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Cheyenne Wolf

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Cheyenne Wolf Fellow

Research assistant Digital Geography

Room: H4 R2.41.1 Consultation hours: Consultation hours by appointment(during the semester break only by appointment)

Cheyenne Wolf is a research associate and PhD student at the European Centre for Just Transition Research and Impact Driven Transfer (JTC). In the innovation team "Structural Change and Participation", she is working on informal practices of transformation using the example of vacancies.

Focus Areas:

Emotional geographies, affective spatial research, transformation research, critical and intersectional urban research, informal practices of structural change, lost places

Research

Cheyenne Wolf’s JTC sub-project investigates how vacant buildings in the Central German mining district are informally appropriated, affectively and emotionally experienced and “utilised” “under the radar” by different actors during transitional phases. Spatial perceptions and practices are analysed, taking social factors into account, while informal and alternative forms of participation in structural change through the creation of spaces for expression, representation, living and remembrance are examined.

Biography

Since 2024 Research Associate in the JTC A1 team “Structural Change and Participation”

2024 M.Sc. International Area Studies, MLU

2020 B.A. Culture and Society (Sociology and Social and Cultural Anthropology), University of Bayreuth

Teaching

In the project seminar, we look at civil society involvement in structural change. Based on the “Revierpionier” ideas competition, small case studies will be prepared on selected sub-projects and the potentials and pitfalls of civil society involvement will be discussed.

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