Isabelle Kloepper

Isabelle Kloepper is a scientific collaborator at the University of Geneva, specializing in social and cultural geography, visual methods, and carceral reductionism. She contributes to the research project Carceral Degrowth under Prof. Julie De Dardel, focusing on non-punitive justice approaches.

Her research interests include feminist epistemologies, qualitative GIS, and transformative justice. She completed her doctoral thesis in 2025 at the University of Fribourg on Micropolitics of Neighborhood Images in Geneva, supervised by Prof. Olivier Graefe.

Her publications span topics like aging in place, neighborhood attachment, and GIS methodologies, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement with geography, urban studies, and gerontology. Recent work explores affordance landscapes and narrative materials for urban design.

• Education: Doctoral Thesis in Geography (2025), University of Fribourg
• Professional Involvement: Secretary General of Swiss Association of Geography (2015-2023), Editor of GeoAgenda (2015-2023)
• Research Themes: Transformative justice, carceral reductionism, neighborhood imaginaries, visual methods