Ghosts and heroes. Racialization, (in)visibilization, death, and the governance of future-imagining

Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies Program – 2024

Invited paper at the working seminar Humanity’s Urban Future Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies (CIFAR) Program on Imag(in)ing urban futures at the PATIO Lab, UNAM, Mexico City, October 29-30, 2024.

Urban extractivism and financialization in the periphery of Mexico City

Coloquio Internacional Ciudades en transición, Ciudad de México – 2024

Invited paper at the Coloquio Internacional Ciudades en transición. Modos de vida urbanos y escenarios futuros ante la transición socioecológica Línea temática: Futuros de la ciudad.

Coloquio Internacional: Ciudades en transición. Modos de vida urbanos y escenarios futuros ante la transición socioecológica

Dates: 14, 15 and 16 Noviembre 2024

Location: Casa de la Primera Imprenta UAM, Mexico City

Territory, extractivism, and socio-environmental justice in Latin American cities

Keynote an der SSLAS Jahrestagung – 2024

Keynote an der Swiss School of Latin American Studies 2024 Jahrestagung zu Mapping Territories: Space, Place, and Environment in Latin America an der Universität Bern, Schweiz, Oktober 3-4, 2024.

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Wann: 3. bis 4. Oktober 2024

Wo: Universität Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, Raum 220

Authors meet critics: Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet

RGS-IBG Annual Conference London – 2024

How can we empirically grasp and map the spatiality of large urban territories? How can we learn from very different urban experiences? How can we enhance and differentiate our vocabulary of urbanization? These questions serve as starting points to discuss the book Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison edited by Christian Schmid and Monika Streule. In this book, an interdisciplinary team of researchers present an expanded vocabulary of urbanisation processes through a comparison of Tokyo, Hong Kong – Shenzhen – Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City and Los Angeles. Based on a novel method of cartography and on detailed ethnographic and historical explorations, they systematically analyse the diversity of responses to urgent contemporary urban challenges. They propose a series of new concepts that allow us to assess the practical consequences of different urban strategies in everyday life. Together with special guests we invite for a critical reflection on comparative urbanism and a discussion of mapping as a crucial tool for the analysis of urbanisation processes.

Discussants are Philip Harrison, Pushpa Arabindoo, Juan Miguel Kanai, Hyun Shin and Catalina Ortiz. Panel organizers are Christian Schmid and Monika Streule.

Sponsered by the RGS Urban Geography Research Group.

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Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison (Birkhäuser, 2023) edited by Christian Schmid and Monika Streule. With contributions by Naomi Hanakata; Ozan Karaman; Anne Kockelkorn; Lindsay Sawyer; Christian Schmid; Monika Streule; Kit Ping Wong.

ISBN: 978-3-0356-2301-7