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Short CV<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Tabea Latocha has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus Universit\u00e4t Weimar since May 2025. Prior to this, she completed her doctorate under the supervision of Sebastian Schipper at the Institute for Human Geography on feminist perspectives on the commodification and financialization of housing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She completed her bachelor’s degree in human geography with a minor in urban planning at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2017 and then studied urban planning at the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London (UCL), UK, and the Bauhaus Universit\u00e4t Weimar from 2018 to 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research focus<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Her general research interests lie in Feminist and Applied Critical Geography (AKG) as well as interdisciplinary housing research. She is particularly interested in questions related to the intersection of housing issues and social reproduction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Past and Present of Institutionalised Tenant Participation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the completion of my doctoral thesis within the DFG project “Home and Housing in Urban Regeneration Processes” (published Open Access by transcript Verlag \u201cWohnraum als Ware. Feministisch-polit\u00f6konomische Perspektiven auf Arbeiterwohnsiedlungen in Frankfurt am Main\u201c), my research now focuses on tenant participation within housing companies, situated at the intersection of struggles for democratization and changing modes of housing regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am currently preparing an internationally comparative research project (planned case studies: Germany, Sweden, Austria, and the Netherlands) that examines the institutionalisation of tenant participation across Europe. The project follows two central axes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Genealogy of Tenant Participation:<\/strong>\u00a0A historical reconstruction of the development of institutionalised participation within the context of shifting welfare state and housing regimes. This analysis explores how tenant participation was politically contested and legally established through the interplay of trade unions, political parties, and social movements.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. The Present State of Tenant Participation:<\/strong>\u00a0An analysis of current structures of tenant participation under conditions of consolidated neoliberalisation and the financialisation of the housing market, focusing on the potential for democratisation versus the risks of containment and pacification.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Current Sub-Project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    As a pilot study for the larger international comparative project, I am currently investigating the case of the “Missed Democratisation of GWH in Hesse” during the 1980s. In collaboration with contemporary witnesses and through the evaluation of archival material, this study reconstructs an extensive\u2014yet ultimately discarded\u2014democratisation model of the successor company to Neue Heimat S\u00fcdwest<\/em>. The aim is to make this historical housing policy innovation fertile for contemporary debates on “democratisation from below” and to explore the scope for tenant initiatives under current conditions. This preparatory sub-project runs from January 2026 to April 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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