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Eva Korte

A05 : Being Home

Research Associate

Technische Universität Berlin
BH 5-1 | Raum 233
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 1
10587 Berlin

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+49 (0)30 314-73796

eva.korte@soz.tu-berlin.de

CV

  • Since 2022

    PhD candidate at TU Berlin, Faculty VI Planning Building Environment and Research Assistant at CRC 1265, sub-project A05 „Being Home: Living Spaces and Self-Images of the Kenyan Middle Class”

  • 2016 – 2021

    M.A. Sociology and Technology Studies, at Technical University Berlin

  • 2010 – 2015

    B.A. Political Sciences, at Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich

  • 2008 - 2010

    Work experience as account manager at rms. - relationship marketing solutions GmbH, agency for digital marketing in Stuttgart.

  • 2003 – 2008

    B.Sc. Computer Science and Media, at Furtwangen University

  • 2006 – 2007

    Exchange student at University of Manchester, UK

Research Focus

    • Sociology of space

    • Biographical research

    • Sociology of home

    • (Global) middle class

Dissertation

In my dissertation I investigate different and (changing) ways to constitute a home based on a sample of people who migrated from Kenya to Berlin. Based on their individual biographies, I aim to detect more general spatial-temporal patterns of home making over the course of a life.

Publications

    • Kibel, J., & Korte, E. (2025). Räumlich Formen der Subjektivierung: Zur Kolonialität von Wohn- und Selbstverhältnissen in Kenia. In M. Blessinger, M. Hillebrecht, R. Keller, L. Schürmann, & G. Tiroch (Eds.), Die diskursive Konstruktion von Wirklichkeit V. Springer VS.

    • Korte, E. (2025). Humility. In I. Farías, N. Gansterer, & S. Steets (Eds.) An Atlas of Spatial Figures.

    • Korte, E. (2025). Nairobi City Girl. In I. Farías, N. Gansterer, & S. Steets (Eds.) An Atlas of Spatial Figures.

    • Christmann, G., Dihlmann, C.-J., Helbrecht, I., Kibel, J., Korte, E. & Lee, J.-Y. (2024). Ländlichkeiten – Konstruktionen von ländlichen Räumen und ihre Refiguration in Chile, China, Deutschland, Kanada, Kenia und Südkorea. SFB Working Paper, Nr. 15, Berlin.

    • Weidenhaus, G. & Korte, E. (2022). Searching for a Middle Class in Nairobi and Berlin . In Crimson, A., Guizardi, M. & Merenson, S. (Hrsg.), Middle Class Identities and Social Crisis. Cultural and Political Perspectives on the ‘Global Rebellion’ London: Routledge.

    • Weidenhaus, G. & Korte, E. (2021). Global Middle Class? Spurensuche in Nairobi und Berlin. In Löw, M., Sayman, V., Schwerer, J., & Wolf, H. (Hrsg.), Am Ende der Globalisierung. Über die Refiguration von Räumen (S. 283-306). Bielefeld: transcript.

    • Korte, E. & Weidenhaus, G. (2021). Wer ist die global middle class? Kosmopolitismus in Kenia. In Hoerning, J. & Misselwitz, P. (Hrsg.), Räume in Veränderung – Ein visuelles Lesebuch (S. 38-49). Berlin: Jovis Verlag.

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