Prof. Dr. Marit Rosol – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Prof. Dr. Marit Rosol

University of Würzburg and University of Calgary
Human Geography

External Senior Fellow (Marie S. Curie FCFP)
September 2022 – December 2022

Last Update: 31.08.2023

Curriculum Vitae

Since July 2022 Marit Rosol holds the Chair in Economic Geography at the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany. Previously, from 2016 until 2022, she held a Canada Research Chair in Global Urban Studies and a position as Associate and Full Professor at the Department of Geography of the University of Calgary, Canada. From 2006 until 2016, Marit Rosol was a full-time faculty member at the Department of Human Geography at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. During that time, she held positions as Visiting Professor at the University of Bremen (2012) and at the Technical University of Dresden (2014-15), as well as a position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (2007-08).

In 2012 she was awarded a Habilitation (advanced post-doctoral degree) for her research 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 Department of Geography at the Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 2006. She studied Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University of Berlin and the Universidad Politécnica in Madrid, Spain.

Selected Publications

ROSOL, Marit / BLUE, Gwendolyn (2022): From the smart city to urban justice in a digital age. City. Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, 26(4), 684-705, https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2022.2079881 . Open access.
ROSOL, Marit / ROSOL, Christoph (2022): Food, Pandemics, and the Anthropocene – On the necessity of food and agriculture change. Canadian Food Studies / La Revue Canadienne Des études Sur l’alimentation, 9(1), 281-293. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v9i1.532 . Open access
ROSOL, Marit / BARBOSA, JR., Ricardo (2021, early view): Moving beyond direct marketing with new mediated models: evolution of or departure from alternative food networks? In: Agriculture and Human Values 38(4): 1021-1039. DOI: 10.1007/s10460-021-10210-4, full-text view-only version here
ROSOL, Marit (2020): On the Significance of Alternative Economic Practices – Reconceptualizing Alterity in Alternative Food Networks. In: Economic Geography 96(1): 52–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/00130095.2019.1701430
ROSOL, Marit/ STRÜVER, Anke (2018): (Economic) Geographies of Food: Transformative economies and alternative eating practices [original in German: (Wirtschafts-)Geographien des Essens: Transformatives Wirtschaften und alternative Ernährungspraktiken]. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie 62(3–4): 169–173. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2018-0005 Open access.

FRIAS Project

Canadian-German comparative perspectives on urban-rural food initiatives and alternative food networks

Using an internationally comparative case study approach, I will examine how existing, developing, or desired food systems alternatives are able to comprehensively address sustainability challenges and re-build urban-rural relations. With this, I aim to address pressing challenges in the Anthropocene, namely, firstly, that our agri-food systems are a significant driver of global environmental change and, secondly, that we can observe an increasing dis-connect of urban centres from their rural hinterlands. In my research I will focus particularly on potentials of alternative economic practices. My work program during the four months research stay will consist in the analysis of previously gathered data as well as a regional case study.