Dear colleagues, last week, the organising team for the upcoming annual meeting of the AK Labour Geography met for the first time to discuss the details of the event. The meeting will take place from 10 to 12 February 2027 in Bonn. The exact venue will be announced at a […]
We are delighted that our collection “Arbeitswelten – Neue Perspektiven aus Räumen der Re/Produktion” has just been published with Springer. With 19 contributions from 26 authors, this is the first comprehensive publication to emerge from the AK Labour Geography project. The volume The volume is freely accessible with a university […]
Work, Crisis, and Transformation in and beyond Europe20–24 July 2026 | Bildungszentrum Mattli, Morschach (Switzerland) The world of work is being reshaped by intersecting crises: socio-ecological breakdown, intensified migration regimes, geopolitical instability, and the reorganisation of global production. These transformations profoundly affect labour relations and relations of care and social […]
We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to Halle soon. We are very pleased with the many exciting contributions and the great interest in our workshop. Programme You will find different formats, ranging from paper sessions to peer-feedback rounds and workshops. Location As of now, the workshop takes […]
Annual Workshop of the Working Group Labour Geography The struggle for legal recognition, labour rights and the intersection with regulatory regimes plays a key role in the advancement of workers’ interests. After decades of neoliberal reform, such struggles currently intensify as labour movements worldwide are coming under pressure from authoritarian political […]
Dear colleagues, Yesterday we formed the organizational team for the annual networking meeting of our working group in 2026. We would like to inform you in advance of the planned date. The 2026 workshop will take place from January 28-30, 2026. A detailed invitation and call for the meeting will […]
This year’s networking meeting of the Working Group (AK) Labour Geography took place on February 13 and 14 at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Research at the University of Graz in Austria. With over 50 participants, it was the largest meeting in the history of the working group, which […]
Symposium 13.02.25, 5.30 pm with John Holloway and Lucí Cavallero Moderation: Tine Haubner and Stefanie Hürtgen Link to Live Steam: https://www.youtube.com/live/e5ydvrXc_P0 In the name of economic strength, growth and prosperity, we are experiencing the ruthless destruction of our social and ecological foundations. There are worldwide protests against obscene inequalities and […]
The Working Group on Labour Geography of the German Society of Geography (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie/DGfG) invites all members and interested researchers to its next annual meeting. For the CfP, see here. Below you find the final program:
Call for Papers, International Conference Feminist perspectives on the platformisation of care work in European cities at Europa Universität Flensburg, 2nd-4th of July, 2025 Organised by the trinational research project “Urban Platform Economies”:Sybille Bauriedl, Mê-Linh Riemann and Nicola Techel, University of FlensburgAnke Strüver, Janne Martha Lentz and Helena Bellgardt, University […]
Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Labour Geography News The Working Group on Labour Geography ofthe German Society of Geography (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie/DGfG) invites all members and interested researchers to its next annual meeting. It will be taking place at the Institute for Geography and Spatial Research, University […]
Dear Labour Geography colleagues, Herewith we would like to draw your attention to the current call for the 97th issue of the Feminist GeoRundMail on “Intersections of Care and Digitalization”, edited by our colleagues Janne Martha Lentz (University of Graz), Sybille Bauriedl (University of Flensburg) and Christiane Meyer-Habighorst (University of […]
The schedule is set: The next annual conference of our working group Labour Geography will take place on 13-14/02/2025 at the University of Graz (Austria). The call for participation and the possibility to register will follow in the course of the year. William Cruce, Christiane Meyer-Habighorst, Nikolaos Gatsinos, Janne Lentz, […]
On February 8 and 9, this year’s networking meeting of the Working Group (AK) Labour Geography took place at the Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS) in Erkner. Since the foundation of our working group in 2020, it has been growing steadily ever since. Around 40 geographers and scientists […]
Networking meeting of the working group Labour Geography 8 / 9 February 2024, Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS), in Erkner near Berlin The working group Labour Geography invites all members and other interested researchers to the networking meeting in Erkner near Berlin. It aims at fostering exchange and […]
Networking meeting of the working group Labour Geography 8 / 9 February 2024, Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS), in Erkner near Berlin The working group Labour Geography invites all members and other interested researchers to the networking meeting in Erkner near Berlin. The meeting starts on 8th of […]
The schedule is set: The next annual meeting of our Arbeitskreisse Labour Geography will take place on 8/9.02.2024 at the IRS in Erkner (near Berlin). A call for participation and the possibility to register will follow in November. Alica Repenning, Anna Oechslen, Karin Schwiter, Lea Molina Caminero and Yannick Ecker […]
The time has come: we, the Labour Geography Working Group (“AK Labour Geography”, finally have a new website! After four annual meetings, the foundation of our own DFG network and numerous new members and thematic publications, we can state with satisfaction that the AK Labour Geography has also arrived in […]
The 4th annual meeting of the AK Labour Geography took place from 09-10 February 2023 at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). The meeting was organized by Tatiana López, Anne Engelhardt, Isabella Stingl, Barbara Orth, Yannick Ecker und Alica Repenning. Programme Thursday, February 9th / Donnerstag 09. Februar 13:30:Willkommen, […]
On February 10-11, 2022, the 3rd annual meeting of the AK Labour Geography took place at the Department of Geography, University of Bonn. Here, for archival purposes, we mirror the program at that time: Day 1: Thursday 10th, 2022 13:00:Welcome and introduction 13:30:Current research and publications of the working group […]
The second annual meeting took place on February 11-12, 2021 as an online event. Here we document the program at that time. Thursday, 11 February 2021 / Donnerstag, 11. Februar 2021 09:00:Begrüßung und Einführung/ Welcome and introduction 09:15:Keynote Speech: Covid-19 policy measures for circular migrant care workers in Germany,Austria and […]
On February 07, 2020, 30 geographers and scholars from related disciplines responded to the call for the establishment of a working group ‘Labour Geography’ of the VGDH. After intensive discussions, the working group was established and its spokesperson team was elected (consisting of the authors of this report). It was […]