Faculty Profile
Dr. Ulrich Best
DAAD Visitng Professor/
Education
Ph.D (Geography) University of Plymouth, 2005
Diplom-Geograph. FU Berlin (Geography, Sociology), IT 1999
Vordiplom. University of Heidelberg (Geography, Sociology), IT 1996
Office: 718 York Research Tower
Phone: (416) 736-2100 x 22406
Fax: (416) 736-5988
Email: ubest@yorku.ca
Research Interests
- The critical geography of Europe, border studies
- Urban geography
- History and theory of geography
- Critical geopolitics of energy
Some Publications
Books
(2007) Transgression as a Rule. German-Polish Cross-border Cooperation, Border Discourse and EU-enlargement (= Forum Politische Geographie, Bd. 3). Münster: Lit.
(2001) (with Dirk Gebhardt) Ghetto-Diskurse. Geographien der Stigmatisierung in Berlin und Marseille. [Ghetto-discourses. Geographies of stigmatisation in Berlin and Marseille] Potsdam: University of Potsdam. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2010/4550/
Journal articles and book chapters
Arbeit, Internationalismus und Energie. Zukunftsvisionen in den Gaspipelineprojekten des RGW. [Work, internationalism and energy. Visions of the future in gaspipeline projects of the CMEA] In: Martin Schulze Wesssel, Christiane Brenner (eds) Zukunftsvorstellungen und staatliche Planung im Sozialismus: die Tschechoslowakei im ostmitteleuropäischen Kontext. München: Oldenbourg, pp. 137-147. 2010
with Luiza Bialasiewicz and Ülle Marksoo: The Global Economic Crisis and Regional Divides in the European Union: Spatial Patterns of Unemployment in Estonia and Poland. In: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 51/1, pp. 52-79. 2010
The invented periphery: Constructing Europe in debates about „Anglo hegemony“ in geography. In: Social Geography 4, pp. 83-91. 2009 http://www.soc-geogr.net/4/83/2009/sg-4-83-2009.pdf
(with Bernd Belina and Matthias Naumann) Critical geography in Germany: From exclusion to inclusion via internationalisation. In: Social Geography 4, pp. 47-58. 2009 http://www.soc-geogr.net/4/47/2009/sg-4-47-2009.pdf
Critical Geography. In: Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, volume 2, pp. 345-357. Oxford: Elsevier. 2009
Definitions of security in German and Polish debates about Russian gas pipelines. In: Geographische Rundschau / international edition , 3 (2007) 1, pp. 36 - 42. 2007
Europe, the nation-state and centre-periphery discourses. Definitions of security in debates about the Yamal and the Baltic Pipeline. In: Leszek Jesien (ed.): The Future of European Energy Security. Krakow: Tischner European University, pp. 101-112. 2006
Between cross-border co-operation and neocolonialism: EU enlargement and Polish-German relations. In: Salvatore Engel-DiMauro (ed.): The European's burden, New York: Peter Lang, pp. 183-207. 2006
Deleuze and Guattari and border studies, in: Berg, Eiki and van Houtum, Henk (eds): Routing Borders Between Territories, Discourses and Practices, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 177-190. 2003
with Anke Strüver and Bernd Belina: Change and Continuity in German Landscapes of Fear and Imperialism after September 11th: ”Nothing Remains” = ”More of the Same”?, In: Antipode 34/5, pp. 829-834. 2002
with Dirk Gebhardt: Stigmastadtpläne Berlins. [Stigmatising maps of Berlin] In: Paul Reuber, GünterWolkersdorfer (eds): Politische Geographie. Handlungsorientierte Ansätze und Critical Geopolitics. Heidelberg: Institute of Geography, pp. 217-22
