Franz Bernhardt
Biographic Data
| ID | 96855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Franz Bernhardt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Franz |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernhardt |
| SIGNATURE | BERNHARDT F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4254-0385 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cooking, Caring, and Commoning: Grassroots Community Kitchens Across Five European Cities
In this article, we analyse collective cooking initiatives in Florence, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Berlin, and Bern, illuminating how they foster care and commons amidst multiple urban crises. From our ethnographic explorations, these community kitchens emerge as forms of resistance against current urban conditions characterised by displacement, “care‐lessness,” precarisation, and individualisation. These five kitchen initiatives exemplify countermea…
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: Linking Activist, Active and Community Citizenship
This paper examines how tenants in Denmark collectively enact their rights and challenge the neoliberal discourse that frames housing as an issue of personal responsibility. We show how these residents create a political subjectivity of tenants as citizens, drawing on and extending concepts of performative citizenship, by emphasizing the importance of homemaking and non-profit housing. Empirically, the analysis focuses on the movement Almen Modst…
“In Wales … we do things differently”. The politics of asylum dispersal in the UK and emerging national (self-) imaginaries of hospitality in Wales
The 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act marked a watershed moment for the politics of asylum in the UK, setting the discursive groundwork for the now infamous ‘hostile environment’. This article is the first to compare the discursive framings of this formative act by the Home Office and UK government with those of the then newly devolved Welsh political institutions. While exploring the dominant visions of asylum as fear, unease and hostility marking…
Keeping a distance in neoliberal times: The politics of friendship in the City of Sanctuary movement
In 2010, the UK government transferred all contracts for the accommodation and reception of asylum seekers from local authorities to private contractors, followed by large financial cuts to support services. This article explores the consequences of these neoliberal reforms for the languages of asylum used by the City of Sanctuary movement, and how these languages relate to the politics of asylum of the state. Drawing on an analysis of semi-struc…
Othering the sovereign host: Welsh responses to the British politics of asylum and resettlement after the 2015 European refugee ‘crisis’
In response to the large number of refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Europe in 2015, the devolved Welsh government committed that Wales should become the world’s first Nation of Sanctuary through building a ‘culture of welcome and hospitality’. This article compares the discursive responses of the sovereign British and devolved Welsh government to this summer of migration in 2015. It argues that such a comparison provides new theoretical wa…
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: Linking Activist, Active and Community Citizenship
This paper examines how tenants in Denmark collectively enact their rights and challenge the neoliberal discourse that frames housing as an issue of personal responsibility. We show how these residents create a political subjectivity of tenants as citizens, drawing on and extending concepts of performative citizenship, by emphasizing the importance of homemaking and non-profit housing. Empirically, the analysis focuses on the movement Almen Modst…
Othering the sovereign host: Welsh responses to the British politics of asylum and resettlement after the 2015 European refugee ‘crisis’
In response to the large number of refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Europe in 2015, the devolved Welsh government committed that Wales should become the world’s first Nation of Sanctuary through building a ‘culture of welcome and hospitality’. This article compares the discursive responses of the sovereign British and devolved Welsh government to this summer of migration in 2015. It argues that such a comparison provides new theoretical wa…
“In Wales … we do things differently”. The politics of asylum dispersal in the UK and emerging national (self-) imaginaries of hospitality in Wales
The 1999 Immigration and Asylum Act marked a watershed moment for the politics of asylum in the UK, setting the discursive groundwork for the now infamous ‘hostile environment’. This article is the first to compare the discursive framings of this formative act by the Home Office and UK government with those of the then newly devolved Welsh political institutions. While exploring the dominant visions of asylum as fear, unease and hostility marking…
Keeping a distance in neoliberal times: The politics of friendship in the City of Sanctuary movement
In 2010, the UK government transferred all contracts for the accommodation and reception of asylum seekers from local authorities to private contractors, followed by large financial cuts to support services. This article explores the consequences of these neoliberal reforms for the languages of asylum used by the City of Sanctuary movement, and how these languages relate to the politics of asylum of the state. Drawing on an analysis of semi-struc…
Cooking, Caring, and Commoning: Grassroots Community Kitchens Across Five European Cities
In this article, we analyse collective cooking initiatives in Florence, Copenhagen, Ljubljana, Berlin, and Bern, illuminating how they foster care and commons amidst multiple urban crises. From our ethnographic explorations, these community kitchens emerge as forms of resistance against current urban conditions characterised by displacement, “care‐lessness,” precarisation, and individualisation. These five kitchen initiatives exemplify countermea…
Enacting tenant citizenship and struggles for the right to home: Linking Activist, Active and Community Citizenship
This paper examines how tenants in Denmark collectively enact their rights and challenge the neoliberal discourse that frames housing as an issue of personal responsibility. We show how these residents create a political subjectivity of tenants as citizens, drawing on and extending concepts of performative citizenship, by emphasizing the importance of homemaking and non-profit housing. Empirically, the analysis focuses on the movement Almen Modst…
Law (4 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works) · Hospitality (2 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works)