Research Affiliate
Friederike (Fred) Landau-Donnelly (1989, she/they) is an intersectional political theorist, urban sociologist and cultural geographer. She is a visiting professor for Social and Cultural Geography at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. In their upcoming monograph on conflictual museums in Canada and India, Friederike develops a conflict-theoretical perspective on the role museums play in struggles towards social, spatial and epistemic justice.
Friederike writes on artistic and affective activism, spatial theory, art in public space (especially murals) and contested cultural policy. Friederike has co-edited Handbuch Kulturpolitik (Handbook of Cultural Policy, Springer, 2024), Konfliktuelle Kulturpolitik (Conflictual Cultural Policy, Springer, 2023), [Un]Grounding – Post-Foundational Geographies (transcript, 2021). In her PhD, Friederike discussed the trans-disciplinary artist-led organizing of Berlin’s independent scene, which was published as Agonistic Articulations in the ‘Creative’ City – On New Actors and Activism in Berlin’s Cultural Politics (Routledge, 2019). Friederike produces zines and publishes poetry as PoeticAcademic : https://friederikelandau.com/poeticacademic/.
