Solange Muñoz
Biographic Data
| ID | 187840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Solange Muñoz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Solange |
| FAMILY NAME | Muñoz |
| SIGNATURE | MUÑOZ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5353-184X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Is resistance futile? Fuelling collective work in the face of AI
The emergence of the AI age is radically transforming the nature, purpose and politics of knowledge production, particularly collective knowledge production. While artificial intelligence is often celebrated as a powerful manifestation of collective knowledge, drawing upon vast repositories of human-generated information, it is built on exploitative and extractive practices. This editorial argues that genuine collective knowledge production must …
Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence
We pen this editorial amidst growing authoritarianism and violence around the world, from the Israeli state’s continued genocide in Gaza to the unfurling fist of the Trump administration quashing immigration raid protests in Los Angeles. It seems we are experiencing what Nancy Fraser (2019)—paraphrasing Antonio Gramsci—refers to as an era in which “the old is dying and the new cannot be born”, where conservative authoritarianism is coupling with …
Latinxs in the (newest) Trump era
A second Trump administration has many dangerous and concerning implications for the 65.2 million Latinxs living in the United States. This essay explores how a diverse Latinx population can build on their distinct identities and experiences of organising in the United States to challenge white nationalist and nativist policies of the Trump administration. First, we give a brief introduction to varied histories and geographies of Latinx populatio…
Housing as a battlefield
Since October 2023, we have witnessed the human and material devastation brought about by the horrific mediatised genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, itself preceded by a long history of ‘urbacide’—an intentional form of urban destruction characterised by siege and denied rehabilitation (Chiodelli 2022). In his research on modern warfare and ‘domicide’ in Syria (2022), Amar Azzouz has spoken eloquently about ‘...the millions of or…
East Tennessee older women’s perceptions of Medicare, Medicaid, and related health policies
Older women face unique challenges regarding health disparities. This study aims to provide an understanding of older women's perceptions and situated experiences regarding the gendered health disparities they face, which are characterized by the policies related to older women's health and the geopolitical and social norms in which they live. The purpose of this project is to provide policy and decision-makers with insights and a better understa…
The chaos of not knowing: Embodied experiences of waiting for public housing redevelopment and relocation
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has instituted several successive programs to redevelop aging and distressed US public housing. The current program, the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, aims not only to redevelop housing but also to improve the health of public housing residents through a whole neighborhood transformation, at the cost of privatizing components of housing. In the present case study, we examine relationships and …
Under lockdown: Remaking “home” through infrastructures of care during Covid-19
This paper examines how poor urban residents in the Sun Valley public housing community in Denver, CO (US) experienced the pandemic during the first few months of the crisis. Employing a framework that focuses on people, community, housing and home as potential spaces and possibilities of “infrastructures of care”, this research examines the strategies and practices that emerged during the pandemic to address the immediate needs and concerns of t…
More private than public: The choice neighborhoods initiative as another tool for state-led gentrification in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver CO
Through the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), private investors and developers replace distressed US public housing with new mixed-income and mixed-use developments. Although these projects promote community involvement and are purported to prioritize community input and to benefit residents, private investors have disproportionate power and often modify redevelopment to favor the market-rate units while receiving tax incentives, extremely l…
When top-down infrastructures fail: Spaces and practices of care and community under Covid-19
Throughout this article, we focus on the lives and experiences of residents in the Sun Valley public housing project in Denver. During the stay-at-home orders, the Sun Valley residents – an economically impoverished yet diverse community that includes refugees, Black and LatinX families, single-parent households, and individuals who are permanently disabled – faced extremely precarious conditions. COVID exposed and exacerbated the already failed …
Lived realities versus state rationalities: Mobilizing within and against housing injustices
The contributions in this issue of the Radical Housing Journal evidence the historical and contemporary evolution of struggles against structural pressures impacting housing and everyday precarity, as well as mobilizing efforts based on particular local, gained or ancestral knowledge. We outline four main themes emerging in the articles featured in this issue, all situated both within and against the lived realities of housing injustices. We hope…
Community-Engaged Regenerative Mapping in an Age of Displacement and Covid-19
Displacement is detrimental not only to displaced individuals and families but also to the communities left behind and their ability to collectively resist and mobilize against global processes that negatively affect their ability to engage in practices of resilience and regeneration that support well-rooted communities. Critical approaches to the study of displacement should not only focus on mapping vulnerability factors and analyzing dominant …
Housing struggles and domestic territories in Argentina during the pandemic
In this conversation RHJ Editors Solange and Ana met with the Argentine researchers and organisers, Lucia Cavallero, Verónica Gago and Florencia Presta to learn about the increase in housing violence and struggles for housing and home in Argentina during the pandemic. They describe the intensification of ‘landlord violence’ and land seizures as well as an ‘implosion of home’ as a result of accelerated indebtedness and impoverishment. We tackle is…
Who they have become: Peruvian migrants and memories of home, motherhood and violence
Through the personal narratives of four women who migrated from different cities in Peru to Buenos Aires, Argentina in the mid-nineties and early 2000s, this article explores the long-term impacts of migration, motherhood, and structural and direct violence on women who migrate in order to be able to provide better lives for their children. This article employs a feminist narrative approach to capture the women’s life histories and experiences of…
A Look Back at Us Group: An Anti-Racist Initiative in the Age of Desegregation
In 1989, after an incident in which a white teacher used a derogatory word against three black students in a high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the school developed a program called “Understanding and Sharing Diversity” (US Group). Every two months, approximately 60 students participated in all-day forums, where they could speak freely about issues and experiences regarding race, racism, and identity in school. This research examines the origins…
Reflections on operationalizing an anti-racism pedagogy: Teaching as regional storytelling
Responding to rising social tensions and ongoing theoretical and political changes in the study of geography, we advocate for greater operationalizing of anti-racism pedagogies within the field. Such pedagogies undermine long-standing geographic knowledge systems that marginalize and misrepresent people of color while also distorting and misinforming the worldviews of a White society. Drawing from classroom successes and uncertainties, five educa…
Metropolitan Preoccupations: The spatial politics of squatting in Berlin Rethinking Life at the Margins: The assemblage of contexts, subjects and politics
We live in strange times. Neoliberalism and other economic and political conditions and practices have led to an overall increase of wealth throughout the world and particularly in urban centers, w
Urban Precarity and Home: "There Is No "Right to the City
Employing qualitative and ethnographic data from field research in 2009 and 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this article seeks to position urban housing and the home at the center of discussions about social and spatial justice and the right to the city. A focus on housing and home is largely absent in the literature on the right to the city. This article contributes to the literature on the right to the city through an analysis of the struggle …
Precarious city: Home-making and eviction in Buenos Aires, Argentina
This article expands on current conceptualizations and applications of precarity by exploring the everyday socio-spatial complexities of migrant squatters living in informal hotels in the center of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through ethnographic methods, this research investigates squatters' practices of negotiating access to shared domestic spaces and resources, while experiencing long-term waiting for eviction from their home and potentially from…
A look inside the struggle for housing in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Set in the broader context of increasing urban precarity and displacement of the urban poor and working classes, this paper examines the social and collective significance of housing precarity and eviction as it is experienced by Latin American, immigrant families living in informal hotels in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I analyze the internal dynamics, interactions and relationships between residents of informal hotels, the housing organization CIBA…
For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960–2010 ‐ by Murphy, Edward
Building Austin, building justice: Immigrant construction workers, precarious labor regimes and social citizenship
Building Austin, building justice: Immigrant construction workers, precarious labor regimes and social citizenship
Reflections on operationalizing an anti-racism pedagogy: Teaching as regional storytelling
Responding to rising social tensions and ongoing theoretical and political changes in the study of geography, we advocate for greater operationalizing of anti-racism pedagogies within the field. Such pedagogies undermine long-standing geographic knowledge systems that marginalize and misrepresent people of color while also distorting and misinforming the worldviews of a White society. Drawing from classroom successes and uncertainties, five educa…
Precarious city: Home-making and eviction in Buenos Aires, Argentina
This article expands on current conceptualizations and applications of precarity by exploring the everyday socio-spatial complexities of migrant squatters living in informal hotels in the center of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through ethnographic methods, this research investigates squatters' practices of negotiating access to shared domestic spaces and resources, while experiencing long-term waiting for eviction from their home and potentially from…
Urban Precarity and Home: "There Is No "Right to the City
Employing qualitative and ethnographic data from field research in 2009 and 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this article seeks to position urban housing and the home at the center of discussions about social and spatial justice and the right to the city. A focus on housing and home is largely absent in the literature on the right to the city. This article contributes to the literature on the right to the city through an analysis of the struggle …
When top-down infrastructures fail: Spaces and practices of care and community under Covid-19
Throughout this article, we focus on the lives and experiences of residents in the Sun Valley public housing project in Denver. During the stay-at-home orders, the Sun Valley residents – an economically impoverished yet diverse community that includes refugees, Black and LatinX families, single-parent households, and individuals who are permanently disabled – faced extremely precarious conditions. COVID exposed and exacerbated the already failed …
A look inside the struggle for housing in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Set in the broader context of increasing urban precarity and displacement of the urban poor and working classes, this paper examines the social and collective significance of housing precarity and eviction as it is experienced by Latin American, immigrant families living in informal hotels in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I analyze the internal dynamics, interactions and relationships between residents of informal hotels, the housing organization CIBA…
Under lockdown: Remaking “home” through infrastructures of care during Covid-19
This paper examines how poor urban residents in the Sun Valley public housing community in Denver, CO (US) experienced the pandemic during the first few months of the crisis. Employing a framework that focuses on people, community, housing and home as potential spaces and possibilities of “infrastructures of care”, this research examines the strategies and practices that emerged during the pandemic to address the immediate needs and concerns of t…
More private than public: The choice neighborhoods initiative as another tool for state-led gentrification in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver CO
Through the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), private investors and developers replace distressed US public housing with new mixed-income and mixed-use developments. Although these projects promote community involvement and are purported to prioritize community input and to benefit residents, private investors have disproportionate power and often modify redevelopment to favor the market-rate units while receiving tax incentives, extremely l…
Community-Engaged Regenerative Mapping in an Age of Displacement and Covid-19
Displacement is detrimental not only to displaced individuals and families but also to the communities left behind and their ability to collectively resist and mobilize against global processes that negatively affect their ability to engage in practices of resilience and regeneration that support well-rooted communities. Critical approaches to the study of displacement should not only focus on mapping vulnerability factors and analyzing dominant …
Latinxs in the (newest) Trump era
A second Trump administration has many dangerous and concerning implications for the 65.2 million Latinxs living in the United States. This essay explores how a diverse Latinx population can build on their distinct identities and experiences of organising in the United States to challenge white nationalist and nativist policies of the Trump administration. First, we give a brief introduction to varied histories and geographies of Latinx populatio…
Who they have become: Peruvian migrants and memories of home, motherhood and violence
Through the personal narratives of four women who migrated from different cities in Peru to Buenos Aires, Argentina in the mid-nineties and early 2000s, this article explores the long-term impacts of migration, motherhood, and structural and direct violence on women who migrate in order to be able to provide better lives for their children. This article employs a feminist narrative approach to capture the women’s life histories and experiences of…
The chaos of not knowing: Embodied experiences of waiting for public housing redevelopment and relocation
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has instituted several successive programs to redevelop aging and distressed US public housing. The current program, the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, aims not only to redevelop housing but also to improve the health of public housing residents through a whole neighborhood transformation, at the cost of privatizing components of housing. In the present case study, we examine relationships and …
Building Austin, building justice: Immigrant construction workers, precarious labor regimes and social citizenship
A look inside the struggle for housing in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Set in the broader context of increasing urban precarity and displacement of the urban poor and working classes, this paper examines the social and collective significance of housing precarity and eviction as it is experienced by Latin American, immigrant families living in informal hotels in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I analyze the internal dynamics, interactions and relationships between residents of informal hotels, the housing organization CIBA…
For a Proper Home: Housing Rights in the Margins of Urban Chile, 1960–2010 ‐ by Murphy, Edward
Urban Precarity and Home: "There Is No "Right to the City
Employing qualitative and ethnographic data from field research in 2009 and 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this article seeks to position urban housing and the home at the center of discussions about social and spatial justice and the right to the city. A focus on housing and home is largely absent in the literature on the right to the city. This article contributes to the literature on the right to the city through an analysis of the struggle …
Precarious city: Home-making and eviction in Buenos Aires, Argentina
This article expands on current conceptualizations and applications of precarity by exploring the everyday socio-spatial complexities of migrant squatters living in informal hotels in the center of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through ethnographic methods, this research investigates squatters' practices of negotiating access to shared domestic spaces and resources, while experiencing long-term waiting for eviction from their home and potentially from…
Reflections on operationalizing an anti-racism pedagogy: Teaching as regional storytelling
Responding to rising social tensions and ongoing theoretical and political changes in the study of geography, we advocate for greater operationalizing of anti-racism pedagogies within the field. Such pedagogies undermine long-standing geographic knowledge systems that marginalize and misrepresent people of color while also distorting and misinforming the worldviews of a White society. Drawing from classroom successes and uncertainties, five educa…
Metropolitan Preoccupations: The spatial politics of squatting in Berlin Rethinking Life at the Margins: The assemblage of contexts, subjects and politics
We live in strange times. Neoliberalism and other economic and political conditions and practices have led to an overall increase of wealth throughout the world and particularly in urban centers, w
Housing struggles and domestic territories in Argentina during the pandemic
In this conversation RHJ Editors Solange and Ana met with the Argentine researchers and organisers, Lucia Cavallero, Verónica Gago and Florencia Presta to learn about the increase in housing violence and struggles for housing and home in Argentina during the pandemic. They describe the intensification of ‘landlord violence’ and land seizures as well as an ‘implosion of home’ as a result of accelerated indebtedness and impoverishment. We tackle is…
Who they have become: Peruvian migrants and memories of home, motherhood and violence
Through the personal narratives of four women who migrated from different cities in Peru to Buenos Aires, Argentina in the mid-nineties and early 2000s, this article explores the long-term impacts of migration, motherhood, and structural and direct violence on women who migrate in order to be able to provide better lives for their children. This article employs a feminist narrative approach to capture the women’s life histories and experiences of…
A Look Back at Us Group: An Anti-Racist Initiative in the Age of Desegregation
In 1989, after an incident in which a white teacher used a derogatory word against three black students in a high school in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the school developed a program called “Understanding and Sharing Diversity” (US Group). Every two months, approximately 60 students participated in all-day forums, where they could speak freely about issues and experiences regarding race, racism, and identity in school. This research examines the origins…
Lived realities versus state rationalities: Mobilizing within and against housing injustices
The contributions in this issue of the Radical Housing Journal evidence the historical and contemporary evolution of struggles against structural pressures impacting housing and everyday precarity, as well as mobilizing efforts based on particular local, gained or ancestral knowledge. We outline four main themes emerging in the articles featured in this issue, all situated both within and against the lived realities of housing injustices. We hope…
Community-Engaged Regenerative Mapping in an Age of Displacement and Covid-19
Displacement is detrimental not only to displaced individuals and families but also to the communities left behind and their ability to collectively resist and mobilize against global processes that negatively affect their ability to engage in practices of resilience and regeneration that support well-rooted communities. Critical approaches to the study of displacement should not only focus on mapping vulnerability factors and analyzing dominant …
Under lockdown: Remaking “home” through infrastructures of care during Covid-19
This paper examines how poor urban residents in the Sun Valley public housing community in Denver, CO (US) experienced the pandemic during the first few months of the crisis. Employing a framework that focuses on people, community, housing and home as potential spaces and possibilities of “infrastructures of care”, this research examines the strategies and practices that emerged during the pandemic to address the immediate needs and concerns of t…
More private than public: The choice neighborhoods initiative as another tool for state-led gentrification in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Denver CO
Through the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), private investors and developers replace distressed US public housing with new mixed-income and mixed-use developments. Although these projects promote community involvement and are purported to prioritize community input and to benefit residents, private investors have disproportionate power and often modify redevelopment to favor the market-rate units while receiving tax incentives, extremely l…
When top-down infrastructures fail: Spaces and practices of care and community under Covid-19
Throughout this article, we focus on the lives and experiences of residents in the Sun Valley public housing project in Denver. During the stay-at-home orders, the Sun Valley residents – an economically impoverished yet diverse community that includes refugees, Black and LatinX families, single-parent households, and individuals who are permanently disabled – faced extremely precarious conditions. COVID exposed and exacerbated the already failed …
Housing as a battlefield
Since October 2023, we have witnessed the human and material devastation brought about by the horrific mediatised genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, itself preceded by a long history of ‘urbacide’—an intentional form of urban destruction characterised by siege and denied rehabilitation (Chiodelli 2022). In his research on modern warfare and ‘domicide’ in Syria (2022), Amar Azzouz has spoken eloquently about ‘...the millions of or…
East Tennessee older women’s perceptions of Medicare, Medicaid, and related health policies
Older women face unique challenges regarding health disparities. This study aims to provide an understanding of older women's perceptions and situated experiences regarding the gendered health disparities they face, which are characterized by the policies related to older women's health and the geopolitical and social norms in which they live. The purpose of this project is to provide policy and decision-makers with insights and a better understa…
The chaos of not knowing: Embodied experiences of waiting for public housing redevelopment and relocation
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development has instituted several successive programs to redevelop aging and distressed US public housing. The current program, the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, aims not only to redevelop housing but also to improve the health of public housing residents through a whole neighborhood transformation, at the cost of privatizing components of housing. In the present case study, we examine relationships and …
Housing disputes, struggles, art and resistance in a time of violence
We pen this editorial amidst growing authoritarianism and violence around the world, from the Israeli state’s continued genocide in Gaza to the unfurling fist of the Trump administration quashing immigration raid protests in Los Angeles. It seems we are experiencing what Nancy Fraser (2019)—paraphrasing Antonio Gramsci—refers to as an era in which “the old is dying and the new cannot be born”, where conservative authoritarianism is coupling with …
Latinxs in the (newest) Trump era
A second Trump administration has many dangerous and concerning implications for the 65.2 million Latinxs living in the United States. This essay explores how a diverse Latinx population can build on their distinct identities and experiences of organising in the United States to challenge white nationalist and nativist policies of the Trump administration. First, we give a brief introduction to varied histories and geographies of Latinx populatio…
Is resistance futile? Fuelling collective work in the face of AI
The emergence of the AI age is radically transforming the nature, purpose and politics of knowledge production, particularly collective knowledge production. While artificial intelligence is often celebrated as a powerful manifestation of collective knowledge, drawing upon vast repositories of human-generated information, it is built on exploitative and extractive practices. This editorial argues that genuine collective knowledge production must …
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