Since 2021 Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher Education (CAS HE Unibe), University of Bern

2021– 2024 PhD in social and cultural geography, Institute of Geography, University of Bern

• Graduate School Gender Studies, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, University of Bern
• 2022 Research stay as a visiting researcher, Institute of Sociology, Social Work and Public Health, University of Huelva

2017 – 2020 Master of Arts in social sciences (major: human geography), University of Neuchâtel

• 2019 – 2020 Exchange semester as a visiting student in master of gender studies, Complutense University of Madrid
• 2018 – 2019 Research stay as a visiting student in political science master’s program, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

2012 – 2017 Bachelor of Science in geography (major: geography, minors: history and philosophy), University of Bern

Articles in scientific journals

Komposch Nora (2025) Geoviolence: Climate injustice, labor migration, and intimacy. Antipode, In press.

Schurr, Carolin; Schultz, Susanne; Komposch, Nora; Etter, Nina; Perler, Laura; Pérez-Hérnandez Yolinlitzli (2025): Geographies of reproductive justice. Progress in Human Geography 0(0) https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325251338823

Komposch, Nora; Schurr, Carolin; Escriva, Angels (2024): Intimate liminality in Spain’s berry industry. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 49(4) 1-14. DOI: 10.1111/tran.12673

Perler, Laura; Schurr, Carolin; Komposch, Nora; Winkel, Mirko; Cervantez Rodríguez, Pedro Alejandro (2024): Reproductive geopolitics: Governing in/fertile bodies in Mexico’s past and present. Environment and Planning. C, Politics and space, 42(1), 102-124. DOI: 10.1177/23996544231182546

Sabin, Lucy; Komposch, Nora; Mestrot, Adrien (2023): Exhibiting toxicity: sprayed strawberries and geographies of hope. Cultural geographies, 31(1), 113-120. DOI: 10.1177/14744740231183202

Komposch, Nora (2022): Transforming Family Spaces through Worker Cooperatives. A Case Study on Self-organised Care Work in New York City. Annals of the Austrian Geographical Society, 1, 253-281. DOI: 10.1553/moegg164s253

Komposch, Nora (2020): Cleaning and care worker cooperatives in NYC: empowerment through collectivization of labor. Metropolitics. URL: https://metropolitics.org/Cleaning-and-Care-Worker-Cooperatives-in-NYC-Empowerment-Through.html

 

Book contributions

Wintzer, Jeannine; Komposch, Nora (in press): Situiertes, verkörpertes und machtvolles Wissen reflektieren. Für eine Critical Science Agency in der geographischen Hochschullehre. In: Bading, Cornelia and Panenka, Petra (eds.), Universität – Macht – Wissen: Postkoloniale, feministische und partizipative Perspektiven im Kontext akademischer Lehre. Springer

Escrivà, Angels; Komposch, Nora; Ribas-Mateos, Natalia (2025): Making Health Services Work for Temporary Agriculture Workers in Huelva (Spain). In: Luca Follis, Karolina Follis and Nicky Burns (Eds.), Migrant and Refugee Access to Health Systems: Challenging (Im)mobilities in Healthcare Northampton. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Escrivà, Angels; Komposch, Nora (2025):  Feminist Activism and Migration. In: Oso, Laura, Moralli Melissa and Ribas-Mateos, Natalia (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of global migration: New Mobilities and Artivism. Northampton. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Winkel, Mirko; Schurr, Carolin; Perler, Laura; Komposch, Nora (2023): Multisensorik: Globale Intimität multisensorisch erforschen und ausstellen. In: Singer, Katrin; Schmidt, Katharina; Neuburger, Martina (eds.) Artographies – Kreativ-künstlerische Zugänge zu einer machtkritischen Raumforschung. Vol. 59 (215-228). Bielefeld: transcript. URL: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6776-9/artographies-kreativ-kuenstlerische-zugaenge-zu-einer-machtkritischen-raumforschung/

 

Working papers

Komposch, Nora; Pohl, Nicholas; Riaño, Yvonne (2021): Worker Cooperatives’ Potential for Migrant Women’s Self-Empowerment. NCCR on the move working paper series 29. URL:  https://nccr-onthemove.ch/publications/worker-cooperatives-potential-for-migrant-womens-self-empowerment/

 

Other publications

Komposch, Nora; Schurr, Carolin; Escriva, Angels (12 June 2024). ‘In-between’ strawberries and reproductive justice. Geography Directions 10.55203/DCUL8266

Komposch, Nora (2023, guest editorial): Klimakrise. JETZT HANDELN! GeoAgenda 2023/4, 4-5. URL: https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/191966

Komposch, Nora; Julia, Steinberger (2023): ‘L’efficacité de la science se mesure par notre capacité à intervenir dans la trajectoire cataclysmique de nos sociétés’ (Interview avec Julia Steinberger). GeoAgenda 2023/4, 10-13. URL: https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/191966

Komposch, Nora; Perler, Laura (2022): Book Review: Mehr als Selbstbestimmung! Kämpfe für reproduktive Gerechtigkeit by Kitchen Politics. Widerspruch, 78. URL: https://widerspruch.ch/heft/78

Komposch, Nora (2022): In der Genossenschaft haben wir die Macht, Dinge zu verändern. GEOGRAPHIEaktuell - Informationen Österreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft 52(2). URL: https://oegg.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/k_oegg/geographieaktuell/geo_aktuell_2022_II_52_online.pdf

Komposch, Nora; Schurr, Carolin (2020): Book Review: A portrait of assisted reproduction in Mexico: scientific, political, and cultural interactions by Sandra P. Gonzáles-Santos. New Genetics and Society 40(2), 240-241. DOI: 10.1080/14636778.2020.1775564

Komposch, Nora (2020): ‘Als Genossenschafterin fühle ich mich sicherer’ Wie sich New Yorker Care-Arbeiter*innen mit Kooperativen selbstermächtigen. Widerspruch, 75. URL: https://widerspruch.ch/artikel/als-genossenschafterin-fuehle-ich-mich-sicherer

Calore, Manon; Joss, Helen; Komposch, Nora; Maspoli, Anna (2018): Le hammam féminin comme espace de partage. GeoAgenda, 2018/5, 26-27.

Christen, Romeo; Komposch, Nora; Grossenbacher, Jonas (2014): Geographien der Macht. Gentrifizierung und Segregation in Bern. In: Wintzer, Jeannine (ed.), Qualitative Methoden in der Geographie. Anwendungsbeispiele. Forschungsberichte (17) 5-13. Bern: University of Bern Press.