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Chair of Economic Geography

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marit ROSOL

Chair in Economic Geography

Tel.: +49 931 31-80254
E-Mail: marit.rosol@uni-wuerzburg.de

 

Postal address:

 

Department of Geography and Geology
Am Hubland · 97074 Würzburg

Office Location:
Campus Southern Hubland
Geography Building, Office 133

Administrative Staff:
Daniela Wolf
Tel.: +49 931 31- 89169
E-Mail: l-geowiso@uni-wuerzburg.de
Geography Building, Office 132

concurrent: Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Canada

By appointment only. Usually Wednesdays 11 to 12 h.

  • Fields: Geographies of Alternative Food, Critical Food Studies, Housing, Urban Gardening, Participation, Governance
  • Theory: Political Economy, Alternative Economies, Post-Growth, (Urban) Political Ecology, Governmentality, Hegemony

2022
Senior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, COFUND FRIAS and EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, Freiburg, Germany (Sept. to Dec.)

2022
Chair in Economic Geography, Department of Geography and Geology, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (since July 1st)

2022
Adjunct Professor, University of Calgary, Department of Geography (since July 1st)

2021
Canada Research Chair (renewed) and Professor (promoted), University of Calgary, Department of Geography, Canada

2019
Visiting Scholar, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Department of Geography, Germany (Oct.)

2018
Visiting Scholar, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Department of Geography, Germany (July)

2018
Visiting Scholar, Concordia University Montreal, Department of Geography, Planning & Environment, Canada (May)

2017
Visiting Scholar, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Department of Geography, Germany (Oct.)

2017
Visiting Scholar, Goethe Universitaet Frankfurt, Department of Human Geography, Germany (Sept.)

2017
Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto, Geography & Planning Department, Canada (May)

2016
Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor, University of Calgary, Department of Geography, Canada

2015
Visiting Scholar, University of California Berkeley, Department of Geography, USA

2015
Visiting Scholar, University of California Santa Cruz, Community Studies Program, USA

2014–2015
Visiting Professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) Economic and Social Geography, Department of Geography, TU Dresden, Germany

2012
Habilitation (advanced post-doctoral degree) Goethe-Universität Frankfurt; Venia Legendi for Geography

2012
Vistiting Professor (Vertretungsprofessorin) for Human Geography, Department of Geography Universität Bremen, Germany

2007–2008
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Geography, Simon-Fraser University, Canada (funded by DAAD)

2006–2016
Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Human Geography at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany

2003
Research in Toronto (Canada) and Seattle (USA) for Doctoral Thesis

2002–2006
Ph.D in Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany, Dr. rer. nat. (funded by DFG - German Research Foundation), Fellow of Research Training Group „Urban Ecology” Berlin

2000
Internship and Research in Montevideo, Uruguay for Master Thesis

1997–1998
Graduate Study at  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura- ETSAM, in Madrid, Spain (funded by German Exchange Service DAAD)

1994–2001
Graduate and Undergraduate Degree at Department of Urban and Regional Planning (ISR), Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany, Dipl-Ing. (equiv. to Master of Planning)

Most publications are also available here:  Academia and Google Scholar

Edited Special Issues in Peer Reviewed Journals

Academic Journals (peer reviewed)

Authored Books

  • ROSOL, M. (2006): Community Gardens in Berlin.  A qualitative analysis concerning potentials and risks of civic engagement in the green sector against the background of changing statehood and spatial planning. [original title: Gemeinschaftsgärten in Berlin. Eine qualitative Untersuchung zu Potenzialen und Risiken bürgerschaftlichen Engagements im Grünflächenbereich vor dem Hintergrund des Wandels von Staat und Planung]. Mensch & Buch Verlag, Berlin.

Edited Books

  • HIRTH, S. & M. ROSOL (2024): Food. [original titel: Ernährung] In: BELINA, Bernd / NAUMANN, Matthias / STRÜVER, Anke (Eds.): Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie. Münster: Westf. Dampfboot, 403-409.
  • KUMNIG, S. ,  ROSOL, M. & A. EXNER (Eds.) (2017): Contested Green. Between neoliberal urban development and city making from below. [original title: Umkämpftes Grün. Zwischen neoliberaler Stadtentwicklung und Stadtgestaltung von unten.] Bielefeld: Transcript. (for a book review - in German - see here)
  • HEEG, S. & M. ROSOL (Eds.) (2014): Built Environment. Urban political conflicts in Frankfurt am Main and Offenbach. [original title: Gebaute Umwelt. Aktuelle stadtpolitische Konflikte in Frankfurt am Main und Offenbach]. Forum Humangeographie 12. Institut für Humangeographie, Frankfurt a.M.

Book Chapters (* = peer reviewed)

  • HIRTH, S. & M. ROSOL (2024): Ernährung. In: BELINA, B, NAUMANN, M. & A. STRÜVER (Eds.): Handbuch Kritische Stadtgeographie. Münster: Westf. Dampfboot, 403-409.
  • * ROSOL, M. (2023): Good food for all? Navigating tensions between environmental and social justice concerns in urban community food initiatives. In: MORROW, O., VEEN, E. & S. WAHLEN (Eds.): Community Food Initatives. A critical reparative approach. London: Routledge, 77–97.
  • * ROSOL, M. & V. BÉAL (2022): Urban sustainability and (post-)democracy: Policies, Practices and Movements. In: BORNEMANN, B., KNAPPE, H. & P. NANZ (Eds.): Handbook of Democracy and Sustainability. Routledge International Handbooks Series. London: Routledge, 267-282.
  • * ROSOL, M. (2021): Democratizing Land Access: Land Purchasing Cooperatives and the New Agricultural Commons. In: C. MEES (Ed.): Urban Open Space+. Strategies inbetween Architecture and Open Space Planning, Berlin: Jovis, 100–104.
  • * ROSOL, M. (2021): Gut essen in Gemeinschaft. Städtische Ernährungsinitiativen für Begegnung, Gerechtigkeit und Muße. In: RIEDL, P. P., FREYTAG, T. & H. W. HUBERT (Hrsg.):  Urbane Muße. Materialitäten, Praktiken, Repräsentationen.  Reihe Otium. Studien zu Theorie und Kulturgeschichte der Muße. Bd. 20. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 335–352.
  • * KUMNIG, S. & M. ROSOL (2021): Commoning land access. Collective purchase and squatting of agricultural lands in Germany and Austria. In: EXNER, A., KUMNIG, S. & S. HOCHLEITHNER (Eds.): Capitalism and the Commons: Just Commons in the Era of Multiple Crisis. New York: Routledge, 35-49.
  • ROSOL, M. (2021): Gemeinschaftsgärten in der Gegenwart. In: GORGUS, Nina & L. VOIGT (Eds.): Frankfurter Gartenlust. Frankfurt: Societätsverlag, 339–347
  •  ROSOL, M. & C. ROSOL (2021): Welt im Fieber. Zur Notwendigkeit einer globalen Agrar- und Ernährungswende in Zeiten des Anthropozäns. In: AgrarBündnis e.V. (Hg.): Der Kritische Agrarbericht. Hamm: ABL-Verlag, 8–12.
  • * ROSOL, M. & C. TEMENOS (2019): The Greenest City Experience: Exploring social action and social sustainability in Vancouver, Canada. In: KRUEGER, R., FREYTAG, T. & S. MÖSSNER (Eds.): Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism. New York: SUNY Press, 115–136.
  • * ROSOL, M. & A. VOGELPOHL (2019): Das Dorf in der Stadt. In: NELL, W. & M. WEILAND (Hrsg.): Dorf. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch. Berlin: Metzler, 368–377.
  • * ROSOL, M., BLUE, G. & V. FAST (2018): „Smart“, aber ungerecht? Die Smart City-Kritik mit Nancy Fraser denken. In: BAURIEDL, S. & A. STRÜVER (Hrsg.): Smart City - Kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten. Bielefeld: Transcript, 87–98.
  • * ROSOL, M. & I. DZUDZEK (2018): Partizipative Planung. In: BELINA, B., NAUMANN, M. & A. STRÜVER (Hrsg.): Handbuch kritische Stadtgeographie. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 329–334 (3rd revised, updated and expanded edition)
  • ROSOL, M. (2018): Politics of Urban Gardening. In: WARD, K., JONAS, A.E.G., MILLER, B. & D. WILSON (Eds.): The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics. New York: Routledge, 134–145.
  • * ROSOL, M.(2017): Gemeinschaftlich Gärtnern in der neoliberalen Stadt. In: KUMNIG, S., ROSOL, M. & A. EXNER (Hrsg.): Umkämpftes Grün. Zwischen neoliberaler Stadtentwicklung und Stadtgestaltung von unten. Bielefeld: Transcript, 11-32.
  • ROSOL, M. (2016): Community volunteering and the neoliberal production of urban green space. In: Y. BEEBEEJAUN (Ed.): The Participatory City. Berlin: Jovis, 85–93.
  • ROSOL, M. (2015): Die ernährungsgerechte Stadt schaffen. In: A. STRÜVER (Hg.): Geographien der Ernährung – Zwischen Nachhaltigkeit, Unsicherheit und Verantwortung. Hamburg: Institut für Geographie der Universität Hamburg (Hamburger Symposium Geographie, Band 7), 51-65
  • ROSOL, M. & S. SCHIPPER (2014): Das foucaultsche Konzept der Gouvernementalität. In: OSSENBRÜGGE, J. & A. VOGELPOHL (Hrsg.): Theorien in der Raum- und Stadtforschung – Einführungen. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 271–289.
  • ROSOL, M. (2014): Recording the unrecorded. Marit Rosol in an interview with Bohn & Viljoen. In: VILJOEN, A., & K. BOHN (Eds.): Second Nature Urban Agriculture: Designing productive cities. London and New York: Routledge, 178-183. (Winner of the 2015 RIBA - Royal Institute of British Architects - President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research)
  • ROSOL, M. & I. DZUDZEK (2014): Partizipative Planung. In: BELINA, B., NAUMANN, M. & A. STRÜVER (Hrsg.): Handbuch kritische Stadtgeographie. 2. Auflage. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 212–217.
  • ROSOL, M. (2013): City und Innenstadtentwicklung. In: ROLFES, M. & A. UHLENWINKEL (Hrsg.): Metzler Handbuch 2.0 Geographieunterricht. Braunschweig: Westermann, 240 – 246.
  • ROSOL, M. (2012): The impact of shifting governing contexts on grassroots gardening initiatives – Community Gardens in Berlin, Germany. In: A. DAVIES (Ed.): Enterprising Communities: Grassroots Sustainability Innovations. Advances in Ecopolitics 8. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 123 – 142.
  • *  DÖRRY, S. & M. ROSOL, (2011): Kreativwirtschaft als Motor der Stadtentwicklung? – Das Beispiel Zürich. In: MUSIL, R. & W. MATZNETTER (Hrsg.): Europa: Metropolen im Wandel. Wien: Mandelbaum-Verlag, 123 – 136.
  • FRITSCHE, M., KLAMT, M., ROSOL, M. & M. SCHULZ (2011): Social Dimensions of Urban Restructuring – Urban Gardening, Residents’ Participation, Gardening Exhibitions. In: W. Endlicher (Hrgs.): Perspectives in Urban Ecology - Ecosystems and Interactions between Humans and Nature in the Metropolis of Berlin. Berlin und Heidelberg: Springer (Germany), 261-295.
  • ROSOL, M. (2011): Ungleiche Versorgung mit Grün- und Freiflächen – (K)ein Thema für die Freiraumplanung? In: BELINA, B., GESTRING, N., MÜLLER, W. & D. STRÄTER (Hrsg.): Urbane Differenzen. Disparitäten innerhalb und zwischen Städten (= Raumproduktionen: Theorie und gesellschaftliche Praxis 9), Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 98 - 114.
  • ROSOL, M. (2010): CityPlan Vancouver - Strategische Planung durch neue Governanceformen?  In: HUTTER, G. & T. WIECHMANN (Hrsg.): Strategische Planung. Zur Rolle der Planung in der Strategieentwicklung für Städte und Regionen. Reihe Planungsrundschau Nr. 18, Kassel, Verlag Uwe Altrock, 121-141. Editorial.
  • ROSOL, M. (2010): Gemeinschaftsgärten - Politische Konflikte um die Nutzung innerstädtischen Raumes. In: B. REIMERS (Hg.): Gärten und Politik. München, Oekom Verlag, 206-215.
  • ROSOL, M. (2007): Community Gardening in Berlin – Creative production and use of urban green space. in: DEBEN, L. & M. BONTJE : Creativity and diversity: Key challenges to the 21st century city. Amsterdam: Spinhuis, 196-209.
  • *  HAIDLE, E. & M. ROSOL (2005): Vom Lande in der Stadt – Gemeinschaftsgärten in Buenos Aires und Berlin. In: Altrock, U., Güntner, S., Huning, S., Nuissl, H. & D. Peters (Hrsg.): LandLiebe –Landleben. Ländlicher Raum im Spiegel von Sozialwissenschaften und Planungstheorie, Planungsrundschau Ausgabe 12, Berlin, 141-153. Editorial.
  • ROSOL, M. (2004): Community Gardens in Berlin und nordamerikanischen Großstädten – „Grüne Oasen“ durch informelle Arbeit? In: MANNING, S. & M. MAYER (Hrsg.): Praktiken informeller Ökonomie: Explorative Studien aus deutschen und nordamerikanischen Städten. Arbeitspapier Nr. 2 der Abteilung Politik des John-F.-Kennedy-Instituts der Freien Universität Berlin, Berlin: Selbstverlag Freie Universität Berlin, 35-53. (download pdf here)
  • BLANKENBURG, T. & M. ROSOL (1998): Rykestraße – Geschichte eines Quartiers. In: S.T.E.R.N. et al. (Hg.): Das SelbstBau-Modell. Eine Mietergenossenschaft in Prenzlauer Berg. Berlin: Christoph Links Verlag, 15-21.

Book reviews and other publications

  • Editor of the Journal Progress in Human Geography (2025–)
  • Focus Coordinator for the area "Society, Economy, Law" at the Synposis Kolleg of JMU Würzburg (2025–)
  • Chairperson Examination Committee for Matser Applied Human Geography (M.Sc.) (2024–)
  • Elected Member, Board of Directors, Bavarian American Academy (2024–)
  • Representative of JMU on behalf of the President; Canada-Germany U15 Universities Inter-Institutional Working Group: Sustainability and Food Security (2024–)
  • Elected Member, Board of Directors,  AK Agri-Food Geographies, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geographie – DGfG (Working Group Agri-Food Geographies of the German Geographical Society) (2024–)
  • Member, interdisciplinary Kolleg Moderne und Gegenwart (KMG), Universität Würzburg (2024–)
  • Representative for University Library Affairs, Department of Geography and Geology, Universität Würzburg (2023–)
  • Member Advisory Board Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation (2022 ongoing)
  • Co-Editor in Chief Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation (2020-22)
  • Editorial Board sub\urban - Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung (Journal for critical urban research, 2020 ongoing)
  • Convener Calgary Institute for the Humanities (CIH) Food Studies Interdisciplinary Research Group (Founder and Convener 2019-22, Member 2022 on-going)
  • Graduate Program Committee, Department of Geography, U of Calgary (2019-22)
  • Editorial Board Standort - Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geographie (German Journal of Applied Geography, 2019–23)
  • Board Member Canadian Association for Food Studies (CAFS, 2018–20)
  • Governance Board Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation (2018–20)
  • Founding and Executive Board Member UCCities - Global Urban Research at the University of Calgary  (2017-22)
  • Convener interdiscipllnary Calgary Institute for the Humanities (CIH) working group Social Justice and the Smart City, University of Calgary (2018–19)
  • Member O' Brien Institute of Public Health, University of Calgary (OIPH, 2017 ongoing)

(selection, > 60 journals in total )

ACME. An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies / Agriculture and Human Values / Annals of the American Association of Geographers / Antipode. A Radical Journal of Geography / Area / Canadian Food Studies / La revue Canadienne des études sur l’alimentation /  City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action / City, Culture and Society / Die Erde. Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin / Economic Geography / Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions / Environmental Policy and Governance / Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space / Environment and Planning D: Society and Space / Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space / European Urban and Regional Studies / Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography / Geography Compass / Geographica Helvetica / Geographische Zeitschrift / Housing, Theory and Society / International Journal of Urban and Regional Research / Journal of Cleaner Production / Journal of Rural Studies / Landscape and Urban Planning / Local Environment / Progress in Human Geography / Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Standort – Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geographie / Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy / Sub/urban. Zeitschrift für kritische Stadtforschung / The Canadian Geographer/ Le Géographe Canadien / Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie / Urban Forestry & Urban Greening / Urban Geography / Urban Studies / ZfW - Advances in Economic Geography

Geographies of Alternative Food / Critical Food Studies

Geographies of Alternative Food / Critical Food Studies

  • Food, alternative economies, and urban-rural relations (SSHRC CRC Program, 2021–2022, PI)
  • Towards Just Food Futures: Divergent approaches and possibilities for collaboration across difference (SSHRC Connection Grant, 2020-22, PI)
  • Local ingredients, global recipes: Exploring strategies to avoid the local trap through a study of the EthniCity catering program in Calgary, Alberta (SSHRC Graduate Scholarship, CRC Program, Department of Geography, MA project Abby Landon, 2020–22, Co-PI)
  • Four Stories About Food Sovereignty: Transnational Crises and Local Action (SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, 2019–2022, Collaborator)
  • Good food is just the beginning. Scaling up and scaling out urban community food initiatives in Calgary (SSHRC Insight Grant, 2019–2022, PI)
  • Food Activism in Calgary as Struggle for Food Sovereignty in the Urban Global North (Mitacs, CRC Program, Department of Geography, MA project Ricardo Barbosa Jr., 2017–2021, Co-PI)
  • Working Across Difference: A Case Study of Food System Transformation in the Bow Valley (SSHRC CRC & Faculty of Arts, Postdoctoral research project Dr. Lauren Kepkiewicz, 2019–2021, Co-PI)
  • Generating Knowledge, Sharing Experiences and Building Collaborations for Ecologically Sustainable and Socially Just Urban Food Systems in Calgary (SSHRC Seed Grant, 2020, PI)
  • Urban Food Initiatives and Alternative Food Networks in a Canadian-German Perspective (SSHRC CRC Program, 2016–2021, PI)
  • Cities, Food, and Social Inequality. Barriers and Chances for the Access to Healthy Food in German Cities (Hans-Böckler Foundation, PhD project Hanna Augustin, 2015–2019, Co-PI)

Smart City

  • Social Justice and the Smart City  (CIH, 2018–2019 Co-PI, 2017–18 and 2019-20 participant)
  • The Social and Environmental Implication of Smart Cities: Towards a Global Comparative Research Agenda (SSHRC Connections Grant, UofC VPR, 2016–2019, Co-PI)