Institute of Geography

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Nora Komposch

PhD student and assistant

Social and Cultural Geography

Phone
+41 31 684 80 14
E-Mail
nora.komposch@unibe.ch
Office
315
Postal Address
University of Bern
Institute of Geography
Social and Cultural Geography
Hallerstrasse 12
CH-3012 Bern
Consultation Hour
Upon request

CV

Fields of Research

  • Geographies of the body
  • Care and reproduction
  • Politics of the global/intimate
  • Intersectionality
  • Migration and labor
  • Cooperative Studies

Education

Spring 2022 Research stay as visiting researcher, University of Huelva
2020

M.A. in Social Sciences (Major in Human Geography), University of Neuchâtel
2019 Exchange semester as a visiting student (Major in Gender Studies), Complutense University of Madrid
2018-2019

Research stay as a visiting researcher, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
2017

B.Sc. in Geography (Minors in Philosophy and History), University of Bern

 

Awards

2020 Leopold-Scheidl-Preis für Wirtschaftsgeographie der Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft
2019 SGAG-Preis der Schweizer Gesellschaft für Angewandte Geographie

 

Affiliations and memberships

Publications

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2024

Komposch, Nora; Schurr, Carolin; Escriva, Angels (12 June 2024). ‘In-between’ strawberries and reproductive justice. Geography Directions 10.55203/DCUL8266

Komposch, Nora; Schurr, Carolin; Escriva, Angels (2024). Intimate liminality in Spain's berry industry. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, pp. 1-14. Wiley 10.1111/tran.12673

Perler, Laura; Schurr, Carolin; Komposch, Nora; Winkel, Mirko; Cervantez Rodríguez, Pedro Alejandro (2024). Reproductive geopolitics: Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present. Environment and Planning. C, Politics and space, 42(1), pp. 102-124. Sage 10.1177/23996544231182546

2023

Komposch, Nora (ed.) (2023). Climate Crisis and Geographers for Future, (2023/4). Swiss Geographical Association (ASG)

Komposch, Nora (December 2023). Klimakrise. JETZT HANDELN! GeoAgenda(2023/4), pp. 4-5. Swiss Geographical Association (ASG)

Komposch, Nora; Julia, Steinberger (December 2023). « L’efficacité de la science se mesure par notre capacité à intervenir dans la trajectoire cataclysmique de nos sociétés » (Interview avec Julia Steinberger). GeoAgenda(2023/4), pp. 10-13. Swiss Geographical Association (ASG)

Sabin, Lucy; Komposch, Nora; Mestrot, Adrien (2023). Exhibiting toxicity: sprayed strawberries and geographies of hope. Cultural geographies, 31(1), pp. 113-120. Sage 10.1177/14744740231183202

Winkel, Mirko; Schurr, Carolin; Perler, Laura; Komposch, Nora (2023). Multisensorik: Globale Intimität multisensorisch erforschen und ausstellen. In: Singer, Katrin; Schmidt, Katharina; Neuburger, Martina (eds.) Artographies – Kreativ-künstlerische Zugänge zu einer machtkritischen Raumforschung. Sozial- und Kulturgeographie: Vol. 59 (pp. 215-228). Bielefeld: transcript

2022

Komposch, Nora (November 2022). "In der Genossenschaft haben wir die Macht, Dinge zu verändern". GEOGRAPHIEaktuell, 2(52), p. 5.

Schoepfer, Isabelle; Komposch, Nora; Riano, Yvonne; Wolfe, Sven Daniel (November 2022). «Hello New Team» (Interview). GeoAgenda(2022/3), pp. 8-11. Swiss Geographical Association (ASG)

Komposch, Nora; Perler, Laura (2022). Book Review: "Mehr als Selbstbestimmung! Kämpfe für reproduktive Gerechtigkeit" by Kitchen Politics (Ed.). Widerspruch - Beiträge zu sozialistischer Politik, 78, pp. 221-222. Rotpunktverlag

Komposch, Nora (2022). Transforming Family Spaces through Worker Cooperatives. A Case Study on Self-organised Care Work in New York City. Annals of the Austrian Geographical Society, 1, pp. 253-281. Österreichische Geographische Gesellschaft 10.1553/moegg164s253

2021

Komposch, Nora; Pohl, Nicholas; Riaño, Yvonne (June 2021). Worker Cooperatives’ Potential for Migrant Women‘s Self-Empowerment. Insights from a Case Study in New York City (nccr – on the move, Working Paper series 29). Neuchâtel: National Center of Competence in Research

2020

Komposch, Nora (2020). Cleaning and Care Worker Cooperatives in NYC: Empowerment Through Collectivization of Labor. Metropolitics

Komposch, Nora Helen (2020). "Als Genossenschafterin fühle ich mich sicherer" Wie sich New Yorker Care-Arbeiter*innen mit Kooperativen selbstermächtigen. Widerspruch - Beiträge zu sozialistischer Politik, 39, pp. 145-151. Rotpunktverlag

Komposch, Nora; Schurr, Carolin (2020). A portrait of assisted reproduction in Mexico: scientific, political, and cultural interactions. New genetics and society, 40(2), pp. 240-241. Taylor & Francis 10.1080/14636778.2020.1775564

2018

Calore, Manon; Joss, Helen; Komposch, Nora; Maspoli, Anna: “Le hammam féminin comme espace de partage” GeoAgenda, 5.

2014

Christen, Romeo; Komposch, Nora; Grossenbacher, Jonas: “Geographien der Macht. Gentrifizierung und Segregation in Bern” In: Wintzer, J. (ed.), Qualitative Methoden in der Geographie. Anwendungsbeispiele. Forschungberichte (17). Bern: University of Bern Press

Presentations

Selection since 2017

2024  
August “Climate-Induced Family Separation: Exploring the Nexus of Reproductive and Climate (In)justice within Transnational Labour Migration”, Presentation in panel “Geographies of (non)reproduction”, co-organized by Matilda Fitzmaurice and Sneha Krishnan at RGS-IBG conference, London, August 30.
  “’In-between’ strawberries and reproductive health: intimate liminality in Spain’s berry industry”, Presentation in panel “Mapping power relations in assemblages of health and care” co-organized by Mara Linden and Jessy Williams at RGS-IBG conference, London, August 29.
June “Divided by Drought: Exploring the intersection of climate (in)justice and disrupted family ties in global labour migration”, Presentation in panel “Contemporary hydrosocial challenges. Water as risk and resource in the context of anthropogenic climate change” co-organized by Ida Andersson, Martina Angela Caretta and Moa Tunström at Nordic Geographers Meeting, Copenhagen, June 25.
May «Intimate liminality in Spain’s berry industry». Presentation in panel Die politischen Räume des Planetarischen - Raumdenken im Lichte anthropozänischer und planetarischer Krisenverhältnisse, organized by Jan Winkler and Boris Michel, at Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie, Münster, May 24th
January «Reproductive and Climate (In)Justice: Exploring the Nexus of Global Warming, Gendered Migration and Seasonal Agriculture». Presentation in FRIES seminar organized by the Food System Economics and Policy Group at ETH (https://frieseth.wixsite.com/friesethz), Zürich, January 17th.
2023  
November «Reproductive and Climate (In)Justice: Exploring the Nexus of Global Warming, Gendered Migration and Seasonal Agriculture». Presentation in panel Climate Justice and Feminist Political Ecology, organized by Rosa Philipp and Johanna Paschen, at Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Mendrisio, November 18th.
September «Globale Lebensmittelketten und intime Erfahrungen von Erntearbeiter:innen: Über die Multiskalarität in Spaniens Erdbeerindustrie» Presentation in class on Globalen Herausforderungen und lokalen Brennpunkten organized by Moritz Gubler, Pädagogische Hochschule (PH) Bern, Bern, September 6th.
  “Gendered Constraints of Circular Labor Migration: Exploring the Intersections of Motherhood, Seasonal Labor, and Neoliberalism in Spain’s Berry Industry”, Presentation in panel Shaping moral norms of “good” parenthood and parenting across the reproductive process, organized by Edmée Ballif & Veronika Siegl, at Gender(ed) labor: Swiss Association of Gender Studies (SAGS) Conference 2023, Lausanne September 15th.
  “Situiertheit, Verkörperung und Machtgeladenheit von Wissen: Lehrbausteine für eine reflektierte und diverse Wissensproduktion in der geographischen Hochschullehre”, Presentation in panel Machtsensible Anforderungen an die geographische Hochschullehre, organized by Susanne Hübl & Jeannine Wintzer at the German Congress of Geography (DKG), Frankfurt, September 21th.
2022  
Dezember “Access to health care in temporary liminal spaces: geopolitics of im/mobility in Spain’s strawberry industry”, Presentation in Rencontres Scientifiques IGG, organized by Yvonne Riaño, Neuchâtel, December 8th.
November

“Access to reproductive health care in temporary liminal spaces: reproductive geopolitics of Spain’s strawberry industry”, Presentation in panel Feminist Geopolitics for a new world (without war), organized by Carolin Schurr, Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Lausanne, November 19th.
July “Family Life during Harvest Labor Abroad: Insights into the Reproductive Geopolitics of Spain’s Strawberry Industry”, Presentation on panel Migration and the Family, organized by Brenda Yeoh and Theodora Lam. IGU Annual Meeting, Paris, July 19th.
2021  
April “Collectivizing cleaning and care labor: how migrant women can gain agency through worker cooperatives”, Presentation on panel Labour Geographies “beyond the core” II: Resistance, Agency and Praxis, organisiert von Debolina Majumbder. AAG Annual Meeting, Seattle (online).
2020  
November "Worker Cooperatives’ Potential to Transform Migrant Women’s Social Position and Agency: A Case Study in New York City", Präsentation in der Diskussion "Geographies of Work and Workers' Experiences", Organisatorinnen Marisol Keller und Isabella Stringl. Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Zürich.
July "Arbeiter*innenkooperativen im Reinigungs- und Sorgebereich: Erfahrungen aus New York City und deren Anwendung in der Schweiz", Präsentation der Masterarbeit im Communitycenter de_block, Bern
2019  
May “The social impacts of worker cooperatives on the lives of immigrant women in NYC”, Präsentation der Masterarbeit im Center for Family Life (NGO), Brooklyn NY
2017  
September “Veränderung der Grenzregime entlang der Balkanroute: Eine Reflexion aus der theoretischen Perspektive der staatlichen Territorialität.” Paper zum Panel Welche Geographien der Migration? am Deutschen Kongress für Geographie, Tübingen

 

Teaching

Current Teaching

Fall 2024 Tutorium "Human Geography I"
ongoing Bachelor theses supervision

Past Teaching

Spring 2024 Excursion City Bern
Fall 2023 Tutorium "Human Geography I"
Fall 2022 Lecture "Humangeographie I"
Fall 2021 Tutorium "Human Geography I"
Fall 2020 Tutorium "Human Geography I"
Spring 2015 Co-organisation of the tutorial course "Raum schaffen - Kritische Geographie machen" (Critical Geography), Institute of Geography, University of Bern