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…
Category: Territory
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…
Introduction to the special issue ‘Contested Urban Territories: Decolonized perspectives’
Over the last two years, Monika Streule and Anke Schwarz co-edited the Geographica Helvetica special issue 'Contested Urban Territories: Decolonized Perspectives'. All seven papers of the special issue are available at https://www.geogr-helv.net/special_issue938.html Now we are…
Interview with Raúl Zibechi: “Not all spaces are territories”
Our interview with the Uruguayan researcher, journalist, and activist Raúl Zibechi has just been published in Geographica Helvetica. We discuss current socioterritorial movements in Latin America and beyond, the emergence of new subjects through practices…
The idea of a borderless world, by Achille Mbembe
From its inception “movement” or more precisely “borderlessness” has been central to various utopian traditions. The very concept of utopia, refers to that which has no borders, beginning with the imagination itself.
As a direly needed inspiration for a rough year ahead, I’d like to share Achille Mbembe’s essay The idea of a borderless world. You’ll find this 2019 must-read at the Africa is a Country blog, here: https://africasacountry.com/2018/11/the-idea-of-a-borderless-world. The text was first published in the October 2018 print issue of the Chimurenga Chronic.
INURA Warsaw 2018: The brutal order of re-privatization
Just returning from INURA Warsaw 2018 - Towards a walkable urban theory, where we paced the city gaining rich insights on Varsovians' struggles over housing, memory, and freewheeling urban development. With 80% to 90% of…
Contested Urban Territories: Geographica Helvetica theme issue
I am happy to announce that Monika Streule (ETH Zürich) and I are coordinating a theme issue entitled Contested Urban Territories: Decolonized Perspectives, to be published in the open access journal Geographica Helvetica. In cooperation…
Transposing territory to the urban scale. Contestations over land use in Mexico City’s periphery. Paper@AAG Boston
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…
Contested Urban Territories: Paper session@AAG Boston, April 9, 2017
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…
New article in IJURR: A Transposition of Territory: Decolonized Perspectives in Current Urban Research
by Anke Schwarz and Monika Streule In this article published in IJURR 40 (5), we discuss the concept of territory from a decolonized perspective. We engage with the ongoing debate on decentralizing urban studies to…