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 movements and democratic resistance 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, ideology (Gramsci)
  • Power, discipline, apparatus (Foucault)
  • Overdetermination (Althusser)
  • Right to the city, inhabitance, oeuvre, space (Lefebvre)
  • Whatever singularity (Agamben)
  • Assemblage, rhizome, bodies 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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