@phdthesis{Arganaraz,
  author    = {Arga{\~n}araz, Cecilia Magdalena},
  title     = {Tiempos imaginados y espacios {\´a}ridos: controversias en torno al agua en el Valle de Catamarca (siglos XIX-XX)},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4681},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220803-46817},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {The thesis addresses journalistic, administrative and judicial historical documentation to analyze the links between aridity and geographical imaginaries in the province of Catamarca (Argentina), from a historical point of view. The research aims to contribute to the understanding of the "non-hegemonic" versions of Modernity, its territoriality and the productions of geographic imaginaries that they involve. To provide a broad purpose, it raises as an object of study the ways in which "modern" practices, actors, links, discourses and expectations about the territory are mobilized when they are located in a space in "other" water conditions. those that are intended to "civilize" it. The general objective of the research is to analyze time-space controversies around water in the city and valley of Catamarca towards 19th and 20th centuries. The specific objectives derived are a) analyzing how various actors are related to waters behavior - in other words, the local water regime - in Catamarca and the meanings built around it. b) to analyze the controversies about the place of Catamarca and its water regime in the local and national geographic imaginary. c) analyze controversies in which the relationships between actors and materialities involved in modernization projects are put into discussion. These concerns by the experience of the actors and by the historical-spatial imagination of the territory, combined, led to the construction of an interdisciplinary methodology based on tools from anthropology, sociology, geography and history.},
  subject      = {Anthologie},
  language  = {es}
}
@phdthesis{Schnoes,
  author    = {Schn{\"o}s, Christian Emanuel},
  title     = {Handlungsressourcen von zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren in Planungsprozessen},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4634},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220505-46346},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {273},
  abstract  = {Diese Dissertation untersucht Handlungsressourcen von zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren in Planungsprozessen um innerst{\"a}dtische Planungsverfahren. Den theoretischen Rahmen bilden die Kapitalarten von Pierre Bourdieu, die zusammen mit dem Matrixraum von Dieter L{\"a}pple zu einem neuen Feldbegriff des ‚Raumfeldes' zusammengef{\"u}hrt und operationalisiert wurden. Es handelt sich um eine qualitative Arbeit, die zwischen Stadtsoziologie und Urbanistik zu verorten ist. Als Fallbeispiele wurde die Erweiterung des Berliner Mauerparks sowie das Baugebiet „So! Berlin" in Berlin gew{\"a}hlt.},
  subject      = {Zivilgesellschaft},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Foka,
  author    = {Foka, Zinovia},
  title     = {The Space In-Between. Tracing Transformative Processes in Nicosia's Buffer Zone.},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4444},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210531-44447},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {266},
  abstract  = {This thesis examines urban partition in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, and how its changing roles and shifting perceptions in a post-conflict setting reflect power relations, and their constant renegotiation. Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, was officially divided in 1974 in the aftermath of an eighteen-year-long conflict between the island's Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot communities. As a result, a heavily militarized Buffer Zone, established as an emergency measure against perpetuation of intercommunal violence, has been cutting through its historic centre ever since. This thesis departs from a genuine interest in the material and ideational dimensions of urban partition. How is it constructed, not merely in physical terms but in the minds of the societies affected by conflict? How is it established in official and everyday discourses? What kinds of mechanisms have been developed to maintain it, and make an inseparable part of the urban experience? Moreover, taking into account the consensus in relevant literature pertaining to the imperative for its removal, this thesis is inquiring into the relevance of peace agreements to overcoming urban partition. For this purpose, it also looks at narratives and practices that have attempted to contest it. The examples examined in this thesis offer pregnant analytical moments to understand Nicosia's Buffer Zone as a dynamic social construct, accommodating multiple visions of and for the city. Its space 'in-between' facilitates encounters between various actors, accommodates new meanings, socio-spatial practices and diverse imaginaries. In this sense, urban partition is explored in this thesis as a phenomenon that transcends scales as well as temporalities, entwining past, present, and future.},
  subject      = {Stadtforschung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Baron,
  author    = {Baron, Nicole},
  title     = {Natural Urban Resilience: Understanding general urban resilience through Addis Ababa's inner city},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4416},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210428-44166},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {This dissertation describes the urban actors and spatial practices that contribute to natural urban resilience in Addis Ababa's inner city. Natural urban resilience is a non-strategical and bottom-up, everyday form of general urban resilience - an urban system's ability to maintain its essential characteristics under any change. This study gains significance by exposing conceptual gaps in the current un-derstanding of general urban resilience and highlighting its unconvincing applicability to African cities. This study attains further relevance by highlighting the danger of the ongoing large-scale redevelopment of the inner city. The inner city has naturally formed, and its urban memory, spaces, and social cohesion contribute to its primarily low-income population's resilience. This thesis argues that the inner city's demolition poses an incalculable risk of maladaptation to future stresses and shocks for Addis Ababa. The city needs a balanced urban discourse that highlights the inner city's qualities and suggests feasible urban transformation measures. "Natural Urban Resilience" contributes an empirical study to the debate by identifying those aspects of the inner city that contribute to general resilience and identifies feasible action areas. This study develops a qualitative research design for a single case study in Addis Ababa. The data is obtained through expert interviews, interviews with resi-dents, and the analysis of street scene photos, which are abstracted using Grounded Theory. That way, this thesis provides first-time knowledge about who and what generates urban resilience in the inner city of Addis Ababa and how. Furthermore, the study complements existing theories on general urban resilience. It provides a detailed understanding of the change mechanisms in resilience, of which it identifies four: adaptation, upgrading, mitigation, and resistance. It also adapts the adaptive cycle, a widely used concept in resilience thinking, conceptually for urban environments. The study concludes that the inner city's continued redevelopment poses an incalculable threat to the entire city. Therefore, "Natural urban resilience" recommends carefully weighing any intervention in the inner city to promote Addis Ababa's overall resilience. This dissertation proposes a pattern language for natural urban resilience to support these efforts and to translate the model of natural urban resilience into practice.},
  subject      = {Stadtforschung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Steiner,
  author    = {Steiner, Marion},
  title     = {Die chilenische Steckdose. Kleine Weltgeschichte der deutschen Elektrifizierung von Valpara{\´i}so und Santiago, 1880-1920},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.3925},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190517-39257},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {507, 155},
  abstract  = {Am Beispiel der Elektrifizierung zweier Großst{\"a}dte an der Westk{\"u}ste S{\"u}damerikas zeigt die Arbeit den globalen Einfluss deutscher Industrie- und Finanzakteure auf technische, st{\"a}dtebauliche und gesellschaftlich-kulturelle Entwicklungen zur Bl{\"u}tezeit des europ{\"a}ischen Imperialismus auf. Damit werden die Regionalgeschichten der chilenischen Hauptstadtregion und der Elektropolis Berlin zu einer Globalgeschichte miteinander verkn{\"u}pft. Ein Hauptaugenmerk der Analyse liegt dabei auf den weltweiten Akteursnetzwerken und Machtverh{\"a}ltnissen sowie dem kulturellen Erbe und seiner gegenw{\"a}rtigen Interpretation.},
  subject      = {Weltgeschichte},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Brasil2011,
  author    = {Brasil, Daniela},
  title     = {EXPERIMENTING WITH THE URBAN EXPERIENCE: Rio, Lisbon and Weimar. A (re)search for creative collaborations and active exercises of citizenship},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1456},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20110811-15525},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {This practice-based research examines platforms and encounters that have a participatory character as a strategy to create lived and shared experiences where new forms of appropriation of the city can emerge. The selected case studies propose and initiate certain urban experiences that induce changes in perception, the exchange of perspectives, and that denaturalize habits and patterns of behavior. I suggest that when these sensitive experiences become imprinted in body memory, they can empower citizens to have more active, creative, and/or critical attitudes towards their environments. Searching for new repertoires of everyday practices that contest commodification of both the body and the city, this thesis is oriented towards open-ended processes of constructing mentalities rather than those of planning changes on the material conditions of public space. It uses forms of academic investigation that merge intellectual debate and experimental practice, joining art, urbanism and social engaged practices in an extradisciplinary (Howes 2007) attitude towards the city. Based on the materials generated by the case studies (combining theoretical knowledge with artistic sensibility), the affective and corporeal involvement of researchers in the situations they analyze and co-create, is sustained in opposition to the traditional academic critical distance.},
  subject      = {Erlebnis},
  language  = {en}
}