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 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…
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…
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'…
I am happy to announce the publication of my new book: Schwarz, A. (2017): Demanding Water. A Sociospatial Approach to Domestic Water Use in Mexico City. Megacities and Global Change, Vol. 22. Stuttgart: Steiner. Abstract…
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
Self-storage for geographers (Manhattan, 2017).
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…
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…
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…