Nicolas Goez

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 11/2022PhD. Candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Augsburg University. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Maria Backhouse and Prof. Dr. Johanna Hoerning.
2018 2021M.A. Interdisciplinary Latin American Studies, Institute for Latin American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
2014 2018B.A. Political Sciences, Otto Suhr Institute, Freie Universität Berlin

 

Other Activities

Since 03/2022Member 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

[Rev.] 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

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. <link https: urbanpolitical.online episode-56-urbanization-a-contested-concept-urban-concepts-series>https://urbanpolitical.online/episode-56-urbanization-a-contested-concept-urban-concepts-series/

 

 

Presentations

 

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" (zusammen mit 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 (zusammen mit 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

Urban Utopias: New Narratives for a Social-Ecological Transformation. Academic Project (12 ECTS) in the graduate program "Urbanistik". Wintersemester 2022/23.

Vertiefung Sozialwissenschaftliche Stadttheorien. Seminar (3 ECTS) in the graduate program "Urbanistik". Summer 2022.

Post-Corona-Stadt: Teilhabe und Resilienz in Weimar. Academic Project (12 ECTS) in the graduate program "Urbanistik". Winter 2021/22

Vertiefung Sozialwissenschaftliche Stadttheorien. Seminar (3 ECTS) in the graduate program "Urbanistik" - with Malena Rottwinkel. Summer 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