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Field of Research
Social and Political Geographies of Europe

  • Geopolitical Conditions of Europeanization: Political, economic, and everyday production methods of Europe and their regionally differentiated effects.
  • Materialities of Globalization: Regulatory and practical transnationalization in fields such as organ donation, tissue and art trade.
  • Political Geographies of Inequality: The emergence of spatial inequality in Europe and the role of economic, planning, and social processes.
  • Geographies of Religion in Peripheral Spaces: Reactions of faith communities to secularization and out-migration in rural regions.
  • Innovation of Qualitative Methods: Consequences of legal (GDPR), technological (AI), social, and political framework conditions for qualitative research.

Current Projects

  • Reparative Geopolitics – Project Lead, DFG.
  • Transformation Appeals and Rural Populism – Project Lead, DFG.
  • Intermediaries of Globalisation – Researcher, DFG.
  • Protein Matters – Project Lead, Gerda Henkel Stiftung.

Recent Publications

  • Hostniker, S.; Meyer, F. (2024): Blinded by the Lights. Improv Theater as a Method for Researching Regional Identities. In: FQS|Forschung Qualitative Sozialforschung 25(3). https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-25.3.4223
  • Meyer, F.; Miggelbrink, J. (2024): “Such an anger, such frustration and, above all, disappointment!” On the subjective impacts of pastoral restructuring in rural Germany. In: Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde 97(3/4), 219-239. https://biblioscout.net/article/10.25162/bgl-2024-0009
  • Miggelbrink, J.; Meyer, F. (2024): Globalisierte Geographien menschlichen biologischen Materials. Ein konzeptioneller Vorschlag am Beispiel der Corneatransplantation. In: Geographische Zeitschrift, OnlineFirst, https://doi.org/10.25162/gz-2024-0011
  • Krell, M.; Meyer, F.; (2024): Freeports, Elites, and Loopholes: A socio-spatial exploration of the globalized geographies of contemporary art trade using the TPSN-heuristic. In: Erkunde 78(2), https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2024.02.02
  • Meyer, F.; Miggelbrink, J. (2024): Regionalistische Bewegungen und fiskalische Selbstbestimmung. Eine Inhaltsanalyse raumbezogener Forderungen der Bayernpartei. In: Berichte. Geographie und Landeskunde, 97(1-2), 78-102. https://doi.org/10.25162/bgl-2024-0004
  • Werner, C.; Meyer, F.; Bischof, S. (2023): Grundlagen, Strategien und Techniken der Anonymisierung von Transkripten in der qualitativen Forschung: eine praxisorientierte Einführung. In: FQS|Forschung Qualitative Sozialforschung, 24(3), Art. 12. https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-24.3.4067
  • Miggelbrink, J.; Meyer, F. (2023): Geopolitics, paralysis and health policy. On the implications of the Dayton Peace Accords for Bosnia & Herzegovina’s transplantation system. In: Geopolitics, 28(4), 1562-1588. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2078705

Teaching
BA, MA, Teacher Students. Lectures and Seminars on Regional Human Geography, Methods, Rural Development, and Populism. Exams and Supervision.

Key metrics
62 publications until 2024, 21 peer reviewed. 458 citations. h‑Index 10. i10‑Index 12. (as of Oct 9th 2025).

Positions
since 2024 Researcher at the IfL Leipzig, permanent.
since 2024 regular Teaching Assignments at TU Dresden
03–05/2025 Research Fellow, Helsinki Institute of Urban and Regional Studies.

Contact
f_meyer@leibniz-ifl.de