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15. Juni 2023

Difference, intersectionality and territorialisation

Keynote at CLAS University of Cambridge – 2023

This keynote discusses territorial subjectivity as a tool to analyse the formation of subjects through territorialization, with a special focus on difference and intersectionality. Following Alicia Lindón who coined this notion in her study of Mexico City, I understand territorial subjectivities as a recurrent process in which territorial ideas, meanings and imaginaries as well as territorial practices provide a strong framework of reference for the becoming of subjects. To illustrate this, I will use case studies from Berlin and Buenos Aires. I conclude with a reflection on a more complex understanding of socio-territorial relations imbedded in the making of territory.

International Conference: Intersectional Inequalities and (post-)Covid Urban Spaces

Date: 20 and 21 June 2023

Location: Alison Richard Building SG2, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge

19. April 2023

Decolonial Cities Beyond Justice

Decolonial Cities Collective – 2023

Decolonial Cities Collective’s first Dialogue event was a virtual conversation between Heather Dorries (University of Toronto) and Monika Streule (LSE), and Bobby Farnan (University of York) and Dena Qaddumi (LSE). In this dialogue, we discuss how centring the ‘decolonial city’ can pluralise conceptions of justice and the ‘good city’. In particular, we ask:

How do decolonial approaches shift conceptions of the ‘good city’?

How do distributive, procedural, and recognition justice frameworks inform and limit the horizon of the decolonial city?

How does centring decoloniality pluralise conceptions of justice in the city through registers such as abolition, care, indigeneity, and ecology?

Watch the video recording of the event here. The dialogue was held online on 19 April 2023, 15:00-16:30

13. April 2023

How to set ethnography in motion

Routledge – 2023

Recorridos explorativos and entrevistas en movimiento are two complementary strategies that sets ethnography in motion. Together they form the basis of a specific methodological design of mobile ethnography that draws on well-established qualitative strategies and adapts them to study large and heterogeneous urban territories. Framed as such, mobile ethnography is a systematic and situated – and at the same time inventive and comparative – strategy to empirically study urbanisation, and possibly useful to analyse other current multi-sited and multi-scalar socio-spatial transformations more in general. Such a mode of inquiry invites anthropologists to further decentralise methodological perspectives, particularly by encouraging more collaborative ways of knowledge production.

Streule, Monika (2023) How to set ethnography in motion. In: Sánchez Criado, Tomás and Adolfo Estalella (eds.) An ethnographic inventory. Field devices for anthropological inquiry. New York: Routledge, 133–142.

18. November 2022

Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values

Urban Geography – 2023

Urban extractivism is an emergent concept increasingly discussed within Latin America-based scholarship but less known in anglophone urban geography. The devastating social and environmental impact of large-scale natural resource extraction, usually accompanied and driven by infrastructure megaprojects, is the main domain to which activists and scholars are currently applying the concept of extractivism. However, extractivism-related accumulation also applies to urban contexts, as for instance, scholars argue using this lens to analyze the production of exclusive urban territories in central Buenos Aires. In this contribution, I suggest to broaden the concept of urban extractivism to address pressing challenges of urban transformations in the peripheries of Mexico City, particularly concerning urban infrastructure megaprojects and Indigenous socio-territorial movements that advocate for a more sustainable use of natural resources. Critical reflection on the extractivism of knowledge reveals the need for more collaborative research methods in urban geography and beyond.

Streule, Monika (2023) Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values, Urban Geography 44.1, 262–271. DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2022.2146931

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