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Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison

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Birkhäuser – 2023

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

Canadian Institute for Advanced Studies Program – 2024

Urban extractivism and financialization in the periphery of Mexico City

Internacional Colloquium Cities in Transition Mexico City – 2024

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

Keynote at SSLAS Annual Conference – 2024

Authors meet critics: Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet

RGS-IBG Annual Conference London – 2024

Ghosts, ruins, monsters: urban geography in times of crisis

Geographica Helvetica – 2024

Relating urban extractivism and financialization in Mexico City’s peripheries

RC21 Santiago de Chile – 2024

Henri Lefebvre: Recent developments in theory, research and practice

RC21 Santiago de Chile – 2024

Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization

Progress in Human Geography – 2024

How to compare specificity, build concepts, and change theory: A creative methodology to grasp urbanization processes

FQS – 2023

Difference, intersectionality and territorialisation

Keynote at CLAS University of Cambridge – 2023

Decolonial Cities Beyond Justice

Decolonial Cities Collective – 2023

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

Urban Geography – 2023

How to set ethnography in motion

Routledge – 2023

Extractivismos urbanos. Conflictos sociales por megaproyectos de infraestructura en las periferias de la Ciudad de México

SLAS conference Belfast – 2023

Peripheralization through mass housing urbanization in Hong Kong, Mexico City, and Paris

Planning Perspectives – 2023

Incorporation of urban differences in Tokyo, Mexico City, and Los Angeles

City – 2022

Rendering territory (in)visible. Approaching urban struggles through a socio-territorial lens

Routledge – 2022

Socio-territorial approach in post- and decolonial perspectives

Methods and methodologies of qualitative urban research

Comparative urbanism and urbanization

Green and grey: Nature in urban studies

Scientifica Zürcher Wissenschaftstage – 2021

Urban geography otherwise? Decentering academic knowledge production in praxis

RGS-IBG Annual Conference London – 2021

Re-Reading the Map: conflicted spaces and the forensic gaze

Berlin – 2021

Dislocating urban studies: Rethinking theory, shifting practice

Malmö University and University of Helsinki – 2021

Bypass urbanism: Re-ordering center-periphery relations in Kolkata, Lagos and Mexico City

Environment and Planning A – 2021

Urban territories and knowledge otherwise. Ethnographic concept building for a more global urban theory

Decolonizing Planning in Latin America conference – 2020

Doing mobile ethnography: Grounded, situated, and comparative

Urban Studies – 2020

Popular urbanization as an urban strategy. Decentring the vocabulary of urbanization

Bremen University of Applied Sciences – 2020

Popular Urbanization: Conceptualizing urbanization processes beyond informality

IJURR – 2020

Introduction to the special issue »Contested urban territories: decolonized perspectives«

Special Issue Geographica Helvetica – 2020

Decolonizing methods of urban research: innovative comparative urbanism, mobile ethnography, critical cartographies

Paul-Lazarsfeld-Professorship Seminar, University of Vienna – 2020

Decolonizing urban studies: Theory, pedagogy and practice of urban research revisited

Paul-Lazarsfeld-Professorship lecture, University of Vienna – 2020

Where does Mexico City begin and end? Urban anthropology and metropolitan urbanization processes

SAGW Bulletin – 2019

»Not all spaces are territories«: creating other possible urban worlds in and from Latin America – an interview with Raúl Zibechi

Geographica Helvetica – 2019

A transposition of territory: Decolonized perspectives in current urban research

IJURR – 2016

Doing global urban research

IJURR – 2019

Poner las cartas sobre la mesa: Collective re-readings of mappings across urban worlds

Mexico City – 2019

Methods of Urban Research

Lecture
Autumn Semester – yearly recurring course

Sociology II: Current Perspectives in Urban Studies

Lecture
Spring Semester – yearly recurring course

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the urban

Elective Course
Spring Semester – 2019

An ‘ontological turn’ in urban studies?

RC21 Delhi – 2019

Comparative cartographies: Urban processes within and across metropolitan territories

AAG conference Washington DC – 2019

Ethnography of urban territories: Metropolitan urbanization processes in Mexico City

Westfälisches Dampfboot – 2018

Ethnography of urban territories: Metropolitan urbanization processes of Mexico City

Think & Drink Colloquium, Humboldt University Berlin – 2018

From postcolonial critique to decolonizing urban studies

Urban Salon London – 2018

Doing mobile ethnography: Following the metropolitan urbanization processes of Mexico City

IAS Talking Points Seminar London – 2018

Before Gentrification? An ethnographic study of Rosengartenstrasse in Zurich Wipkingen

Elective Course
Spring Semester – 2018

Urban territories of Mexico City: Ethnographic writing and positionality in translation

Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Paris – 2018

Gentrification in Zurich: Weststrasse in Transformation

Elective Course
Spring Semester – 2017

Decolonizing methods: How to un-think something you don’t know you’re thinking?

RGS-IBG conference London – 2017

Tracing the developmentalist regime of productivity. Nation, urban space, and workers’ Habitat in Mexico City, 1940s-1970s

Routledge – 2017

Mobile Ethnography: Toward a grounded Comparative Perspective in Urban Studies

AAG conference Boston – 2017

Contested urban Territories

AAG conference Boston – 2017

Contested Mexico City: Reconsidering politics in El Monstruo

AAG conference Boston – 2017

Design, appropriation and control of public urban space

Elective Course
Spring Semester – 2016

Learning from Havana

Havana – 2016

Transdisciplinary Comparative Methodology: Qualitative Mapping and Mobile Ethnography

AAG conference San Francisco – 2016

Urban Research Symposium: Stadtforschung im Gespräch

ETH Zurich since 2015

Comparative Urban Research: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives

Future Cities Laboratory Zurich – 2014

Mobile Ethnography on a metropolitan scale. Techniques to explore and perceive the urban in an everyday perspective

Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies Berlin – 2014

The trend towards transdisciplinarity: A critical evaluation of an ambivalent practice in qualitative urban studies

Forum: Qualitative Social Research – 2014

Popular Urbanization: A comparative concept for analysis of contemporary urbanization processes

AAG conference Los Angeles – 2013

Decentering urban studies in and from Latin America

Berlin – 2012

Following the Urbanization Processes in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City

AAG conference New York – 2012

Approaching contemporary urbanization processes in Mexico

ICCG Frankfurt am Main – 2011

Public-Private Suburbanization in Mexico City

RC21 conference Amsterdam – 2011