Dr. Lilith Kuhn

Vita

Lilith Kuhn studied Spanish, business administration, and the geography of global change at the University of Freiburg and the University of Oviedo in Spain. She earned her Ph.D. in 2023 at the Institute of Geography at the University of Münster with a dissertation titled “Tracing the path of post-fossil transition: A multiscale examination of discourses and subjectivations between persistence and overcoming the fossil age”. Since 2024, she has been working as a research assistant at the Allgemeiner Deutscher Fahrradclub Baden-Württemberg on the topic of “Mobility for All.”. Since February 2026, she has been working at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences on a research project that examines failed traffic experiments.

Her research interests focus on the social negotiation processes surrounding the mobility transition in the context of current political and climate challenges.

Publications

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Winkler, Jan; Kuhn, Lilith; Freytag, Louisa (2025): „The affective topologies of the climate crisis: On the spatial intensities of the climate political protests in Lützerath, Germany“, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, doi: 10.1177/02637758251362526

Wiertz, Thilo; Kuhn, Lilith; Mattissek, Annika (2023): „A turn to geopolitics: Shifts in the German energy transition discourse in light of Russia’s war against Ukraine“ Energy Research and Social Science 98. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103036.

Kuhn, Lilith (2023): „Das Theater mit den Wissenschaften: Affektive Atmosphären einer künstlerisch-kollaborativen Bearbeitung der Klimakrise“ Geographica Helvetica 78, Nr. 1: 15–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-78-15-2023.

Kuhn, Lilith, Kayser, Martine, Aue, Rosa, Bongers-Römer, Sabine (2022): „Notdürftige Infrastrukturen: Öffentliche Toiletten zwischen Neoliberalisierung und Utopie.“ B&S Öffentliche Infrastrukturen – Die politische Gestaltung der vernetzten Gesellschaft (LpB) 1/2-2022: 69–75.

Kuhn Lilith (2020): „Ziviler Ungehorsam als politischer Handlungsraum in kommunalen Debatten um die Klimakrise.“ ZIN Diskussionspapiere: Partizipation als zentrales Thema interdisziplinärer Nachhaltigkeitsforschung 1/2020. doi: 10.17879/zin-2020-01.