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Racial Justice Commitments in the Urban Studies program, University of Basel

2023

Critical Urbanism Newsletter | Fall 2023

2023

Architecture as Technical Governance at the African Union
Kenny Cupers et al.
2023

The Coloniality of Italian Fascist Architecture
Emilio Distretti
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

What is Critical Urbanism? Urban Research as Pedagogy
Kenny Cupers, Sophie Oldfield, Manuel Herz, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Emilio Distretti, Myriam Claire Perret
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

Is there an Environmental Modernism?
Kenny Cupers
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

On the Coloniality of Architectural Modernism in Germany
Kenny Cupers
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
et al.
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

The Global Age of Mass Housing
Kenny Cupers
2020

Die Gespenster Eurafrikas
Kenny Cupers
2020

Enforced Disappearances and Border Deaths Along the Migrant Trail
Emilio Distretti
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