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Dr. Amy Walker

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Dr. Amy Walker WiMi

Postdoktorandin, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin des Fachgebiets Anthropogeographie, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin JTC (Team A3) Anthropogeographie

Mail: amy.walker@geo.uni-halle.de Tel: +49 (0)345 55-26145 Raum: H4 2.25 Sprechzeiten: nach vorheriger Anmeldung über Stud.IP(in der vorlesungsfreien Zeit nur nach Vereinbarung)

Forschung

  • Geographien der Deindustrialisierung und postindustrieller Gemeinschaften
  • Geographien des Erbes und der Erinnerung
  • Feministische und postkoloniale Geographien
  • Geographien der Identität und Gemeinschaft

Vita

seit September 2021
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie (Fachgebiet Anthropogeographie) der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

März 2020 bis September 2021
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien (ZIRS) der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

2016 bis März 2020
Doktorandin an der School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK.

Titel der Doktorarbeit: “Legacies in a South Wales Mining Town: Memory, Practice, and Community in Everyday Post-Industrial Life”

2015 bis 2016
Studium der Soziologie (MSc Social Science Research Methods) an der School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.

Titel der Masterarbeit: “They don’t like to talk about it”: (Re)constructing Silence and Memory in Aberfan, Wales.”

2014 bis 2015
Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft an der University of Leicester, UK, in dem innerhalb der ‘Connected Communities’ Initiative vom Arts and Humanities Research Council geförderten Forschungsprojekt: “Affective Digital Histories: Recreating Deindustrialised Spaces 1970s-Present”

2011 bis 2014
Studium der Geographie (BA) an der University of Leicester, UK.

Titel der Bachelorarbeit: “Black Country Blokes”: Investigating Place Attachment and Performative Masculinity in the Post-Industrial Black Country.”

Publikationen

Walker, A., O’Mahony, K. and Boyer, K. 2023. Recollecting the everyday: Emotion, memory and spaces of mundane practice, Emotion, Space and Society, 48, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2023.100961

Walker, A. 2023. On geographies of endurance and inevitability in the context of UK austerity: A response to Sarah Marie Hall’s “A Pregnant Pause?”. Geoforum 142, 103756. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103756

Owen, J., Walker, A. and Ince, A., 2022. Uncomfortable geographies. Emotion, Space and Society, 42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100871

Walker, A. 2022. Das Erbe ungerechter Übergänge: Lehren aus dem südwalisischen Kohlerevier, Berliner Gazette [online]. Available at: https://berlinergazette.de/das-erbe-ungerechter-uebergaenge-lehren-aus-dem-suedwalisischen-kohlerevier/

Walker, A., 2021. “Everyone always did the same”: Constructing legacies of collective industrial pasts in ex-mining communities in the South Wales Valleys. Emotion, Space and Society, 41, p.100834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2021.100834

Rhodes, M.A, Price, W.R. and Walker, A. eds. 2020. Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003007494

Walker, A. 2020. ‘Everyday resonances of industrial pasts: Considering lived and affective memories in ex-coal mining landscapes in a South Wales valley.’ In: Rhodes, M.A, Price, W.R. and Walker, A. eds. Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage. London: Routledge, pp. 52-67 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003007494

Rhodes, M.A, Price, W.R. and Walker, A. 2020. ‘Introduction: Geographies of post-industrial memory, place, and heritage’ In: Rhodes, M.A, Price, W.R. and Walker, A. eds. Geographies of Post-Industrial Place, Memory, and Heritage. London: Routledge, pp.1-20 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003007494

Vorträge

“Mining Communities without Mines: Enduring Social and Cultural Identities through Industrial Transitions in the South Wales Coalfield, UK” 2022, Jakarta, International Conference of Science and Applied Geography.

“Contemporary Human Geography at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU)” 2022, Guest Lecture, University of Indonesia.

“Legacies of Unjust Transitions: Lessons from the South Wales Coalfield.” 2022, Halle (Saale), Postfossile Zukünfte: Strukturwandel gemeinsam gestalten, Institut für Strukturwandel und Nachhaltigkeit

“Sozialwissenschaftliche Blicke auf den Braunkohle-Strukturwandel im Mitteldeutschen Revier” 2022, Halle (Saale), Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2022, with Felix Schiedlowski

“Mining Towns without the Mines: The Communities of South Wales Coalfields” 2022, Halle (Saale), Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften Halle 2022

“Walking and Talking Ruins, Or Walking and talking ruins: or the multiplicities of industrial histories in post-carbon futures.” 2021, Halle (Saale), Sommerschule Vorlesung, Post-Carbon Futures. Cities, Industries and Energies in Central Europe, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

“Constructing post-industrial communities: Place, memory, and practice.” Society of Industrial Archaeology, Online-Seminarreihe 2020.

“Enduring Industrial Pasts: Affective geographies of landscape, heritage and memory in a South Wales ex-mining community.” 2020, Halle (Saale), Gastseminar, Institut für Geowissenschaften und Geographie

“Frustration” 2019, Sitzung zum Thema ‘Kollektive Gefühl’“, London, RGS-IBG Annual Conference.

“Troubling the ‘post’-industrial: Considering memory and multi-temporality in everyday life in an ex-coal mining town, Wales.” 2019, Trondheim, Nordic Geographers Meeting.

“Troubling the ‘post’-industrial: Considering Memory and Multi-temporality in Everyday Life in an Ex-coal Mining Town, Wales” 2019, Glasgow, ‘After the Factory: Women, Gender and Deindustrialisation in European Perspective’ Event.

“’They don’t like to talk about it’: (Re)Constructing the heritage of remembrance and silence in Aberfan, Wales.” 2018, Cardiff, RGS-IBG Annual Conference.

“’They don’t like to talk about it’: (Re)Constructing the cultural heritage of remembrance and silence in Aberfan, Wales.” 2018, Budapest, ‘Social Cohesion, Cultural Heritage, and Place Attachment’ Symposium.

“UK Post-Industrial Communities: Approaches from Memory and Heritage”. 2017, Cardiff, RGS-IBG Mid-Term.