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Michael Keizers

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Dipl.-Geogr. Michael Keizers Fellow

Research Fellow Digital Geography

Tel: +49/(0)345/55-26006 Room: H4 R3.28 Consultation hours: Consultation hours by appointment(during the semester break only by appointment)

As a research associate, Michael Keizers is responsible for the editorial office of the open access journal suburban and teaches in the fields of digital geography, cultural geography and urban geography.

Focus Areas:

Digital geography, urban geography, cultural geography, editorial office suburban, open access journal

Biography

since 8/2022 research assistant in the Digital Geography working group, Institute of Geosciences and Geography, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg: teaching in the field of digital geography/urban geography/cultural geography as well as editorial coordination and secretariat of the interdisciplinary open access journal suburban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung

02/2019 – 07/2022 Research assistant in the DFG-funded project “Scientific literature supply and information systems”, editorial coordination and secretariat of the interdisciplinary open access journal suburban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung.
Affiliations of the position:

  • 04/2021 – 07/2022: AG Digital Geography, Institute for Geosciences and Geography, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • 02/2019 – 03/2021: Working Group Cultural/Political/Digital Geographies, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

02/2015-01/2022 Private sector activity in academic publishing at le-tex publishing services gmbh, Leipzig

2012-2014 Contractor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Manchester Metropolitan University, Institute of Humanities & Social Sciences

2003-2012 Studied geography (diploma) with political science and economics as minor subjects at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Topic of the diploma thesis: “Labour relations and governmental practices of self-government in Leipzig’s creative industries”

Teaching

Current courses

Publications

(2010): Kritische studentische Initiativen an der bologna-reformierten Universität – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen (Schreibwerkstatt AK Kritische Geographie). In: ACME – An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies

(2010): Kontrollierte Freiräume – Gesellschaftskritisches Engagement an der Bologna-reformierten Universität (Schreibwerkstatt AK Kritische Geographie). In: read.me 04/2010, Studierendenzeitung der Gewerkschaft Erziehung und Wissenschaft (GEW), S. 4

(2008): Zwischen den Fronten?! Junge Kritische Geographie im 21. Jahrhundert (Schreibwerkstatt AK Kritische Geographie). In: Geographische Revue. Jg. 10, 2008, H. 2., S. 51-65

(2008): Gesellschaft, Macht und Raum (gemeinsam mit I. Dzudzek und S. Schipper; Hrsg.). Working Papers Politische Geographie | Sozialgeographie. 2008, H. 3. Münster. Darin: Kapitalistische Raumproduktion in der Kritischen Geographie, Postmoderne bei Harvey, Gesellschaft, Macht und Raum – eine Betrachtung aus drei Perspektiven

(2007): Übersetzung: Mitchell, D. (2007): Die Vernichtung des Raums per Gesetz. Ursachen und Folgen der Anti-Obdachlosen Gesetzgebung in den USA (gemeinsam mit S. Schipper). In: Belina, B./ Michel, B. (Hrsg.): Raumproduktionen. Beiträge der Radical Geography. Eine Zwischenbilanz. Münster, S.256-290

Talks

5/2024: Presentation of the project proposal of the journal suburban at the coordination meeting of applicants for the call “New Dynamics in Diamond Open Access” as part of the LIS funding programme “Infrastructures for Scientific Publishing”, German Research Foundation (DFG), Bonn

5/2022: Reflection report on participation in the consortial funding project KOALA (Konsortiale Open-Access-Lösungen aufbauen) from the perspective of the journal
suburban. Presentation at the workshop “Journals in der Open-Access-Transformation” (organised by the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and University Library, Hanover and the University of Konstanz)

10/2020: “Funding and sustainability strategies of the German-language scholar-led open access journal suburban”. Input presentation at the transfer workshop “Strategies for scholar-led publishing, Sustainable Financing without APCs” (organised by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin and the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Kiel)

09/2009: “Kritische studentische Initiativen an der bologna-reformierten Universität – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen” (AK Kritische Geographie). Lecture in the session “Geography teaching between the ‘Bologna process’, neoliberalisation of the universities and critical approaches” at the 57th German Geographers’ Conference in Vienna

09/2009: “Governing through creativity? Creative industries as post-Fordist subjectivisation regimes”. Lecture and workshop as part of the Young Geographers’ Day 2009 at the 57th German Geographers’ Day in Vienna

10/2008: “Shape content! Students do teaching” (together with I. Dzudzek and S. Schipper). Lecture and workshop as part of the Critical Geography Research Workshop at the Institute of Geography at the University of Frankfurt

12/2007: “Die unternehmerische Stadt – Ursachen und Folgen postfordistischer Stadtumstrukturierung” (together with S. Schipper). Lecture at the workshop “Standort Innenstadt – Soziale Unsicherheit und Raum”

10/2007: “Critical Space” (AK Critical Geography). Lecture and workshop as part of the Young Geographers’ Day 2007 at the 56th German Geographers’ Day in Bayreuth