A Strüver
Biographic Data
| ID | 80265 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Strüver |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Strüver |
| SIGNATURE | STRÜVER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Graz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6934-4739 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Platformized domestic labor beyond technology: “Uncaring by design”
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…
Reclaiming the City Through Care: Public Urban Cultures of Care
Practices of care are key elements of urbanity and thus of sociospatial relations, including everyday experiences in and of urban places and spaces. However, practices of care become even more important in times of multiple societal crises in which the quality of life of individuals and communities is significantly under stress. This thematic issue presents state‐of‐the‐art research from urban contexts including Barcelona, Berlin, Bern, Bogotá, B…
Alltagsperspektiven sichtbar machen und sozial-ökologische Transformation anstoßen: Photovoice als visuelle Forschungs- und Bildungspraxis in der Geographie
Photovoice is a visual research method that focuses on the everyday experiences of participants in participatory settings and combines phases of photography, moments of storytelling and processes of socio-spatial appropriation. Its emancipatory and transformative approach sets it apart from other photo-based methods. Originating from participatory action research (PAR), Photovoice aims to enable participation in knowledge production, makes margin…
Looking Through the Hidden Abode's “Window”—Platform Urbanism, Precarity, and Everyday Social Reproduction
Gig platforms mediating domestic services related to social reproduction are increasingly acknowledged as urban infrastructures. While critical scholars have discussed the related working conditions, profitmaking, and problems resulting from digital mediation extensively, there is no broader debate about the reorganization of reproductive work due to platform‐mediated services. As a possible (techno‐)fix for the crises of social reproduction and …
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care
When platform companies first entered the scene, they claimed that their novel business models did not fit with existing regulations. This narrative of 'platform exceptionalism' has increasingly been discredited. This paper focuses on platform companies that mediate labour in the care sector and explores what legitimation strategies they use today. We build our argument on interviews with platform entrepreneurs in Hamburg, Vienna and Zurich and a…
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…
Platforms mediating domestic care work as service gigs in European cities: Reorganisation of social reproduction through marketisation
In European cities, lean labour platforms increasingly mediate domestic service gigs related to social reproduction, such as food delivery and cleaning tasks on-demand. This fast-growing type of platform depends on spatial proximity and the population density of cities, economic relations enabled by digital technologies and embodied gendered and racialised norms. At the same time, platforms are linked to the crisis of social reproduction and to a…
Introducing a Scale for Measuring Attachment to Urban Green
Urban green contributes to enhanced well-being and overall quality of life in urban populations. The concept of place attachment provides an established avenue for exploring the intricate connections between urban environments and personal experiences. Building on the notion of place attachment, we investigated the perceptions of horizontal and vertical urban green by introducing a novel Urban Green Attachment (UGA) scale. A cross-sectional study…
Promoting active transport in rural communities through infrastructural modifications: The Pabem needs assessment tool
The design of the built environment in communities influences active transport and physical activity levels of citizens. Existing instruments for quantitatively assessing built environments were developed for use in urban areas and mainly by experts. Participative assessment of built environment modifications (PABEM) is a needs assessment tool that involves citizens and community decision-makers within a structured process for identifying needed …
Platformization of Urban Life: Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities
The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contrib…
Warum die Frage nach dem verwendeten Stadtbegriff „vorkritisch“ ist: Beitrag zur Debatte „Was ist Stadt? Was ist Kritik?“
Zu einem bei sub\urban im Jahr 2019 eingereichten Aufsatz zum Themenheft Urbane Politische Ökologien bekam ich in einem der Reviews unter dem Stichwort „Gliederung des Beitrages“ die Aufforderung zur Erläuterung „welches Stadtverständnis ist relevant?“ Diese Frage hat mich gleichermaßen überrascht wie verärgert, stellt sie doch für mich einen Rekurs auf die „vorkritische Stadtforschung“ dar. Mein Umgang mit dieser Frage im Prozess der Beitragsübe…
Just care! Rethinking the uneven geographies of care
After COVID-19 was characterised as a pandemic in spring 2020, care and care work became very dominant topics in public discourse in Western Europe. Against this backdrop, the paper turns to the underlying social structures and conditions of caring relations and aims to go before and beyond the pandemic. The serious occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic and its unjust social effects will be taken as a starting point to engage with social theory to di…
Towards alternative platform futures in post-pandemic cities? A case study on platformization and changing socio-spatial relations in on-demand food delivery
Digital platforms have become an increasingly central concept for reflecting societal processes, but the historical and spatial embeddedness of platformization is often neglected as dystopian warnings and promises of efficiency take center stage. The Covid-19 pandemic has further intensified discussion and speculation regarding the future of digital platforms and changing everyday routines in (post-)pandemic cities. Drawing on the case study of G…
Ein diskurstheoretisch informierter Blick auf Karten und Kartographie
Performativität
Grundlagen und zentrale Begriffe der Foucault’schen Diskurstheorie
Grundlagen und zentrale Begriffe der Foucault''schen Diskurstheorie
Fotografie als Methode zur Analyse von Visualität und Materialität
Discourses of sustainability and imperial modes of food provision: Agri-food-businesses and consumers in Germany
It is widely accepted that overcoming the social-ecological crises we face requires major changes to the food system. However, opinions diverge on the question whether those 'great efforts' towards sustainability require systemic changes or merely systematic ones. Drawing upon Brand and Wissen's concept of "imperial modes of living" (Rev Int Polit Econ 20:687-711, 2013; The imperial mode of living: everyday life and the ecological crisis of capit…
Platform Urbanism: Technocapitalist Production of Private and Public Spaces
Digital technologies and services are increasingly used to meet a wide range of urban challenges. These developments bear the risk that the urban digital transformation will exacerbate already existing socio-spatial inequalities. Graham’s assumption from nearly 20 years ago (2002)—that European cities are characterised by various forms of socio-spatial segregation, which will not be overcome by digital infrastructures—thus needs to be seriously a…
Europeanization in Cypriot Borderscapes: Experiencing the Green Line in Everyday Life
Despite the EU accession of the Republic of Cyprus in 2004, the "Green Line" dividing Cyprus that was added as a border in 1974 remains an external EU-border between the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), a self-proclaimed state internationally recognized exclusively by Turkey. Pro- and con European attitudes on Cyprus are therefore not recent phenomena, but date back to the start of EU accession negotiat…
Von der Inkorporierung und Verkörperung des Sozialen zur Somatisierung der Umwelt: Posthumanistische Überlegungen zum biosozialen Subjekt
With the recognition of relational thinking, methodologies approaching spaces as containers were discarded and reconfigured in social geography. However, there are other "containers" still present in these debates - and present as part of the relations in space - such as the "black box" of the human body. In order to advance the opening of the Black Box of the Body (Guthman, 2012), the article discusses social geographical thinking concerning mat…
Presenting Representations: On the Analysis of Narratives and Images Along the Dutch-German Border
Mutual narratives and images about Germany and the Netherlands as they are 'mediated' in newspapers and on TV, for example, very much rely on the past that is related to World War II. In greater detail and as a result of analysing innumerable narratives on Dutch German 'encounters' between 1789 and 1995 - described as 'broken mirrors', Groenewold has developed a 'Dutch-German interpretation array' that consists of differentially defined character…
Relation between Observed and Perceived Traffic Noise and Socio-Economic Status in Urban Blocks of Different Characteristics
Living in cities offers many benefits and thus more and more people are living in urban areas. However, the concentration of human activities also creates environmental stressors with severe influence on people’s health and well-being. Noise is an environmental stressor with known health impact. Despite this, studies investigating small-scale difference in noise exposure and annoyance are lacking. Against this background, this case study investig…
Borders, Strangers, Doors and Bridges
n Contains fulltext :\n 74552.pdf ( ) (Closed access)\n
Spheres of transnationalism within the European union: On open doors, thresholds and drawbridges along the Dutch–German border
This article addresses the European Union's claim to establish transnational spaces through co-operation across its internal borders. Focusing on the Dutch–German borderland as an example, people's practices towards this border and their perceptions of it are introduced. It is underscored that these practices are influenced by popular representations, which (re)produce bounded spaces and the barrier effect of the border, thus making it difficult …
Significant insignificance – boundaries in a borderless European Union: Deconstructing the Dutch‐German transnational labor market
This contribution elaborates on European Union (E.U.) geopolitical discourses, which attempt to overcome the ‘insignificance’ of state‐borders through the establishment of cross‐border regions. Drawing on the nonexisting Dutch‐German transnational labor market as an example, the observed ‘non‐practice’ of border crossing is introduced. ‘Significant boundaries’ and their meanings, on the other hand, are constructed by narratives and images that ar…
Platforms mediating domestic care work as service gigs in European cities: Reorganisation of social reproduction through marketisation
In European cities, lean labour platforms increasingly mediate domestic service gigs related to social reproduction, such as food delivery and cleaning tasks on-demand. This fast-growing type of platform depends on spatial proximity and the population density of cities, economic relations enabled by digital technologies and embodied gendered and racialised norms. At the same time, platforms are linked to the crisis of social reproduction and to a…
Towards alternative platform futures in post-pandemic cities? A case study on platformization and changing socio-spatial relations in on-demand food delivery
Digital platforms have become an increasingly central concept for reflecting societal processes, but the historical and spatial embeddedness of platformization is often neglected as dystopian warnings and promises of efficiency take center stage. The Covid-19 pandemic has further intensified discussion and speculation regarding the future of digital platforms and changing everyday routines in (post-)pandemic cities. Drawing on the case study of G…
Everyone Creates One's Own Borders: The Dutch-German Borderland as Representation
When examining the internal borders of the European Union in the context of their purportedly official demise following European integration, structural obstacles to cross-border interaction are normally taken into consideration while ignoring borders in people's minds. Approaching this lacuna, the author proposes to understand borders as being constituted by imaginations and representations, and as undergoing a constant reconfiguring through soc…
The Production of Geopolitical and Gendered Images through Global Aid Organisations
In looking at micro-mechanisms of the production of regionalisations in global governance discourses, this article argues that definitions of global disparities between regions are an outcome of representations. Against the background of "critical geopolitics" and conceptualising representations as space-producing practices, the contribution examines the ways how global aid organisations (re-)produce regionalisations in their campaigns' spatial r…
From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care
When platform companies first entered the scene, they claimed that their novel business models did not fit with existing regulations. This narrative of 'platform exceptionalism' has increasingly been discredited. This paper focuses on platform companies that mediate labour in the care sector and explores what legitimation strategies they use today. We build our argument on interviews with platform entrepreneurs in Hamburg, Vienna and Zurich and a…
Europeanization in Cypriot Borderscapes: Experiencing the Green Line in Everyday Life
Despite the EU accession of the Republic of Cyprus in 2004, the "Green Line" dividing Cyprus that was added as a border in 1974 remains an external EU-border between the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), a self-proclaimed state internationally recognized exclusively by Turkey. Pro- and con European attitudes on Cyprus are therefore not recent phenomena, but date back to the start of EU accession negotiat…
Von der Inkorporierung und Verkörperung des Sozialen zur Somatisierung der Umwelt: Posthumanistische Überlegungen zum biosozialen Subjekt
With the recognition of relational thinking, methodologies approaching spaces as containers were discarded and reconfigured in social geography. However, there are other "containers" still present in these debates - and present as part of the relations in space - such as the "black box" of the human body. In order to advance the opening of the Black Box of the Body (Guthman, 2012), the article discusses social geographical thinking concerning mat…
Looking Through the Hidden Abode's “Window”—Platform Urbanism, Precarity, and Everyday Social Reproduction
Gig platforms mediating domestic services related to social reproduction are increasingly acknowledged as urban infrastructures. While critical scholars have discussed the related working conditions, profitmaking, and problems resulting from digital mediation extensively, there is no broader debate about the reorganization of reproductive work due to platform‐mediated services. As a possible (techno‐)fix for the crises of social reproduction and …
Discourses of sustainability and imperial modes of food provision: Agri-food-businesses and consumers in Germany
It is widely accepted that overcoming the social-ecological crises we face requires major changes to the food system. However, opinions diverge on the question whether those 'great efforts' towards sustainability require systemic changes or merely systematic ones. Drawing upon Brand and Wissen's concept of "imperial modes of living" (Rev Int Polit Econ 20:687-711, 2013; The imperial mode of living: everyday life and the ecological crisis of capit…
Relation between Observed and Perceived Traffic Noise and Socio-Economic Status in Urban Blocks of Different Characteristics
Living in cities offers many benefits and thus more and more people are living in urban areas. However, the concentration of human activities also creates environmental stressors with severe influence on people’s health and well-being. Noise is an environmental stressor with known health impact. Despite this, studies investigating small-scale difference in noise exposure and annoyance are lacking. Against this background, this case study investig…
Spielerisch-sportliche Raumaneignung. Zur Performativität von Körpern und Räumen im Spiegel aktueller Forschung
Article Spielerisch-sportliche Raumaneignung. Zur Performativität von Körpern und Räumen im Spiegel aktueller Forschung was published on May 1, 2012 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 30, issue 1)
Spatialising Terrorist Networks: Geopolitical Narratives and Their Representations in German Print Media After 9/11
Verkörperte Räume - "verräumte" Körper: Zu einem feministisch-poststrukturalistischen Verständnis der Wechselwirkungen von Körper und Raum
Menschliche Körper und Räume sind wechselseitig aufeinander bezogen und sehr ähnlichen gesellschaftlichen Konstitutionsbedingungen unterworfen. Dessen ungeachtet wurde der Körper mit seinen Bedeutungen für die Konstruktion und Aneignung von Räumen in der Geographie bisher kaum thematisiert. Dieser Beitrag widmet sich aus feministisch-poststrukturalistischer Perspektive dem dynamischen Wechselverhältnis von Körpern und Räumen. Besonders hervorgeho…
Borders, Strangers, Doors and Bridges
n Contains fulltext :\n 74552.pdf ( ) (Closed access)\n
Significant insignificance – boundaries in a borderless European Union: Deconstructing the Dutch‐German transnational labor market
This contribution elaborates on European Union (E.U.) geopolitical discourses, which attempt to overcome the ‘insignificance’ of state‐borders through the establishment of cross‐border regions. Drawing on the nonexisting Dutch‐German transnational labor market as an example, the observed ‘non‐practice’ of border crossing is introduced. ‘Significant boundaries’ and their meanings, on the other hand, are constructed by narratives and images that ar…
Change and Continuity in German Landscapes of Fear and Imperialism after September 11th: “Nothing Remains” Equals; ”More of the Same”
n Contains fulltext :\n 192943.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Boundaries under Construction: Linking Body Politics to Space
Ce texte réunit, d’une part, des discussions féministes récentes à propos de la construction discursive des identités internalisées par le corps et, d’autre part, les concepts géographiques d’espace et de frontières. Les frontières sont envisagées comme des symboles signifiant des lignes, ce qui définit des différences - spatiales et sociales - et se traduisent en inclusion et en exclusion. Ces frontières jouent un rôle essentiel dans la constitu…
Everyone Creates One's Own Borders: The Dutch-German Borderland as Representation
When examining the internal borders of the European Union in the context of their purportedly official demise following European integration, structural obstacles to cross-border interaction are normally taken into consideration while ignoring borders in people's minds. Approaching this lacuna, the author proposes to understand borders as being constituted by imaginations and representations, and as undergoing a constant reconfiguring through soc…
Spheres of transnationalism within the European union: On open doors, thresholds and drawbridges along the Dutch–German border
This article addresses the European Union's claim to establish transnational spaces through co-operation across its internal borders. Focusing on the Dutch–German borderland as an example, people's practices towards this border and their perceptions of it are introduced. It is underscored that these practices are influenced by popular representations, which (re)produce bounded spaces and the barrier effect of the border, thus making it difficult …
The Production of Geopolitical and Gendered Images through Global Aid Organisations
In looking at micro-mechanisms of the production of regionalisations in global governance discourses, this article argues that definitions of global disparities between regions are an outcome of representations. Against the background of "critical geopolitics" and conceptualising representations as space-producing practices, the contribution examines the ways how global aid organisations (re-)produce regionalisations in their campaigns' spatial r…
Spatialising Terrorist Networks: Geopolitical Narratives and Their Representations in German Print Media After 9/11
Grundlagen und zentrale Begriffe der Foucault'schen Diskurstheorie
Performativität
Diskursivität von Karten - Karten im Diskurs
Der Konstruktivismus lernt laufen: Doing more-than-representational geography
Der Konstruktivismus lernt laufen: Doing more-than-representational geography
Fit oder fett – Körperkult(-ur) und die Erforschung der Interdependenzen sozialer und räumlicher Kategorisierungen
Understanding the human body as a place where various dimensions of personal identities are intertwined, this contribution focuses on the role of the (un-)athletic body in relation to the production and appropriation of social spaces. For, issues such as “fit or fat” and the embodiments associated with them play increasingly important roles in everyday lives as well as for social and spatial structures. In the explanation of a research outline co…
Spielerisch-sportliche Raumaneignung. Zur Performativität von Körpern und Räumen im Spiegel aktueller Forschung
Article Spielerisch-sportliche Raumaneignung. Zur Performativität von Körpern und Räumen im Spiegel aktueller Forschung was published on May 1, 2012 in the journal Feministische Studien (volume 30, issue 1)
Ich war lange illegal hier, aber jetzt hat mich die Grenze übertreten“ – Subjektivierungsprozesse transnational mobiler Haushaltshilfen
This contribution examines the processes of subjectivation of transnational mobile female migrants from Eastern Europe, who work irregularly as domestic workers in Germany. Applying an intersectional framework, the working practices of female migrants are conceptualized as an expression of the interplay between technologies of the self and technologies of domination. Both are constitutive for the migrant subjects and they are thus analyzed as par…
The Rest“: Geographien des Alltäglichen zwischen Affekt, Emotion und Repräsentation
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Presenting Representations: On the Analysis of Narratives and Images Along the Dutch-German Border
Mutual narratives and images about Germany and the Netherlands as they are 'mediated' in newspapers and on TV, for example, very much rely on the past that is related to World War II. In greater detail and as a result of analysing innumerable narratives on Dutch German 'encounters' between 1789 and 1995 - described as 'broken mirrors', Groenewold has developed a 'Dutch-German interpretation array' that consists of differentially defined character…
Relation between Observed and Perceived Traffic Noise and Socio-Economic Status in Urban Blocks of Different Characteristics
Living in cities offers many benefits and thus more and more people are living in urban areas. However, the concentration of human activities also creates environmental stressors with severe influence on people’s health and well-being. Noise is an environmental stressor with known health impact. Despite this, studies investigating small-scale difference in noise exposure and annoyance are lacking. Against this background, this case study investig…
Von der Inkorporierung und Verkörperung des Sozialen zur Somatisierung der Umwelt: Posthumanistische Überlegungen zum biosozialen Subjekt
With the recognition of relational thinking, methodologies approaching spaces as containers were discarded and reconfigured in social geography. However, there are other "containers" still present in these debates - and present as part of the relations in space - such as the "black box" of the human body. In order to advance the opening of the Black Box of the Body (Guthman, 2012), the article discusses social geographical thinking concerning mat…
Platform Urbanism: Technocapitalist Production of Private and Public Spaces
Digital technologies and services are increasingly used to meet a wide range of urban challenges. These developments bear the risk that the urban digital transformation will exacerbate already existing socio-spatial inequalities. Graham’s assumption from nearly 20 years ago (2002)—that European cities are characterised by various forms of socio-spatial segregation, which will not be overcome by digital infrastructures—thus needs to be seriously a…
Europeanization in Cypriot Borderscapes: Experiencing the Green Line in Everyday Life
Despite the EU accession of the Republic of Cyprus in 2004, the "Green Line" dividing Cyprus that was added as a border in 1974 remains an external EU-border between the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), a self-proclaimed state internationally recognized exclusively by Turkey. Pro- and con European attitudes on Cyprus are therefore not recent phenomena, but date back to the start of EU accession negotiat…
Ein diskurstheoretisch informierter Blick auf Karten und Kartographie
Performativität
Political science (20 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Law (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology and Education Studies (8 works)