Team > Lukas Pieroth

Faculty for Biology, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences
Sozial und Bevölkerungsgeographie

​Lukas Pieroth completed his Bachelor (B.Sc.) as well as his Master (M.Sc.) at the University of Heidelberg. His bachelor thesis entitled "Topology of Disgust. A Body Phenomenological and Hermeneutical Investigation" deals with the phenomenon of disgust from a phenomenological perspective and draws proto-sociological and socio-geographical conclusions from the study of "disgust". In his master thesis he remained faithful to phenomenology; however, he supplemented it with decidedly philosophical anthropological (especially Plessnerian) thoughts. The title of the thesis is: "Jenseits postmoderner Geographien? Attempt and Reconstructive Contribution to a Controversy of Postmodern Geographies in the Philosophy of Science with Special Consideration of a Phenomenological-Anthropological Critique". The basic theoretical contribution confronts postmodern theoretical offers (structuralism, constructivism, pragmatism, language-oriented approaches) with insights from the phenomenological movement as well as philosophical anthropology. The goal of the paper is to advocate for a precise dialogue or controversy between paradigms and to advance social geographic theory work.

Faculty for Biology, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences
Sozial und Bevölkerungsgeographie

Lukas Pieroth is a social geographer. His disciplinary and content-related focus is on geography, psychology, sociology and philosophy. In the border area of these subjects lies for him tension, controversy and potential for spatially oriented thinking and research in the human and social sciences.

Research Interests:

• Theoretical & humanistic (social) geography.
  
• Methodology and philosophy of science of geography (especially qualitative/understanding/antipositivistic methods)
  
• Phenomenology and philosophical anthropology
  
• Social change from a socio-spatial perspective (esp. critical theory, anarchist and neo-Marxist approaches)
  
• Urban geography (creative industries, start-ups, neoliberalization)
  Affects, emotions in spatial experience (e.g.: sociology of emotions; geography of emotions)

Biography:

• 10/2019 to 03/2023: Master of Science degree in Geography with minors in Psychology and Philosophy at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. Degree M. Sc. Geography
  
• 2021: Stay as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Organization Studies at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU).
  
• 10/2015 to 10/2019: Bachelor of Science degree in Geography, Psychology, Sociology and Philosophy at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. Degree B. Sc. in Geography
  
• 12/2018 to 05/2019: Student Assistant in the Department of Human Geography at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg within the project "The discourse around the post-migrant society: insights and perspectives for urban-spatial integration policies".
  
• 10/2014 to 10/2015: Studies of Geography at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz.

Presentations:

• DKG 2023 Frankfurt am Main: Presentation of the master thesis (Goethe University)

Faculty for Biology, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences
Sozial und Bevölkerungsgeographie

Lukas Pieroth
PhD student

E-mail: lukas.pieroth@uni-bayreuth.de