Gala Nettelbladt is an interdisciplinary urban scholar, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Institute for European Urban Studies. With a background in Social Sciences and Urban Planning, her research broadly centres on socio-political conflicts and negotiations in cities, critically examining the role of civil society, planning and state authorities in navigating today’s multiple crises, such as the rise of the far right and climate change. She is currently developing work on the contentious politics of planning for water scarcity.
She holds a PhD in Urban Sociology from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, an MRes in Interdisciplinary Urban Design from the Bartlett School of Planning (UCL) and a BA in European Studies from King’s College London and Sciences Po Paris. Her research has been funded by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes and the DAAD, among others.
Research interests:
- Local responses to the rise of the far right
- Socio-ecological transitions: Infrastructure, water
- Participation in urban and regional planning
- Planning theory, democratic theory
- Urban governance
VITA
Qualifications | |
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| 01/2019 – 04/2023 | Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| 09/2019 | RC21-IJURR Doctoral School in Comparative Urban Studies, Delhi |
| 09/2016 – 09/2017 | The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UCL) |
| 10/2011 – 07/2015 | Department of European and Int. Studies, King’s College London (KCL) |
| 09/2013 – 06/2014 | L'Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) |
Career | |
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| 05/2024 - present | Bauhaus University Weimar, Institute for European Urban Studies |
| 03/2022 – 03/2024 | Kompetenzzentrum für Regionalentwicklung, Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt-, und Raumforschung (BBSR) |
| 2023 | Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus – Senftenberg Teaching Associate at the Department of Spatial Transformation and Social Research |
| 2021 – jetzt | sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung (Open-access journal, funded by the DFG) Member of the editorial collective |
| 01/2018 – 04/2022 | Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space (IRS) |
| 03/2016 – 09/2017 | Development Planning Unit, The Bartlett (UCL) |
Awards & Scholarships | |
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| 06/2020 – 12/2022 | Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes PhD scholarship |
| 2021 | Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) AESOP Young Academics Best Paper Prize 2021 |
| 09/2019 | Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Scholarship to take part in the ISA-RC21 Conference in Delhi |
| 09/2019 | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) Foundation RC21-IJURR Summer School in Delhi |
| 10/2017 | Departmental Award, The Bartlett School of Planning, UCL Prize for excellent academic achievements |
| 07/2013 – 09/2017 | Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes |
| 09/2014 – 05/2016 | Fellowship International Graduate School ‘Kolleg Europa’ German Academic Scholarship Foundation, DAAD, Alfred-Toepfer-Stiftung, Working Group ‘The European City as Utopia’ |
| 09/2013 – 07/2014 | European Union Erasmus scholarship |
Memberships | |
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| 2021 – now | Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) |
| 2020 – now | DFG-Netzwerk Territorialisierungen der radikalen Rechten |
| 2019 – now | RC21 of the of the International Sociology Association (ISA) |
PUBLICATIONS
Edited volumes
- 2023. Autoritärer Urbanismus. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung. 11(3/4). with Daniela Zupan & Kristine Beurskens.
- 2021. digital war besser: Schwerpunkt zu Stadt und Digitalisierung. sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung. 9(1/2). with Justin Kadi.
Peer-reviewed articles
- 2023. State-civil society relations in the negotiation of counterstrategies against the far right: the case of Cottbus, East Germany. Territory, Politics, Governance. Online first.
- 2023. From scandalisation to normalisation: Conceptualising the normalisation of far-right contestations in participatory processes. European Planning Studies. 31(8), 1575–1593.
- 2021. Disrupting dialogue: Participatory urban governance in times of far-right contestations. Urban Planning. Special Issue: Migration-led institutional change in urban development and planning. 6(2), 91-102.
- 2021. Proximity and distance: Navigating a field of tension in the qualitative research of the German far right during COVID-19. International Journal for Urban and Regional Research (IJURR). Spotlight On: PhD research in times of a pandemic. with Leon Rosa Reichle.
- 2021. Ambivalent healing: Notes on the idea of therapeutic planning. Engagée. 10, 102-107.
- 2019. Infrastructures of reception: The spatial politics of refuge in Mannheim, Germany. Political Geography. 71. 78-90. with Camillo Boano.
Book chapters
- 2024. Eine Aufgabe, verschiedene Vorgehensweisen: Die Landesstrukturentwicklungsgesellschaften in den deutschen Braunkohlerevieren im Vergleich. ARL. Badelt, O. et al. Transformationsprozesse in Stadt und Land. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 12-38. with Juliane Ribeck-Lampel.
- 2020. Zuwanderungspolitiken von Hochschulstädten: Lokale Koalitionen und Governanceformen. Egner, B. & Sack, D. Neue Koalitionen – alte Probleme? Lokale Entscheidungsprozesse im Wandel. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. 153-180. with Henning Boeth und Manfred Kühn.
Miscellanea
- https://www.uni-weimar.de/typo3/nullWas heißt hier Widerstand? Widerständige Praktiken im Kontext von autoritärem Urbanismus. sub\urban zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung. (11(3/4), 233-243. with Daniela Zupan, Matthias Naumann, Kristine Beurskens.
- 2023. Forums of Discussion: sub\urban - journal for critical urban research. Urban Political Podcast. with Nina Gribat.
- 2018. Refugee spaces: The actual spaces of migration. The Bartlett Development Planning Unit. London: UCL. http://www.refugeespaces.org/ with Giovanna Astolfo, Camillo Boano, Kayvan Karimi, Ed Manley.
- 2014. Zu Gast bei: Hack and the City. RENK. Onlinemagazin. www.renk-magazin.de/hack-and-the-city/
- 2014. Vom Wurzeln schlagen. Verein 925 Kubschütz. Leipzig: Arnold & Domnick. 161-165.