H Hilbrandt
Biographic Data
| ID | 69211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Hilbrandt |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilbrandt |
| SIGNATURE | HILBRANDT H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8873-425X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Beyond the powers of seduction: Tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance
Reworking relations of epistemological authority in teaching collaborations
Though knowledge about urban change is increasingly developed in partnership, knowledge production in teaching often remains entrenched in traditional roles of teaching and learning, research objects and subjects, and the attendant power asymmetries of these relations. Especially when working with partners historically the “subjects” of research rather than the authors of expertise, teaching can be a site to rework these relations. In this interv…
Decentring urban climate finance. Introduction to the Special Feature
Financial agendas centering on the global fight against climate change have increasingly turned to cities and urban re/development projects as ideal candidates for supposedly ‘future proof’ investment. In the last decade, research has witnessed the development of policy programs, risk assessments, and project pipelines, amongst other efforts to materialize this agenda in the city. Drawing on critical urban geographies of what is loosely known as …
The Chainmaker: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time
Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time horizons and a related condition of resource scarcity that urban bureaucracies also confront. To address t…
Ajuste Estructural Municipal: Un análisis institucional del financiamiento climático en ciudades fronterizas del norte de México
Durante la ltima dcada, los profesionales del desarrollo, las redes municipales y las organizaciones filantrpicas mundiales han abogado por la inversin privada en la accin climtica urbana.En este artculo examinamos las Iniciativas de Financiamiento Climtico (IFC) que responden a esta tendencia explorando cmo establecen bases institucionales para dicha inversin.Proponemos el concepto de Ajuste Estructural Municipal (AEM) como marco analtico para e…
Municipal structural adjustment: For an institutional analysis of global development finance
In this paper I examine climate-aligned development finance initiatives (DFIs) that foster private-sector investment in 'sustainable' urban infrastructures. I am concerned with the ways in which they work to create the institutional preconditions for such investment. I develop the notion of Municipal Structural Adjustment (MSA) as a lens for examining the fields of intervention and modes of policy-making through which these initiatives seek to re…
Doing urban geography in times of crisis: "Introduction to the forum "Urban geography in times of crisis
Crises dominate current political debates. They shift the spaces of possibility for geographical research practice and global theory formation. Our starting point in this forum is the diagnosis of a dual crisis: on the one hand, the epistemological crisis put forth in post- and decolonial scholarship and, on the other hand, the ubiquity of worldly crises - variously described as the pluri-crisis, polycrisis, or socio-ecological crisis. This perva…
Making climate finance: Toward everyday, historically informed, and reparative understandings
The centering of climate finance around a narrow set of institutions, sites, instruments, practices, and technologies is an achievement made possible by the domination of finance capital and policy elites. In this intervention, we shift the spotlight away from such elite projects and practices in favor of a wider understanding of urban climate finance—one that includes a more diverse set of sites, activities and participants. A wider and more inc…
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice
Legal and cultural geographies of displacement: Home Un Making Through Material Belongings
This article examines the role that material belongings play in displacement processes. Following the evacuation of the housing complex Hannibal II in Dortmund (Germany), the displacement of its 753 tenants, and the conflicts that ensued over the belongings they were forced to leave behind, we ask how the governance of material belongings shapes processes and experiences of displacement. Through an approach that brings in dialogue the cultural an…
Towards a Radical Housing Responsibility
Responsibility – as an analytic or topic of political debate – is out of vogue in critical housing studies. Rather than offering progressive potential, the call for responsibility has been seen to foster neoliberal governance, racial structural violence, and forms of dependency. Conversely, this paper posits that a critical engagement with notions of responsibility can provide a domain for critique, everyday engagement, and legal political strugg…
Understanding the functioning of urban climate finance through topologies of reach
Urban climate action is increasingly understood through the lens of finance: through financial agendas, interests, and practical tools which enable 'bankable' or profitable interventions. While the literature is rife with criticism of the normative foundations and exploitative effects of this approach, it fails to capture the variegated ways in which finance configures, and is configured by, particular urban sites and spaces of power. This contri…
Thinking topologically about urban climate finance: Geographical inequalities and Mexico’s urban landscapes of infrastructure investment
Clearly, the resources available for tackling the deleterious effects of climate change differ starkly within and between cities. Increasing evidence indicates that uneven climate investments further aggravate these inequalities in cities’ capacities to combat climate change. This article delves further into the efforts of urban climate finance (UCF) initiatives – programs that seek to foster “green investment” – and the spatial relations they fo…
The financial ecologies of climate urbanism: Project preparation and the anchoring of global climate finance
Global development institutions herald private finance as a key mechanism for limiting climate change. Many have concentrated their efforts on bridging urban “infrastructure gaps,” thereby creating profitable fixes and establishing new markets through global climate finance initiatives (GCFIs). This paper examines the project preparation practices of GCFIs in cities of the global South to understand how global climate finance anchors itself withi…
Responsibility for housing: Property, displacement, and the rental market
As property speculation has become an integral element of the rental market, debates on housing dispossession and displacement regularly place normative claims on responsibilities for the provisioning, maintanance, and safeguarding of adequate and affordable housing. Yet, while offering important perspectives, these discussions lack a theoretically grounded account of responsibility that would allow for an analysis and critique of how modes of re…
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point
Critiques of the parochialism of urban theory have resulted in appeals for more global urban studies. Yet, the fruitful responses to postcolonial work frequently remain sequestered, reflecting the persistence of Eurocentrism as a burden shouldered largely by the so-called “South”. This paper aims to shift the work implied by critiques of Eurocentrism – from the labor of translation to the chore of representation – to those whom Eurocentrism serve…
Urban Visions of Global Climate Finance: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy
Of late, the trope of the green, smart and climate-resilient city has dominated imaginations of urban futures across the globe. Less visible perhaps, but arguably of equal social impact, global climate finance (GCF) agendas have asserted themselves as the only imaginable pathway to do and undo such futures in effective ways. Based on a document analysis of recent GCF reports, this contribution unpicks the mechanisms of 'futuring' advanced in this…
Standards and SSOs in the contested widening and deepening of financial markets: The arrival of Green Municipal Bonds in Mexico City
Particularly since the financial crisis of 2008, much has been written about the growing influence of finance in the development of cities in the global North. Today, financial markets also appear to be expanding southwards. A small but growing number of existing studies on the financialization of Southern cities helpfully explore how international investment changes urban development locally. Yet, they say less about the actors, procedures, and …
The temporalities of financialization: Infrastructures, dominations and openings in the Thames Tideway Tunnel
In the last decade, a bourgeoning body of literature has explored the influence of financial actors, techniques and motives in the urban development of North American and European cities. Less has been said about the influence of finance on the temporalities of urban production and urban life. Yet finance is, at its most basic, the management of debt; and debt is, simply put, the deferral of payment; thus, by its very nature, financialization int…
Time as infrastructure: For an analysis of contemporary urbanization
Overlapping and interlinked dimensions of time are shaped by and, in turn, structure contemporary urbanization and everyday life. This Special Feature debates the implications of such temporal dynamics for our cities: It explores the making of temporalities, the power relations in and through which this process is embedded, and the inequalities that its effects entail. Beyond definitions that focus on the material characteristics of infrastructur…
Everyday urbanism and the everyday state: Negotiating habitat in allotment gardens in Berlin
This paper is an inquiry into the powers at play in the everyday practices of making the city, and the social and spatial relations through which those who inhabit its margins put these powers to work. This exploration is based on a case study that considers informal housing practices and their regulation in allotment gardens in Berlin. To trace the mechanisms through which residents work to stay put in these sites, despite regulations prohibitin…
Urban Informality and the State: Geographical Translations and Conceptual Alliances
Understandings of informality commonly derive from research undertaken in states perceived as lacking the capacity to regulate the practices of their populations. This Interventions forum aims to expand the geographical parameters of empirical research on urban informality. A more global approach, we argue, also necessitates questioning assumptions that undergird this concept-in particular the underlying conception of the state. In this vein, thi…
Writing Across Contexts: Urban Informality and the State in Tallinn, Bafatá and Berlin
Urban research has long related informality to a lack of state capacity or a failure of institutions. This assumption not only fails to account for the heterogeneous institutional relations in which informality is embedded, but has also created a dividing line between states. Whereas some states are understood to manage urban development through functioning institutions, others, in this view, fail to regulate. To deconstruct such understandings, …
Strategies for relating diverse cities: A multi-sited individualising comparison of informality in Bafatá, Berlin and Tallinn
Anybody wishing to position Bafatá (Guinea-Bissau), Berlin (Germany) and Tallinn (Estonia) side by side would encounter a number of reasons why these cities should not be compared. To unmake such hesitations, this article offers a conceptual and methodological exploration of the ways in which these cities might be analysed comparatively through a methodological strategy termed multi-sited individualising comparison. This exploratory approach allo…
Insurgent participation: Consensus and contestation in planning the redevelopment of Berlin-Tempelhof airport
Despite decades of debate, participatory planning continues to be contested. More recently, research has revealed a relationship between participation and neoliberalism, in which participation works as a post-political tool—a means to depoliticize planning and legitimize neoliberal policy-making. This article argues that such accounts lack attention to the opportunities for opposing neoliberal planning that may be inherent within participatory pr…
Urban Informality and the State: Geographical Translations and Conceptual Alliances
Understandings of informality commonly derive from research undertaken in states perceived as lacking the capacity to regulate the practices of their populations. This Interventions forum aims to expand the geographical parameters of empirical research on urban informality. A more global approach, we argue, also necessitates questioning assumptions that undergird this concept-in particular the underlying conception of the state. In this vein, thi…
Insurgent participation: Consensus and contestation in planning the redevelopment of Berlin-Tempelhof airport
Despite decades of debate, participatory planning continues to be contested. More recently, research has revealed a relationship between participation and neoliberalism, in which participation works as a post-political tool—a means to depoliticize planning and legitimize neoliberal policy-making. This article argues that such accounts lack attention to the opportunities for opposing neoliberal planning that may be inherent within participatory pr…
Standards and SSOs in the contested widening and deepening of financial markets: The arrival of Green Municipal Bonds in Mexico City
Particularly since the financial crisis of 2008, much has been written about the growing influence of finance in the development of cities in the global North. Today, financial markets also appear to be expanding southwards. A small but growing number of existing studies on the financialization of Southern cities helpfully explore how international investment changes urban development locally. Yet, they say less about the actors, procedures, and …
Everyday urbanism and the everyday state: Negotiating habitat in allotment gardens in Berlin
This paper is an inquiry into the powers at play in the everyday practices of making the city, and the social and spatial relations through which those who inhabit its margins put these powers to work. This exploration is based on a case study that considers informal housing practices and their regulation in allotment gardens in Berlin. To trace the mechanisms through which residents work to stay put in these sites, despite regulations prohibitin…
Writing Across Contexts: Urban Informality and the State in Tallinn, Bafatá and Berlin
Urban research has long related informality to a lack of state capacity or a failure of institutions. This assumption not only fails to account for the heterogeneous institutional relations in which informality is embedded, but has also created a dividing line between states. Whereas some states are understood to manage urban development through functioning institutions, others, in this view, fail to regulate. To deconstruct such understandings, …
Thinking topologically about urban climate finance: Geographical inequalities and Mexico’s urban landscapes of infrastructure investment
Clearly, the resources available for tackling the deleterious effects of climate change differ starkly within and between cities. Increasing evidence indicates that uneven climate investments further aggravate these inequalities in cities’ capacities to combat climate change. This article delves further into the efforts of urban climate finance (UCF) initiatives – programs that seek to foster “green investment” – and the spatial relations they fo…
The financial ecologies of climate urbanism: Project preparation and the anchoring of global climate finance
Global development institutions herald private finance as a key mechanism for limiting climate change. Many have concentrated their efforts on bridging urban “infrastructure gaps,” thereby creating profitable fixes and establishing new markets through global climate finance initiatives (GCFIs). This paper examines the project preparation practices of GCFIs in cities of the global South to understand how global climate finance anchors itself withi…
Strategies for relating diverse cities: A multi-sited individualising comparison of informality in Bafatá, Berlin and Tallinn
Anybody wishing to position Bafatá (Guinea-Bissau), Berlin (Germany) and Tallinn (Estonia) side by side would encounter a number of reasons why these cities should not be compared. To unmake such hesitations, this article offers a conceptual and methodological exploration of the ways in which these cities might be analysed comparatively through a methodological strategy termed multi-sited individualising comparison. This exploratory approach allo…
Time as infrastructure: For an analysis of contemporary urbanization
Overlapping and interlinked dimensions of time are shaped by and, in turn, structure contemporary urbanization and everyday life. This Special Feature debates the implications of such temporal dynamics for our cities: It explores the making of temporalities, the power relations in and through which this process is embedded, and the inequalities that its effects entail. Beyond definitions that focus on the material characteristics of infrastructur…
Doing urban geography in times of crisis: "Introduction to the forum "Urban geography in times of crisis
Crises dominate current political debates. They shift the spaces of possibility for geographical research practice and global theory formation. Our starting point in this forum is the diagnosis of a dual crisis: on the one hand, the epistemological crisis put forth in post- and decolonial scholarship and, on the other hand, the ubiquity of worldly crises - variously described as the pluri-crisis, polycrisis, or socio-ecological crisis. This perva…
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point
Critiques of the parochialism of urban theory have resulted in appeals for more global urban studies. Yet, the fruitful responses to postcolonial work frequently remain sequestered, reflecting the persistence of Eurocentrism as a burden shouldered largely by the so-called “South”. This paper aims to shift the work implied by critiques of Eurocentrism – from the labor of translation to the chore of representation – to those whom Eurocentrism serve…
Responsibility for housing: Property, displacement, and the rental market
As property speculation has become an integral element of the rental market, debates on housing dispossession and displacement regularly place normative claims on responsibilities for the provisioning, maintanance, and safeguarding of adequate and affordable housing. Yet, while offering important perspectives, these discussions lack a theoretically grounded account of responsibility that would allow for an analysis and critique of how modes of re…
Urban Visions of Global Climate Finance: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy
Of late, the trope of the green, smart and climate-resilient city has dominated imaginations of urban futures across the globe. Less visible perhaps, but arguably of equal social impact, global climate finance (GCF) agendas have asserted themselves as the only imaginable pathway to do and undo such futures in effective ways. Based on a document analysis of recent GCF reports, this contribution unpicks the mechanisms of 'futuring' advanced in this…
The temporalities of financialization: Infrastructures, dominations and openings in the Thames Tideway Tunnel
In the last decade, a bourgeoning body of literature has explored the influence of financial actors, techniques and motives in the urban development of North American and European cities. Less has been said about the influence of finance on the temporalities of urban production and urban life. Yet finance is, at its most basic, the management of debt; and debt is, simply put, the deferral of payment; thus, by its very nature, financialization int…
Legal and cultural geographies of displacement: Home Un Making Through Material Belongings
This article examines the role that material belongings play in displacement processes. Following the evacuation of the housing complex Hannibal II in Dortmund (Germany), the displacement of its 753 tenants, and the conflicts that ensued over the belongings they were forced to leave behind, we ask how the governance of material belongings shapes processes and experiences of displacement. Through an approach that brings in dialogue the cultural an…
Beyond the powers of seduction: Tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance
Making climate finance: Toward everyday, historically informed, and reparative understandings
The centering of climate finance around a narrow set of institutions, sites, instruments, practices, and technologies is an achievement made possible by the domination of finance capital and policy elites. In this intervention, we shift the spotlight away from such elite projects and practices in favor of a wider understanding of urban climate finance—one that includes a more diverse set of sites, activities and participants. A wider and more inc…
Insurgent participation: Consensus and contestation in planning the redevelopment of Berlin-Tempelhof airport
Despite decades of debate, participatory planning continues to be contested. More recently, research has revealed a relationship between participation and neoliberalism, in which participation works as a post-political tool—a means to depoliticize planning and legitimize neoliberal policy-making. This article argues that such accounts lack attention to the opportunities for opposing neoliberal planning that may be inherent within participatory pr…
Writing Across Contexts: Urban Informality and the State in Tallinn, Bafatá and Berlin
Urban research has long related informality to a lack of state capacity or a failure of institutions. This assumption not only fails to account for the heterogeneous institutional relations in which informality is embedded, but has also created a dividing line between states. Whereas some states are understood to manage urban development through functioning institutions, others, in this view, fail to regulate. To deconstruct such understandings, …
Strategies for relating diverse cities: A multi-sited individualising comparison of informality in Bafatá, Berlin and Tallinn
Anybody wishing to position Bafatá (Guinea-Bissau), Berlin (Germany) and Tallinn (Estonia) side by side would encounter a number of reasons why these cities should not be compared. To unmake such hesitations, this article offers a conceptual and methodological exploration of the ways in which these cities might be analysed comparatively through a methodological strategy termed multi-sited individualising comparison. This exploratory approach allo…
The temporalities of financialization: Infrastructures, dominations and openings in the Thames Tideway Tunnel
In the last decade, a bourgeoning body of literature has explored the influence of financial actors, techniques and motives in the urban development of North American and European cities. Less has been said about the influence of finance on the temporalities of urban production and urban life. Yet finance is, at its most basic, the management of debt; and debt is, simply put, the deferral of payment; thus, by its very nature, financialization int…
Time as infrastructure: For an analysis of contemporary urbanization
Overlapping and interlinked dimensions of time are shaped by and, in turn, structure contemporary urbanization and everyday life. This Special Feature debates the implications of such temporal dynamics for our cities: It explores the making of temporalities, the power relations in and through which this process is embedded, and the inequalities that its effects entail. Beyond definitions that focus on the material characteristics of infrastructur…
Everyday urbanism and the everyday state: Negotiating habitat in allotment gardens in Berlin
This paper is an inquiry into the powers at play in the everyday practices of making the city, and the social and spatial relations through which those who inhabit its margins put these powers to work. This exploration is based on a case study that considers informal housing practices and their regulation in allotment gardens in Berlin. To trace the mechanisms through which residents work to stay put in these sites, despite regulations prohibitin…
Urban Informality and the State: Geographical Translations and Conceptual Alliances
Understandings of informality commonly derive from research undertaken in states perceived as lacking the capacity to regulate the practices of their populations. This Interventions forum aims to expand the geographical parameters of empirical research on urban informality. A more global approach, we argue, also necessitates questioning assumptions that undergird this concept-in particular the underlying conception of the state. In this vein, thi…
Standards and SSOs in the contested widening and deepening of financial markets: The arrival of Green Municipal Bonds in Mexico City
Particularly since the financial crisis of 2008, much has been written about the growing influence of finance in the development of cities in the global North. Today, financial markets also appear to be expanding southwards. A small but growing number of existing studies on the financialization of Southern cities helpfully explore how international investment changes urban development locally. Yet, they say less about the actors, procedures, and …
Responsibility for housing: Property, displacement, and the rental market
As property speculation has become an integral element of the rental market, debates on housing dispossession and displacement regularly place normative claims on responsibilities for the provisioning, maintanance, and safeguarding of adequate and affordable housing. Yet, while offering important perspectives, these discussions lack a theoretically grounded account of responsibility that would allow for an analysis and critique of how modes of re…
Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point
Critiques of the parochialism of urban theory have resulted in appeals for more global urban studies. Yet, the fruitful responses to postcolonial work frequently remain sequestered, reflecting the persistence of Eurocentrism as a burden shouldered largely by the so-called “South”. This paper aims to shift the work implied by critiques of Eurocentrism – from the labor of translation to the chore of representation – to those whom Eurocentrism serve…
Urban Visions of Global Climate Finance: Dispossessive Mechanisms of Futuring in the Making of Groy
Of late, the trope of the green, smart and climate-resilient city has dominated imaginations of urban futures across the globe. Less visible perhaps, but arguably of equal social impact, global climate finance (GCF) agendas have asserted themselves as the only imaginable pathway to do and undo such futures in effective ways. Based on a document analysis of recent GCF reports, this contribution unpicks the mechanisms of 'futuring' advanced in this…
Towards a Radical Housing Responsibility
Responsibility – as an analytic or topic of political debate – is out of vogue in critical housing studies. Rather than offering progressive potential, the call for responsibility has been seen to foster neoliberal governance, racial structural violence, and forms of dependency. Conversely, this paper posits that a critical engagement with notions of responsibility can provide a domain for critique, everyday engagement, and legal political strugg…
Understanding the functioning of urban climate finance through topologies of reach
Urban climate action is increasingly understood through the lens of finance: through financial agendas, interests, and practical tools which enable 'bankable' or profitable interventions. While the literature is rife with criticism of the normative foundations and exploitative effects of this approach, it fails to capture the variegated ways in which finance configures, and is configured by, particular urban sites and spaces of power. This contri…
Thinking topologically about urban climate finance: Geographical inequalities and Mexico’s urban landscapes of infrastructure investment
Clearly, the resources available for tackling the deleterious effects of climate change differ starkly within and between cities. Increasing evidence indicates that uneven climate investments further aggravate these inequalities in cities’ capacities to combat climate change. This article delves further into the efforts of urban climate finance (UCF) initiatives – programs that seek to foster “green investment” – and the spatial relations they fo…
The financial ecologies of climate urbanism: Project preparation and the anchoring of global climate finance
Global development institutions herald private finance as a key mechanism for limiting climate change. Many have concentrated their efforts on bridging urban “infrastructure gaps,” thereby creating profitable fixes and establishing new markets through global climate finance initiatives (GCFIs). This paper examines the project preparation practices of GCFIs in cities of the global South to understand how global climate finance anchors itself withi…
Making climate finance: Toward everyday, historically informed, and reparative understandings
The centering of climate finance around a narrow set of institutions, sites, instruments, practices, and technologies is an achievement made possible by the domination of finance capital and policy elites. In this intervention, we shift the spotlight away from such elite projects and practices in favor of a wider understanding of urban climate finance—one that includes a more diverse set of sites, activities and participants. A wider and more inc…
Troubling the spatial politics of Green New Deals: Towards a Youngian approach to global justice
Legal and cultural geographies of displacement: Home Un Making Through Material Belongings
This article examines the role that material belongings play in displacement processes. Following the evacuation of the housing complex Hannibal II in Dortmund (Germany), the displacement of its 753 tenants, and the conflicts that ensued over the belongings they were forced to leave behind, we ask how the governance of material belongings shapes processes and experiences of displacement. Through an approach that brings in dialogue the cultural an…
Beyond the powers of seduction: Tracing bureaucratic agency in the making of global climate finance
Reworking relations of epistemological authority in teaching collaborations
Though knowledge about urban change is increasingly developed in partnership, knowledge production in teaching often remains entrenched in traditional roles of teaching and learning, research objects and subjects, and the attendant power asymmetries of these relations. Especially when working with partners historically the “subjects” of research rather than the authors of expertise, teaching can be a site to rework these relations. In this interv…
Decentring urban climate finance. Introduction to the Special Feature
Financial agendas centering on the global fight against climate change have increasingly turned to cities and urban re/development projects as ideal candidates for supposedly ‘future proof’ investment. In the last decade, research has witnessed the development of policy programs, risk assessments, and project pipelines, amongst other efforts to materialize this agenda in the city. Drawing on critical urban geographies of what is loosely known as …
The Chainmaker: How Intermediaries Sustain Urban Policy Initiatives over Time
Practitioners implementing urban climate initiatives are frequently faced with the intermittent nature of urban projects and the short‐termism of policy experiments. In this conjuncture, understanding how urban transformations are advanced necessitates grasping how small‐scale efforts are carried forward or sustained despite these brief time horizons and a related condition of resource scarcity that urban bureaucracies also confront. To address t…
Ajuste Estructural Municipal: Un análisis institucional del financiamiento climático en ciudades fronterizas del norte de México
Durante la ltima dcada, los profesionales del desarrollo, las redes municipales y las organizaciones filantrpicas mundiales han abogado por la inversin privada en la accin climtica urbana.En este artculo examinamos las Iniciativas de Financiamiento Climtico (IFC) que responden a esta tendencia explorando cmo establecen bases institucionales para dicha inversin.Proponemos el concepto de Ajuste Estructural Municipal (AEM) como marco analtico para e…
Municipal structural adjustment: For an institutional analysis of global development finance
In this paper I examine climate-aligned development finance initiatives (DFIs) that foster private-sector investment in 'sustainable' urban infrastructures. I am concerned with the ways in which they work to create the institutional preconditions for such investment. I develop the notion of Municipal Structural Adjustment (MSA) as a lens for examining the fields of intervention and modes of policy-making through which these initiatives seek to re…
Doing urban geography in times of crisis: "Introduction to the forum "Urban geography in times of crisis
Crises dominate current political debates. They shift the spaces of possibility for geographical research practice and global theory formation. Our starting point in this forum is the diagnosis of a dual crisis: on the one hand, the epistemological crisis put forth in post- and decolonial scholarship and, on the other hand, the ubiquity of worldly crises - variously described as the pluri-crisis, polycrisis, or socio-ecological crisis. This perva…
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