Dr. Franziska Meinherz
Postdoc
Franziska Meinherz is a member of the “Transforming Mobility and Society” (TraMS) Lab, which is closely affiliated with the Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions (MCube). Franziska’s research focusses on urban mobility practices and politics, with a particular interest in experiences of everyday mobility practices, the link between experiences of mobility and spatial configurations, and experimental approaches to mobility politics, such as observed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Franziska studied sociology, economics and sustainability sciences at the universities of Geneva, Boston, Bergen, the New University of Lisbon and Radboud University, and holds a PhD in environmental sociology from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Follow Franziska on Twitter and ResearchGate.
- Urban mobility
- Mobility studies
- Tactical urbanism
- Practice theories
- Sustainability transitions
- Meinherz, F. (2024). Coire: Le paradoxe d’une ville pour 150 vallées. In La Suisse de A(rbon) à Z(oug): Portrait en 12 villes. EPFL Press. https://www.epflpress.org/produit/1504/9782889155415
- Meinherz, F., Mögele, M., Nitschke, L., Marquardt, E., & Schneidemesser, D. von. (2023). Die experimentelle Stadt: Ent- oder (Re)politisierung städtischer Transformationen? Polarisierte Welten. Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie in Bielefeld 2022, 41. https://publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2022/article/view/1629
- Meinherz, F. X., & Fritz, L. (2023). “The crisis justified the urgency, but now we have to go back to the rule of law”: Urban mobility governance during Covid-19. Environmental Politics, 0(0), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2023.2242741
- Meinherz, F. X., & Wentland, A. (2024). Urban mobility policy in pandemic times: An exploration of how Covid-19 affected policy framings and priorities in eight European cities. Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit, 9–29. https://doi.org/10.17879/sun-2024-5270
- Meinherz, F., & Fritz, L. (2021). ‘Ecological concerns weren’t the main reason why I took the bus, that association only came afterwards’: on shifts in meanings of everyday mobility. Mobilities, 1-18.
- Meinherz, F., Fritz, L., & Schneider, F. (2021). Vom Öffnen und Verschließen von Alternativen: Implikationen der gesellschaftlichen Einbettung nachhaltigkeitsrelevanter Wertvorstellungen. In Gesellschaftliche Transformationen (pp. 185-198). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
- Meinherz, F., & Binder, C. R. (2020). The dynamics of modal shifts in (sub) urban commuting: An empirical analysis based on practice theories. Journal of transport geography, 86, 102763.
- Fritz, L., & Meinherz, F. (2020). Tracing power in transdisciplinary sustainability research: an exploration. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 29(1), 41-51.
- Corsini, F., Laurenti, R., Meinherz, F., Appio, F. P., & Mora, L. (2019). The advent of practice theories in research on sustainable consumption: Past, current and future directions of the field. Sustainability, 11(2), 341.
- Meinherz, F., & Videira, N. (2018). Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in participatory modeling to elicit behavioral drivers in environmental dilemmas: the case of air pollution in Talca, Chile. Environmental management, 62(2), 260-276.