A5079585986- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Social Sciences and Policies
- Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Digital Media and Philosophy
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Cultural Studies and Postmodernism
- Latin American Urban Studies
- Public Spaces through Art
- Political and Economic history of UK and US
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
University of Manchester
2022-2024
University of Kentucky
2017-2022
Inspired by Sara Ahmed's call to study what is near you, we write about our sometimes-joyful, sometimes-furious, always passionate struggles as graduate students in the academy. As a site of imperialism, racism, and patriarchy, university grinds especially hard on women, people color, black, indigenous, queer, disabled, otherwise oppressed scholars. Out desire not just get or ahead this hostile space competition scarcity, feminist praxis that subverts Using collaborative auto-ethnography,...
Abstract Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise Lauren Berlant's influential concept ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double‐bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneously harming. The lines between harming, sustaining, damaging and flourishing blur, sometimes collapsing entirely. By holding together opposites exemplifies performs centrality ambivalence thought, as well their orientation overdetermination incoherence....
This paper aims to unlock the potential for politicization of art in age meme. Drawing on Walter Benjamin's ideas, we suggest that technologies viral reproduction create tools and conditions blasting present moment out oppressive vice classical historiography. While fascism retrenches "art art's sake" defense principles origin, authenticity, mastery, envision a meme not simply through content but practice. attempts engage this practice creative invention. We work across two cases, one "real"...
Affect theory suggests that imagining different futures for cities begins by feeling the present differently. This article considers political potential of affective register in context gentrifying Mexico City, where 2017 earthquake, as a crisis-event, burst onto ongoing crisis-ordinary gentrification-based displacement. I argue this convergence crises opened an impasse, or time and space lived excess predictability. impasse both interrupted business-as-usual gentrification channeled...
In this commentary, we respond to Derek Ruez and Daniel Cockayne’s article ‘Feeling Otherwise: Ambivalent Affects the Politics of Critique in Geography’. We do so by picking up ambivalence—or more precisely, ambivalence about ambivalence—as a tool with which Cockayne leave us. find somewhat difficult grasp, but understand as part its design. Ambivalence undoes subject’s mastery. doing so, that an airing gives other kinds entangled, indeterminate, unknowing relations room breathe.
This article responds to Ben Gerlofs and Ernesto López Morales’ article, “¿Quién es gentrificación (‘who is gentrificación’)?” It explores the term “blanqueamiento,” which emerged from Mexico City housing activism, highlighting its ability reveal interlaced racism, corruption, cultural erasure in urban transformation. The response discusses how “gentrificación nos queda corto” (“gentrification falls short”) necessity of new terms like “blanqueamiento” address complexities development. By...
El artículo analiza los efectos diferenciales del género en casos de desalojo forzado hogar y desplazamiento hacia la periferia experimentados por mujeres habitantes Ciudad México. es uno problemas menos abordados estudios urbanos, a pesar tener una importancia fundamental para discutir las cuestiones ciudad vivienda desde perspectiva feminista. Hipotetizamos que se trata expulsión afecta no solo mujeres, sino racializadas. Reuniendo conceptos desalojo, movilidad e inmovilidad, “racial...