Thilo van der Haegen

thilo.van.der.haegen@uni-hamburg.de

Before coming to Hamburg to pursue a dissertation within the DFG research training group ‘Urban future-making: Professional agency across time and scale’, Thilo van der Haegen studied human geography at the University of Zurich. He graduated with a master’s degree and a thesis on the discursive landscape of mining in the Canadian Arctic. Before focusing on human geography, Thilo had initially started his intellectual journey in Basel, where he studied history and geography for his bachelor’s degree.

Research Project

The green, affordable, reconciliatory city

Outreach activities

The Vancouver socioecological fix: Indigenous real-estate development as the city’s imagination of sustainability, affordability, and reconciliation

Re-entering the social: Urban political ecology, poststructuralism, and ecological imaginaries

Undoing colonial legacies by capitalist means? The emergence of Indigenous real-estate development in Vancouver