GENERAL
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Urban Geography, Politics, and Planning
More
Specific Interests:
|
Neoliberal
globalization and urban politics |
·
How
the twin processes of globalization and neoliberalization shape urban
politics ·
What
opportunities are emerging to resist neoliberalization and reimagine urban
futures |
|
Social/political
movements and democratization in cities |
·
How
the idea of democracy might serve as a way to conceive of a broad resistance
to neoliberalization ·
How
democratic social movements are forming, mobilizing, and achieving more just
and civilized urban futures ·
If
a ‘right to the city’ and ‘inhabitance’ can be an effective organizing idea
for such movements ·
What
role intellectual labor can play in such movements |
|
Political
theory |
In
examining the questions above, I am interested how we might use concepts
like: ·
Hegemony,
collective will, democratic centralism (Gramsci) ·
Power,
discipline (Foucault) ·
Overdetermination
(Althusser) ·
Right
to the city, inhabitance, space (Lefebvre) ·
Whatever
singularity (Agamben) ·
Line
of flight, rhizome, body without organs (Deleuze and Guattari) ·
Mutual
adequation, affective relations (Hardt and Negri) ·
Articulation,
equivalence, agonism, radical democracy (Laclau and Mouffe) |
|
Academic
discourse and intellectual politics |
·
The
purpose and future of the academy ·
The
political and economic relations that shape everyday academic practice ·
How
to make academic discourse more productive and less self-destructive |
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