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…
Talk by Cristina Mattiucci (UNINA) and Anke Schwarz (TU Dresden) Over the past decade, the idea of ‘urban decorum’ has gained traction in contemporary Italian streets and squares. Though reminiscent of earlier debates on securitization…
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). It has been featured in the ‘It started raining’ documentary (https://www.ainceputploaia.com), and the https://jurnaldinvulturilor50.org blog – take a look.
You can find more information about the RGS-IGB Urban Geography Research Group by visiting our website and you can follow our activities on twitter @UGRGRGS
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.…
Panel session at RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2021 Chairs: Anke Schwarz (TU Dresden) and Jan Simon Hutta (University of Bayreuth) The far right has long been organizing across national borders, from European fascists and white-supremacist advocates…
Hydraulic standby: Anticipating water in Mexico City, my paper for the Standby: Organizing modes of in|activity special issue of ephemera was published today. abstract Even in cities where taps are installed in virtually all homes,…
'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…
Am Freitag, den 29.01.2021, präsentieren Anke Schwarz und Judith Miggelbrink die ‚NKG Interim‘. Das Online-Format mit Podiumsgästen befasst sich aus aktuellem und ’neu-kulturgeographisch‘ relevantem Anlass mit dem Themenkomplex Pandemie, Autoritarismus und radikale Rechte. Zugleich verweist…
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…