Team > Eva Isselstein

Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Chair of Economic Geography

I have been working as a research assistant at the Chair of Economic Geography at the University of Bayreuth since June 2020. Prior to that, I completed a master’s degree in human geography at Goethe University, Frankfurt, and a bachelor’s degree in comparative studies in cultures and religions at Philipps University, Marburg. I also worked in refugee and asylum counselling.

My research interest is in digital geographies, and specifically the various intersections between digital technologies and contemporary capitalism. My research focuses primarily on the digitalisation of the home as a site of social reproduction, which I investigate from a feminist perspective. For my doctoral dissertation, I look at so-called “smart homes”. I ask how these homes become “smart” and in what ways this changes the home and the work done within it. In doing so, I complicate macro theories of digital capitalism through the micro perspective of the home: How can digital capitalism be understood from the domestic sphere? In which new (or old) ways does the home get incorporated into capitalism? 

To explore these questions, I employ qualitative methods such as online ethnography, observation at trade fairs, and in-depth interviews.

Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Chair of Economic Geography

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Fakultät für Biologie, Chemie und Geowissenschaften
Chair of Economic Geography

Eva Isselstein
Research Associate

Room: 136
Office hours: upon appointment

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-2263
E-mail: eva.isselstein@uni-bayreuth.de