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Papers by Andrea Mösgen

Der Beitrag analysiert Ungleichheitseffekte des 2007 eingeführten Elterngelds. Wir zeigen, dass d... more Der Beitrag analysiert Ungleichheitseffekte des 2007 eingeführten Elterngelds. Wir zeigen, dass die familienpolitische Einführung der Ressource Elterngeld die Einkommensungleichheiten der Produktions- bzw. Erwerbssphäre auf die Reproduktions- bzw. Familiensphäre übertragen hat. Das Elterngeld trägt damit aber zumindest bislang nicht (wie angedacht) zur Aufhebung der asymmetrischen Aufteilung von (entlohnter) Erwerbsarbeit und (nicht-entlohnter) Sorgearbeit zwischen Elternteilen bei. Stattdessen verdeutlicht unsere räumlich orientierte Untersuchung des Elterngeldbezugs ungleiche Muster in den Bewältigungsmöglichkeiten kinderbezogener Sorgearbeiten. Die an der ungleichen Geographie des Elterngelds deutlich werdende Ausdifferenzierung von Bearbeitungschancen von Elternschaft interpretieren wir als Ausdruck von sozialen Spaltungstendenzen auf dem Gebiet der Reproduktion, die von der familienpolitischen Einführung des Elterngelds forciert worden sind.Our article analyses the effects of p...

Frankfurt am Main - eine Stadt für alle?, 2021

sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung

European Urban and Regional Studies

Through an analysis of two international cases from Canada and Germany, this paper highlights the... more Through an analysis of two international cases from Canada and Germany, this paper highlights the role of the state in governing gentrification and displacement in areas previously thought to be unattractive for profit-seeking capital, that is, ‘un-gentrifiable’. With this, we seek to contribute to the debate on how the role of the local state has changed from securing affordable housing for low-income households into becoming an essential player involved in real estate speculation. Taking Little Mountain in Vancouver as the first example, we examine the privatization and demolition of the public housing complex and thus the withdrawal of the state. Our second example, Ostend in Frankfurt, investigates the restructuring of a working-class neighbourhood through active state-led interventions including massive public investment. We analyse the two empirical examples along five dimensions: causal drivers and mechanisms that have led to the changing role of the state in governing urban ...

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2016

Zusammenfassung Das innerstädtisch gelegene Ostend fungierte in Frankfurt am Main insbesondere se... more Zusammenfassung Das innerstädtisch gelegene Ostend fungierte in Frankfurt am Main insbesondere seit den 1950er-Jahren als Entlastungsraum für den unteren Wohnungsteilmarkt und war dementsprechend von unterdurchschnittlichen Miet- und Bodenpreisentwicklungen geprägt. Da sich diese Entwicklung jedoch seit Mitte der 2000er-Jahre umkehrt, untersucht der Beitrag erstens, inwiefern der Stadtteil gegenwärtig von Gentrifizierung betroffen ist. Anhand sekundärstatistischer Quellen kann diesbezüglich gezeigt werden, dass in dem ehemaligen Arbeiterviertel vor allem exkludierende Verdrängungsprozesse wirken, was über die letzten 15 Jahre zu einer schleichenden, aber klar erkennbaren Veränderung der Sozialstruktur zugunsten höherer Einkommensgruppen geführt hat. Zweitens wird analysiert, wie das lange Zeit als nicht zu gentrifizieren geltende Viertel erfolgreich aufgewertet werden konnte. Dementsprechend argumentieren wir auf der Basis einer Dokumentenanalyse von Veröffentlichungen der Stadt Fra...

"Spatial socialisation and school – theory and practice of a building block for teachers’ ed... more "Spatial socialisation and school – theory and practice of a building block for teachers’ education in Human Geography.": School is an integral part of the quarter it is located in. At the same time, and given a growing number of all-day schools in particular, it is an important part of the life worlds and identities of its pupils. Against the background of a resulting responsibility for teachers to address and deal with the spatial conditions of their educational practice, this paper discusses the advantage of empirical research into social spaces as a part of higher education for teachers in Human Geography. First, we lay out the scholarly field of the analysis of quarters by identifying different approaches. We consider a focus on life worlds and practices of spatial appropriation to be most productive. In a second part, the geographical and epistemological competences that can be enhanced are addressed in detail. In a third section we present a one-year teaching module...

The centrally located Ostend district in Frankfurt am Main had provided space for the lower-rent ... more The centrally located Ostend district in Frankfurt am Main had provided space for the lower-rent housing segment in particular since the 1950s and was therefore characterised by below-average rent price and real-estate value trends. Because these trends have reversed starting
in the mid-2000s, this paper analyses at first the extent to which the Ostend district is impacted by gentrification. Secondary statistical sources show an exclusionary process of displacement in this former working class neighbourhood, which had led, during the last fifteen years, to a slow but clearly distinguishable change in the social structure favouring higher income groups. In a second step we analyse how the City of Frankfurt was able to upgrade the Ostend district – something that many had considered impossible. Through an analysis of municipal documents and publications we argue that municipal decision makers have used various tools for enabling and supporting the gentrification of this district since the 1980s. The subsequent displacement processes were accelerated by the 2002 decision to relocate the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) to the Ostend district. Using discourse analysis we show that the relocation decision has led to a distinctive symbolic valorization of the district.

Journal Articles by Andrea Mösgen

Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde, 2017

This article addresses the question how planning-focused regional research has actually been cond... more This article addresses the question how planning-focused regional research has actually been conducted following the quantitative revolution and how we can apply this research today. To this end, this article introduces the 1978 monograph "Lebensqualität in Kärnten. Ein System regionaler Indikatoren" (Quality of life in Carinthia: a system of regional indicators), written by Gerhard Palme and Josef Steinach and awarded with the August Lösch Prize, and discusses it within the context of the discipline during that time. With its complex simulation model claiming to be able to map quality of life in a comprehensive way, the work by Palme and Steinbach is embedded in the rational Fordist planning approach. On the other hand, their critical assessment of the extent to which planning can be implemented reflects the general departure from a euphoric embrace of planning since the mid-1970s. Although nobody denies the limited scope of complex master-plans these days, the shortcomings of incremental planning have led to a renewed understanding that longer-range perspectives and integrated courses of action within the framework of strategic planning are needed. There are several substantive connections between the work by Palme and Steinbach and today's challenges, for example, in terms of the goal of regionally equivalent living conditions, demographic change, and the debate about equalization-oriented versus growth-oriented regional planning policies. It is apparent that the spatial science approaches within quantitative-analytical geography of the 1970s provide a basis for a variety of tools and methods that are used today, for example, Geographic Information Systems, statistical methods, and location analysis models. In addition, the work by Palme and Steinbach is characterized by a consistent grounding of arguments in theory - an example for a reference to theory within geography that started with the quantitative revolution.

Schule ist ein integraler Bestandteil ihres Quartiers. Gleichzeitig – und besonders in Anbetracht... more Schule ist ein integraler Bestandteil ihres Quartiers. Gleichzeitig – und besonders in Anbetracht der wachsenden Zahl an Ganztagsschulen – spielt sie eine zentrale Rolle für die Lebenswelt und für die Identitätsbildung ihrer Schülerinnen und Schüler. Vor dem Hintergrund der hieraus resultierenden Verantwortung von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern, die räumlichen Bedingungen ihrer Lehrpraxis zu beachten, diskutiert der vorliegende Beitrag den Nutzen empirischer Sozialraumforschung als Teil humangeographischer Lehrerbildung.
Zunächst stellen wir verschiedene Konzepte sozialraumanalytischer Forschung vor. Als besonders fruchtbar erscheinen uns lebensweltorientierte Ansätze, die Praktiken der Raumaneignung einbeziehen. Anschließend werden die geographischen und erkenntnistheoretischen Kompetenzen, die erreicht werden können, detailliert vorgestellt. In einem dritten Teil stellen wir ein einjähriges Lehrmodul vor, das wir an der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt entwickelt und erprobt haben, um die identifizierten Anforderungen an humangeographische Bildung zu erfüllen. Der Beitrag schließt mit einer kritischen Evaluation unserer bisherigen Lehrerfahrung sowie drei didaktischen Vorschlägen, die helfen sollen, das Potential der Sozialraumanalyse in der Lehrerbildung voll auszuschöpfen.

The centrally located Ostend district had provided space for the lower-rent housing segment in pa... more The centrally located Ostend district had provided space for the lower-rent housing segment in particular since the 1950s and was therefore characterized by below-average rent price and real-estate value trends. Because these trends have reversed starting in the mid-2000s, this paper analyzes at first the extent to which the Ostend district is impacted by gentrification. Secondary statistical sources show an exclusionary process of displacement in this former working class neighborhood, which had led, during the last fifteen years, to a slow but clearly distinguishable change in the social structure favoring higher income groups.
In a second step we analyze how the City of Frankfurt was able to upgrade the Ostend district - something that many had considered impossible. Through an analysis of municipal documents and publications we argue that municipal decision makers have used various tools for enabling and supporting the gentrification of this district since the 1980s. The subsequent displacement processes were accelerated by the 2002 decision to relocate the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) to the Ostend district. Using discourse analysis we show that the relocation decision has led to a distinctive symbolic valorization of the district. In this context we expect that the displacement of lower-income residents and the social restructuring of the Ostend district towards higher-income groups will continue because of the still existing rent gap between current and potential rental incomes.

$Research paper thumbnail of Kemper, Jan & Andrea Mösgen (2017): Die ungleiche Geographie des Elterngelds. Zur familienpolitischen Reproduktion gesellschaftlicher Ungleichheit. – sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung 5, 3, 43–68.$