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Lisa Vollmer
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Research Assistant, Bauhaus University Weimar
lisa.vollmer@metropolitanstudies.de [2]
Dissertation
The Formation of Political Subjects: Tenant
Protest in Berlin and New York
The housing markets
of Berlin and New York consist primarily of tenements. The impacts of
the financial crisis, since 2007, on the urban real estate markets of
the two cities were quite different. In New York, the bursting of the
real estate bubble and the extraction of global capital led to
numerous foreclosures, which put additional pressure on the already
groaning housing market. In contrast, Berlin has become the haven for
global capital investments in real estate since the financial crisis.
However, the outcome for the tenants of both cities was similar: sky
rocketing rents and worsening living conditions. The crisis made
existing inequalities, which derive from years of neoliberal urban
politics and the growing wage gap, visible and triggered new forms of
activism in regard to housing.
These protests are the focus
of my dissertation project. In both cities, a variety of protest
groups have emerged during the last years. These groups form new
coalitions among individuals, based on their shared interests as
tenants. First, my research aims to explore the potential, in being
‘a tenant’, for collectivization and processes of group
constitution. The current tenant protests will be analyzed against the
backdrop of historically changing forms of collectivization since the
labor movement.
Second, the ways in which tenants transcend
beyond their personal interests and on to a political understanding of
their actions (i.e. theoretically they are revisiting the assumed
dichotomy between personal interest and (constructions of) the common
good) will be analyzed. On this basis, the subject positions of the
activists and groups will be reconstructed to understand how they
understand themselves as political subjects. Reactions on the part of
the media and political representatives will be analyzed to determine
how the activists and groups are recognized as political actors from
the outside.
Subsequently, the comparative case study
analysis aims to contribute to concepts of social movements by
applying theories of the political and subjectivation.
CV
EDUCATION
09/2017 - now
Postdoc, Institut für Europäische Urbanistik,
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
05/2015 - 08/2017
wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Professur Stadtplanung,
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
05/2012 - 05/2015
DFG
Fellow at the International Graduate Research Program, Center for
Metropolitan Studies, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
2012
Master Degree in Historical Urban Studies, Center for
Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin
Master
Thesis: Social Movements as new Political Actors. The Berlin Tenant
Movement 1872-1932
Summer Semester 2012
Fellow of the
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic
Foundation)
January 2011 – May 2012
Student research
assistant, Prof. Dr. Georg Wagner-Kyora, Center for Metropolitan
Studies, Technische Universität Berlin
2010
Bachelor
Degree in Art Theory and Cultural Theory, Universität Bremen
Bachelor Thesis: Public Urban Space in the Migration Society
Summer Semester 2009 and 2010
Student research assistant,
Prof. Dr. Irene Nierhaus, Institut für Kunstwissenschaft,
Universität Bremen
Fall Semester 2009/2010
Erasmus
Scholarship, Middle East Technical University, Department of
Architecture, Ankara
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Since 05/2015
Research Assistant,
Bauhaus University Weimar
PUBLICATIONS
Die Mieter_innenbewegung in Berlin
zwischen lokalen Konflikten und globalen Widersprüchen [3], in:
Sozial.Geschichte online, Heft 17, 2015, S.51-82
Lisa
Vollmer (2105): Städtische soziale Bewegungen und Geschichte: Wenn
„das Alte stirbt, und das Neue nicht zur Welt kommen kann“
(Gramsci (2012 [1929ff.]): H.3, §34,354) Rezension zu Armin
Kuhns „Vom Häuserkampf zur neoliberalen Stadt. Besetzungsbewegungen
und Stadterneuerung in Berlin und Barcelona“, in: sub/urban.
Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, Bd.3, Heft 1, 2015
Lisa Vollmer (2014): Anfänge der Berliner Mieter_innenbewegung
1872-1932, Die Entstehung der Berliner Mieter_innenbewegung
[4], Vom Krawall zu Mieter_innenbewegung: Ziehtage und
Zwangsräumungen [5], Mietervereine: Zwischen Rechtsberatung und
Politisierung [6], für: Austellung "Kämpfende Hütten. Urbane
Proteste von 1872 bis heute"
Lisa Vollmer (2014);
Politische Subjekte. Rezension zu Imogen Tylers „Revolting Subjects:
Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain", in:
sub/urban. Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, Bd.2, Heft 1,
2014
Lisa Vollmer (2014): Der Mietenprotest ist
existentiell, Interview von Patricia Hecht in die
tageszeitung, 08.01.2014
Lisa Vollmer (2013): Zwischen
Partikularismus und Universalismus. Wie bilden sich
Koalitionen? Kommentar zu Margit Mayers „Urbane Soziale
Bewegungen in der neoliberalisierenden Stadt“, in: sub/urban.
Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung, Bd.1, Heft 1, 2013
Lisa Vollmer (2013): Mieterstadt New York, in: Mieterecho 359, April
2013
Lisa Vollmer (2011) in: Dagmar Thorau/Gernot
Schaulinski (Hrsg.):Geschichtsspeicher Fichtebunker, Berliner
Unterwelten, Berlin 2011:
Auf der Überholspur. Berlin im
19.Jahrhundert, S.24-27
Im Bunker der Hoffnungslosen.
Zwischennutzungen 1945-1963, S.50-57
Denkmal und Erbe. Gespräch
mit Gabi Dolff-Bonekämper und Dietmar Arnold, S.88-91
CONFERENCES / WORKSHOP CONTRIBUTIONS
Political Collectivity Beyond Identity
– New Forms of Tenant Protest in Berlin and New York, presented
at the conference "Challenging Collectivities",
Frabkfurt/Main, October 29th-31st 2015
The Formation of
Political Subjects, presented at the XVIII ISA World Congress of
Sociology “Facing an Unequal World”, Yokohama, Japan, July
13th-19th 2014
Legitimizing the
Right to Stay Put– References to Migrant History in Tenant
Protest in Berlin and New York, presented at the Annual Graduate
Conference of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of
the Central European University “Im/Mobilizing In/Equalities:
Migration and Marginality in Times of Crisis”, June 27th
and 28th 2013
What does it mean to act
'political'? The Tenant Movement in Berlin 1872-1932, presented
at the First Annual Conference of the International Graduate Research
Program "Urban–Activism–Scholarship: Global Discourses in
Local, Historical and Contemporary Contexts", Berlin, November
2nd and 3rd, 2012
Mieterstadt New
York, presented in the lecture series “Wohnen in der Krise.
Neoliberalismus – Kämpfe – Perspektiven“, February
7th 2013
Tenant Mobilization and the Left
– Berlin 1872-1932, presented at the conference “Crisis and
Mobilization since 1789”, Amsterdam, February
22nd-24th 2013
RESEARCH
TRIPS
April-July 2013
New York / USA
(Interviews, Participatory Observation)
September 2012
New York / USA
(Exploring the Field)
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