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»The Steel Giant« and »The Colossus of Santa Úrsula«: urban extractive megaproyects for the 2026 FIFA World Cup

Lecture series Futbol en tiempo extra San Luis Potosí – 2025

Invited paper at the lecture series Futbol en tiempo extra. Reflexiones desde las ciencias sociales rumbo al Mundial 2026 organized by Mónica de la Vega Carregha (UASLP, UCSLP) and Yolanda Camacho Zapata (AHESLP).

Time: 11 am.

Date: 19th November 2025

Location: Historical Archive of the State San Luis Potosí and online

For inscription mail to: direccion.ahslp[at]gmail.com

2026 FIFA World Cup megaprojects, urban extractivism, and socio-environmental justice movements

RSA Latin America Conference Monterrey – 2025

Paper presented at the 2025 RSA Latin America Conference Adapting Local and Regional Development to Changing Environments, Monterrey, Mexico from 22-24 October 2025.

For a Non-Exceptionalist Spatial Theory of Far-Right Mobilizations

Antipode Online – 2024

This article is our first publication as Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R and has just been published in the Antipode Online Intervention Symposium Worldbuilding and Worldbreaking: New Spatialities of the Far-Right. We propose to approach far-right geographies through the lens of territorialization. If one seeks to deconstruct the geographies of regressive politics, and foster emancipatory platforms and antifascist world-building, we argue, it is beneficial to do so from an explicitly territorial perspective — one that is informed by Latin American and Anglophone debates, as our just published book Das Ende rechter Räume. Zu Territorialisierungen der radikalen Rechten illustrates.

Autor*innenkollektiv Terra-R (2024) For a non-exceptional spatial theory of far-right mobilizations. In: Essex Jamey, Gallaher Carolyn, Luger Jason (eds.) Intervention Symposium “Worldbuilding and Worldbreaking: New Spatialities of the Far-Right”. Antipode Online.

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Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison

NEW: OPEN ACCESS! eBook available for free Birkhäuser – 2023

The speed, scale and scope of urbanisation have increased dramatically in recent decades. To decipher the rapidly changing urban territories across the planet, we need a radical shift in the analytical perspective on urbanisation.

In this book, a transdisciplinary international research team presents 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 cartography and on detailed ethnographic and historical explorations, this book systematically analyses the diversity of responses to urgent contemporary urban challenges. It proposes a series of new concepts that allow us to assess the practical consequences of different urban strategies in everyday life.

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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

NEW: Open access! eBook available here