"Unbekanntes Zlín. Über das Nichterzählte und Nichtgewusste der realisierten Utopie"
21.05.2009
Department Stadt- und Umweltsoziologie, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung Leipzig.
Annett Steinführer has studied in Leipzig, Glasgow, and Brno and holds an M.A. in sociology and East European studies. She is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig (Germany), in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology. Her Ph.D. thesis (2002) focused on urban transition in Eastern Germany and the Czech Republic, with specific emphasis on residential location decisions, housing market transformation, and changing patterns of residential segregation. At present, her major fields of research are socio-spatial inequality and demographics in urban areas, post-socialist transition in eastern Germany and East Central Europe, social vulnerabilities to natural hazards as well as methodological issues in sociological and housing research. Besides these areas, her research interests also focus on urban utopias and twentieth-century urban history. She has published several articles in Czech, English, and German.
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