M Naumann
Biographic Data
| ID | 5537 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Naumann |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Naumann |
| SIGNATURE | NAUMANN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bonn |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1143-2004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Towards a platformization of politics? Fragmentation, digitalization, and new geographies of the political party
The mobilization of political discontent in the development of new political formations, and their electoral successes, are frequently linked to the use of digital infrastructures, dominating social media platforms, and utilizing elaborate online strategies. The focus on digital media offers a key point of entry for scholarly engagement with the transformation of political systems throughout the Global North and the rise of political actors opera…
Handbuch Mobile Methoden in der Sozial- und Raumforschung
Die Methoden der Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften sind in Bewegung. Sie nutzen digitale Anwendungen, gehen partizipativer vor und werden zunehmend mobil. Walking Interviews, Bike-Alongs oder Instagram-Walks stehen für die Vielfalt mobiler Methoden und ihre Verknüpfung mit weiteren methodischen Zugängen. Der Band gibt eine kompakte Einführung sowie einen praxisorientierten Überblick über aktuelle Formen der mobilen Datenerhebung und -auswertung. D…
From the “Right to Energy” to the “Right to the Countryside” and Back Again: Contextualizing Rural Energy Transitions
Rural areas as well as their interlinkages with urban agglomerations have gained increasing attention as the main sites where the current energy transformation toward the use of renewable energy is taking place. Due to this, contestations over transitions and emancipatory efforts to transform energy infrastructures cannot be detached from the structural conditions of rural areas and their entanglements with other spatial scales. In this sense, su…
Rural housing after the end of coal. The case of Boxberg (Upper Lusatia, Germany)
Peripherien, Konflikte, Transformationen – Perspektiven einer kritischen Energiegeographie
This introduction presents the fields of peripheries, conflicts and transformations as core topics of critical energy geographies. These fields point to different ways how the provision of energy is interwoven with social inequalities and uneven spatial development. Tackling the relations between energy technology and social power, the contributions to this Theme Issue highlight how power and resistance unfold in different spatial contexts and ar…
The neoliberal roots of regional embitterment: Reproducing ‘left behind’ places through inter-place competition
Neoliberal regional policies, inscribed in material spatial structures and state apparatuses, foster embitterment in ‘left behind’ places, even when they aim to address regional disparities and past frustrations. As a contribution to the prevalence of far-right movements and parties in ‘left behind’ places, we propose to include emotions in cultural political economic analyses in a more systematic manner. Rooted in critical theory and drawing on …
(Re)telling far-right violence: The literary geography of East German coming-of-age novels
This paper proposes a new perspective on the geographies of the far right by focussing on literary geographies. We have conducted a geographical reading of three novels dealing with the spatial patterns of far-right violence. These books are considered part of an ongoing public debate about the ubiquity and normality of far-right violence in the early 1990s in East Germany. The analysed narratives explore this experience against the background of…
Urban communist politics of the everyday in Graz, Austria
The everyday communist politics of local politicians in Graz offers a potential way forward for the left more broadly In September 2021, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) won the municipal elections in Austria’s second-largest city, Graz, and Elke Kahr became the city’s mayor. Kahr has governed in a coalition with the Green Party and the Social Democrats, replacing the former conservative and far-right coalition that had lasted for eighteen ye…
The rural housing crisis: Analytical dimensions and emblematic issues
While the urban housing crisis is pivotal to current debates in housing studies, the question of affordable as well as sustainable housing in rural settings has arisen only recently. However, recent developments, including increasing demand for housing as well as for a specific supply, indicate that there is a rural housing crisis. Connecting the scattered strands of literature on rural housing, we propose an understanding of the rural housing cr…
The rise of 'infrastructural populism: Urban infrastructure and right-wing politics
Right-wing populism has become increasingly embedded in contemporary political systems. It poses challenges not only for societies but also for geographical analysis. This review article develops a fresh perspective through examining how right-wing populists are engaging with urban infrastructure. Examining the literature on populism and urban infrastructure we outline 'infrastructural populism', a general heuristic to understand an emerging agen…
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left
The progressive potential of urban politics is the subject of growing interest. However, debates have been largely focused on large cities with strong progressive constituencies of activists and Left-voting residents. We know little about the opportunities and challenges for progressive politics in smaller urban areas. This article addresses these shortcomings through a discussion of “progressive urbanism” in relation to small towns. In doing so,…
Kritische Stadtforschung jenseits von Großstädten und Wissenschaftsbetrieb: Beitrag zur Debatte „Was ist Stadt? Was ist Kritik?“
Die dynamische Entwicklung einer kritischen Stadtforschung, die sich auch im zehnjährigen Jubiläum dieser Zeitschrift zeigt, wirft zwangsläufig die Frage auf, wie denn Stadt und kritische Forschung abzugrenzen sind. Wenn städtische Entwicklungen prägend für nahezu alle gesellschaftlichen Bereiche sind und ein kritischer Anspruch nahezu zu einer Selbstverständlichkeit in der Stadtforschung geworden ist – droht da nicht die Gefahr einer thematische…
Kritische Stadtgeographie und geographische Bildung: Forschendes Lernen zum Recht auf Stadt am Beispiel der Dresdner „Straßenbahn-Streichler“
Die konzeptionellen Ansätze, empirischen Gegenstände und methodischen Zugänge einer kritischen Stadtforschung sind auch für die Geographiedidaktik und Bildungspraxis relevant. Vor dem Hintergrund bildungspolitischer Querschnittaufgaben wie Inklusion, politische Bildung, Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung oder Digitalisierung rücken kritisch-reflexive Fähigkeiten, gesellschaftliche Teilhabemöglichkeiten und emanzipatorische Veränderungen in ihren…
Vergessenes Land. Perspektiven auf rurale Entwicklung
Vergessenes Land? Angesichts aktueller Debatten um Mietenwahnsinn und Gentrifizierung, der Konzentration des (Finanz-)Kapitals und mit ihr von Kontrollfunktionen in Global Cities, der Bedeutung des Urbanen für Kultur und Innovation ebenso wie für politische Konflikte und soziale Bewegungen wurde und wird das Land häufig vergessen – daher der Titel dieses Heftes. Dabei leben laut dem Thünen-Institut in Deutschland 57 Prozent der Bevölkerung in län…
Ländliche Gentrifizierung. Aufwertung und Verdrängung jenseits der Großstädte – Vorschlag für ein Forschungsprogramm
Not only since the Covid-19 pandemic, rural areas have received new attention as supposedly healthier and attractive places of residence. Regions previously characterized as shrinking are experiencing a highly selective influx of urban middle-class households and an increase in real estate and rental prices. These influxes and housing market developments raise the question of value increase and displacement. English-speaking, and especially Briti…
The Cultural Political Economy of rural governance: Regional development in Hesse (Germany)
Rural areas are back on the agenda. In official German policy papers, at least, there is the commitment to address existing regional disparities and the specific problems of rural regions. However, how exactly these problems are to be addressed often remains vague and practical political consequences are often not explored. This paper applies the conceptual approach of Cultural Political Economy to analyze different “economic imaginaries” that un…
Regionalentwicklung in Ostdeutschland: Dynamiken, Perspektiven und der Beitrag der Humangeographie
The revenge of the village? The geography of right-wing populist electoral success, anti-politics, and austerity in Germany
This paper discusses the geography of the electoral successes of the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the national election to the German parliament in September 2017. Unlike other studies that reduce the electoral pattern to differences between “the city” and “the country,” we do not accept the empirical observation of an urban-rural divide as a sufficient explanation. By doing so, this paper proposes a theorization of …
Energy democracy as the right to the city: Urban energy struggles in Berlin and London
In this paper, we argue that it is generative to link struggles around access to, control over, and the transformation of urban energy systems to the imaginary of the right to the city; and we explore the conceptual, empirical and political contributions of this connection. Our paper starts with two main questions: (1) what do we learn from reading attempts to reclaim urban energy systems from a right to the city perspective? (2) What can this an…
Conceptualizing rural energy transitions: Energizing rural studies, ruralizing energy research
Using focus groups to study energy transitions: Researching or producing new social realities
Between coproduction and commons: Understanding initiatives to reclaim urban energy provision in Berlin and Hamburg
This article explores new geographies of coproduction emerging in urban energy politics. It analyses processes of remunicipalisation of urban utilities, involving the re-establishment of public ownership with a strong democratic and ecological agenda for governing energy infrastructures, with case studies of the German cities of Berlin and Hamburg. Seeking ways of understanding these developments which transcend conventional binaries, such as pub…
Energy democracy: Mapping the debate on energy alternatives
Energy is an emerging topic of interest in human geography, and so is the study of alternative approaches to energy provision and governance. These alternatives are often considered manifestations of energy democracy, a notion that has become prominent in energy‐related activism. This paper connects alternative approaches towards novel, sustainable, and more democratic forms of energy provision to develop a typology of the practices and politics …
Rescaling Energy? Räumliche Neuordnungen in der deutschen Energiewende
The German energy transition is not only characterized by wide technological changes but also by spatial restructuring. The decentralization of energy supply potentially increases the importance of the regional or local scale. The Anglo-American debate on the Politics of Scale addresses the production and transformation of scale while energy issues have not yet been systematically addressed. This paper combines the theoretical paradigms of scale,…
Whose energy transition is it, anyway? Organisation and ownership of the Energiewende in villages, cities and regions
As one of the most ambitious national energy transition initiatives worldwide, the German Energiewende is attracting a huge amount of attention globally in both policy and research circles. The paper explores the implementation of Germany's energy transition through the lens of organisation and ownership in urban and regional contexts. Following a summary of the principal institutional challenges of the Energiewende at local and regional levels t…
Remunicipalization in German cities: Contesting neo-liberalism and reimagining urban governance
After two decades of widespread privatization, German municipalities have started to re-purchase privatized companies. At the same time, social movements are campaigning for remunicipalization, promoting it as a means of achieving greater urban democracy, though these objectives are often divergent from those of municipalities concerned with reasserting local state autonomy. With reference to Berlin, the paper discusses how remunicipalization cam…
Conceptualizing rural energy transitions: Energizing rural studies, ruralizing energy research
From post-politics to a politics of possibility? Unravelling the privatization of the Berlin Water Company
Energy democracy: Mapping the debate on energy alternatives
Energy is an emerging topic of interest in human geography, and so is the study of alternative approaches to energy provision and governance. These alternatives are often considered manifestations of energy democracy, a notion that has become prominent in energy‐related activism. This paper connects alternative approaches towards novel, sustainable, and more democratic forms of energy provision to develop a typology of the practices and politics …
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left
The progressive potential of urban politics is the subject of growing interest. However, debates have been largely focused on large cities with strong progressive constituencies of activists and Left-voting residents. We know little about the opportunities and challenges for progressive politics in smaller urban areas. This article addresses these shortcomings through a discussion of “progressive urbanism” in relation to small towns. In doing so,…
The revenge of the village? The geography of right-wing populist electoral success, anti-politics, and austerity in Germany
This paper discusses the geography of the electoral successes of the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the national election to the German parliament in September 2017. Unlike other studies that reduce the electoral pattern to differences between “the city” and “the country,” we do not accept the empirical observation of an urban-rural divide as a sufficient explanation. By doing so, this paper proposes a theorization of …
Energy democracy as the right to the city: Urban energy struggles in Berlin and London
In this paper, we argue that it is generative to link struggles around access to, control over, and the transformation of urban energy systems to the imaginary of the right to the city; and we explore the conceptual, empirical and political contributions of this connection. Our paper starts with two main questions: (1) what do we learn from reading attempts to reclaim urban energy systems from a right to the city perspective? (2) What can this an…
Using focus groups to study energy transitions: Researching or producing new social realities
The Cultural Political Economy of rural governance: Regional development in Hesse (Germany)
Rural areas are back on the agenda. In official German policy papers, at least, there is the commitment to address existing regional disparities and the specific problems of rural regions. However, how exactly these problems are to be addressed often remains vague and practical political consequences are often not explored. This paper applies the conceptual approach of Cultural Political Economy to analyze different “economic imaginaries” that un…
The rise of 'infrastructural populism: Urban infrastructure and right-wing politics
Right-wing populism has become increasingly embedded in contemporary political systems. It poses challenges not only for societies but also for geographical analysis. This review article develops a fresh perspective through examining how right-wing populists are engaging with urban infrastructure. Examining the literature on populism and urban infrastructure we outline 'infrastructural populism', a general heuristic to understand an emerging agen…
Rescaling Energy? Räumliche Neuordnungen in der deutschen Energiewende
The German energy transition is not only characterized by wide technological changes but also by spatial restructuring. The decentralization of energy supply potentially increases the importance of the regional or local scale. The Anglo-American debate on the Politics of Scale addresses the production and transformation of scale while energy issues have not yet been systematically addressed. This paper combines the theoretical paradigms of scale,…
The rural housing crisis: Analytical dimensions and emblematic issues
While the urban housing crisis is pivotal to current debates in housing studies, the question of affordable as well as sustainable housing in rural settings has arisen only recently. However, recent developments, including increasing demand for housing as well as for a specific supply, indicate that there is a rural housing crisis. Connecting the scattered strands of literature on rural housing, we propose an understanding of the rural housing cr…
The neoliberal roots of regional embitterment: Reproducing ‘left behind’ places through inter-place competition
Neoliberal regional policies, inscribed in material spatial structures and state apparatuses, foster embitterment in ‘left behind’ places, even when they aim to address regional disparities and past frustrations. As a contribution to the prevalence of far-right movements and parties in ‘left behind’ places, we propose to include emotions in cultural political economic analyses in a more systematic manner. Rooted in critical theory and drawing on …
Globaler Wandel und regionale Entwicklung: Anpassungsstrategien in der Region Berlin-Brandenburg
Peripheralization: The Making of Spatial Dependencies and Social Injustice
From post-politics to a politics of possibility? Unravelling the privatization of the Berlin Water Company
Whose energy transition is it, anyway? Organisation and ownership of the Energiewende in villages, cities and regions
As one of the most ambitious national energy transition initiatives worldwide, the German Energiewende is attracting a huge amount of attention globally in both policy and research circles. The paper explores the implementation of Germany's energy transition through the lens of organisation and ownership in urban and regional contexts. Following a summary of the principal institutional challenges of the Energiewende at local and regional levels t…
Remunicipalization in German cities: Contesting neo-liberalism and reimagining urban governance
After two decades of widespread privatization, German municipalities have started to re-purchase privatized companies. At the same time, social movements are campaigning for remunicipalization, promoting it as a means of achieving greater urban democracy, though these objectives are often divergent from those of municipalities concerned with reasserting local state autonomy. With reference to Berlin, the paper discusses how remunicipalization cam…
Between coproduction and commons: Understanding initiatives to reclaim urban energy provision in Berlin and Hamburg
This article explores new geographies of coproduction emerging in urban energy politics. It analyses processes of remunicipalisation of urban utilities, involving the re-establishment of public ownership with a strong democratic and ecological agenda for governing energy infrastructures, with case studies of the German cities of Berlin and Hamburg. Seeking ways of understanding these developments which transcend conventional binaries, such as pub…
Energy democracy: Mapping the debate on energy alternatives
Energy is an emerging topic of interest in human geography, and so is the study of alternative approaches to energy provision and governance. These alternatives are often considered manifestations of energy democracy, a notion that has become prominent in energy‐related activism. This paper connects alternative approaches towards novel, sustainable, and more democratic forms of energy provision to develop a typology of the practices and politics …
Rescaling Energy? Räumliche Neuordnungen in der deutschen Energiewende
The German energy transition is not only characterized by wide technological changes but also by spatial restructuring. The decentralization of energy supply potentially increases the importance of the regional or local scale. The Anglo-American debate on the Politics of Scale addresses the production and transformation of scale while energy issues have not yet been systematically addressed. This paper combines the theoretical paradigms of scale,…
Using focus groups to study energy transitions: Researching or producing new social realities
Conceptualizing rural energy transitions: Energizing rural studies, ruralizing energy research
Regionalentwicklung in Ostdeutschland: Dynamiken, Perspektiven und der Beitrag der Humangeographie
The revenge of the village? The geography of right-wing populist electoral success, anti-politics, and austerity in Germany
This paper discusses the geography of the electoral successes of the right-wing populist party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the national election to the German parliament in September 2017. Unlike other studies that reduce the electoral pattern to differences between “the city” and “the country,” we do not accept the empirical observation of an urban-rural divide as a sufficient explanation. By doing so, this paper proposes a theorization of …
Energy democracy as the right to the city: Urban energy struggles in Berlin and London
In this paper, we argue that it is generative to link struggles around access to, control over, and the transformation of urban energy systems to the imaginary of the right to the city; and we explore the conceptual, empirical and political contributions of this connection. Our paper starts with two main questions: (1) what do we learn from reading attempts to reclaim urban energy systems from a right to the city perspective? (2) What can this an…
Vergessenes Land. Perspektiven auf rurale Entwicklung
Vergessenes Land? Angesichts aktueller Debatten um Mietenwahnsinn und Gentrifizierung, der Konzentration des (Finanz-)Kapitals und mit ihr von Kontrollfunktionen in Global Cities, der Bedeutung des Urbanen für Kultur und Innovation ebenso wie für politische Konflikte und soziale Bewegungen wurde und wird das Land häufig vergessen – daher der Titel dieses Heftes. Dabei leben laut dem Thünen-Institut in Deutschland 57 Prozent der Bevölkerung in län…
Ländliche Gentrifizierung. Aufwertung und Verdrängung jenseits der Großstädte – Vorschlag für ein Forschungsprogramm
Not only since the Covid-19 pandemic, rural areas have received new attention as supposedly healthier and attractive places of residence. Regions previously characterized as shrinking are experiencing a highly selective influx of urban middle-class households and an increase in real estate and rental prices. These influxes and housing market developments raise the question of value increase and displacement. English-speaking, and especially Briti…
The Cultural Political Economy of rural governance: Regional development in Hesse (Germany)
Rural areas are back on the agenda. In official German policy papers, at least, there is the commitment to address existing regional disparities and the specific problems of rural regions. However, how exactly these problems are to be addressed often remains vague and practical political consequences are often not explored. This paper applies the conceptual approach of Cultural Political Economy to analyze different “economic imaginaries” that un…
Kritische Stadtforschung jenseits von Großstädten und Wissenschaftsbetrieb: Beitrag zur Debatte „Was ist Stadt? Was ist Kritik?“
Die dynamische Entwicklung einer kritischen Stadtforschung, die sich auch im zehnjährigen Jubiläum dieser Zeitschrift zeigt, wirft zwangsläufig die Frage auf, wie denn Stadt und kritische Forschung abzugrenzen sind. Wenn städtische Entwicklungen prägend für nahezu alle gesellschaftlichen Bereiche sind und ein kritischer Anspruch nahezu zu einer Selbstverständlichkeit in der Stadtforschung geworden ist – droht da nicht die Gefahr einer thematische…
Kritische Stadtgeographie und geographische Bildung: Forschendes Lernen zum Recht auf Stadt am Beispiel der Dresdner „Straßenbahn-Streichler“
Die konzeptionellen Ansätze, empirischen Gegenstände und methodischen Zugänge einer kritischen Stadtforschung sind auch für die Geographiedidaktik und Bildungspraxis relevant. Vor dem Hintergrund bildungspolitischer Querschnittaufgaben wie Inklusion, politische Bildung, Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung oder Digitalisierung rücken kritisch-reflexive Fähigkeiten, gesellschaftliche Teilhabemöglichkeiten und emanzipatorische Veränderungen in ihren…
Progressive Urbanism in Small Towns: The Contingencies of Governing From the Left
The progressive potential of urban politics is the subject of growing interest. However, debates have been largely focused on large cities with strong progressive constituencies of activists and Left-voting residents. We know little about the opportunities and challenges for progressive politics in smaller urban areas. This article addresses these shortcomings through a discussion of “progressive urbanism” in relation to small towns. In doing so,…
Urban communist politics of the everyday in Graz, Austria
The everyday communist politics of local politicians in Graz offers a potential way forward for the left more broadly In September 2021, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) won the municipal elections in Austria’s second-largest city, Graz, and Elke Kahr became the city’s mayor. Kahr has governed in a coalition with the Green Party and the Social Democrats, replacing the former conservative and far-right coalition that had lasted for eighteen ye…
The rural housing crisis: Analytical dimensions and emblematic issues
While the urban housing crisis is pivotal to current debates in housing studies, the question of affordable as well as sustainable housing in rural settings has arisen only recently. However, recent developments, including increasing demand for housing as well as for a specific supply, indicate that there is a rural housing crisis. Connecting the scattered strands of literature on rural housing, we propose an understanding of the rural housing cr…
The rise of 'infrastructural populism: Urban infrastructure and right-wing politics
Right-wing populism has become increasingly embedded in contemporary political systems. It poses challenges not only for societies but also for geographical analysis. This review article develops a fresh perspective through examining how right-wing populists are engaging with urban infrastructure. Examining the literature on populism and urban infrastructure we outline 'infrastructural populism', a general heuristic to understand an emerging agen…
Handbuch Mobile Methoden in der Sozial- und Raumforschung
Die Methoden der Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften sind in Bewegung. Sie nutzen digitale Anwendungen, gehen partizipativer vor und werden zunehmend mobil. Walking Interviews, Bike-Alongs oder Instagram-Walks stehen für die Vielfalt mobiler Methoden und ihre Verknüpfung mit weiteren methodischen Zugängen. Der Band gibt eine kompakte Einführung sowie einen praxisorientierten Überblick über aktuelle Formen der mobilen Datenerhebung und -auswertung. D…
From the “Right to Energy” to the “Right to the Countryside” and Back Again: Contextualizing Rural Energy Transitions
Rural areas as well as their interlinkages with urban agglomerations have gained increasing attention as the main sites where the current energy transformation toward the use of renewable energy is taking place. Due to this, contestations over transitions and emancipatory efforts to transform energy infrastructures cannot be detached from the structural conditions of rural areas and their entanglements with other spatial scales. In this sense, su…
Rural housing after the end of coal. The case of Boxberg (Upper Lusatia, Germany)
Political science (24 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (9 works) · German (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (7 works)