Sebastian Schipper

Biography

Since April 2016 guest professor at the Geographical Institute of Freie Universität Berlin 2016 Filing of the postdoctoral qualification in geography at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main on the subject of "Living the market? Urban social movements in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and Frankfurt am Main as a pioneer of a postneoliberal decommodification of the housing supply " 2015 - 2019 Head of the DFG research project "Urban social protests as a pioneer of a post-neo-liberal decommodification of housing supply?" At the Institute for Humaneography at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main 2014 - 2015 Research Assistant at the Institute for European Urban Studies (IfEU) of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar 2013 - 2014 Visiting scientist at the Department of Geography and Human Environment, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Research Interest

Urban social protests as pioneers of a post-neo-liberal decommodification of housing supply? (funded by the DFG, ongoing)  Processes of gentrification in Frankfurt (ongoing) Urban Austerity: Impacts of the Global Financial Crisis on Cities in Europe (together with Prof. Barbara Schönig, funded by the  Hermann Henselmann Foundation)  Genealogy and presence of the 'entrepreneurial city'. Neoliberal governance in Frankfurt am Main, 1960-2010 (dissertation project, 2008-2012)