Franziska Paul

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are nine tiles with the names of papers in a Special Section titled 'Inside the Notebook'. The papers are: 1) Opening the notebook: How and why human geographers take fieldnotes Russell Hitchings, Alan Latham & Tatiana Thieme 2) Delayed notes: Responding to two unsettling street encounters in Santiago Soledad Martinez 3) Losing the notebook: An evolving study of the life of a Berlin square Julia Dzun 4) Sharing fieldnotes: Collaborative learning at the summer music festival Eveleigh Buck-Matthews 5) Field notes and Polaroids: Engaging with Black lives in West London Nathaniel Telemaque 6) Voice notes in the car: Capturing immediate emotions from fieldwork with Sri Lankan refugees Charishma Ratnam 7) Fieldnotes as never really 'raw' data: Analysing the social life of public space on London's South Bank Alasdair Jones 8) The significance of sketching: Drawing a streetscape in a Nairobi neighbourhood Tatiana Thieme 9) Counting in qualitative fieldwork: Notes from a large urban park Jack Layton

A graphic showing the title page of Area on a black background with a large 'A' on the right hand page. On the left hand page are six tiles with the names of papers in the issue. The papers are: 1) Training young co-researchers to interview their parents: The transformative potential of intergenerational interviews Catherine Walker & Ellen von Holstein 2) Feminist visualisation challenges: Methodological innovation, opportunities, and lessons learned Kate Coddington & Jill Williams 3) Pedals and throttles: Ride-along experimental journeys with Hanoi's cycle and motorbike taxi drivers Sarah Turner & Binh Nguyen 4) (Pragmatist) geographies of rankings Gerhard Rainer 5) Visualising and mapping historical networks of international diplomatic training Jonathan Harris 6) Demanding ownership: Energy democracy and environmental labour geographies Franziska Paul

📢March Issue of Area📢

The latest Issue of Area brings together a 'Thinking with Methods' Special Section - 'Inside the Notebook' - alongside 6 standard papers.

11 of the 15 papers are #OpenAccess and available to read here ⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky

Wrote a wee piece on public banking, economic democracy and public ownership for @justmoney.bsky.social - you can read it on their website as part of a new roundtable 💸✊

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Franziska Christina Paul (2024) entitled 'Demanding ownership: Energy democracy and environmental labour geographies' with a black banner at the top.

New #OpenAccess paper in Area:

'Demanding ownership: Energy democracy and environmental labour geographies' by @franziskapaul.bsky.social

This paper argues that the question of ownership is central to environmental labour movements and their geographies.

doi.org/10.1111/area...

Deadline extended until Wednesday, 29 January!

Please send abstracts by end of day on Monday, 13 January to: Franziska.paul@glasgow.ac.uk

Franziska Paul on LinkedIn: Call for papers for the Global Conference on Economic Geography, Worcester… Call for papers for the Global Conference on Economic Geography, Worcester (USA). Please submit by end of Monday, 13 Jan:…

Session abstract here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A last minute call for papers for the Global Conference in Economic Geography at Clark University in Worcester, MA (USA) from 4-8 June 2025.

Please consider submitting an abstract to session:

Democratising the economy: theories, approaches, and case studies of alternative economic development

I'm working and writing on public and collective ownership, de-privatisation and democratisation across a wide range of sectors, as well as energy democracy and radical labour environmentalism more specifically, which also increasingly utilises economic democracy language (e.g. TUED)

Thanks for putting this together, Neil, great collection of colleagues and organisations

Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper contributes an ‘ownership perspective’ to the spectrum of labour environmentalist enquiries, and positions environmental labour geographies within a wider political economy of transformati...

Posting prolifically today but happy to share that my newest publication is now out in Area (early view): I'm discussing ownership, transformation, energy democracy, labour environmentalism and its geographies.

You can (openly and freely!) access it here: doi.org/10.1111/area...

Timely, comprehensive and important work from @tninstitute.bsky.social as always.

A must read for everyone interested in de-privatisation and public & collective ownership in the energy sector!

(No disrespect whatsoever to their musical genius)

I do believe that my life would be much improved if I was one of these academics who writes their papers to Shostakovich symphonies but what actually works for me is Will I Am ft Britney Spears - Scream and Shout and that’s the burden I will have to carry