Courses
In accordance with the fields of research within the working group, our teaching engages in multiple/critical perspectives on different topics, theoretical-conceptual approaches as well as methodological debates in geography. In recent years, we established a variety of thematic focuses in teaching that do not only center on what is being taught, but also on how we teach and learn. Therefore, we understand our teaching not only as a way to impart knowledge. Rather, we aim to foster collective debates around these topics, question the mechanisms of knowledge production and challenge the power-knowledge-relationships in our classes. Most classes are held in German language.
Excursions & Study research projects
Excursions
- Colombia - Territories of Difference – Winter 2018/19 (Martina Neuburger & Tobias Schmitt)
- Cuba after Fidel Castro – Summer 2017 (Martina Neuburger & Jürgen Oßenbrügge)
- Bolivia - social inequalities and biogeographic contrasts – Winter 2015/16 (Martina Neuburger & Jürgen Böhner)
- Postcolonial Brazil – Summer 2015 (Tobias Schmitt & Jan Hutta)
- Patagonia – Winter 2012/13 (Martina Neuburger, Silke Greth & Jürgen Böhner)
- Man and Environment in Brazil – Summer 2012 (Martina Neuburger, Katharina Schmidt & Udo Schickhoff)
- Eastern Alps – Summer 2012 (Martina Neuburger & Sigrid Meiners & Hanns Kerschner)
- Ukraine – Winter 2011/12 (Martina Neuburger & Kurt Scharr)
Study research projects
- How maps and pictures create the world: exhibition and film – Winter 2018/19 (Martina Neuburger, Carsten Gräbel, Anna-Maria Woszczyk)
- Environmental conflicts in the Peruvian Andes: mining, climate change and society – Summer 2018 (Martina Neuburger, Wolfgang Gurgiser, Mattes Tempelmann)
- Glacier recession and irrigated fruit production in the Venosta valley, Italy – Summer 2017 (Martina Neuburger, Ulrike Falk)
(Re-)constructed Tyrolean identity in Pozuzo, Peru – Summer 2015 (Martina Neuburger, Ernst Steinicke) - Environmental conflicts in the Peruvian Andes: an integrative study – Summer 2016 (Martina Neuburger, Wolfgang Gurgiser, Mattes Tempelmann)
- Who makes the city? – Winter 2014/15 (Martina Neuburger & Silke Greth)
- Societal relations with nature in Brazil – Summer 2014 (Tobias Schmitt & Martina Neuburger)
- Ghost Towns and wellness oasis in the Dolomites – Summer 2013 (Martina Neuburger, Ernst Steinicke)
Lectures
- (De)Colonizing Geography? – Summer 2018 (Martina Neuburger)
- Political ecology – Summer 2016 (Martina Neuburger)
- „Sensible? Overloaded or senseless?“ Critical perspectives on development cooperation – Winter 2013/14 (lecture series: Martina Neuburger, Jürgen Oßenbrügge & "Eine Welt Netzwerk e.V.")
- Regional geographies: Brazil – Winter 2011/12 (Martina Neuburger)
Seminars
Development geography/ Postdevelopment/ Postcolonial studies
- (de)Colonial Geographies – Winter 2017/18 (Corinna Humuza, Michel Keding, Emma Monama, Katharina Schmidt, Laura Schmidt, Tobias Schmitt & Katrin Singer)
- Postcolonial theorie – WiSe 2015/2016 (Martina Neuburger, Daniela Gottschlich)
- Postcolonial Brazil – Summer 2015 (Tobias Schmitt & Jan Hutta)
- Development geography, postdevelopment and postcolonial studies – repeatedly (Martina Neuburger, Tobias Schmitt)
Urban geography
- Urban Geography: Global urban perspectives – Summer 2018 (Katharina Schmidt)
- Here like this…there like that? Current approaches and discussions around global urban research – Winter 2015/16 (Katharina Schmidt)
- Geographies of homelessness – Summer 2014 (Katharina Schmidt)
- Latin American Urban Geographies: Theories, concepts and discussions – Winter 2013/14 (Katharina Schmidt)
- Urban inequalities. Perspectives between „North“ & South“ – Winter and Summer 2012/13 (Katharina Schmidt)
Rural geography
- Rurality – Summer 2018 (Martina Neuburger)
- Rural geographies – repeatedly (Martina Neuburger)
- Agricultural geography – repeatedly (Martina Neuburger)
Political ecology/ Societal relations with nature
- Water – SoSe 2020 (Martina Neuburger)
- Concepts of nature – WiSe 2019/2020 (Martina Neuburger)
- Nature in colonial relations – Summer 2018 (Katrin Singer, Tobias Schmitt, Daniela Gottschlich & Andreas Döpke)
- Resource conflicts in the Global South – Winter 2012/13 (Martina Neuburger)
- Environmental crisis - societal crisis? Human-environment relations in Latin America – Summer 2016 (Martina Neuburger & Jürgen Böhner)
- Political ecology – repeatedly (Martina Neuburger)
- Resource conflicts: Environmental violence in past and present – Winter 2014/15 (Martina Neuburger & Jürgen Zimmerer)
Globalisation/ Resistance/ Inequalities
- Global inequalities – globel entanglements – SoSe 2019 (Martina Neuburger)
- Inequalities in Latin America – Summer 2015 (Martina Neuburger)
- Resistances in Brazil – Winter 2013/14 (Martina Neuburger & Tobias Schmitt)
- Globalization and resistance in Latin America – Summer 2012 (Martina Neuburger)
- Environmental and socioeconomic implications of globalization and climate change in South America – Summer 2012 (Martina Neuburger & Jürgen Böhner)
- Social movements and resistance in Latin America and on the doorstep – Winter 2011/12 (Silke Greth & Katharina Schmidt)
Feminist Geographies
- Feminist geographies of „border“/land“/“territory“ in the Americas – Winter 2018/19 (Katrin Singer & Katharina Schmidt)
- Feminist geographies – Winter 2017/18 (Katharina Schmidt)
- Critical Studies of Youth – Summer 2015 (Katrin Singer & Silke Greth)
Methods
- Decolonizing Methodologies – SoSe 2018 (Martina Neuburger)
- Anti-racist and colonial-critical practices of travelling – Summer 2018 (Corinna Humuza)
- Visual geographies – Winter 2014/15 (Katharina Schmidt)
- (world)pictures - knowledge - power. The role of maps in qualitative research – Summer 2014 (Silke Greth & Martina Neuburger)
- ‚Quer‘ in the City - art and mapping in urban space – Winter 2013/14 (Silke Greth)
- Critical Reflections on integrative approaches – Winter 2011/12 & 2012/13 (Martina Neuburger)
- Critical cartographies and countermapping – Winter 2014/15 (Martina Neuburger, Matthias Jung)
- Qualitative methods – repeteadly