Doris Wastl-Walter

Doris Wastl-Walter (born July 20, 1953 in Vienna , Austria ) is an Austrian geographer . She is a professor of cultural geography at the University of Bern .

Life

Wastl-Walter studied geography at the Universities of Vienna and Klagenfurt (Austria). In 1997 she was appointed to the University of Bern, where she has held the chair for cultural geography ever since. From 2001 to 2011 Wastl-Walter was director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Bern. From 2006 to 2010 she was director of the Geographical Institute in Bern and from 2011 to 2017 Vice Rector for Quality at the University of Bern.

Research priorities

According to his own statements, Wastl-Walter's main research interests are the construction of boundaries and their spatial and social significance, strategies for action and decision-making freedom of women under certain framework conditions, representations in space and its social use, and theory development.

Publications (selection)

• Gender Geographies. Gender and space as social constructions. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2010.
• together with T. Freytag, H. Gebhardt and U. Gerhard: Humangeographie compact. Springer Spectrum, Heidelberg 2015.

Web links

• Literature by and about Doris Wastl-Walter in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Profile of Doris Wastl-Walter ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Institute for Geography at the University of Bern.