'European cities: Modernity, race and colonialism', edited by Noa K. Ha and Giovanni Picker, and including my essay on Parochial imaginations, is out now at Manchester University Press. You are cordially invited to a book…
Category: Books
‘Lokal extrem Rechts. Analysen alltäglicher Vergesellschaftungen’ – book launch, May 11, 2022, Leipzig
Ursachen und Hintergründe für das Erstarken extrem rechter Politik werden in Wissenschaft und Medien intensiv diskutiert. Dabei fehlt es gerade in wissenschaftlichen Debatten zumeist an qualitativen Analysen und differenzierten räumlichen Betrachtungen jenseits von Stadt-Land- oder…
‘Practice believing that the world can change radically’. Interview with Malka Older @CROLAR
For the Latin American Futures edition of CROLAR, I had a written conversation with Malka Older, author and Faculty Associate at Arizona State University School for the Future of Innovation in Society, on speculative fiction,…
CROLAR ‘Protagonists of Latin American Futures’ theme issue published
'Protagonists of Latin American Futures', the latest theme issue of Critical Reviews on Latin American Research - CROLAR has just been published at http://www.crolar.org/index.php/crolar Issue editors: Elis de Aquino, Frank Müller and Anke Schwarz For…
Book review: Watson’s 2019 City Water Matters (IJURR)
IJURR has just published my book review of Sophie Watson's 2019 City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water. in Vol. 44 No. 6, pp. 1099-1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12970
Geographies of Food in Science Fiction – Paper in Lo Squaderno 56
My essay 'The essential vat: Geographies of food in Science Fiction' has just been published in Lo Squaderno 56 – Urban Recipes, pp. 13-16. You can download and read the entire issue containing a bunch…
Latin American Futures – CROLAR Call for Reviews
CROLAR 9(1): Latin American Futures Call for Reviews and Review Essays What future scenarios are currently being developed in Latin America? How does the region’s historical experience with diverse and durable crises affect thinking about…
Análisis socio-espacial del consumo de agua. Seminario@El Colegio de México, Septiembre 14, 2018
Invitación al seminario con la participación de Anke Schwarz @ El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales La ponencia se basa en mi libro Demanding Water. A Sociospatial Approach to Domestic…
Book review: A sudden drop in pressure – Anand’s 2017 Hydraulic City
A sudden drop in pressure, my review of Nikhil Anand's highly recommendable 2017 book Hydraulic City has just been published in City, Volume 22 No. 1, pages 178-182. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2018.1428272 Sorry about the paywall - you…
Nada, nadie. The September 19, 2017 Mexico City quake
In face of the devastation following the magnitude 7.1 earthquake affecting Mexico City and Morelos on September 19, 2017, I am re-reading Nada, nadie - Las voces del temblor, by Elena Poniatowska, and Carlos Monsiváis'…