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
Category: Books
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'…
Hot off the press: Demanding Water. A Sociospatial Approach to Domestic Water Use in Mexico City
I am happy to announce the publication of my new book: Schwarz, A. (2017): Demanding Water. A Sociospatial Approach to Domestic Water Use in Mexico City. Megacities and Global Change, Vol. 22. Stuttgart: Steiner. Abstract…
Anderson’s Imagined Communities: A companion in these dark days
Britain, Turkey, Syria, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Germany: In the light of current political developments in Europe and beyond, and a rightwing populist turned president-elect in the United States, Imagined Communities is the book of…