Monika Streule
Biographic Data
| ID | 1282541 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monika Streule |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monika |
| FAMILY NAME | Streule |
| SIGNATURE | STREULE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3429-8357 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization
Political subjectivity and territorialization often appear disconnected in recent debates. We propose a fresh approach based on Latin American scholarship to understand subjects and territories as relational: Subjects are (de)stabilized in processes of territorialization, while territories are (de)stabilized in processes of subject formation. We introduce the concept of territorial subjectivities and use examples from the literature to show how t…
Ghosts, ruins, monsters: Urban Geography in Times of Crisis
Von Territorium zu Territorio: Land, Allmende und soziale Kämpfe in Mexiko-Stadt
Dekoloniale Perspektiven auf Territorialisierung rücken derzeit zunehmend ins Zentrum der kritischen Geographie. Lateinamerikanische Auseinandersetzungen und Begriffsbestimmungen, die sich aus indigenen, afro-lateinamerikanischen und feministischen Bewegungen ableiten, prägen die Debatte und lenken den Blick auf soziale Ungleichheit und Differenz. Unser Beitrag nimmt Urbanisierung und ein relationales Verständnis von Territorium als Ausgangspunkt…
Peripheralization through mass housing urbanization in Hong Kong, Mexico City, and Paris
This article compares how state-initiated mass housing urbanization has contributed to processes of peripheralization in three very different historical and geopolitical settings: in Paris from the 1950s to the 1990s in Hong Kong from the 1950s to 2010s and in Mexico City from the 1990s to the 2010s. We understand mass housing urbanization as large-scale industrial housing production based on the intervention of state actors into the urbanization…
Incorporation of urban differences in Tokyo, Mexico City, and Los Angeles
Reinvestment and intensification are common processes in many urban areas across the world. These transformations are often analyzed with concepts such as ‘urban regeneration’, ‘urban renaissance’, or ‘gentrification’. However, in analyzing Shimokitazawa (Tokyo), Centro Histórico (Mexico City), and Downtown Los Angeles, we realized that these concepts do not fully grasp the qualitative changes of everyday life and the contradictory character of t…
Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values
Urban extractivism is an emergent concept increasingly discussed within Latin America-based scholarship but less known in anglophone urban geography. The devastating social and environmental impact of large-scale natural resource extraction, usually accompanied and driven by infrastructure megaprojects, is the main domain to which activists and scholars are currently applying the concept of extractivism. However, extractivismrelated accumulation …
Bypass urbanism: Re-ordering center-periphery relations in Kolkata, Lagos and Mexico City
This paper introduces the concept of "bypass urbanism" to account for a process of urbanization that is reordering center-periphery relations of urban regions into new hierarchies. Bypass urbanism became visible through a comparison of large-scale urban transformations at the peripheries of Kolkata, Lagos, and Mexico City by zooming out and considering their impacts on the socio-spatial structure of the extended urban regions. Bypass urbanism is …
Introduction to the special issue “Contested urban territories: Decolonized perspectives”
This paper serves as an introduction to the “Contested urban territories: decolonized perspectives” special issue. The idea for this issue emerged during our reflections on a socioterritorial perspective, preeminent in the current Latin American analysis of contemporary urban struggles (Schwarz and Streule, 2016). It aims to contribute to these ongoing debates about a specific understanding of urban territories from a postcolonial and decolonized…
Doing mobile ethnography: Grounded, situated and comparative
This paper explores and discusses the experimental, critical and self-reflective use of differing methods in urban studies. In the context of frequent calls to investigate urban processes in a planetary and comparative perspective, the empirical groundedness of research is among the particularly complex challenges urban scholars are confronted with. The key question is: how can qualitative-empirical methods, such as ethnography or qualitative map…
Popular Urbanization: Conceptualizing Urbanization Processes Beyond Informality
This article introduces the concept of popular urbanization to describe a specific urbanization process based on collective initiatives, self-organization and the activities of inhabitants. We understand popular urbanization as an urban strategy through which an urban territory is produced, transformed and appropriated by the people. This concept results from a theoretically guided and empirically grounded comparison of Mexico City, Istanbul and …
Not all spaces are territories: Creating other possible urban worlds in and from Latin America - an interview with Raúl Zibechi
In light of his most prominent book "Territories in Resistance" (Zibechi, 2008), we conducted an interview with the researcher, journalist, and activist Raúl Zibechi. A well-known Uruguayan columnist with various Latin American newspapers, Zibechi was introduced to an English-speaking audience when translations of two of his books were published in 2010 and 2012 (Zibechi, 2010, 2012a). Combining activism and research, he has been working with soc…
Towards a new vocabulary of urbanisation processes: A comparative approach
Contemporary processes of urbanisation present major challenges for urban research and theory as urban areas expand and interweave. In this process, urban forms are constantly changing and new urban configurations are frequently evolving. An adequate understanding of urbanisation must derive its empirical and theoretical inspirations from the multitude of urban experiences across the various divides that shape the contemporary world. New concepts…
A Transposition of Territory: Decolonized Perspectives in Current Urban Research
In this article, we discuss the concept of territory from a decolonized perspective. We engage with the ongoing debate on decentralizing urban studies to outline the potential drawbacks of essentializing, generalizing or objectifying the urban. Through the socio-territorial approach utilized here we seek to address these issues by shifting attention, first, to the social production of territory, and secondly, from an analysis of state strategies …
Towards a new vocabulary of urbanisation processes: A comparative approach
Contemporary processes of urbanisation present major challenges for urban research and theory as urban areas expand and interweave. In this process, urban forms are constantly changing and new urban configurations are frequently evolving. An adequate understanding of urbanisation must derive its empirical and theoretical inspirations from the multitude of urban experiences across the various divides that shape the contemporary world. New concepts…
Doing mobile ethnography: Grounded, situated and comparative
This paper explores and discusses the experimental, critical and self-reflective use of differing methods in urban studies. In the context of frequent calls to investigate urban processes in a planetary and comparative perspective, the empirical groundedness of research is among the particularly complex challenges urban scholars are confronted with. The key question is: how can qualitative-empirical methods, such as ethnography or qualitative map…
A Transposition of Territory: Decolonized Perspectives in Current Urban Research
In this article, we discuss the concept of territory from a decolonized perspective. We engage with the ongoing debate on decentralizing urban studies to outline the potential drawbacks of essentializing, generalizing or objectifying the urban. Through the socio-territorial approach utilized here we seek to address these issues by shifting attention, first, to the social production of territory, and secondly, from an analysis of state strategies …
Popular Urbanization: Conceptualizing Urbanization Processes Beyond Informality
This article introduces the concept of popular urbanization to describe a specific urbanization process based on collective initiatives, self-organization and the activities of inhabitants. We understand popular urbanization as an urban strategy through which an urban territory is produced, transformed and appropriated by the people. This concept results from a theoretically guided and empirically grounded comparison of Mexico City, Istanbul and …
Bypass urbanism: Re-ordering center-periphery relations in Kolkata, Lagos and Mexico City
This paper introduces the concept of "bypass urbanism" to account for a process of urbanization that is reordering center-periphery relations of urban regions into new hierarchies. Bypass urbanism became visible through a comparison of large-scale urban transformations at the peripheries of Kolkata, Lagos, and Mexico City by zooming out and considering their impacts on the socio-spatial structure of the extended urban regions. Bypass urbanism is …
Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values
Urban extractivism is an emergent concept increasingly discussed within Latin America-based scholarship but less known in anglophone urban geography. The devastating social and environmental impact of large-scale natural resource extraction, usually accompanied and driven by infrastructure megaprojects, is the main domain to which activists and scholars are currently applying the concept of extractivism. However, extractivismrelated accumulation …
Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization
Political subjectivity and territorialization often appear disconnected in recent debates. We propose a fresh approach based on Latin American scholarship to understand subjects and territories as relational: Subjects are (de)stabilized in processes of territorialization, while territories are (de)stabilized in processes of subject formation. We introduce the concept of territorial subjectivities and use examples from the literature to show how t…
Not all spaces are territories: Creating other possible urban worlds in and from Latin America - an interview with Raúl Zibechi
In light of his most prominent book "Territories in Resistance" (Zibechi, 2008), we conducted an interview with the researcher, journalist, and activist Raúl Zibechi. A well-known Uruguayan columnist with various Latin American newspapers, Zibechi was introduced to an English-speaking audience when translations of two of his books were published in 2010 and 2012 (Zibechi, 2010, 2012a). Combining activism and research, he has been working with soc…
Ghosts, ruins, monsters: Urban Geography in Times of Crisis
Incorporation of urban differences in Tokyo, Mexico City, and Los Angeles
Reinvestment and intensification are common processes in many urban areas across the world. These transformations are often analyzed with concepts such as ‘urban regeneration’, ‘urban renaissance’, or ‘gentrification’. However, in analyzing Shimokitazawa (Tokyo), Centro Histórico (Mexico City), and Downtown Los Angeles, we realized that these concepts do not fully grasp the qualitative changes of everyday life and the contradictory character of t…
A Transposition of Territory: Decolonized Perspectives in Current Urban Research
In this article, we discuss the concept of territory from a decolonized perspective. We engage with the ongoing debate on decentralizing urban studies to outline the potential drawbacks of essentializing, generalizing or objectifying the urban. Through the socio-territorial approach utilized here we seek to address these issues by shifting attention, first, to the social production of territory, and secondly, from an analysis of state strategies …
Towards a new vocabulary of urbanisation processes: A comparative approach
Contemporary processes of urbanisation present major challenges for urban research and theory as urban areas expand and interweave. In this process, urban forms are constantly changing and new urban configurations are frequently evolving. An adequate understanding of urbanisation must derive its empirical and theoretical inspirations from the multitude of urban experiences across the various divides that shape the contemporary world. New concepts…
Not all spaces are territories: Creating other possible urban worlds in and from Latin America - an interview with Raúl Zibechi
In light of his most prominent book "Territories in Resistance" (Zibechi, 2008), we conducted an interview with the researcher, journalist, and activist Raúl Zibechi. A well-known Uruguayan columnist with various Latin American newspapers, Zibechi was introduced to an English-speaking audience when translations of two of his books were published in 2010 and 2012 (Zibechi, 2010, 2012a). Combining activism and research, he has been working with soc…
Introduction to the special issue “Contested urban territories: Decolonized perspectives”
This paper serves as an introduction to the “Contested urban territories: decolonized perspectives” special issue. The idea for this issue emerged during our reflections on a socioterritorial perspective, preeminent in the current Latin American analysis of contemporary urban struggles (Schwarz and Streule, 2016). It aims to contribute to these ongoing debates about a specific understanding of urban territories from a postcolonial and decolonized…
Doing mobile ethnography: Grounded, situated and comparative
This paper explores and discusses the experimental, critical and self-reflective use of differing methods in urban studies. In the context of frequent calls to investigate urban processes in a planetary and comparative perspective, the empirical groundedness of research is among the particularly complex challenges urban scholars are confronted with. The key question is: how can qualitative-empirical methods, such as ethnography or qualitative map…
Popular Urbanization: Conceptualizing Urbanization Processes Beyond Informality
This article introduces the concept of popular urbanization to describe a specific urbanization process based on collective initiatives, self-organization and the activities of inhabitants. We understand popular urbanization as an urban strategy through which an urban territory is produced, transformed and appropriated by the people. This concept results from a theoretically guided and empirically grounded comparison of Mexico City, Istanbul and …
Bypass urbanism: Re-ordering center-periphery relations in Kolkata, Lagos and Mexico City
This paper introduces the concept of "bypass urbanism" to account for a process of urbanization that is reordering center-periphery relations of urban regions into new hierarchies. Bypass urbanism became visible through a comparison of large-scale urban transformations at the peripheries of Kolkata, Lagos, and Mexico City by zooming out and considering their impacts on the socio-spatial structure of the extended urban regions. Bypass urbanism is …
Incorporation of urban differences in Tokyo, Mexico City, and Los Angeles
Reinvestment and intensification are common processes in many urban areas across the world. These transformations are often analyzed with concepts such as ‘urban regeneration’, ‘urban renaissance’, or ‘gentrification’. However, in analyzing Shimokitazawa (Tokyo), Centro Histórico (Mexico City), and Downtown Los Angeles, we realized that these concepts do not fully grasp the qualitative changes of everyday life and the contradictory character of t…
Urban extractivism. Contesting megaprojects in Mexico City, rethinking urban values
Urban extractivism is an emergent concept increasingly discussed within Latin America-based scholarship but less known in anglophone urban geography. The devastating social and environmental impact of large-scale natural resource extraction, usually accompanied and driven by infrastructure megaprojects, is the main domain to which activists and scholars are currently applying the concept of extractivism. However, extractivismrelated accumulation …
Von Territorium zu Territorio: Land, Allmende und soziale Kämpfe in Mexiko-Stadt
Dekoloniale Perspektiven auf Territorialisierung rücken derzeit zunehmend ins Zentrum der kritischen Geographie. Lateinamerikanische Auseinandersetzungen und Begriffsbestimmungen, die sich aus indigenen, afro-lateinamerikanischen und feministischen Bewegungen ableiten, prägen die Debatte und lenken den Blick auf soziale Ungleichheit und Differenz. Unser Beitrag nimmt Urbanisierung und ein relationales Verständnis von Territorium als Ausgangspunkt…
Peripheralization through mass housing urbanization in Hong Kong, Mexico City, and Paris
This article compares how state-initiated mass housing urbanization has contributed to processes of peripheralization in three very different historical and geopolitical settings: in Paris from the 1950s to the 1990s in Hong Kong from the 1950s to 2010s and in Mexico City from the 1990s to the 2010s. We understand mass housing urbanization as large-scale industrial housing production based on the intervention of state actors into the urbanization…
Territorial subjectivities. The missing link between political subjectivity and territorialization
Political subjectivity and territorialization often appear disconnected in recent debates. We propose a fresh approach based on Latin American scholarship to understand subjects and territories as relational: Subjects are (de)stabilized in processes of territorialization, while territories are (de)stabilized in processes of subject formation. We introduce the concept of territorial subjectivities and use examples from the literature to show how t…
Ghosts, ruins, monsters: Urban Geography in Times of Crisis
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