Gala Nettelbladt
Research Associate | Regeneration of Cities and Towns
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Gala Nettelbladt joined the IRS in January 2018 as a Research Associate in the department of ‘Regeneration of Cities and Towns’. Her research is concerned with negotiations and conflicts in urban planning and governance processes, examining how they relate to issues of local democracy.

She has a dual background in Social Sciences and Urban Planning, with a BA in European Studies from King’s College London and Sciences Po Paris as well as an MRes in Interdisciplinary Urban Design from the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Her studies were funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Prior to joining the IRS, she worked as a research assistant at the Development Planning Unit, University College London and as a project assistant at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.

As PhD fellow of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, she is working on her PhD dissertation on the urban governance of far-right contestations which is affiliated with the Institute of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Since 2020, she is part of the German editorial collective sub\urban. Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung.

Projects

Ongoing Lead Projects

Lead project 01/2019 - 12/2021
Migration: Governance-Dilemmas of Cities

As one of the most pressing issue of our times, immigration has gained particular relevance at the local level. The recent increase of refugee migration to Germany has instigated new negotiation processes in urban policy and planning. At the national level, the transition of Germany into an immigration country is envisaged by the government, and a new immigration law is underway to create new legal pathways for labour migration. Simultaneously, immigration has become a central focus of the mobilisation for new right-wing parties and movements. These current conflicts over immigration lead to a multiplicity of new dilemmas for municipal decision makers. Consequently, this research project investigates how urban migration policies are negotiated and formulated, which actors participate in policy formulation and how migration-related segregation tendencies are addressed. more info

Ongoing Third-party Funded Projects

Third-party funded project 01/2018 - 09/2021
Immigration Strategies – Planning Policies in the Regeneration of Cities

Many cities are reliant on immigration to turn their declining populations back into growing ones. Nevertheless, despite the increasing competition for younger inhabitant, students, and qualified professionals, as well as widespread growth policies, cities have to date barely developed their own immigration strategies. The management of immigration has so far been seen as the task of national migration regimes. When it comes to local integration policies, cities react solely to the influx of migrants and the national allocation of refugees and asylum seekers. A linkage between urban-development and integration concepts rarely takes place. more info

Ongoing Qualification Projects

Qualification project 06/2019 - 12/2022
Governing Conflict: The Urban Politics of Far-Right Contestations

The PhD project investigates the negotiations of far-right contestations in urban planning and governance processes. It is supervised by Matthias Bernt (Lehrstuhl für Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie, Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Laura Calbet i Elias (Fachgebiet Theorien und Methoden der Stadtplanung, Städtebau-Institut, Universität Stuttgart). more info

Selected Publications by Year

2021
Huth, S., & Nettelbladt, G. (2021). Analog Algorithm. Landscapes of Machine Learning. Sub\urban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, 9(1/2), 213-224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v9i1/2.696
  • https://zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/article/view/696
    • Nettelbladt, G. (2021). Ambivalent Healing: Notes on the Idea of Therapeutic Urban Planning in Times of Far-right Mobilisation. Engagée, 59-64.
    Nettelbladt, G., & Reichle, L. R. (2021). Proximity and Distance: Navigating a Field of Tension in Urban Qualitative Research on the German Far Right During COVID-19. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
  • https://www.ijurr.org/spotlight-on/becoming-an-urban-researcher-during-a-pandemic/proximity-and-distance-navigating-a-field-of-tension-in-urban-qualitative-research-on-the-german-far-right-during-covid-19/
    • Nettelbladt, G. (2021). Disrupting Dialogue? The Participatory Urban Governance of Far-right Contestations in Cottbus. Urban Planning, 6(2), 91-102. DOI: 10.17645/up.v6i2.3793
    2020
    Nettelbladt, G., Boeth, H., & Kühn, M. (2020). Zuwanderungsstrategien - Fallstudienreports zu Göttingen, Ravensburg und Wismar im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts „Zuwanderungsstrategien – Planungspolitiken der Regenerierung von Städten“. (IRS Dialog; Vol. 2020, No. 4). Erkner: Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung.
  • https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Transferpublikationen/IRS_Dialog_4_Zuwanderungsstrategien.pdf
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228608
    • Boeth, H., Kühn, M., & Nettelbladt, G. (2020). Zuwanderungsstrategien - Fallstudienreports zu Jena, Brandenburg/Havel und Bamberg des DFG-Projekts „Zuwanderungsstrategien – Planungspolitiken der Regenerierung von Städten“. (IRS Dialog; Vol. 2020, No. 3). Erkner: Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung.
  • https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Transferpublikationen/IRS_Dialog_3_Zuwanderungsstrategien.pdf
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228607
    • Kühn, M., Boeth, H., & Nettelbladt, G. (2020). Zuwanderungspolitiken: Lokale Koalitionen in Hochschulstädten. In B. Egner, & D. S. (Eds.), Neue Koalitionen - alte Probleme: Lokale Entscheidungsprozesse im Wandel (pp. 153-180). (Stadtforschung aktuell). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-28452-7_8
    2019
    Nettelbladt, G., & Boano, C. (2019). Infrastructures of Reception: The Spatial Politics of Refuge in Mannheim, Germany. Political Geography, (71), 78-90. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.02.007
    2018
    Astolfo, G., Boano, C., Karimi, K., Manley, E., & Nettelbladt, G. Refugee Spaces: The Actual Spaces of Migration
  • http://www.refugeespaces.org

    • Selected Publications by Type

    Journal Article
    Nettelbladt, G. (2021). Ambivalent Healing: Notes on the Idea of Therapeutic Urban Planning in Times of Far-right Mobilisation. Engagée, 59-64.
    Nettelbladt, G. (2021). Disrupting Dialogue? The Participatory Urban Governance of Far-right Contestations in Cottbus. Urban Planning, 6(2), 91-102. DOI: 10.17645/up.v6i2.3793
    Nettelbladt, G., & Boano, C. (2019). Infrastructures of Reception: The Spatial Politics of Refuge in Mannheim, Germany. Political Geography, (71), 78-90. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.02.007
    Contribution to Anthology
    Kühn, M., Boeth, H., & Nettelbladt, G. (2020). Zuwanderungspolitiken: Lokale Koalitionen in Hochschulstädten. In B. Egner, & D. S. (Eds.), Neue Koalitionen - alte Probleme: Lokale Entscheidungsprozesse im Wandel (pp. 153-180). (Stadtforschung aktuell). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-28452-7_8
    Contribution to Forum or Blog
    Astolfo, G., Boano, C., Karimi, K., Manley, E., & Nettelbladt, G. Refugee Spaces: The Actual Spaces of Migration
  • http://www.refugeespaces.org
    • Editorial in Journal
    Huth, S., & Nettelbladt, G. (2021). Analog Algorithm. Landscapes of Machine Learning. Sub\urban: Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, 9(1/2), 213-224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v9i1/2.696
  • https://zeitschrift-suburban.de/sys/index.php/suburban/article/view/696
    • Other Contribution to Journal
    Nettelbladt, G., & Reichle, L. R. (2021). Proximity and Distance: Navigating a Field of Tension in Urban Qualitative Research on the German Far Right During COVID-19. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
  • https://www.ijurr.org/spotlight-on/becoming-an-urban-researcher-during-a-pandemic/proximity-and-distance-navigating-a-field-of-tension-in-urban-qualitative-research-on-the-german-far-right-during-covid-19/
    • Working Paper, Discussion Paper
    Nettelbladt, G., Boeth, H., & Kühn, M. (2020). Zuwanderungsstrategien - Fallstudienreports zu Göttingen, Ravensburg und Wismar im Rahmen des DFG-Projekts „Zuwanderungsstrategien – Planungspolitiken der Regenerierung von Städten“. (IRS Dialog; Vol. 2020, No. 4). Erkner: Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung.
  • https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Transferpublikationen/IRS_Dialog_4_Zuwanderungsstrategien.pdf
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228608
    • Boeth, H., Kühn, M., & Nettelbladt, G. (2020). Zuwanderungsstrategien - Fallstudienreports zu Jena, Brandenburg/Havel und Bamberg des DFG-Projekts „Zuwanderungsstrategien – Planungspolitiken der Regenerierung von Städten“. (IRS Dialog; Vol. 2020, No. 3). Erkner: Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung.
  • https://leibniz-irs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Transferpublikationen/IRS_Dialog_3_Zuwanderungsstrategien.pdf
  • http://hdl.handle.net/10419/228607

    • Talks

    2021
    Drei Gründe für eine Urban-Governance-Perspektive auf die Territorialisierung der Radikalen Rechten

    Geowoche 2021

    October/06/2021
    Universität Passau (Onlineveranstaltung), Passau, Germany

    The Urban Governance of far-right Politics: Multiple Actors and Contested Meanings

    RC21 Annual Conference

    July/16/2021
    University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium

    ‘Enough is Enough’: The Deep Story of Defensive Urban Citizenship Articulations in Cottbus and Halle, East Germany

    Transformation Narratives Beyond Winners and Losers: Deep Stories in Central and Eastern Europe

    June/17/2021
    digital, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Reactionary participation: The normalisation of far-right contestations in participatory processes

    AESOP, Young Academics Conference

    March/31/2021
    POLIS University, Tirana, Albania

    2020
    „Wir haben die Schnauze voll“: Artikulationen eines Defensive Urban Citizenship in Cottbus aus postmigrantischer Perspektive

    Provinz postmigrantisch: Aushandlung und (Neu-)Formierungen

    November/19/2020
    Schwäbisch Gmünd , Germany

    2019
    IRS-Leitprojekt Zuwanderung: Governance-Dilemmata von Städten

    Konflikte, Migration und Stadtentwicklung

    November/28/2019
    Erkner, Erkner, Germany

    Negotiating conflict: The politics of planning in the context of migration-related contestations in Cottbus, Germany

    RC21-Conference 2019

    September/20/2019
    Delhi, India

    'Dann fliegt mir die Stadt um die Ohren': Die Konfliktpolitiken städtischer Planung im Kontext migrationsbezogener Proteste

    Stadt – Migration – Moral, Universität Tübingen

    April/12/2019
    Universität Tübingen, Institut für Soziologie / Ludwig-Uhland-Institut, Tübingen, Germany

    Democratising the City? Situating Migration-Related Conflicts in Agonistic Planning Theory

    13th AESOP Young Academic Conference, Technische Universität Darmstadt

    April/04/2019
    Darmstadt, Germany

    Infrastructures of reception: The spatial politics of refuge in Germany

    Infrastructures of Care: Spaces of Refuge and Displacement, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

    February/01/2019
    The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    2018
    Openness as conflict: The contentious politics of planning in the context of migration in cities

    Open City Forum, Technische Universität Braunschweig & Technischen Universität Dortmund

    November/07/2018
    Berlin, Germany