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…
Category: Territory
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…
Workshop Gender und Widerstand in enteigneten Räumen, 10./11.2.2017, Berlin

Am 10. und 11. Februar 2017 findet der interaktive Workshop Género y Resistencia en Espacios Expropiados//Gender und Widerstand in enteigneten Räumen (GREE) am Lateinamerika-Institut der FU Berlin statt. Dort werde ich als Gast zusammen mit…
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…