Christian Haid

• Technische Universität Berlin

This book examines a variety of subjective spatial experiences and knowledge production practices in order to shed new light on the specifics of contemporary socio-spatial change, driven as it is by inter alia, digitalization, transnationalization, and migration. Considering the ways in which emerging spatial phenomena are conditioned by an increas...

Driven by digitalization, transnationalization and migration, contemporary spatial arrangements seem to be currently re-figured. In order to grasp the specifics of this current socio-spatial change, the book examines a variety of subjective spatial experiences and knowledge production practices: How are emerging spatial structures conditioned by an...

In this introduction, we lay the groundwork and make a case for an interdisciplinary scholarship as it pertains to spatial research that deals head-on with labyrinthine processes of spatiality and supersedes Euclidean, jigsaw-like spatial conceptualizations. To put it another way, not only is it necessary to “‘turn to” space, but also, and perhaps...

Der Artikel beschreibt die Bindung von 40 Klein- und Kleinstunternehmen an ihre Standorte in zwei Leipziger Quartieren. Ausgehend von einer Darstellung der wissenschaftlichen Debatte zu Theorien lokaler Ökonomie und ihren Bezügen zur Quartiersforschung wird präsentiert, wie lokale Unternehmer/innen sich an ihr Quartier binden, welche Unterschiede e...

Understandings of informality commonly derive from research undertaken in states perceived as lacking the capacity to regulate the practices of their populations. This Interventions forum aims to expand the geographical parameters of empirical research on urban informality. A more global approach, we argue, also necessitates questioning assumptions...

Zusammenfassung Soziale Differenzierung ist in den Großstädten Ostdeutschlands zu einem wesentlichen Charakteristikum urbaner Entwicklung, Alltagswahrnehmung und Politik geworden. Insbesondere lässt sich dies in den Städten beobachten, welche nach der Schrumpfung der 1990er-Jahre seit Kurzem wieder dynamisch wachsen. Die Vertiefung sozialer Ungleic...

Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Wechselwirkung zwischen lokaler Ökonomie, dem Quartier bzw. seinem räumlich-zeitlichen Wandel und seiner Spezifik. Anhand zweier Fallstudien aus Leipzig soll dargestellt werden, unter welchen Bedingungen lokale Unternehmen wirtschaften, welche Rolle das Quartier als Bezugsund Kundeneinzugsraum einnimmt, welche F...

This chapter analyses which categories are mobilised by residents to describe the social groups in their area and which normative assessments are attached to those descriptions. This intersectionality approach allows one to see social stratification at work in how inhabitants of diverse neighbourhoods in Leipzig, Paris, and Athens perceive, describ...

Introduction Living with social differences and all the encounters, conflicts and transgressions this entails is a constituent part of urban living (see, for example, Amin, 2002; Massey, 2005). With increasing regional and global migration, the level and complexity of social differences seems to have reached a new height, as has been highlighted by...

Informality is both produced by and an inherent characteristic of state practices. It thus requires close scrutiny of the structures, nature and uneven distribution of power between state and society. Using a focus on three different parks in Berlin, this article demonstrates how informality is appropriated and institutionalized in the planning reg...

Sebastian J. Mosers Buch Pfandsammler: Erkundungen einer urbanen Sozialfigur untersucht in einer ersten umfassenden Studie die in deutschen Städten allgegenwärtige Praktik des Pfandsammlens. Statt das Phänomen als reines Symbol von Armut anzusehen, skizziert der Autor, basierend auf qualitativ ethnografischer Empirie, die komplexe Alltagswelt und s...

This paper will present research on how informal activities and practices in Berlin’s public spaces are tackled. The global trend of proliferating informalization in urban centers as a result of ongoing neoliberalization is not solely a contemporary reality in cities of the Global South but encroaches as well on North-Western cities. Especially in...