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Anna Steigemann
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Assistant Professor at the Chair for Urban Studies
& Social research, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism,
Bauhaus-University Weimar
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Belvederer Allee 4, Zi. 105
Tel.: +49 (0) 36 43/58 26
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Fax: +49 (0) 36 43/58 32 94
E-Mail:
anna.marie.steigemann@uni-weimar.de
Dissertation
Selling “Community”? Local Businesses,
Public Characters and the Social Life in Metropolitan Neighborhoods
Global and local economic development, increased
mobility and individualization, and demographic changes have
fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in
urban areas, which is why the social cohesion of inner-city
neighborhoods and their residents is now often viewed as vulnerable.
The strong socio-spatial changes are reflected in residential and
commercial neighborhood structures - with wide implications for the
neighborly coexistence. For these reasons, it is important to
give more scholarly attention to first the concrete places where
neighborly interactions still take place and second, to how these
interactions, i.e. social contacts and connections between and among
various groups of residents, affect senses of belonging and the local
social life.
So far, however, the great majority of
research on this topic has focused almost exclusively on narrow and
well-integrated primary relationships (such as family and closer
friendly relations) among neighbors in residential settings, often
neglecting the comparatively loose and unpretentious everyday
interactions in public and quasi-public spaces and these types of
relationships that nevertheless also contribute strongly to a sense of
belonging and/or community on a neighborhood scale. Likewise,
most studies in urban sociology and planning have also ignored the
role of local businesses and the wide range of functions they play in
neighborhoods, including providing local supply, employment and
opportunities for sociability.
In this context, Jane
Jacobs's authoritative book "The Death and Life of Great American
Cities" (1961) provides a key starting point for understanding
the significance of loose social relations and functionally mixed
neighborhood on the larger city, including the generation of local
social capital. My dissertation project illuminates and explores the
ordinary everyday interactions and social practices in and around
local shops and gastronomic facilities on shopping streets. With
a practice theory approach and using ethnographic methods, the
dissertation examines the degree to which the owners and salespeople
of these businesses continue, as Jacobs observed, to be "public
characters" and/or provide "eyes on the street" on an
everyday basis and explore whether this in turn affects meaningful
social interactions within the local
population.
CV
EDUCATION
August
2016
Defense Doctoral Thesis "Offer More? How Store Owners
and their Businesses build Neighborhood Social Life", Advisors:
Prof. Dr. Sybille Frank, Prof. Dr. John Mollenkopf, Prof. Dr. Dietrich
Henckel, Grade: Summa Cum Laude
May 2016
Submission Doctoral Thesis "Offer More? How Store Owners
and their Bussinesses build Neighborhood Social Life",
TU-Berlin
Since 2012
Doctoral Student, TU Berlin
2011
Rosa-Luxemburg Doctoral Scholarship (declined due to
TU position)
October 2006 – October 2009
Master-Student Social Sciences at
Humboldt University of Berlin
Focus Areas: Urban Sociology/
Urban Studies, Gender Studies
Thesis: From Bakeries to Bars
- Commercial Gentrification in East Williamsburg, NYC
2007 – 2008
DAAD Scholarship for an Academic Year at the
Graduate Center of City University New York (CUNY), NYC
October 2002 - March 2006
Bachelor-Student Social Sciences at
Humboldt-University of Berlin (minor subjects: Geography,
Ethnology)
Thesis: Deprived Neighborhoods and Hip Hop. The
affinity of deprived (migrant) youth for the culture of Hip
Hop
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Since March 2015
Assistant Professor at the Chair for Urban Studies & Social
research, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Bauhaus-University
Weimar
March 2011- August 2012
Assistant Professor/
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Department of Urban and
Regional Sociology, Institute for Sociology, TU Berlin
Since August 2011
Academic Consultancy for the development of a
communication concept for Müllerstraße and Turmstraße for the
Senate Administration for Urban Development of Berlin and the district
administration Berlin Mitte
July - October 2010, July-
August 2009
Research Assistance for Prof. Gerry Bloustien
Projects: 1. Harmonizing communities: The role of music in the
formation of national communities and its potential for enhancing
cross-cultural understanding; 2. Playing for Life, HU Berlin/UNISA
Adelaide
June 2010, June 2009
Organization,
Research Assistance and Lectures for CUNY Summer School (Profs.
Mollenkopf/ Häußermann/ Blokland), HU Berlin
October
2009 - September 2010
Research Assistance for Prof. Talja
Blokland: Public Space and (In)Security, HU Berlin
May
– August 2006
Editorial Assistance at Bayerischer
Rundfunk (Radio), München
August 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002
Organization and Assistance Summer Academy of Fine Arts,
Neuburg/Donau
TEACHING
WiSe 2016/17
"Jena Winzerla -
Großwohnsiedlungen unter anderen Vorzeichen!?, BA
Urbanism/Architecture, Project, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
SoSe2016
"Diversity and the City", MA
Urbanism/Architecture, Seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
WiSe 2015/16
"Migration statt Schrumpfung!? Wohnen und
Leben von Asylsuchenden und Flüchtlingen in Gera." BA
Urbanistik/Architecture, Project, Bauhaus-University Weimar
WiSe 2015/16
"Urban Governance & Planning", MA
SeminarUrban Management, TU Berlin
SoSe 2015
"Werkstatt Sozialraum: Willkommensstädte", BA & MA
Urbanistik & Architecture, Bauhaus-University Weimar
WiSe 2014/15
"Local Partnerships, Social Planning and
Participation", MA Urban Management, TU Berlin
SuSe
2014
“Social and Spatial Inequalities in Berlin”, CUNY
Summerschool, Talja Blokland/ John Mollenkopf, HU Berlin
WiSe 2013/14
"Local Partnerships, Social Planning and
Participation", MA Urban Management, TU Berlin
WiSe
2012/13
"Local Partnerships, Social Planning and
Participation", MA Urban Management, TU Berlin
SuSe
2012
"Forschungskommission", MA Urban and
Regional Planning/ MA Sociology, TU Berlin
WiSe 2011/12
"Kernseminar Stadtforschung", MA Urban and
Regional Planning/ MA Sociology, TU Berlin
WiSe
2011/12
"Local Partnerships, Social Planning and
Participation", MA Urban Management, TU Berlin
SuSe
2011
"No Strings Attached?! Kontakte im öffentlichen
Raum", Project, MA Urban and Regional Planning/ MA
Sociology, TU Berlin
SuSe 2011
"Sozialstruktur, Geschlechterverhältnisse und räumliche
Differenzierung", BA Social Sciences, HU Berlin
SuSe
2010
"Sozialstruktur, Geschlechterverhältnisse und
räumliche Differenzierung", BA Social Sciences, HU Berlin
WiSe 2009/10 & SuSe 2010
Teaching Assistance
Project Seminar "(In)Securitiy and Public Space", MA
Social Sciences, HU Berlin
RESEARCH
TRIPS
October – November 2014
Research Stay, Center for Urban Research, Graduate Center CUNY, New
York City
April 2014
Research Stay, Center for
Urban Research, Graduate Center CUNY, New York City
Since
August 2012
DFG Fellow at the International Graduate
Research Program, Berlin-New York-Toronto
October 2013 – December 2013
Visiting Scholar, Center for Urban Research, Graduate Center CUNY, New York City
2007 & 2008
DAAD scholarship for an academic year at
the Graduate Center of City University New York, Department for
Sociology
CONFERENCE/ WORKSHOP
CONTRIBUTIONS
2016
Paper "Vom
Schrumpfen zur Integration? Thüringens Willkommenskultur und die
sozialräumliche Integration von Flüchtigen in Gera" with
Franziska Werner, Sektion Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie:
Sozial-räumliche Integration von Flüchtlingen, DGS Kongress,
Bamberg, September 26-30 2016
2016
Panel
Organization "City of Refuge - Refugee Accommodations
and their Spatial and Social Consequences for the Urban",
with Franziska Werner, International Association for Forced
Migration Conferenz, Poznan, Poland, July 12-16 2016
2016
Paper “Vom Schrumpfen zur Integration?!
Thüringens ‘Willkommenskultur’ als Paradigmenwechsel in der
lokalen Stadtentwicklungspolitik?“ Konferenz: Wohnungsleerstände in
Deutschland – Ausmaß – Wahrnehmung, in Kaiserslautern, 4-5
Februar 2016
2016
Introduction to Empirical Research
Methods in Social Sciences, IGK Methods Workshop, with Lisa Vollmer,
Berlin, 21 January 2016
2015
Paper "First
arrivals in shrinkage. The physical, communication and social
development of arrival infrastructures in Thuringia, East
Germany", Urban Arrival Infrastructures. An International
Workshop on Migration and Cities in the 19th and 21st Century,
Brussels, 10-11 December 2015
2015
Panel
Organization: "Ambiguous Imaginaries – Public Space in
the Ideal City. Representations, policies, contradictions and
challenges for tomorrow’s urban life." with Annika Levels &
Christian Haid, RC21 Conference, Urbino, Italy, August 26-29 2015
2015
Paper "‘Do I need to grow blond hair to
become German?’ Place Making Practices of Business Owners on a
“diverse” Berlin Shopping Street.", Panel "The Challenge
of Diversity: Does Urban Diversity Contribute to the Ideal
City?", RC21 conference, Urbino, Italy
2015
Paper
"Place Making Practices of Business Owners in the course of a
Berlin Urban Renewal Program.", Panel "Networks and
encounters in contested spaces" RC21 Conference, Urbino, Italy
2015
Paper “'Do I need to grow blond hair to become
German?' Place Making Practices of Small Business Owners”, 2nd
Special Session Retail aspects in Urban Geography and Urban Planning
I: Immigrant retail geographies, AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA
2014
Paper “Local businesses as socially
inclusive leisure spaces”, Joint Session RC 23/RC 28, ISA 2014
Conference, Yokohama, Japan
2014
Panel organization
“Ambiguous Spaces: Moving beyond Dichotomies of Public Space”, RC
21, ISA 2014 Conference, Yokohama
2014
Paper
“Shopping for Community? Place Making Practices of Small Business
Owners.”, AAG Annual Meeting, Tampa
2014
Paper
“Business Ballet. Ethnography of the Physical and Verbal
Interactions in a Neukölln Café.” Ethnography Workshop with Prof.
Susan Hall, Berlin
2014
Paper "Shopping for
Community?! Local businesses as main features of urban infrastructure
and local social inclusion". Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie XI:
Infrastrukturen der Stadt, Universität Bremen
2013
Paper "Walking for community?! Shopping for community?! How local
businesses fosterwalking activity and related social networking for
neighbourhood residents.", Walk21International Conference on
Walking and Liveable Communities, Munich
2013
Walking Tour "Neighbourhood management and policies in
Berlin-Wedding ", RC 21 Conference 2013, Berlin
2013
Panel Moderation "Colonization and Space: On the
Politics of Gentrification, Segregation and Pacification",
Empire, City, Nature: 2nd Annual Conference IGK, Toronto
2013
Panel Moderation "Global Urban Luxury Industries and
Metropolitanism", Grand Hotels at the Fin de Siècle: Global
Dimensions, local Experiences, CMS Berlin
2012
"Introduction to Qualitative Methods", IGK Workshop, TU
Berlin
2012
Panel Moderation "Urban Renewal
and Citizen Protest", Urban-Activism-Scholarship: Global
Discourses in Local, Historical and Contemporary Contexts, 1st Annual
Conference CMS, TU Berlin
2012
Paper
"Segregation and Housing Politics in Berlin",
Auto-Construction Workshop Mexico/ Weimar/ Berlin
2012
Paper "Leopoldplatz – Schauplatz einer neuen
Bürgerlichkeit?" Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, TU Berlin
2012
Paper/ Excursion "Socially Inclusive Planning
in Berlin", Urban Management Summer School, TU Berlin
2011
Paper/ Excursion on "Social Housing Policies and
Socially Integrative City" for CUNY Summer School, HU Berlin
2011
Organization/ Excursions "Contacts in Public
Space", Copenhagen/ Malmö, TU Berlin
2004
Paper/ Excursion on "Urban Planning in Paris", HU Berlin
PUBLICATIONS
2016
Steigemann, Anna/ Eckardt, Frank / Werner, Franziska (2016): A
Welcoming Policy in post-socialist East Germany. Forced Migration
Review 51: 67-68.
2013
"Kommunikationskonzept Turmstraße -
Bericht zur Stärkung der lokalen Identität", Bezirksamt
Mitte/Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung
2012
Project Report "No Strings Attached?! Kontakte im öffentlichen
Raum", ISR TU Berlin
2009
Book Review on Derek
Hyra’s "The New Urban Renewal", International Journal for
Urban and Regional Research
2009
Master Thesis
"From Bakeries to Bars - Commercial Gentrification in East
Williamsburg, NYC". HU Berlin: unpublished Manuscript
MEMBERSHIP
RC21 - International
Sociological Association (ISA): Urban Sociology
AAG -
Association of American Geography
DGS - Deutsche Gesellschaft
für Soziologie, Sektion Stadtsoziologie
GK Stadtpolitik - Rosa
Luxemburg Foundation
GEW- Gewerkschaft für Erziehung und
Wissenschaft
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