My article on the Flint water crisis and why the infrastructure investment plan recently announced by the White House is unlikely to alleviate any of the infrastructural inequalities in the US has been published. Find it in the June 29, 2017 edition of the Jungle World weekly (in German): https://jungle.world/artikel/2017/26/gefaehrliches-wasser
Research
…we totally got space.
Self-storage for geographers (Manhattan, 2017).
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…
Recommended article: ¿El fin del agua en la Ciudad de México?
In his article ¿El fin del agua en la Ciudad de México?, Alejandro de Coss traces the social roots of Mexico City's water scarcity. These range from a crisis of governance to the depletion of…
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…
Dumb Metering – How ‘smart’ can urban infrastructure ever be?
Smart energy grids are now being rolled out all over Europe. One of their core elements are so-called smart meters - digital devices which can be read out and controlled by the utility from a…
INURA’s Open letter to the Senate of Berlin for a just procedure for Andrej Holm, State Secretary of Housing
[Read the complete press release of December 20, 2016 as .pdf] We, the researchers, scholars and members of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA), welcome the new Senate of Berlin committing to…
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…