Through a document analysis of archival materials, I explore visual landscapes of graffiti that were produced by the German Democratic Republic’s Ministry for State Security photographers in Leipzig between 1980 and 1989 in this recent…
What could urban geographers continue to learn and unlearn from critical utopianism and emancipatory futurities? In this contribution, I seek to recover transformative academic practices and work towards didactics of speculative estrangement. Specifically, I propose…
On September 12, 2023 I facilitated Flesh Fiction, a collective writing experiment speculating on tastes of cultivated meat. Read the full Flesh Fiction story and poem collection we produced during the workshop for free over at the Protein Matters project blog. Part of the ‘Promissory Meatscapes of Mosa Meat & Co: The Political Ecologies of Urbanized Protein’ workshop organized by Frank I. Müller and Willem Boterman from University of Amsterdam’s Centre for Urban Studies.
On November 18 and 19, 2021, the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group held its ‘Cities of Hope’ annual conference. The event brought scholars and activists together to explore what more just cities might look like, tackling issues ranging from gender-based and racial forms of violence to housing injustices.
On Nov 18, I chaired an inspiring session with Veda Popovici and Michele Lacione entitled ‘The false symmetry of research-activism. Towards accompliceship and undercommon praxis’ on their joint work in Bucharest with the Common Front for Housing Rights (FCDL). Previously featured in the ‘It started raining‘ documentary and at https://jurnaldinvulturilor50.org
Dual session at RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2021 Chairs: Anke Schwarz (TU Dresden) and Monika Streule (ETH Zürich) Today, many scholars are aware of the theoretically well-founded need to work towards more decentred urban knowledge production.…
Together with my colleagues Daniel Mullis (PRIF Frankfurt), Jan Simon Hutta (University of Bayreuth/TU Dresden) and Valentin Domann (HU Berlin), I have successfully raised funds from DFG, the German Research Foundation, for a new scientific…
I just presented my paper 'The ordinary fabric of urban resilience' at the European Association for Urban History's 14th Conference 'Urban renewal and resilience. Cities in comparative perspective'. It formed part of the session 'Imagining…
As part of our sessions on Contested Urban Territories on April 9, 2017, I will present our paper Transposing territory to the urban scale. Contestations over land use in Mexico City's periphery at the AAG…
American Association of Geographers 2017 Annual Meeting Sunday April 9, 2017, 8:00 AM - 11:40 AM Room 202, Hynes Convention Center, Boston Session organizers: Monika Streule (ETH Zürich) and Anke Schwarz (Leipzig) Discussants: Rogério Haesbaert…