- Urban and Economic Geography
- Fields: Geographies of Alternative Food, Critical Food Studies, Housing, Urban Gardening, Participation, Governance
- Theory: Political Economy, Alternative Economies, (Urban) Political Ecology, Governmentality, Hegemony
Profile
In July 2022 Marit Rosol took on a new position as Chair in Economic Geography at the Julius-Maximilians-University Wuerzburg in Germany. She remains a member of the U of Calgary community in her role as Adjunct Professor in the Department of Geography. However, she does not accept any new students anymore, please refrain from contacting her with requests as supervisor.
Marit Rosol joined the Department of Geography of the University of Calgary in July 2016 as a Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor. She was promoted to Professor in 2021. In her current second CRC term, starting in 2021, she is building on first term accomplishments while pioneering urban and economic geography as well as food research in response to two highly relevant challenges: (1) food as significant driver of global environmental change that requires a substantial shift towards sustainable and regenerative food systems based on a comprehensive understanding of sustainability, and (2) a need to question traditional distinctions between the urban and the rural and to rebuild urban-rural relations. She is coordinating a research program consisting of several research projects in different geographical settings that examine how existing, developing, or desired food systems alternatives are able to comprehensively address sustainability challenges and re-build urban-rural relations. The larger context for these questions are global trends of economic integration, state restructuring and the ongoing economic and ecological crises and their impact on social equality and everyday life.
Prior to coming to Calgary, Marit Rosol was a faculty member at the Department of Human Geography at the University of Frankfurt from 2006 until 2016. Between August 2007 and August 2008 she held a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service. In 2012 she finished her Habilitation research project (advanced post-doctoral thesis) on the question of "governing through community", based in parts on her empirical work on City Plan Community Visions Vancouver/ Canada. The conceptual framework entailed a combination of a political-economy perspective on neo-liberal restructuring of (local) statehood and planning policy and the neo-Foucauldian governmentality approach. Marit Rosol received her PhD with a thesis on „Community Gardening in Berlin“ from the Departement of Geography at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2006. She studied Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University of Berlin and the Universidad Politécnica in Madrid, Spain.
Current and recent service and memberships (selection):
Geographies of Alternative Food / Critical Food Studies:
Previous Research Projects (2016 – 2021)
Geographies of Alternative Food / Critical Food Studies:
Smart City:
Dr. Rebecca Laycock Pedersen, 2022 ongoing
Dr. Lauren Kepkiewicz, 2019 to 2021 (completed)
Dr. Charlotte Spring, 2020 to 2021 (completed)
PhD Students
Hanna Augustin (Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt), 2015 to 2019 (completed)
Committee Membership
Joyce Percel (PhD): Decoding Histories of Racial Violence in Property Data and Algorithms in Chicago, 2021–22
Chelsea Rozanski (formerly Klinke) (PhD): Regenerating Roots: Community-Driven Food Networks in Moh'kinstsis, 2021–22
Preston Welker (MA): (im)Mobilizing Nature Knowledges: Politicizing Nature and Participation Under Resilient Calgary, 2020–21 (completed)
Carol-Ann Beswick (PhD): Building Affordable Housing with Private Developers: The Case of Calgary and Edmonton, 2018–22
Most papers are also available here: https://ucalgary.academia.edu/MaritRosol
Edited Special Issues in Peer Reviewed Journals
Academic Journals (peer reviewed)
Edited Books
Book Chapters (* = peer reviewed)
Book reviews and other publications