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What is Critical Urbanisms?
Kenny Cupers, Sophie Oldfield, Manuel Herz, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Emilio Distretti, Myriam Claire Perret
2023
Critical Urbanisms Newsletter
2022
Fear and Fainting in Luanda: Paranoid politics and the problem of interpretative authority in Angola
Jon Schubert
2022
Disrupted dreams of development: neoliberal efficiency and crisis in Angola
Jon Schubert
2022
On the use and abuse of networks in academia
Jon Schubert et al.
2022
‘A vision for the future’: Professional ethos as boundary work in Mozambique’s public sector
Jon Schubert
2022
Engineering the middle classes: State institutions and the aspirations of citizenship
Jon Schubert et al.
2022
Reparations, beyond infrastructure
Emilio Distretti
2021
Crepe Romane: a Semi-Serious Catalog
Giulia Scotto et al.
2021
The Implementation of the EU Hotspot Approach in Greece and Italy: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary Analysis
Kenny Cupers, Alaa Dia et al.
2021
Coloniality of Infrastructure
Kenny Cupers
2021
Between Visible and Invisible; ENI and the Building of the African Petroleumscape
Giulia Scotto
2021
Architectural Demodernization as Critical Pedagogy: Pathways for Undoing Colonial Fascist Architectural Legacies in Sicily
Emilio Distretti et al.
2021
Provincializing ENI’s Disegno Africano: Agip Tanzania and the Agip Motel in Dar es Salaam
Giulia Scotto
2021
The Life Cycle of the Libyan Coastal Highway: Italian Colonialism, Coloniality, and the Future of Reparative Justice in the Mediterranean
Emilio Distretti
2021
The work-intensive fiction of frictionless trade in the Angolan port of Lobito
Jon Schubert
2021
Urban Studies at the University of Basel
Kenny Cupers, Manuel Herz, Sophie Oldfield, Emilio Distretti, Laura Nkula-Wenz
2020
VIRUS URBANO: Documenting the Covid-19 space of emergency
Giulia Scotto
2020
Colonial Resonances
Jon Schubert
2020
Infrastructure Between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-African Highway
Kenny Cupers et al.
2020
Neoliberalism on the Ground: Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present
Kenny Cupers et al.
2020
Gardening as Geopolitics
Kenny Cupers
2020
The Invention of Indigenous Architecture
Kenny Cupers
2020
Step, Step, Breathe
Sophie Oldfield
2020
Paesaggi Paralleli
Giulia Scotto
2020
A miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 1. The limits of protection, prevention and care
2020
A miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 4. Contagion and containment. Curtailing the freedom of movement in times of coronavirus
Kenny Cupers
2020
A miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 3. Politics of abandonment. Refugees on Greek islands during the coronavirus crisis
2020
A miniseries on refugees in the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2. From national threat to oblivion. Erasing migrants from public discourse in Italy during COVID-19
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2020
Infrastructures, Borders, and the Making of the African Territory: The Case of Zambia
Giulia Scotto
2020
Wilful Entanglements: extractive industries and the co-production of sovereignty in Mozambique
Jon Schubert
2020
Labour of Love: An Open Access Manifesto for Freedom, Integrity, and Creativity in the Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences
Jon Schubert et al.
2020
Steel versus Asphalt: The Politics of Infrastructure in Post- Independence East Africa
Giulia Scotto
2019
Effecting cultural change from below? A comparison of Cape Town and Bandung's pathways to urban cultural governance
Laura Nkula-Wenz et al.
2019
Building Houses Bit-by-Bit: The stories of Hazeldean-Ekupumleni
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2019
Engineering Affect: Street Politics and Microfoundations of Governance
Michelle D. Weitzel
2019
The Afterlife of Fascist Colonial Architecture: A Critical Manifesto
Emilio Distretti et al.
2019
STUDENT WORK: Ruo Emoh: Our Home, Our Story
2018
Bengal Stream: The Vibrant Architecture Scene of Bangladesh
Giulia Scotto
2018
The Jerusalem of Things
Emilio Distretti et al.
2018
The Colonial Mediterranean, Anonymity and Migration Control
Emilio Distretti
2018
Urban Immersions
Sophie Oldfield, Laura Nkula-Wenz
2018
Spaces of Uncertainty: Berlin Revisited
Kenny Cupers et al.
2018
La banlieue, un projet social
Kenny Cupers et al.
2018
Of ‘Godziners’ and ‘Designer Citizens’: The emergence of designers as political subjects in Cape Town
Laura Nkula-Wenz
2018
Worlding Cape Town by design: Encounters with creative cityness
Laura Nkula-Wenz
2018
A Closer Look at the Role of International Accolades in Worlding Cape Town’s Urban Politics
Laura Nkula-Wenz
2018
Colonial and Postcolonial Logistics
Giulia Scotto
2018
Architecture and the Environment
Kenny Cupers et al.
2018
Modernism as Accommodation
Kenny Cupers et al.
2018
The Power of Association: Le Corbusier in the Banlieues
Kenny Cupers
2018
Audializing Migrant Bodies: Sound and Security at the Border
Michelle D. Weitzel
2018
Reality Show(s)
Giulia Scotto et al.
2018
Contemporary Israel/Palestine
Shourideh C. Molavi
2018
‘A Culture of Immediatism’: Co-Optation and Complicity in Post-War Angola
Jon Schubert
2018
Extractive Industries and Changing State Dynamics in Africa. Beyond the Resource Curse
Jon Schubert et al.
2018
Titanic in the Desert
Emilio Distretti
2017
Along the Lines of the Occupation. Playing at Diminished Reality in East Jerusalem
Emilio Distretti et al.
2017
Projective Geographies Between East and West
Kenny Cupers et al.
2017
Colourful Propaganda
Giulia Scotto
2017
Shopping à l'américaine
Kenny Cupers
2017
Éric Rohmer in Cergy-Pontoise
Kenny Cupers et al.
2017
Habitat III Regional Report Arab Region: Towards inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable Arab Cities
Maren Larsen et al.
2017
Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola
Jon Schubert
2017
Bodenständigkeit: The Environmental Epistemology of Modernism
Kenny Cupers
2016
Géographie Volontaire and the Territorial Logic of Architecture
Kenny Cupers
2016
Human Territoriality and the Downfall of Public Housing
Kenny Cupers
2016
Mapping and Making Community in the Postwar European City
Kenny Cupers et al.
2016
The Infrastructure of Participation: Cultural Centres in Postwar Europe
Kenny Cupers
2016
Humanitarian Responses by Local Actors: Lessons Learned from Managing the Transit of Migrants and Refugees through Croatia.
Maren Larsen et al.
2016
Between activism and the academy: The urban as political terrain
Sophie Oldfield
2015
The Cultural Center: Architecture as Cultural Policy in Postwar Europe
Kenny Cupers
2015
Why we like to blame buildings
Kenny Cupers
2015
Waiting for the state: A politics of housing in South Africa
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2015
Straining: Young Men Working through Waithood in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2015
The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending
Kenny Cupers
2015
Marginalized Groups in ICT-enabled Governance
Maren Larsen et al.
2015
Urban Migration Trends in the MENA Region and the Challenge of Conflict Induced Displacement
Maren Larsen et al.
2015
Inclusive Cities and Access to Land, Housing, and Services in Developing Countries.
Maren Larsen et al.
2015
The Social Project – Housing Postwar France
Kenny Cupers
2014
Handbook on Cities of the Global South
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2014
Claiming 'rights' in the African City: popular Mobilisation and the politics of informality in Nairobi, Rabat, ...
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2014
The Studio and The City: Notes on Architectural Pedagogy
Kenny Cupers
2014
Where is the social project?
Kenny Cupers
2014
De facto vs. de jure Home Ownership: Women’s Everyday Negotiations in Lusaka and Cape Town
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2013
Use Matters
Kenny Cupers
2013
Stateless Citizenship The Palestinian-Arab Citizens of Israel
Shourideh C. Molavi
2013
Making Camp: Landscape and Community in the Interwar German Youth Movements
Kenny Cupers
2012
Xool nu bu baax: Hip-hop, Youth Movements and Change in Senegal
Maren Larsen
2012
Accessing the State: Everyday Practices and Politics in the South
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2011
Designing Social Life: The Urbanism of the Grands Ensembles
Kenny Cupers
2010
The expertise of participation: mass housing and urban planning in postwar France
Kenny Cupers
2010
The Contested Politics of Housing Allocation in Ikapa, Cape Town, 1981–1994
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2010
Agency in Architecture: Rethinking Criticality in Theory and Practice
Kenny Cupers et al.
2009
Editorial: Body Politics and the Gendered Crafting of Citizenship
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2009
The Parallel Claims of Gated Communities and Land Invasions in a Southern City: Polarised State Responses
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2009
Governing through nature: Camps and youth movements in interwar Germany and the United States
Kenny Cupers
2008
Who’s Serving Whom? Partners, Process, and Products in Service-Learning Projects in South African Urban Geography
Sophie Oldfield
2008
Building Unity in Diversity: Social Movement Activism in the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2006
Political Polemics, Local Practices of Community-Organizing and Neoliberal Politics in South Africa
Sophie Oldfield et al.
2006
