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Introduction
I am a postdoctoral researcher in Urban Geography at Bremen University. My current research project focuses on 'Public libraries and people's right to community and knowledge in stressed urban environments'.
In April 2019, I obtained my PhD in Human Geography from the University of Glasgow, titled 'Meeting Spaces: Everyday spaces of multicultural encounter in Glasgow'.
Research interests include social contact, lived multiculturalism, urban diversity, belonging and feminist theory.
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Additional affiliations
September 2019 - July 2020
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Independent original research in pursuit of Habilitation, Teaching: seminars/lectures in Human Geography, Qualitative Methods (BA&MA Levels), Supervision BA&MA theses
May 2018 - May 2018
Position
- Tutor fieldtrip
Description
- Co-designed and co-led field trip to Wales, UK (BA Level)
October 2016 - present
Education
September 2013 - May 2015
August 2011 - February 2012
September 2009 - May 2013
Publications
Publications (17)
Kreativ-künstlerische Methoden schaffen Räume für Formen des Wissens, (Ver-)Lernens, Erinnerns und Handelns, die dominante und verräumlichte Machtverhältnisse hinterfragen. Kunst ist dabei nicht nur ein methodisches Werkzeug und Forschung kein bloßes Kunstprojekt: Stattdessen bringt die Schnittstelle dazwischen multiskalare Fragen und Antworten auf...
Everyday spaces represent central platforms that provide opportunities for encounters marked by ethnic and cultural diversity, where transformations can be negotiated that rethink living together. The significance of these ‘third places’ has been extensively researched. Yet, some spaces such as public libraries continue to be largely overlooked by...
Wie sieht eine gerechte Kulturpolitik im 21. Jahrhundert aus? Wie kann die kulturelle Infrastruktur zukunftsfähig gehalten und generationen- und gendergerecht erweitert werden? Oder anders: Wie können staatliche und nicht-staatliche Akteur*innen eine Cultural Governance entlang sich verändernder Bedürfnisse entwickeln? Diese Fragen diskutieren die...
Auch in der Coronazeit muss Lesen kein privater, zurückgezogener Akt bleiben. Gerade jetzt sollten wir gemeinsam lesen, findet die Stadtgeografin Melike Peterson. Denn das Konzept des "Shared Reading" funktioniere auch online.
This paper discusses some opportunities and challenges of using objects in focus groups, to explore multicultural encounters and experiences of living together. Drawing on feminist approaches to human embodiment, it argues that material approaches hold the potential to investigate the embodied and relational experiences of encounters with/across di...
It began with a conversation at the 2019 DKG in Kiel about how residues of unplanned encounters and 'failed' situations have significantly shaped our fieldwork and research practice, and how little this continues to be addressed in the scholarly literature. Our observations then evolved into an input at the 2020 AK Qualitative Methoden für Geograph...
Für viele sind Bibliotheken Orte des Kontaktes. Der übliche Aufenthalt dort war we-gen Corona lange unmöglich, nun kann man sie wieder besuchen. Die Stadtgeografin Melike Peterson beschreibt, wie die Krise diese öffentlichen Räume beschädigt hat.
This paper is organised around geographies of encounter, power and living together. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, in‐depth interviews and focus groups in the West and North of Glasgow, I explore the micro connections and aggressions shaping everyday encounters for some (ethnic and cultural) minorities, contributing to debates on the potentials...
This paper uses the concept of intersectionality to think about the ways people negotiate diversity on a daily basis in Glasgow, Scotland. The paper draws on ethnographic fieldwork, in‐depth interviews and focus groups carried out in semi‐formal spaces such as public libraries, community‐centres and local cafes. Discussing the ways in which people...
Urban populations increasingly diversify in their socio-economic, cultural, religious and linguistic profiles as well as in their lifestyles, attitudes and activity patterns. This hyper-diversification can complicate feelings of belonging and community. Since diversity is negotiated at the neighbourhood level, micro spaces are central in building c...
As cities are becoming increasingly diverse, debates examining the links between everyday encounters and social cohesion enjoy renewed interest. The central role of spatiality, however, remains a curious 'blind spot' in most of these debates.
publication description Steden worden steeds heterogener. Feijenoord is een deelgemeente die geconfronteerd wordt met deze stijgende diversiteit: geen enkele groep is in de meerderheid. Dagelijks ontmoeten bewoners anderen die niet tot dezelfde etnische groep en/of leefstijlcategorie horen. Maar kunnen deze dagelijkse ontmoetingen ook iets bijdrage...
