Sarah Klosterkamp
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1073756 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sarah Klosterkamp |
| PRENOMES | Sarah |
| SOBRENOME | Klosterkamp |
| ASSINATURA | KLOSTERKAMP S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3074-1219 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Spores of Displacement
Housing precarity is often understood through economic constraints, investment mechanisms and structural conditions of urban housing markets. Yet, an overlooked dimension of housing precarity is the presence of mould, which frequently appears in district court cases on rent disputes and eviction proceedings. This paper develops a legal geography of mould by examining how mould becomes a legal, evidentiary and spatial object within rental disputes…
Ordinary justice in extraordinary times
This article explores the geopolitics of the everyday through eviction hearings in Germany’s lower district courts. Based on 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork, it examines how judges, through routinized legal reasoning, enact powerful spatial decisions in proceedings that often last under 15 minutes. Through three contrasting cases, the paper shows how assessments of responsibility and perceived deservingness shape judicial discretion and produ…
Wohnen als widerständige Praxis
Das Buch Arbeit am Wohnen von Moritz Rinn bietet einen differenzierten und engagierten Beitrag zur kritischen Stadt- und Wohnforschung. Es analysiert die Schwierigkeiten der Aneignung von Wohnraum als städtische Ressource und verankert diese in einer Perspektive from below. Rinn verfolgt dabei einen interaktionistischen Ansatz, der sich durch eine klare Hinwendung zu den alltäglichen Praxen und Aushandlungen der Bewohner_innen auszeichnet. Die Re…
Fleshing out Law
This paper explores how legality is made material, affective and meaningful through the human body. Drawing on courtroom ethnography conducted in German District Courts—particularly in cases of eviction and housing insecurity—it examines how legality emerges not only through texts and rulings but through bodily presence, sensory atmospheres and everyday encounters. Grounded in feminist legal geography and affect theory and building on the concept…
From The Hague to the margins
The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established to deliver impartial and universal justice, yet its operations are shaped by geopolitical interests and legal formalism, limiting its inclusivity and effectiveness. This commentary draws on feminist geopolitics to critically examine how the ICC's structural ambiguities constrain but also create opportunities for rethinking justice. By foregrounding intersectionality, structural violence and a…
Dismantling displacement and de-tenanting—Toward a feminist legal geography perspective on the housing crisis and eviction court cases in Germany
Displacement and de-tenanting are critical issues at the intersection of housing crises and legal frameworks, demanding a nuanced understanding that integrates class, gender, and race. This article aims to contribute to this scholarship by employing a feminist legal geography perspective, specifically through courtroom ethnography. The examination of eviction court cases in Germany reveals the intricate ways in which legal mechanisms mediate and …
Unpacking the ‘global’ and the ‘intimate’ of anti-terrorism trials
Based on a feminist political-geographical analysis of 45 anti-terrorism trials which got carried out in Higher Regional Appeal Courts in Germany between 2015 and 2020, I argue within my dissertation that spatial affiliations and gendered attributes cannot explain ‘Islamist terrorism’ but play an important role in court. Methodologically, I combine ethnographic approaches with perspectives from feminist geography. By fusing the two, I develop a m…
Affectual intensities
Listening occurs in many ways in fieldwork situations, but it is not always consensual or without complexities. It is especially challenging in situations deeply embedded in institutional power, rendered and shaped by the law and its objectives. Yet, how listening differ within and between sites saturated with institutional knowledge remain still understudied. In this paper, I use my five-year fieldwork experience in German antiterrorism trials t…
“Security, mobility, and the body – Syrian insurgent groups’ infrastructures and their geopolitical contestations through/by/in legal institutions”
Feldforschung als soziale Praxis
Geographien des Ein- und Ausschlusses
Based on an ethnographic study of anti-terror trials at higher regional appeal courts in Germany, conducted in 2015–2020, this article examines the interrelation between the German penal system and criminal trials as mutually constitutive, governmentally guided, and highly secured elements of a state-induced and Islam-centred terrorism prevention. This includes the physical nature of the courthouses, as well as discourses of risk inscribed within…
Embodied Exhibits
Courtroom ethnographies are very rare in English-, German-, and Spanish-language legal geography. Yet courtrooms are dense spaces through which legal subjects, spaces, and instruments are performed, created, disciplined, and managed. In this article, we develop a feminist geographic ethnography of the court. This approach attends to the affective, intimate, and bodily politics of courtroom subjects, spaces, and moments, connecting these with wide…
Im Namen der Sicherheit“ – Staatsschutzprozesse als Orte politisch-geographischer Forschung, dargestellt an Beispielen aus Gerichtsverfahren gegen Kämpfer und UnterstützerInnen der Terrororganisation …
In the last ten years, several uprising organizations such as the so called Islamic State have become a new challenge for civil societies in facing and defeating international terrorism. This paper, as part of a bigger research project, presents theoretical and methodical approaches for analyzing those organizations in the way they operate abroad and how they are connected with foreign fighters, sympathizers and supporters. By using ethnographic …
Embodied Exhibits
Courtroom ethnographies are very rare in English-, German-, and Spanish-language legal geography. Yet courtrooms are dense spaces through which legal subjects, spaces, and instruments are performed, created, disciplined, and managed. In this article, we develop a feminist geographic ethnography of the court. This approach attends to the affective, intimate, and bodily politics of courtroom subjects, spaces, and moments, connecting these with wide…
Affectual intensities
Listening occurs in many ways in fieldwork situations, but it is not always consensual or without complexities. It is especially challenging in situations deeply embedded in institutional power, rendered and shaped by the law and its objectives. Yet, how listening differ within and between sites saturated with institutional knowledge remain still understudied. In this paper, I use my five-year fieldwork experience in German antiterrorism trials t…
Dismantling displacement and de-tenanting—Toward a feminist legal geography perspective on the housing crisis and eviction court cases in Germany
Displacement and de-tenanting are critical issues at the intersection of housing crises and legal frameworks, demanding a nuanced understanding that integrates class, gender, and race. This article aims to contribute to this scholarship by employing a feminist legal geography perspective, specifically through courtroom ethnography. The examination of eviction court cases in Germany reveals the intricate ways in which legal mechanisms mediate and …
Fleshing out Law
This paper explores how legality is made material, affective and meaningful through the human body. Drawing on courtroom ethnography conducted in German District Courts—particularly in cases of eviction and housing insecurity—it examines how legality emerges not only through texts and rulings but through bodily presence, sensory atmospheres and everyday encounters. Grounded in feminist legal geography and affect theory and building on the concept…
Im Namen der Sicherheit“ – Staatsschutzprozesse als Orte politisch-geographischer Forschung, dargestellt an Beispielen aus Gerichtsverfahren gegen Kämpfer und UnterstützerInnen der Terrororganisation …
In the last ten years, several uprising organizations such as the so called Islamic State have become a new challenge for civil societies in facing and defeating international terrorism. This paper, as part of a bigger research project, presents theoretical and methodical approaches for analyzing those organizations in the way they operate abroad and how they are connected with foreign fighters, sympathizers and supporters. By using ethnographic …
Embodied Exhibits
Courtroom ethnographies are very rare in English-, German-, and Spanish-language legal geography. Yet courtrooms are dense spaces through which legal subjects, spaces, and instruments are performed, created, disciplined, and managed. In this article, we develop a feminist geographic ethnography of the court. This approach attends to the affective, intimate, and bodily politics of courtroom subjects, spaces, and moments, connecting these with wide…
“Security, mobility, and the body – Syrian insurgent groups’ infrastructures and their geopolitical contestations through/by/in legal institutions”
Feldforschung als soziale Praxis
Geographien des Ein- und Ausschlusses
Based on an ethnographic study of anti-terror trials at higher regional appeal courts in Germany, conducted in 2015–2020, this article examines the interrelation between the German penal system and criminal trials as mutually constitutive, governmentally guided, and highly secured elements of a state-induced and Islam-centred terrorism prevention. This includes the physical nature of the courthouses, as well as discourses of risk inscribed within…
Unpacking the ‘global’ and the ‘intimate’ of anti-terrorism trials
Based on a feminist political-geographical analysis of 45 anti-terrorism trials which got carried out in Higher Regional Appeal Courts in Germany between 2015 and 2020, I argue within my dissertation that spatial affiliations and gendered attributes cannot explain ‘Islamist terrorism’ but play an important role in court. Methodologically, I combine ethnographic approaches with perspectives from feminist geography. By fusing the two, I develop a m…
Affectual intensities
Listening occurs in many ways in fieldwork situations, but it is not always consensual or without complexities. It is especially challenging in situations deeply embedded in institutional power, rendered and shaped by the law and its objectives. Yet, how listening differ within and between sites saturated with institutional knowledge remain still understudied. In this paper, I use my five-year fieldwork experience in German antiterrorism trials t…
Dismantling displacement and de-tenanting—Toward a feminist legal geography perspective on the housing crisis and eviction court cases in Germany
Displacement and de-tenanting are critical issues at the intersection of housing crises and legal frameworks, demanding a nuanced understanding that integrates class, gender, and race. This article aims to contribute to this scholarship by employing a feminist legal geography perspective, specifically through courtroom ethnography. The examination of eviction court cases in Germany reveals the intricate ways in which legal mechanisms mediate and …
Wohnen als widerständige Praxis
Das Buch Arbeit am Wohnen von Moritz Rinn bietet einen differenzierten und engagierten Beitrag zur kritischen Stadt- und Wohnforschung. Es analysiert die Schwierigkeiten der Aneignung von Wohnraum als städtische Ressource und verankert diese in einer Perspektive from below. Rinn verfolgt dabei einen interaktionistischen Ansatz, der sich durch eine klare Hinwendung zu den alltäglichen Praxen und Aushandlungen der Bewohner_innen auszeichnet. Die Re…
Fleshing out Law
This paper explores how legality is made material, affective and meaningful through the human body. Drawing on courtroom ethnography conducted in German District Courts—particularly in cases of eviction and housing insecurity—it examines how legality emerges not only through texts and rulings but through bodily presence, sensory atmospheres and everyday encounters. Grounded in feminist legal geography and affect theory and building on the concept…
From The Hague to the margins
The International Criminal Court (ICC) was established to deliver impartial and universal justice, yet its operations are shaped by geopolitical interests and legal formalism, limiting its inclusivity and effectiveness. This commentary draws on feminist geopolitics to critically examine how the ICC's structural ambiguities constrain but also create opportunities for rethinking justice. By foregrounding intersectionality, structural violence and a…
Spores of Displacement
Housing precarity is often understood through economic constraints, investment mechanisms and structural conditions of urban housing markets. Yet, an overlooked dimension of housing precarity is the presence of mould, which frequently appears in district court cases on rent disputes and eviction proceedings. This paper develops a legal geography of mould by examining how mould becomes a legal, evidentiary and spatial object within rental disputes…
Ordinary justice in extraordinary times
This article explores the geopolitics of the everyday through eviction hearings in Germany’s lower district courts. Based on 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork, it examines how judges, through routinized legal reasoning, enact powerful spatial decisions in proceedings that often last under 15 minutes. Through three contrasting cases, the paper shows how assessments of responsibility and perceived deservingness shape judicial discretion and produ…
Political science (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Ethnography (4 obras) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (4 obras) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Law in Society and Culture (4 obras) · Sex work and related issues (4 obras)