Labour Geography
Tel.: 044 635 51 44
Room number: Y25 L 70
christiane.meyer-habighorst@geo.uzh.ch
Research
Education
Since 2022 University of Zurich, Ph.D. candidate in Labour Geography
2021 University of Freiburg, MSc in Geography of Global Change
2018 University of Münster, BSc in Geography (Major) and Public Law (Minor)
2016-2017 University of Salamanca (Spain), exchange semester
Publications and Presentations
Publications
2025
Meyer-Habighorst, C., Mittmasser, C. & Schwiter, K. (2025). ‘This big shadow that we need to turn into light’ – How labour intermediaries moralise commodified domestic care work. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. doi.org/10.1177/0308518X251377078
Meyer-Habighorst, C. & Bůžek, R. (2025). Reflektieren, kritisieren und transformieren. Zwischen Anspruch und Kapazität während der Promotion. BGL Berichte Geographie und Landeskunde 98(2-3), 290-298.
Korsbrekke, M., Gram-Hanssen, I., Beitnes, S., Holm, T., Meyer-Habighorst, C., Dudzińska-Jarmolińska, A., Łatała, K. & Jasińska, K. (2025). Thinking with co-creation: meaningful engagement. MISCELLANEA GEOGRAPHICA 29(2).
Lentz, J.M., Meyer-Habighorst, C., Riemann, M. L., Strüver, A., Baumgartner, S., Staubli, S., Techel, N., Bauriedl, S. & Schwiter, K. (2025). From Exceptionalism to Normalisation: How Narratives of Platform Companies Legitimise Precarious Work and Commodified Care. Critical Sociology, doi.org/10.1177/08969205241306300.
2024
Hobbs, M., Lentz, J.M., Meyer-Habighorst, C. a. Pasch, L. (2024). Warum wir mit einer Care-Perspektive auf Technologien und Digitalisierung schauen sollten. Feministische Geo-RundMail, 97, 4-10.
Wittmann, M., Mano, R., Meyer-Habighorst, C., André, D., a. Fünfgeld, H. (2024). Klimawandelbedingte psychosoziale Belastungen und wahrgenommene Anpassungskapazitäten bei Landwirtinnen und Landwirten. Standort, 1-8.
2023
Aall, C., Meyer-Habighorst, C., Gram-Hanssen, I., Hanssen Korsbrekke, M. a. Hovelsrud. G (2023). “I’m Fixing a Hole Where the Rain Gets in, and Stops My Mind from Wandering”: Approaching Sustainable Climate Change Adaptations. Weather, Climate, and Society, 15(2), 349-364.
2021
Gössling, S., Meyer-Habighorst, C. a. Humpe, A. (2021). A global review of marine air pollution policies, their scope, and effectiveness. Ocean and Coastal Management, 212, 105824.
Presentations
Meyer-Habighorst, C. (2025). Relief Maps as a Tool to Study the Geographies of Intersectionality: Methodological Insights from Platformised Care Labour, Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie, Session: Geographies of Intersectionality: Methodological Approaches to SocioSpatial Inequalities, Augsburg, 01.10.2025.
Meyer-Habighorst, C. (2025). Exploring the Spatial Relationality of Intersectional Inequalities: The Experiences of Care Workers using Digital Labor Platforms. RGS Annual International Conference, Session: Creative Geographies of Platform Work, Birmingham, 29.08.2025
Meyer-Habighorst, C. (2025). Exploring the Spatial Relationality of Intersectional Inequalities: The Experiences of Care Workers using Digital Labor Platforms. Feminist perspectives on the platformization of care work in European cities, Session: Who cares? Addressing intersectional inequalities and the promise of automatisation, Flensburg, 04.07.2025.
2024
Meyer-Habighorst, C., Mittmasser, C. a. Schwiter, K. (2024). This big shadow we need to turn into light' - How labour intermediaries moralise commodified domestic care work. Work and Social Justice in the Digital Age, Session: Implications of Platformisation in Domestic and Care Work, Zürich, 13.12.2024.
Meyer-Habighorst, C. (2024). 'This big shadow we need to turn into light': How moral entrepreneurs sell commodified care. Nordic Geographers Meeting, Session: Geographies on the axes of (in)equality and (in)justice, open session 4, Copenhagen, 27.06.2024.
Meyer-Habighorst, C. a. Schwiter, K. (2024). Zur Normalisierung von Plattformarbeit. Wie die Narrative von Plattformunternehmen prekäre Arbeit und kommodifizierte Sorgedienstleistungen legitimieren. Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie, Session: Plattformökonomie, Smart Technologies & Care, Münster, 24.05.2024.
2023
Meyer-Habighorst, C. (2023). Crisis of Care und Plattformisierung: Ambivalenzen, Plattform-Logiken und der Einfluss auf Care-Arbeitende. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Session: Digitale Technologien in der häuslichen Care-Arbeit, Frankfurt a. M., 21.09.2023.
Meyer-Habighorst, C. a. Schwiter, K. (2023). Gig-work futures. How digital labour platforms in the care sector reshape labour and social reproduction. American Associaton of Geographers Annual Meeting, Session: Feminist economic geography and the future(s) of work and social reproduction, digital, 23.03.2023.
Meyer-Habighorst, C., Lentz, J. M. u. Riemann, M.-L. (2023). Urbane Plattformökonomien: Transformationen von Arbeit und intersektionale Ungleichheiten in der Care-Arbeit. Tagung Neue Kulturgeographie, Session: Plattform Urbanismus & Digitalisierung, Halle, 28.01.2023.
2022
Fricke, C. a. Meyer-Habighorst, C. (2022). Knowledge Transfer and Mobility of Urban Housing Political Instruments in Germany. European Network for Housing Research Annual Conference, Session: Policy and Research, Barcelona, 01.09.2022.
Meyer-Habighorst, C. (2022). Feminist and Justice-Sensitive Perspectives on Climate Change Adaptation. International Feminist Geography Conference Pushing Boundaries, Session: Climate Change II, digital, 17.06.2022.
2019
Meyer-Habighorst, C. (2019). Motive und Auswirkungen einer gärtnerischen Aneignung des öffentlichen Raumes. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie, Session: Urban Food Governance und aktuelle Ernährungspolitiken, Kiel, 29.09.2019.