Veronica Crossa
Biographic Data
| ID | 149753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Veronica Crossa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Veronica |
| FAMILY NAME | Crossa |
| SIGNATURE | CROSSA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0223-9352 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Governing With Technical Precision
This article explores the production, effects, and limits of the distinction between technical and political work in contemporary urban governance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico City's Secretary of Mobility (SM), we analyze how a group of government officials who identify themselves as "technical experts" produce and mobilize data and evidence to modernize the city's public transportation system, which has been dominated by a form of …
Heterogeneidad de los comerciantes en cuatro mercados públicos de la Ciudad de México
En la última década, después de casi medio siglo de abandono, los mercados públicos entran nuevamente en la agenda pública y en los estudios urbanos. Basado en un acercamiento etnográfico, este texto propone dos aportes principales a estas nuevas investigaciones: 1) dar cuenta del perfil y heterogeneidad de experiencias de los comerciantes que trabajan en tres mercados públicos de la Ciudad de México; 2) a partir de lo anterior, sugerir algunas l…
Taking humor seriously
Understanding humor on its own terms is not an easy task. This commentary responds to Ben Gerlofs' (2022) article, ‘Deadly serious: Humor and the politics of aesthetic transgression’, by highlighting some of the important contributions made in his article and drawing out the empirical richness of his discussion. In doing so, I hope to discuss some of the ways in which humor has been analyzed in the geographical literature as well as potential gap…
Reading for difference on the street
In cities across the Global South, neoliberal urban policies have unfolded through a series of projects that take the streets, plazas and other public spaces of the city as central arenas to booster the neoliberal project. This has entailed the removal and displacement of groups who depend on these spaces for their daily survival, for example street vendors and other participants of the so-called informal economy. This paper draws from and seeks …
Investigating urban transformations
The value of mixed-methods research has recently re-gained impetus among geographers interested in the production of knowledge (Elwood, 2010). Key conversations have centred on efforts to blend traditionally viewed quantitative tools such as GIS with more qualitative practices and data. While discussions in qualitative GIS have demonstrated the value of merging the qualitative in GIS, we highlight the unexplored potential of GIS in the enactment …
Play for Protest, Protest for Play
Play, laughter and theatrical forms of activism have been recently documented by scholars interested in the politics and spatiality of resistance. This article focuses on the playful techniques of resistance deployed by street vendors and artisans in Mexico City as a result of the displacement generated by a recently implemented policy popularly called Plazas Limpias (clean plazas). Through a case study Coyoacan, a tourist‐oriented neighbourhood …
Author meets critics
Disruption, yet community reconstitution
Resisting the Entrepreneurial City
Recent work on entrepreneurial urban governance has focused on the new forms of exclusion produced by neoliberal entrepreneurial urban strategies, arguing that local forms of social-spatial organization are being dismantled through practices ranging from the privatization of urban public space to the emergence of gated communities. By exploring the role of agency amid these changing structures of constraints, this article interrogates processes o…
Converting the “small stories” into “big” ones
Entrepreneurial Urban Governance and Practices of Power
Resisting the Entrepreneurial City
Recent work on entrepreneurial urban governance has focused on the new forms of exclusion produced by neoliberal entrepreneurial urban strategies, arguing that local forms of social-spatial organization are being dismantled through practices ranging from the privatization of urban public space to the emergence of gated communities. By exploring the role of agency amid these changing structures of constraints, this article interrogates processes o…
Reading for difference on the street
In cities across the Global South, neoliberal urban policies have unfolded through a series of projects that take the streets, plazas and other public spaces of the city as central arenas to booster the neoliberal project. This has entailed the removal and displacement of groups who depend on these spaces for their daily survival, for example street vendors and other participants of the so-called informal economy. This paper draws from and seeks …
Play for Protest, Protest for Play
Play, laughter and theatrical forms of activism have been recently documented by scholars interested in the politics and spatiality of resistance. This article focuses on the playful techniques of resistance deployed by street vendors and artisans in Mexico City as a result of the displacement generated by a recently implemented policy popularly called Plazas Limpias (clean plazas). Through a case study Coyoacan, a tourist‐oriented neighbourhood …
Investigating urban transformations
The value of mixed-methods research has recently re-gained impetus among geographers interested in the production of knowledge (Elwood, 2010). Key conversations have centred on efforts to blend traditionally viewed quantitative tools such as GIS with more qualitative practices and data. While discussions in qualitative GIS have demonstrated the value of merging the qualitative in GIS, we highlight the unexplored potential of GIS in the enactment …
Disruption, yet community reconstitution
Converting the “small stories” into “big” ones
Governing With Technical Precision
This article explores the production, effects, and limits of the distinction between technical and political work in contemporary urban governance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico City's Secretary of Mobility (SM), we analyze how a group of government officials who identify themselves as "technical experts" produce and mobilize data and evidence to modernize the city's public transportation system, which has been dominated by a form of …
Heterogeneidad de los comerciantes en cuatro mercados públicos de la Ciudad de México
En la última década, después de casi medio siglo de abandono, los mercados públicos entran nuevamente en la agenda pública y en los estudios urbanos. Basado en un acercamiento etnográfico, este texto propone dos aportes principales a estas nuevas investigaciones: 1) dar cuenta del perfil y heterogeneidad de experiencias de los comerciantes que trabajan en tres mercados públicos de la Ciudad de México; 2) a partir de lo anterior, sugerir algunas l…
Taking humor seriously
Understanding humor on its own terms is not an easy task. This commentary responds to Ben Gerlofs' (2022) article, ‘Deadly serious: Humor and the politics of aesthetic transgression’, by highlighting some of the important contributions made in his article and drawing out the empirical richness of his discussion. In doing so, I hope to discuss some of the ways in which humor has been analyzed in the geographical literature as well as potential gap…
Entrepreneurial Urban Governance and Practices of Power
Converting the “small stories” into “big” ones
Entrepreneurial Urban Governance and Practices of Power
Author meets critics
Disruption, yet community reconstitution
Resisting the Entrepreneurial City
Recent work on entrepreneurial urban governance has focused on the new forms of exclusion produced by neoliberal entrepreneurial urban strategies, arguing that local forms of social-spatial organization are being dismantled through practices ranging from the privatization of urban public space to the emergence of gated communities. By exploring the role of agency amid these changing structures of constraints, this article interrogates processes o…
Play for Protest, Protest for Play
Play, laughter and theatrical forms of activism have been recently documented by scholars interested in the politics and spatiality of resistance. This article focuses on the playful techniques of resistance deployed by street vendors and artisans in Mexico City as a result of the displacement generated by a recently implemented policy popularly called Plazas Limpias (clean plazas). Through a case study Coyoacan, a tourist‐oriented neighbourhood …
Investigating urban transformations
The value of mixed-methods research has recently re-gained impetus among geographers interested in the production of knowledge (Elwood, 2010). Key conversations have centred on efforts to blend traditionally viewed quantitative tools such as GIS with more qualitative practices and data. While discussions in qualitative GIS have demonstrated the value of merging the qualitative in GIS, we highlight the unexplored potential of GIS in the enactment …
Reading for difference on the street
In cities across the Global South, neoliberal urban policies have unfolded through a series of projects that take the streets, plazas and other public spaces of the city as central arenas to booster the neoliberal project. This has entailed the removal and displacement of groups who depend on these spaces for their daily survival, for example street vendors and other participants of the so-called informal economy. This paper draws from and seeks …
Taking humor seriously
Understanding humor on its own terms is not an easy task. This commentary responds to Ben Gerlofs' (2022) article, ‘Deadly serious: Humor and the politics of aesthetic transgression’, by highlighting some of the important contributions made in his article and drawing out the empirical richness of his discussion. In doing so, I hope to discuss some of the ways in which humor has been analyzed in the geographical literature as well as potential gap…
Heterogeneidad de los comerciantes en cuatro mercados públicos de la Ciudad de México
En la última década, después de casi medio siglo de abandono, los mercados públicos entran nuevamente en la agenda pública y en los estudios urbanos. Basado en un acercamiento etnográfico, este texto propone dos aportes principales a estas nuevas investigaciones: 1) dar cuenta del perfil y heterogeneidad de experiencias de los comerciantes que trabajan en tres mercados públicos de la Ciudad de México; 2) a partir de lo anterior, sugerir algunas l…
Governing With Technical Precision
This article explores the production, effects, and limits of the distinction between technical and political work in contemporary urban governance. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico City's Secretary of Mobility (SM), we analyze how a group of government officials who identify themselves as "technical experts" produce and mobilize data and evidence to modernize the city's public transportation system, which has been dominated by a form of …
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works)