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
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…
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…