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Kuhlke, Olaf
Dr. Olaf Kuhlke completed his Diplom in Geography at the Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany) and then his Ph.D. at Kent State University. He is Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at the University of Minnesota – Duluth, where his teaching and research efforts primarily focus on the socio-spatial construction of nationalism. Also, he currently functions as the co-chair of the Sexuality and Space Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers and serves on the Editorial Board of ACME, and international e-journal of critical geography.
2008 0-7734-5110-2This book examines the ritual construction of sacred space on multiple spatial scales as practiced by the Fraternity of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Included in the study is a history of Freemasonry and illustrations of the separation of Masonic space on larger scales, namely the Masonic Temples. This book contains fourteen black and white photographs.
2004 0-7734-6276-7
This study examines the multiple and conflicting ways in which German national identity is spatially expressed through the material and metaphor of the human body. In particular, it describes the various gendered, sexed, and raced constructions of Germany, as they emerged in the capital city of Berlin since 1989. Based on two ethnographic case studies situated in neighboring urban environments, the Love Parade and the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, the author shows how bodily representations of post-1989 Germany are fluctuating between the sexualized, demasculinized celebration of multiculturalism and the repeatedly racist, masculinist and even anti-Semitic reconstruction of German nationhood. While the German government is making active efforts to situate the future Berlin Republic within a network of increasingly integrated European nation states, and is involved in sponsoring both the Love Parade and the MMJE, social movements in Berlin are actively supporting and contesting such politics. It is this struggle between government efforts and grassroots politics, and the role of the human body in the political process of constructing collective identities that this book ultimately explores.