Sarah Klosterkamp

So delighted to see this piece out in @areajournal.bsky.social — a journal I value enormously for its sharp, thoughtful and boundary-pushing work in geography.

The article grows out of my research on eviction hearings and explores how legality is lived, felt and negotiated in court. ⤵️

#geosky

New issue of sub\urban is out today — and our team has a piece in it!

📝 “Recht verständlich machen?”

A reflection on using a fold-out legal map as a visual intervention in the context of eviction and housing loss.

👉 Article link: zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.ph...

The workshop is funded through my “Geographies of Debt” seed funding from the Fokus-Förderung at @goetheuni.bsky.social, with additional support from @jungeakademie.bsky.social.

More details soon — really looking forward to the conversations ahead.

#geosky #GeographiesOfDebt

🔇Excited to share that Thorsten (Merl) and I are co-organizing a Workshop on Debt together.

We’ll bring together researchers, practitioners & community actors to talk about how debt shapes daily life — from courtrooms and enforcement routines to the emotional and moral weight households carry. ⤵️

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library This article explores how legality is produced, negotiated and contested through embodied encounters in urban courtrooms. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in German district courts, it develops the ...

I develop three modalities of legal embodiment — appearing, suspending, filtering — to think about how people endure, adjust, and subtly resist #legal authority.
If you’re interested in feminist legal geography, #affect, or court ethnography — this one’s for you.

👉 Link: tinyurl.com/49vp8dwn

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🔇 New paper out in AREA!

Based on my DFG-funded ethnographic work on eviction trials in German district courts, the paper explores how legality is felt, lived, and negotiated through bodies, atmospheres, and everyday encounters.

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#geosyk #courtroomethnography #legalgeography #evictions

When middle- or upper-class households are involved, the process feels calmer, more flexible. For those with fewer resources, it’s faster, harsher, less forgiving.

Each file, each exchange in the hallway, tells a story about housing, dignity, and justice. 2/2

Entrance door of the Hamburg-Mitte District Court — a glass and metal doorway set in a light stone facade with the sign “Exit” above it.

Two days at the District Court of Hamburg-Mitte, observing eviction hearings — a window into how law and everyday life collide.

What stands out again and again: how differently these cases unfold depending on who’s in the room. 1/2 ⤵️

#geosky #legalgeography

Thank you to everyone who reached out and expressed interest in our @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting 2026 session!

The call is now closed, the session is registered — and we’re already looking forward to seeing everyone in San Francisco next year. 🌉

#geosky #urbanresearch #feministfutures

Exciting news: We have a few spots left for this lovely session below ⬇️

Please consider submitting an abstract if you haven't already! #geosky #aag2026 @geographers.bsky.social

It’s your lucky day! We have identified your profile as a winner, but time is running out to claim your reward. Just send us 250 words within the next three days so we can process your claim. Act now! #AAG2026

Reminder for this #AAG2026 session. Abstracts due October 20th!

Possible themes include (but are not limited to) • Feminist speculative and fabulative methods in housing research • Storytelling, fiction, and imagination as critical urban practice • Queer and feminist reimaginings of home, property, and belonging • Visual, sonic, or material experiments in fabulative world-building • Housing utopias and dystopias in literature, film, and art or architecture • Debt, care, and repair through feminist future-making • Collaborative and community-based fabulations of housing justice By centering feminist fabulative approaches, this session explores how imagining otherwise becomes a practice of survival, critique, and transformation - an urban politics of hope amid ongoing crises. Organizers: Dr. Sarah Klosterkamp, Goethe University Frankfurt Dr. Tabea Latocha, Bauhaus University Weimar / Goethe University Frankfurt Deadline: October 20, 2025 If interested, please reach out and send us your abstract (max 250 words) + short bio to: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de and tabea.carlotta.latocha@uni-weimar.de

Interested in joining? Think feminist world-making, sonic/visual experiments, collective dreaming, and critical housing politics.

📅 Deadline for abstract submission: Oct 20, 2025
📩 klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de / tabea.carlotta.latocha@uni-weimar.de

#geosky #housingfutures

Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco Feminist Fabulative Futures: Imagining Housing Otherwise In the midst of intersecting housing, debt, as well as climate and democracy crises, imagination becomes a political act. Feminist scholars and artists have long turned to the speculative and the fabulative to envision worlds that could be otherwise – worlds where care, interdependence, and collective dwelling replace dispossession, extraction, and foreclosure (McElroy 2023; Thieme 2021; Netzwerk Feministische Wohnforschung 2025). This session invites contributions that take seriously the feminist call to imagine differently in the face of deepening urban precarity. Rather than treating the housing crisis as a failure of politics and finance alone, we approach it as a failure of imagining housing and its politics radically otherwise. Following feminist and decolonial traditions of world-making (e.g. Haraway 2013), we ask: What narratives, aesthetics, and speculative practices can help us re-story housing beyond ownership and enclosure? How can fabulation-as method, theory, or art-expand what we understand as home, property, or repair? And how might feminist engagements with fiction, film, sound, and design open pathways toward inhabiting more just and caring futures? We seek creative, conceptual, and empirical contributions that explore how feminist fabulative thinking reshapes our understanding of housing and urban life – both in theory and in practice.

✨ CfP AAG 2026, San Francisco ✨

Tabea Latocha and I are teaming up feminist fabulative futures and we’d love for you to join us.

Our proposed session explores how storytelling, speculation, and fabulation can help us imagine housing otherwise — beyond ownership, extraction, and displacement. 🏡🌿💭

A pdf with the second half of the pdf, saying: We invite empirical, conceptual, and methodological contributions that explore how crisis is lived and made, and how legal, political-economic, and infrastructural formations shape (and are shaped by) everyday urbanism. Possible themes include: Housing precarity, eviction, displacement & debt as ordinary geographies Materiality of housing & infrastructures of insecurity Everyday endurance, resistance & solidarity Urban governance, austerity & normalization of crisis Grassroots housing justice & alternative futures Critical/experimental methods (ethnography, walking, mapping, audiovisual) Comparative & translocal perspectives

▶️ We’re organizing an #AAG2026 session on ordinary crisis & everyday urbanism.

📩 Abstracts due Oct 20

Send abstract (≤250 words) + short bio → klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

#HousingCrisis #LegalGeography #Urbanism

Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are eight tiles showing the Special Section 'Legacies of Austerity', with the names of papers in the issue. The names of the papers and authors are as follows: 1) 'Legacies of Austerity: Editorial Introduction' by Sander van Lanen & Sarah Marie Hall 2) 'Family Hubs and the vulnerable care ecologies of child and family welfare in austerity' by Tom Disney et al. 3) 'Relational legacies and relative experiences: Austerity, inequality and access to special educational needs and disability (SEND) support in London, England' by Rosalie Warnock 4) 'Lived experiences of utilities-based indebtedness in Greece: Tracing the afterlives of austerity' by Aliki Koutlou 5) 'Grassroots temporary urbanism as a challenge to the city of austerity? Lessons from a self-organised park in Thessaloniki, Greece' by Matina Kapsali 6) 'De-municipalisation? Legacies of austerity for England's urban parks' by Andrew Smith et al. 7) 'Austerity's afterlives? The case of community asset transfer in the UK' by Neil Turnbull 8) 'Austere futures: From hardship to hope?' by Julie MacLeavy

A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with standard articles, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'The rise of education-featured gated communities in Chinese cities: (Re)producing the enterprising self via the entrepreneurial local state–capital nexus' by Shenjing He 2) 'Policy-driven education-led gentrification and its spatiotemporal dynamics: Evidence from Shanghai, China' by Rong Cai, Lirong Hu & Shenjing He 3) 'The market formation of private sector, purpose built student accommodation in Sheffield 2000–2019' by Carl Lee 4) 'Evaporation losses from residential swimming pools and water features under climate variability and change' by Alicia Cumberland & Robert Wilby 5) 'Forecasting urban shifts post-earthquake: LULC change analysis in Elazığ, Turkey using ANN and Markov models' by Fatih Sunbul, Enes Karadeniz, Mustafa Taner Sengun & Muhammed Kocaoglu 6) 'Care-ful encounters: A case for empathetic youthful encounters with coastal environments' by Mark Holton 7) 'How do you like your rivers? Portraying public perception and preference for urban rivers in China via a combined visual and textual analysis' by Yixin Cao, Wendy Yan Chen & Karl Matthias Wantzen 8) 'Understanding place-to-place interactions using flow patterns derived from in-app mobile phone location data' by Mikaella Mavrogeni, Justin van Dijk & Paul Longley 9) 'Gender difference in space–time fixity from household structure in urban China: A case study of Beijing' by Hongbo Chai, Patrick Witte, Stan Geertman & Dick Ettema

A graphic showing the title page of The Geographical Journal on a blue background with The GJ in large letters on the right hand page. On the left hand page are five tiles with commentaries and RGS-IBG Regulars, with the names of papers in the issue. 1) 'On commons, state institutions and capitalism' by Ioannis Rigkos-Zitthen & Nikos Kapitsinis 2) 'From The Hague to the margins: The ICC, feminist geopolitics and alternative legal futures' by Sarah Klosterkamp & Alex Jeffrey 3) 'Everyone's talking about climate change actions, but can we learn from Wales’ approach?' by Lynda Yorke, Athanasios Dimitriou, Sonya Hanna, Corinna Patterson, Sara Parry & Georgina Smith 4) 'Presidential address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2025' by Dame Jane Francis 5) 'Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Medals and Awards celebration 2025' by Jane Francis, Murray Gray, Børge Ousland, Gillian Rose, Susan Smith & Dariusz Wójcik

📢New Issue of The GJ!📢

𝐺𝑒𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡

September's Issue features the 'Legacies of Austerity' Special Section alongside 9 papers, 3 commentaries, and records of the 2025 RGS-IBG Medals and Awards ceremony.

Take a look here ⬇️

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754959...

A big thank you to the panelists – Elsa Noteman, Jay Todd, Malene H. Jacobsen, Elodie Negar Behzadi & James Esson – for such an inspiring session! Hope to see you all soon again!

Leaving Birmingham, I feel re-energised to take these conversations back into my own work on law, housing, and debt, and to keep building the solidarities and collaborations that make critical geography not just a scholarly endeavour, but a practice of hope and accountability.

The discussion cut right to the heart of what it means to do critical geography today—how we engage with structures of inequality, how we situate ourselves in relation to power, and how we make space for different voices, methods, and struggles.

It was a powerful reminder of the intellectual and political commitments that shape our field: to question, to unsettle, and to imagine otherwise.

Large lecture hall filled with geographers attending the ACME plenary at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference in Birmingham. A panel of speakers sits at the front, with a presentation projected on the screen behind them.

View along Birmingham’s city centre canals on a sunny day, with narrowboats moored along the water, brick buildings, and a pedestrian walkway lined with trees.

City centre canals in Birmingham at dusk, with calm water reflecting the lights of nearby buildings and bridges, creating a peaceful atmosphere.

On the train home from Birmingham after an inspiring @rgsibg.bsky.social conference, I’ve been reflecting on some of the many highlights of the past days. One that will stay with me for a long time is the @acme-geography.bsky.social plenary on “What is Critical Geography, What Can, and Must,it Be?”

Thank you! ❤️

A photo of the panelists and convenors. From left to right: Elsa Noterman, Marlene H. Jacobsen, Jay Todd, Matej Blazem, Sarah Klosterkamp, Negar-Eloise Behzadi and James Esson.

The panel “What Is Critical Geography, and What Can, and Must, It Be?” yesterday was so necessary to think about the futures we aspire to have - whilst having to address all sorts of emergencies now. Thank you @sklosterkamp.bsky.social for convening! #RGSIBG25

For those in Birmingham (I'm not): this will be real cool I'm sure.

Call for sessions for the RC21 conference in Vienna, 20-22 July, 2026. Deadline for submissions: 6th of October 2025. rc21-vienna2026.org/call-for-ses... #urban #sociology

Looking forward to discussing Yu-Shan Tseng's Liquid Democracy at today's #RGS. An important read for anyone interested in understanding contemporary urban democracy!
@rgsibg.bsky.social

We are delighted to have Elsa Noterman, Malene H. Jacobsen, James Esson, Elodie Negar Behzadi and Jay Todd as discussant, whose reflections will help push the conversation further.

If you’re at RGS-IBG, come join us tomorrow morning!

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#geosky #RGSIBG2025 #CriticalGeography

Together with Matej Blazek, I look forward to opening a collective discussion on the responsibilities and possibilities of critical geography today—how it challenges structures of power, connects with struggles for justice, and reimagines worlds otherwise.

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#geosky #RGSIBG2025 #CriticalGeography

Tomorrow morning at the @rgsibg.bsky.social Annual Conference, we are hosting a panel on “What is, can be, and must be critical geography,” organized as part of @acme-geography.bsky.social

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#geosky #RGSIBG2025 #ACMEJournal #CriticalGeography