IJURR has just published my book review of Sophie Watson's 2019 City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water. in Vol. 44 No. 6, pp. 1099-1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12970
My essay 'The essential vat: Geographies of food in Science Fiction' has just been published in Lo Squaderno 56 – Urban Recipes, pp. 13-16. You can download and read the entire issue containing a bunch…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…