Qualification project

Governing Conflict: The Urban Politics of Far-Right Contestations

Research department: Politics and Planning

Project Leader within IRS: Gala Nettelbladt

Funding Organization: Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (2020 - 2022)

Duration: 06/2019 - 12/2022

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).

Publications

Nettelbladt, G. (2021). Ambivalent Healing: Notes on the Idea of Therapeutic Urban Planning in Times of Far-right Mobilisation. Engagée, (10), 59-64.
Nettelbladt, G. (2023). From Scandalization to Normalization: Conceptualizing the Mainstreaming of Far-right Contestations in Participatory Processes. European Planning Studies, 31(8), 1575-1593. https://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2022.2072682
Nettelbladt, G. (2024). Negotiating Counterstrategies Against the Far Right in Cottbus, Germany: Shifting Relations between the State and Civil Society. Territory, Politics, Governance. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2023.2209126