Anton Escher – FB 09 – Institute of Geography

1976 – 1981: MA in Geography, Philosophy and Islamic Studies, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1981 – 1985: Research assistant, Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1985: Doctorate in Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1985 – 1991: Adjunct lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1990: Habilitation in Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1991 – 1993: Research assistant, Institute of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1993 – 1994: Substitute Professor, Institute of Geographical Sciences, University of Berlin (FU)
1994 – 1995: Adjunct lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
1995 – 1996: Substitute Professor, Department of Geography, University of Mainz
1996 – 2022: Full Professor, Department of Geography, University of Mainz

Escher Anton and Karner Marie Johanna (2025): Major events: “Place branding”. In: Demmelhuber, T. and N. Scharfenort (eds.): The Arabian Peninsula. Geography and politics. Springer, 183-194. (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-70217-8

Marie Johanna Karner, Shadia Husseini de Araújo, Anton Jakob Escher, Sávia Bona Vasconcelos Soares, Zenilda Lopes Ribeiro, Sebastian Nicolas Pöschl, Jade Oliveira Ramos, Gabriel Rodrigues Rocha e Silva and Katharina Schneider (2024): “Culture-Touristification” of Colonial Towns in the interior of Brazil. Geography 78/3, 225-244.

Escher, Anton (2024): The geographical construction of the ‘Orient’ and the image of Islam in the works of Ewald Banse. In: Thomas, D. and Chesworth, J. (eds.): Christian- Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History 22 Central Europe (1800-1914), 529-536.

Escher, A. (2024): “Reimagining National Identity”? Geography of migration using the example of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: V. Wilhelmi, E. Theveßen and F. Pfeil (eds.): Geographies of Violence: Geographies of Migration. Current conflicts and didactic impulses. Mainz Contact Studies in Geography 23, Mainz, 35-47.

Escher, A, J. (2024): The Syrian cab driver. Migrant narratives or narratives of a researcher? In: B. Bönisch-Brednich, S. Meyer, A. Christou, M. J. Karner and A. Escher (eds.): Migrant Narratives: Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community. Abingdon: Routledge, 107-120.

Escher, A. J. (2024): Silences and voids in gendered narratives. In: B. Bönisch-Brednich, S. Meyer, A. Christou, M. J. Karner and A. Escher (eds.): Migrant Narratives: Storytelling as Agency, Belonging and Community. Abingdon: Routledge, 103-105.

Escher, A., A. Izzo and M. Karner (2023): Who is a refugee where and when? Designation and treatment of Syrians in Lebanon and other neighboring countries of Syria. In: movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 7 (1): 135-156.

Escher, A. (2022): Oulad Sidi Ahmed ou Moussa and Moroccan Acorbats: Wanderers between the Worlds. In: Side Magazine 6. An Acrobats, 24-35.

Escher, A., M. Karner and H. Rapp (2021): Cinematic cruising: Reel and real spaces between imagination and experience. In: Research Outreach, 126. Online: https://doi.org/10.32907/RO-126-1870901183

Escher, A. and M. Karner (2021): EXPO 2020 in Dubai – the most sustainable world exhibition ever? In: Geographische Rundschau 73 (9): 46-51.

Escher, A. (2021): Pandora (encyclopedia). In: der blaue reiter. Journal of Philosophy, 88-89.

Escher, A. (2021): “Science is not a concert of wishes”. Reflections on the responsibility of (cultural) geography. In: M. Dickel and H. J. Böhmer (eds.): The responsibility of geography. Orientation for reflexive research. Bielefeld, 211-228.

Escher, A., M. Karner and H. Rapp (2021): Cinematic cruising: Reel imagination and real experience for pleasure on the high seas. In: Tourism and Hospitality Research 21(3): 374-385. Online: https://doi.org/10.1177/14673584211011711

Escher, A. (2021): “We are still here!” American Indians, Indian Tribes and Indian Nations in the USA. In: V. Wilhelmi, E. Theveßen and F. Pfeil (eds.): Geographies of Violence: The USA at the Turning Point – Geographical Perspectives. Mainzer Kontaktstudium Geographie 19. Mainz, 72-97 [Information on ordering].

Escher, Anton (2026): Escape into Myth or Strategy for Community and Identity? The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera. In: Julia Sander, Anke Vogel, Wolfgang Jäger (eds.): Reading Nature and Cultures. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Witi Ihimaera’s “The Whale Rider” and its Contexts. Bielefeld. transcript, 205-212.