Tag: Urban theory
Latin American Futures – CROLAR Call for Reviews
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…
Introduction to the special issue ‘Contested Urban Territories: Decolonized perspectives’
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…
Interview with Raúl Zibechi: “Not all spaces are territories”
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…
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…
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…
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…