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Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
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Linda Rootamm
Award winning poster:
Conflict in Cities PhD student Linda Rootamm presented a poster about her research at the ESRC Research Methods Conference in Oxford (5-8th July). Forty-seven posters were submitted to the poster competition. Linda Rootamm's poster took first place. She has been invited to submit a paper to the Academy of Social Sciences journal called 21st-Century Society.
Download her award winning poster here: Belonging in the New Berlin: The Experiences of Young East Berliners in the Reunified Berlin
Educational Background and Experience:
Linda Rootamm received her undergraduate degree in Sociology from University of Tartu, Estonia; with a minor in cultural anthropology from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany.
She worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Estonian Demography, and then studied for a Masters degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester.
Before commencing PhD research at the Queen’s University Belfast, Linda spent half a year in the Faroe Islands doing voluntary work in community building and empowerment.
Working Title of Thesis:
New Berlin, New People?: East Berliners’ Perceptions of the ‘Other’ Through Everyday Spatial Practices.
Abstract/Main Argument/Field of Enquiry:
The research will be ethnographic in nature, looking at Berlin in the post-unification phase. It focuses on continuity and change in the everyday spatial practices of East Berliners after the reunification, who at the time of the Wende were in their mid 20s. More specifically, it is interested in how their practices are influenced by their past biographical spatial experiences and controlled by the present power systems, public or private, that govern the development of the cityscape today. Finally, my study seeks to connect East Berliners’ spatial experiences with their perceptions of the West Berliners and of themselves.
E-mail: lindarootamm@yahoo.com
PhD students:
Anita Bakshi
Architecture, University of Cambridge (Nicosia)
Giulia Carabelli
Sociology, Queens University Belfast (Mostar)
Monika Halkort
Sociology, Queens University Belfast (Nahr el Bared refugee camp, Tripoli, Lebanon)
Konstantin Kastrissianakis
Architecture, University of Cambridge (Beirut)
Karl O'Connor
Politics, University of Exeter (Brussels, Nicosia and Beirut)
Linda Rootamm
Sociology, Queens University Belfast (Berlin)
Kelsey Shanks
Politics, University of Exeter (Kirkuk)
Affiliated Graduates
Annie Kane-Horrigan
Sociology, Queens University Belfast (Belfast)
Brendan Browne
Sociology, Queens University Belfast (Ramallah/Belfast)