Personen/Associated Members

Philipp Leserer

Short CV

  • since 2024 PhD candidate at the Institute for Human Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt
  • since 2023 working in the construction industry and currently employed as a site manager in the field of interior finishing, drywall construction and energy-efficient refurbishment
  • 2022 Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change – Graduate Programme Geography of York University (Toronto) and City Institute of York University (CITY)
  • 2019–2024 Master of Arts ‘Geographies of Globalisation’, Goethe University Frankfurt (Thesis: „Vonovia und die Rent Gap – Geschäftsstrategien, Finanzialisierung und der deutsche Wohnungsmarkt“)
  • 2019 Student stay at the University of Plymouth (UK), School of Geography
  • 2015–2020 Bachelor of Arts Sociology and Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt

Recent projects

Promotion: „Die Politische Ökologie des Wohnens – Die bauliche Struktur sozial-ökologischer Krisen“

The dissertation project analyses the physical and architectural structure of housing and the related socio-ecological crisis. It is dedicated to the contradictory relationship between property and home in terms of social reproduction. The research focuses on the negative ecological conditions that influence the physical conditions and wellbeing of the residents as well as the ecological and climatic output caused by profit-orientated housing construction. The work examines the hypothesis that the effects on those affected and the consequences for those who produce them demonstrate a socio-geographically imbalance and promote inequality. Personal experiences from the construction industry are implemented into the methodological analysis. The project combines elements of social sciences and human geographies with engineering approaches and methods in order to analyse the significance of the physical structure of housing for social consequences.