Luca Scheunpflug

21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C5.207
luca.scheunpflug@leuphana.de

Research associate, Professorship of the Sociology of Organisation and Economy

Vita

Luca Scheunpflug is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organisation (ISCO) and a member of the Centre for Digital Cultures (CDC). He has interdisciplinary and international research experience in Germany, Spain, and Latin America and his work focuses on infrastructures and urban nature from the perspectives of urban political ecology, environmental justice, and science and technology studies.

His current research examines the spatiotemporal dynamics of water and urban society in times of climate change, where he is particularly interested in power-laden political ontologies and more-than-human relations around digital infrastructures and technologies. This builds on his previous work on the remunicipalisation of essential services, the mobilization of social movements, and conflicts over water.

Outside of academia, he engages in political education in urban contexts, addressing issues of urban development, postcolonial continuities and global entanglements in the city, as well as questions of justice in adapting to climate change.

Publications

Journal contributions

Repoliticising the Coast: A Post-Foundational Commentary on Integrative Governance and Blue Infrastructure
Luca Scheunpflug (Author) , Kira Gee (Author) , 01.07.2025 , in: Geo: Geography and Environment, 12, 2 , 13 p.
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Social movements in defense of public water services: the case of Spain
Jerry van den Berge (Author) , Luca Scheunpflug (Author) , Jeroen Vos (Author) , Rutgerd Boelens (Author) , 06.09.2023 , in: Frontiers in Water, 5 , 14 p.
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review

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Activities

Eco-Justice: Impacts, resistance and transformation
Luca Scheunpflug (presenter) , Dennis Schüpf (presenter)
9/20/23
Activity: Presentations (poster etc.) › Research

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Courses

Environmental Humanities

Luca Scheunpflug

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This seminar introduces students to the field of environmental humanities, which questions and overcomes the separation between the humanities and natural sciences, i.e. the claimed dichotomy between culture and nature. Here, environmental humanities open up the possibility of broadening perspectives to include feminist, anti-colonial and more-than-human approaches.

This theory-based and equally applied, practical seminar includes a critical reading of seminal literature texts (which themselves are oriented at the interface between philosophy, social and environmental sciences, but also the arts and literature studies) and an introduction to a broad and creative variety of methodologies as well as their implementation in specific case studies within and beyond the natural landscape of the city of Lüneburg.

Next appointment:

Wednesday, 2026-05-06 at 10:00

Room: C 40.501 Seminarraum

History of Cultural Studies and its Methods II

Armin Beverungen, Luca Scheunpflug

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Organized as a lecture series, this course focuses on central themes and thinkers in the globalized sphere of cultural theorizing within the humanities and social sciences. The concerns, debates and methodologies of international cultural theorizing in part also draw upon different traditions and geographies of thought, or take the form of ›mobile theories‹ and ›travelling concepts‹ translated into different contexts, and change as they travel. The lecture series is, as suggested by the cultural theorizing explored, based on an understanding of culture as plural, as cultures that are continouously produced through, and made manifest in, embodied practices, discourses, spaces, emotional registers, technologies and organizational forms. In a globalized world, these cultural constellations are also geographically and linguistically plural, shaped by both global proceses and local conditions. They are thus contested and to some degree contingent. The terms and methods of cultural theorizing, its history and present, are invariably part of this ›cultural production and contestation‹. We hope that the lectures and discussions will therefore allow us to defamiliarize and enrich our ways of seeing and understanding, to make sense (differently) about how invariably globalized cultures take place.