Marike Flömer
Research Associate | Economy and Civil Society

Marike Flömer since April 2025 is a research associate in the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group "The socio-spatial Memory of European Borders: Dispositives of Remembering and Forgetting “ within the research area "Economy and Civil Society" where she focuses her studies on the German-Danish border.

Marike Flömer studied Cultural and Social Anthropology and Sociology (B.A.) at the University of Münster and Sociology (M.A.) at the University of Bonn. She completed her master's degree with a discourse-analytical study on police video surveillance of public places in urban spaces. Until September 2024, she then worked as a research associate in the project "Participative Remembrance Education in Koblenz and Surroundings (PEPiKUm)" at Koblenz University of Applied Sciences. Here she explored cultural memory practices and collective memory processes of young people.

Her research interests include qualitative and discourse-analytical approaches as well as memory-sociological questions. Marike Flömer is also co-founder of a feminist short film initiative and has worked in media education and as a documentary filmmaker.

Projects

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Disruptive events such as the reorganisation of borders after the Second World War have a profound impact on how societies and spaces change. This leads to a fundamental question: how do we remember these borders, and what influence does this memory have on the concept of a borderless Europe? The Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Group "The Social-Spatial Memory of European Borders: Dispositifs of Remembering and Forgetting" explores how past disruptive events, such as wars, geopolitical conflicts and political unifications, have influenced the current state of borders. more info

Selected Publications by Year

2025
Flömer, M., Hilgers, J., Voßberg, T., Yetkin, E. Y., & Bundschuh, S. (2025). Jugendliche Erinnerungspraktiken: Methodenplurale Forschung zur Auseinandersetzung mit Geschichte und Gegenwart. Budrich.

Selected Publications by Type

Monograph
Flömer, M., Hilgers, J., Voßberg, T., Yetkin, E. Y., & Bundschuh, S. (2025). Jugendliche Erinnerungspraktiken: Methodenplurale Forschung zur Auseinandersetzung mit Geschichte und Gegenwart. Budrich.

Talks

2024
Partizipative Forschung mit jungen Menschen mit Rassismuserfahrung. Ein erinnerungspädagogischer Ansatz in der Offenen Jugendarbeit

Studientag „Soziale Arbeit in Verantwortung: Die extreme Rechte und die Gefährdung der Demokratie“

June/12/2024
Hochschule Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany