In my research, I explore politics of spaces and bodies through ethnography and critical theory in architecture and urban planning.

 

My PhD project inquire into relations of the Danish so-called Ghetto Politics and archictecture and urban space design.

 

I experiment with using ethnographic and qualitative methods to 'study up', meaning that I am concerned with making visible and discussing how relations of power emerge and are being reproduced in our society through spatial and aesthetic practices.

 

I am particularly interested in how the Ghetto Politics explicit racialized and classed structures intersects with urban planning and architectural projects related to the politics, engaged with as a matter of housing as material condition and site of struggle for spatial justice.

 

I borrow concepts from migration studies when asking how illegality of bodies and spaces surfaces in architecture and urban space design responding to regulations of the legislation, how citizens become disposable and how landscapes of imaginative normative orders are produced and sustained.

 

I work with concepts such as securitzation, aesthetics and imaginative gheographies and place my research in the context of Danish welfare state transformations marked by increased neoliberal and anti-immigration political changes.

As methodology, I combine archive research with qualitative methods such as field observations and ethnographic interviews.