbate crises of housing, home, displacement, dispossession, and other state-sanctioned forms of violence and premature death. We witness erasure of histories, lives lived, belongings, and homes, which are intentional strategies to forcibly remove people from place and to make it seem as though they were never there. The authors thus document this conjunctural moment in radical housing struggles and collectiv…
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing
Life-Affirmative Struggles for Home Across Borders
Issue 5.1 of the Radical Housing Journal (RHJ) examines the current state of struggles for housing and home amidst capital-accumulation-induced urban restructuring worldwide. The authors discuss the enduring impact of settler colonialism on land and housing rights, particularly for Indigenous peoples. Feminist, queer, and trans perspectives are brought to the forefront, emphasizing the leadership roles played by marginalized communities in housin…
Let’s talk about emotional labor—some reflections from the field
While methodologies on fieldwork are widely discussed in geography, this paper illuminates the challenges of emotional labor that are associated with ethnographic fieldwork. For many geographers, fieldwork is an exciting and crucial part of their job, but for some, especially junior faculty and graduate students, there are many undiscussed and unanticipated difficulties associated with this work. We focus on three challenges that in particular re…
You promised me a city
You Promised Me a City—speaking with Lefebvre, it is simultaneously a cry and demand. But what city? Who made the promise? And to whom? This paper was inspired by two thought-provoking days spent in Hannover, Germany at You Promised Me a City, a conference for experimental urban development. Firstly, the conference wanted to produce tensions by bringing people from different fields, academics, practitioners, and artists together from various coun…
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development
Trust has become a popular term in current political and social debates, but it usually remains a vague concept. This paper aims to introduce trust as a sociospatial concept for the study of urban developments. More precisely, trust is used to analyze the housing markets of two U.S. cities, Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, both of which are shaped by the forces of a global real estate market, rendering housing unaffordable for many local residen…
Walker Evans
I assure you, for the Resettlement Administration, that no release or use of any of the pictures which Walker Evans takes on this trip will be made until after Fortune has had the opportunity of publishing its article on sharecroppers. This date is now being set as November 25. (Roy Stryker to Forflllle magazine, 1936.)1
Women photographers in Europe 1919-1939
The work of the women in this exhibition can be characterized as being ‘on the edge’ because much of it was avant-garde in nature. These arrists lived and worked in a world of extreme political and social volatility; a world of almost intoxicating uncertainty and change, which produced such phenomena as the New Woman — someone who cast her own vote, brought home her own pay-packet, or practised birth control. This was a new world that included wo…
Walker Evans and many are called
In 1966, as the war in Vietnam was escalating, Walker Evans published a collection of eighty-nine photographs from negatives made in the subways of New York at least 25 years before. As Sarah Greenough reminds us in her recent exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans: Subways and Streets, the appearance of this collection, Many are Called, was accompanied later that year by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of forty images from the same project…
Evans and Agee
According to James Agee's biographer, Laurence Bergreen, the young writer was elated upon being told by Fortune editor Ralph Ingersoll in June 1936 that his next assignment would be to report on the predicament of Southern tenant farmers. And, Bergreen recounts, ‘To Agee's further delight, Ingersoll nominated one Walker Evans as the photographer for the article’.1 Agee rushed to tell his friend Robert Fitzgerald the news and over drinks ‘sang the…
The department of photographs at the Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum opened to the public in 1954. It contained collections of paintings, antiquities and decorative arts, and was housed in a private residence belonging to Mr Getty. The current building, referred to by staff as ‘The Villa’, was completed in 1974, and now, in addition to the three collections mentioned above, displays selections from four departments formed since 1980 — those of sculpture, manuscripts, drawings, and photogra…
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development
Trust has become a popular term in current political and social debates, but it usually remains a vague concept. This paper aims to introduce trust as a sociospatial concept for the study of urban developments. More precisely, trust is used to analyze the housing markets of two U.S. cities, Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, both of which are shaped by the forces of a global real estate market, rendering housing unaffordable for many local residen…
Let’s talk about emotional labor—some reflections from the field
While methodologies on fieldwork are widely discussed in geography, this paper illuminates the challenges of emotional labor that are associated with ethnographic fieldwork. For many geographers, fieldwork is an exciting and crucial part of their job, but for some, especially junior faculty and graduate students, there are many undiscussed and unanticipated difficulties associated with this work. We focus on three challenges that in particular re…
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing
Feeling-living-fighting the housing crisis
The department of photographs at the Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum opened to the public in 1954. It contained collections of paintings, antiquities and decorative arts, and was housed in a private residence belonging to Mr Getty. The current building, referred to by staff as ‘The Villa’, was completed in 1974, and now, in addition to the three collections mentioned above, displays selections from four departments formed since 1980 — those of sculpture, manuscripts, drawings, and photogra…
Evans and Agee
According to James Agee's biographer, Laurence Bergreen, the young writer was elated upon being told by Fortune editor Ralph Ingersoll in June 1936 that his next assignment would be to report on the predicament of Southern tenant farmers. And, Bergreen recounts, ‘To Agee's further delight, Ingersoll nominated one Walker Evans as the photographer for the article’.1 Agee rushed to tell his friend Robert Fitzgerald the news and over drinks ‘sang the…
Walker Evans and many are called
In 1966, as the war in Vietnam was escalating, Walker Evans published a collection of eighty-nine photographs from negatives made in the subways of New York at least 25 years before. As Sarah Greenough reminds us in her recent exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans: Subways and Streets, the appearance of this collection, Many are Called, was accompanied later that year by an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of forty images from the same project…
Women photographers in Europe 1919-1939
The work of the women in this exhibition can be characterized as being ‘on the edge’ because much of it was avant-garde in nature. These arrists lived and worked in a world of extreme political and social volatility; a world of almost intoxicating uncertainty and change, which produced such phenomena as the New Woman — someone who cast her own vote, brought home her own pay-packet, or practised birth control. This was a new world that included wo…
Walker Evans
I assure you, for the Resettlement Administration, that no release or use of any of the pictures which Walker Evans takes on this trip will be made until after Fortune has had the opportunity of publishing its article on sharecroppers. This date is now being set as November 25. (Roy Stryker to Forflllle magazine, 1936.)1
You promised me a city
You Promised Me a City—speaking with Lefebvre, it is simultaneously a cry and demand. But what city? Who made the promise? And to whom? This paper was inspired by two thought-provoking days spent in Hannover, Germany at You Promised Me a City, a conference for experimental urban development. Firstly, the conference wanted to produce tensions by bringing people from different fields, academics, practitioners, and artists together from various coun…
No place for trust—the significance of trust in housing development
Trust has become a popular term in current political and social debates, but it usually remains a vague concept. This paper aims to introduce trust as a sociospatial concept for the study of urban developments. More precisely, trust is used to analyze the housing markets of two U.S. cities, Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, both of which are shaped by the forces of a global real estate market, rendering housing unaffordable for many local residen…
Life-Affirmative Struggles for Home Across Borders
Issue 5.1 of the Radical Housing Journal (RHJ) examines the current state of struggles for housing and home amidst capital-accumulation-induced urban restructuring worldwide. The authors discuss the enduring impact of settler colonialism on land and housing rights, particularly for Indigenous peoples. Feminist, queer, and trans perspectives are brought to the forefront, emphasizing the leadership roles played by marginalized communities in housin…
Let’s talk about emotional labor—some reflections from the field
While methodologies on fieldwork are widely discussed in geography, this paper illuminates the challenges of emotional labor that are associated with ethnographic fieldwork. For many geographers, fieldwork is an exciting and crucial part of their job, but for some, especially junior faculty and graduate students, there are many undiscussed and unanticipated difficulties associated with this work. We focus on three challenges that in particular re…
Archiving the Housing Conjuncture
The past months have continued to exacerbate crises of housing, home, displacement, dispossession, and other state-sanctioned forms of violence and premature death. We witness erasure of histories, lives lived, belongings, and homes, which are intentional strategies to forcibly remove people from place and to make it seem as though they were never there. The authors thus document this conjunctural moment in radical housing struggles and collectiv…
The slow violence of waiting in the un making of public housing
Mobilizing the paradox of the everyday crisis
This essay uses the example of the housing affordability crisis, fleshing out how the everyday and its contestations are a fruitful lens in urban crisis research. Due to constant confrontations with the housing affordability crisis – in our streets and neighbourhoods, in the media, in public discourse, in our own homes – there is an everydayness to struggles over affordable and adequate housing, whether we are directly impacted by housing insecur…
Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act in Washington DC
This update looks into the history and the current contestation of Washington, D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA). TOPA provides tenants of rental housing with the right of first refusal when an owner seeks to sell a property. Enacted in the 1980s, TOPA has been a crucial tool in the fight of working-class people to win true housing justice in the U.S. capital, particularly for Black and Brown working-class residents who have long b…
Feeling-living-fighting the housing crisis
Nothing new to see here?! A critical (visual) discourse analysis of climate (im)mobility in IOM documents
This paper revisits critical climate mobility literature that explores the role of images and visual materials within policy briefs and papers, published about a decade ago, to contrast those findings with present-day policy documents. Based on a discourse analysis of 10 recent IOM reports and policy briefs, we show that the written discourse has changed within the documents from a language of migration/displacement/refuge to one that is akin to …
Reflections on place and trust in images of socio-ecological transformations
Transformation tends to be embedded within collective imaginaries. In the context of climate change, imaginaries of transformation can be sorted into representations of (1) business-as-usual; (2) techno-fixes and (3) apocalypse. Drawing on Sarah Pink's work, we reflect on the alternative approach of “trusted and emplaced futures” here. We put this concept to work by conducting a qualitative image analysis of a German hidden picture book for child…
Word by word, story by story
Rethinking employee housing
This article invites more substantial attention to the renaissance of employee housing. At a time when a wide range of people struggle to find affordable and adequate housing in urban areas close to their places of work and learning, the housing question is no longer only an individual challenge but threatens to undermine the functioning of intricate urban economies and social ecologies. The lack of affordable housing has thus reached a point whe…
Political science (9 works) · Art (6 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (3 works)