Institute of Geography

Final theses

Themes we are interested in to supervise BA-, MA- and PhD theses:

(feminist) social geographies (spatial practices of youth and children, migration, im/mobilities, social inequality, ...)
(feminist) political geographies (cultural politics of emotions, nationalism, national identities, counter political spaces, ...)
(feminist) geographies of the body (spaces of conception, intimacy and globalisation, care work, commodification of bodies, ...)
(feminist) cultural geographies (postcolonial theories, culture as resistance, ...)
(feminist) digital and visual geographies (critical cartographies/mapping, robots, ...)
(feminist) history and epistemology of Geography (gendered history of the discipline, ...)

Current Master theses
Olivia Büchli	Transnationale Netzwerke (Mujeres Wayuu)	Maaret Jokela-Pansini

Current Bachelor theses
Nora Huber	Migration - Integration	Nora Komposch
Alexandra Murphy	Konstruktion - Natur	Jeannine Wintzer
Hannah Slack	Concept of home and #vanlife	Jeannine Wintzer
Sarina Wellauer	Soziale Bewegungen - Nachhaltigkeit	Jeannine Wintzer

Completed Master theses
2019	Andreas Gerber	Die Stadt Bern und das Emmental: Politisches Framing in der Regionalpolitik	Jeannine Wintzer
2019	Daniel Hofer	Tourismusdebatten in Interlaken und Sils	Jeannine Wintzer
2019	Hannah Ambühl	Another Way of Doing Geographies: How can filmmaking be used as geographical research tool?	Jeannine Wintzer
2019	Johanna Büche-Maeder	Schulbuchanalyse (Metaphern Migration und Globalisierung)	Jeannine Wintzer
2019	Rosa Philipp	Urban agriculture in Mexico City	Maaret Jokela-Pansini (with Susan Thieme)
2020	Carine Hürdin	Sharing Geography - Communicating Geographic Practices by Means of an Explainer Video	Jeannine Wintzer
2021	Devrim Ay	Identification Processes and Political Participation in the Kurdish and Turkish Diaspora in Switzerland & nbsp;	Elisabeth Militz

Completed Bachelor theses
2019	Leo Baeriswyl	Wagenplätze in der Stadt Bern	Carolin Schurr
2019	Devrim Ay	Frauen des Widerstands im demokratischen Konföderalismus in Rojava	Elisabeth Militz
2019	Eva Krattiger	Verbesserung der Lebensqualität(en) durch Stadtentwicklung?	Jeannine Wintzer
2020	Salome Günter	Soziale Nachhaltigkeit Landwirtschaft	Jeannine Wintzer
2020	Sarah Matasci	Schönheitsoperationen	Jasmine Truong
2020	Mauro Schmid	Digitale Geographien des Klimastreiks	Carolin Schurr
2020	Lis Dil	Geographien der Schönheit im K-Drama	Elisabeth Militz
2021	Nuria Alva	“U ner muesch plötzlech bewise, dass de di liebsch.” - Verstrickungen von Nation und Intimität in transnationalen Ehen	Elisabeth Militz
2021	Bastian Marxen	Das Spektakel der Differenz. Räumliche Repräsentation im Dokumentarfilm	Jeannine Wintzer
2021	Thérèse Laubscher	About difference and membership - a mixed methods analysis of a housing cooperative in Bern	Nora Komposch and Carolin Schurr
2021	Luzia Nieuwenhuizen	Discursive constructions of spatial identity in social media. Analysis and Deconstruction of Geopolitical models of the New Right	Elisabeth Militz
2021	Madeleine Dörfler	Digital Emancipatory Activism - How K-Pop Fans Use Twitter to Raise Awareness of Mistreatment of Women	Elisabeth Militz