Nicolas Goez
Postgraduate
Researcher & Lecturer
Interests
De- und postcolonial urban studies,
urbanization theories and sustainable urbanism, experimental methods of socio-spatial research
E-Mail: nicolas.goez[at]uni-weimar.de
Tel: +49 3643 58 26 45
Office hours: by appointment
@goeznicolas
Vita
Academic Positions | |
| since 04/2021 | Researcher & Lecturer, at the Chair of Urban Studies and Social Research, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
| since 07/2019 | Research Associate at the Research Project"Food for Justice: Power, Politics and Food Inequalities in a Bioeconomy", Freie Universität Berlin |
2019 – 2021 | Student Assistantship in the departments of sociology and political sciences of the Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2017 - 2019 | Student Assistantship at the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Education & Training | |
| Since 11/2022 | PhD. Candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Augsburg University. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Maria Backhouse |
| 2018 – 2021 | M.A. Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies, Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 2014 – 2018 | B.A. Political Sciences, Otto Suhr Institute, Freie Universität Berlin |
Other Activities | |
| Since 03/2022 | Member of the Editorial Board of the Podcast "The Urban Political" (urbanpolitical.online) |
| 2017 - 2021 | Moderation of the students' (Urban) Researchgroup at the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Publications
Goez, Nicolas (2024). Urbanisierung. Ein Spannungsfeld zwischen Theorie und Empirie. In: Raum-Theorie-Empirie: Ein Arbeitsbuch. Dlabaja, Cornelia, Niemführ, Sarah und Goez, Nicolas (Hrsg.). Springer VS. Wiesbaden
Goez, Nicolas (2023). Food and urban politics in Belo Horizonte: agroecology, activist coalitions,
and bottom-up technologies of sustainable urbanization. Food for Justice Working
Paper Series, no. 7. Heidelberg: Food for Justice: Power, Politics, and Food Inequalities
in a Bioeconomy. DOI: 10.60504/ffjwp.2023.1.100348
[Rez.] Goez, Nicolas (2019). Ethnografie urbaner Territorien –
Metropolitane Urbanisierungsprozesse von Mexiko-Stadt, In: disP - The Planning Review, 55:3, 90-91, DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2019.1671046
Herausgeberschaften
Dlabaja, Cornelia, Niemführ, Sarah und Goez, Nicolas (Hrsg.) (2024). Raum-Theorie-Empirie: Ein Arbeitsbuch. Springer VS. Wisbaden.
Articles in Newspapers, Mazines, and Blogs
Goez, Nicolas (2021). Cities in the making: urban politics, agroecology, and peripheral urbanization. In: Raumkonflikte. SFB 1265 Blog. (https://sfb1265.de/blog/cities-in-the-making-urban-politics-agroecology-and-peripheral-urbanization/)
Goez, Nicolas (2020). Uneven Pandemics. The Urban Transcripts Journal.
In: Post(COVID)Cards. (http://journal.urbantranscripts.org/article/uneven-pandemics-from-nicolas-goez-berlin-medellin-31-05-2020/)
Publications in other Media
Goez, Nicolas (2022). Urbanization: A contested Concept. Interview with Hilary Angelo and Johanna Hoerning. In: The Urban Political - Urban Concept Series.https://urbanpolitical.online/episode-56-urbanization-a-contested-concept-urban-concepts-series/
Presentations
2024
"Conflicts over extractivist infrastructures: An analysis of forestry and agriculture in Brazil and Chile" (with Jakob Graf). Tagung des DGS-Arbeitskreises "Soziologie der Nachhaltigkeit" (SONA) und der DGS-Sektion Umwelt- und Nachhaltigkeitssoziologie - German Sociological Association. Universität Stuttgart. (6-7 Jun.)
2021
"State, Statehood, and Politics in Urbanization: Alternative food practices and technologies of agroecology in Belo Horizonte". Workshop Urban Space & Landscapes: Stadt- und Raumforschung im Nexus von Theorie und Empirie. Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Universität Wien. (25-26 Nov.)
"Nachhaltige Urbanisierung: zwischen räumlichen Aushandlungen und alternativen Mensch-Natur-Beziehungen". Jahrestagung 2021: Raum und Transformation. Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung. (22-24 Sept.)
"Food politics and urban politics: social justice and place-making in Belo Horizonte, Brazil" (with Renata Motta). Vortrag auf dem 2021 Kongress der Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Université de Genève. (28-30 Jun.)
“Stadt-Land-Verhältnisse: zwischen Agroexport und Ernährungssouveränität“ Ko-Moderation des Panels (with Renata Motta). Veranstaltungsreihe Berliner Brasiliendialoge: Brasilien im multiplen Krisenmodus. (19 Jan.)
2019
"Security Governance in Medellín (2004-11): ‘Social Urbanism’ and the ‘Social Debt’". Vortrag auf der Studierendenkonferenz des Georg-Simmel-Zentrum für Metropolenforschung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. (10 Apr.)
2018
"Urban Security, Urban Governance, and Inequalities: Social Urbanism & the case of Medellin". Vortrag auf der Konferenz „Rethinking Development“, International Association for Political Science Students. (19-23 Nov.)
Teaching
Revanchism amidst climate change: political ecology in Budapest and Hungary’s illiberal democracy. Academic Project (12 ECTS) in the graduate program "Urbanistik". Winter term 2023/24.
Urban Utopias: New Narratives for a Social-Ecological Transformation. Academic Project (12 ECTS) in the graduate program "Urbanistik". Winter term 2022/23.
Vertiefung Sozialwissenschaftliche Stadttheorien. Seminar (3 ECTS) in the graduate program "Urbanistik". Summer term 2022.
Post-Corona-Stadt: Teilhabe und Resilienz in Weimar. Academic Project (12 ECTS) in the graduate program "Urbanistik". Winter term 2021/22
Vertiefung Sozialwissenschaftliche Stadttheorien. Seminar (3 ECTS) in the graduate program "Urbanistik" - with Malena Rottwinkel. Summer term 2021.
Activities as supervisor
2023
Sophie Held. "Räumliche Dimension von Teilhabe: Perspektiven auf Geflüchtete in Weimar". Bachelor Thesis - BSc Urbanistik. Sommersemester 2023
Sophia Fiedler. "Bambergs schrumpfendes Gartenbaukulturerbe: Herausforderungen und Chancen lokaler Lebensmittelsysteme". Master Thesis - MSc Urbanistik. Sommersemester 2023
Karlotta Sperling. "Über Sex und Sozialarbeit in Stuttgart: Inwiefern beeinflusst die Arbeit der sozialen Einrichtungen die Sexarbeit im Leonhardsviertel?". Bachelor Thesis - BSc Urbanistik. Sommersemester 2023
2022
Timon Jahn. "Magdeburg als Ottostadt. Die kooperative Produktion einer Wettbewerbsidentität". Bachelor Thesis - BSc Urbanistik. Wintersemester 22/23
Karoline Nathalie Brüske. "The Politics of Heritage-Making in Joinville: Negotiations of a City’s Identity". Master Thesis - MSc European Urban Studies. Sommersemester 2022
Niloufar Rashid Zadeh. "Rethinking Children’s Perspective of Public Places and Playgrounds in Dense Cities: Comparison of two Neighbourhoods with Different Social and Economic Structures, Case Study Munich, Westend and Hasenbergl". Master Thesis - MSc European Urban Studies. Sommersemester 2022
Ömer Altaçli. "Influencer Culture, Discourses of Consumption and Commodification of Places on Instagram". Master Thesis - MSc European Urban Studies. Sommersemester 2022
2021
Mathilde Nani. "Influence of urban social movements on community-building in the context of Lisbon's gentrification process". Guided Research Project: MSc European Urban Studies. Sommersemester 2021