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Dr Katharina Manderscheid

Visiting Research Fellow

Degree: M.A., PhD

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe)

Research Interests

One strand of my work focuses on the social structuring of urban space from an empirical and a theoretical perspective. Against the background of processes of socio-spatial polarisation in European cities, in my PhD thesis which I carried out at Freiburg University, Germany, I analysed a newly built urban neighbourhood, located in a small university town in the south west of Germany. Its underlying urban plan aimed at attracting a broad socio-economic spectrum of households. Drawing on approaches of the spatial turn and Bourdieu's concept of the habitus, subtle mechanisms of exclusion inherent within the urban concept were theorised, thus explaining the large over-representation of certain socio-cultural groups that was discovered empirically.

The interrelations of mobilities and other dimensions and forces of inequality are the subject of my current work carried out at the Centre of Mobilities Research in Lancaster. Beside the theoretical integration of inequality and mobilities, I am analysing their interconnections empirically by applying different methods and perspectives. Firstly, I am comparing quantitatively the interaction of classic dimensions of inequality with realised movements on the basis of the Swiss and the British household panel data. This allows, amongst other things, for a non-techno-deterministic evaluation of the impacts of the framing transportation systems, infrastructures and socio-spatial settings which differ largely between Britain and Switzerland. Secondly, understanding the social and spatial world in general, and inequalities in particular, as socially produced and structured by power relations, I focus on the discursive construction of spatial and social inequalities in spatial planning guidelines. And thirdly, accounting for the ecological necessity to drastically reduce the negative impacts of motorised physical movements, I am interested in the political and economic conflict of the aims of social justice and ecological limits as expressed for example in connection with the aim of sustainable development.

Connected with all my research is a reflection on sociological methodology, searching for more mobility- and space-informed ways of collecting and analysing data. Most research methods are aspatial, understanding the social as a territorially framed sedentarist entity.

Publications

Selected Publications:

Manderscheid, K. (2009) Integrating Space and Mobilities into the Analysis of Social Inequality. Distinktion 18.: 7-27.

Manderscheid, K. (2009) Unequal Mobilities in T. Ohnmacht, H. Maksim and M.M. Bergman (eds), Mobilities and Inequality, Ashgate, Aldershot, UK. pp 27-50.

Manderscheid, K. and M. M. Bergman (2008). Spatial Patterns and Social Inequalitiy in Switzerland - Modern or Postmodern? In: G. Pflieger, L. Pattaroni, C. Jemelin and V. Kaufmann (eds.). The Social Fabric of the Networked City, Routledge: 41-65.

Manderscheid, K. (2008 (forthcoming)). Social Space. In: R. Hutchison (ed.). Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Sage.

Manderscheid, K. (2008). Pierre Bourdieu - Ein ungleichheitstheoretischer Zugang zur Sozialraumanalyse. In: F. Kessel and C. Reutlinger (eds.). Schlüsselwerke der Sozialraumforschung. Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Manderscheid, K. (2007). Urbanität im 21. Jahrhundert - Verfall oder Chance einer Lebensform? Eine soziologische Kontextualisierung. In: D. Baum (ed.). Die Stadt in der Sozialen Arbeit. Ein Handbuch für soziale und planende Berufe. Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften: 52-70.

Kaufmann, V., S. Kesselring, K. Manderscheid, and F. Sager (2007)(eds). Mobilities, Space and Inequality/. Special Issue of the Swiss Journal of Sociology 1.

Manderscheid, K. (2006). "Sozial-räumliche Grenzgebiete: unsichtbare Zäune und gegenkulturelle Räume. Eine empirische Exploration der räumlichen Dimension sozialer Ungleichheit." /Sozialer Sinn/ 7(2): 273-299.

Manderscheid, K. (2004). /Milieu, Urbanität und Raum. Soziale Prägung und Wirkung städtebaulicher Leitbilder und gebauter Räume./ Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Associated Keywords: Mobilities, Space, Urban studies, Urban sustainability

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