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…
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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.
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…
The ordinary fabric of urban resilience. Paper@EAUH Rome 2018
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…
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…
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…
Urban DIY Mesh Networks and the Right to the City: An Interview with the Tapullo Collective
Wireless community networks have been around for a while and are regaining some attention these days as means of strengthening local interaction and community organizing. In Genoa, a group of people, some of them members…
What are infrastructures to the urban? Lecture@TU Berlin, January 23, 2018
What are infrastructures to the urban? Lecture by Dr. Anke Schwarz at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS). Part of Prof. Dorothee Brantz' lecture series Urban Societies in Time and Space. Tue January 23, 2018…
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…
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'…