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22. August 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Jae-Young Lee

Private: Jae-Young Lee

LolMyThesis. My thesis in a tagline: So you think the remote rural mountain cabin you booked on AirBnB is so edgy? It’s all about that space. The CRC concepts that […]

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15. August 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Carl-Jan Dihlmann

Private: Carl-Jan Dihlmann

LolMyThesis. If I had to summarize my PhD in one sentence: People feel more at ease in peripheral areas due to beautiful landscapes and quiet neighborhoods. People in rural areas […]

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8. August 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Francesca Ceola

Private: Francesca Ceola

LolMyThesis. If I had to summarize my thesis in one sentence, I would say that urban development is, unsurprisingly, being carried out as business as usual, aka displacing the poor […]

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1. August 2025

Looking back with Postdoc Indrawan Prabaharyaka

Private: Indrawan Prabaharyaka

LolMyPaper While existing studies primarily celebrate Stuttgart as a successful case study of the application of climatology in urban planning, the papers I have written and am writing instead make […]

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25. July 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Zoé Perko

Private: Zoé Perko

LolMyThesis. The themes of my thesis in a nutshell: Even when countries agree to open their borders, not everyone gets the same access—many barriers remain, but people often find creative […]

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18. July 2025

Looking back with Postdoc Sezgin Sönmez

Private: Dr. Sezgin Sönmez

Postdoc’ing at the CRC. If I had to summarise my current research interest, I would say: India is now really getting going with digitalization, including banking, biometric data, soft power, […]

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11. July 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Christina Hecht

Private: Christina Hecht

LolMyThesis. The working title of my thesis is “Of Figures and Fictions. The Strategic Action Field around Airbnb in Cape Town and Berlin”. In a nutshell, one of my key […]

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4. July 2025

Looking back with PhD Candidate Daddy Dibinga

Private: Daddy Dibinga Kalamba

LolMyThesis. I analyze the links between filming locations, the spaces captured within the television series, and the social imaginaries conveyed to understand the refiguration of Francophone West African series. It’s […]

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