The Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society, edited by Michael Leary-Owhin and John McCarthy, has just been published by Routledge. The volume provides an accessible form of engaging with one of the most innovative Marxist social theorists of the twentieth-century and [...]
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Recent rebellions from Chile to Lebanon have reignited discussion about assembly politics. In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and the Arab Spring, numerous movements appeared including the Aganaktismenoi in Greece, the 15M in Spain and Occupy. In my article, “An Opening Toward the [...]
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Tanto como un poema o una tragedia, un monumento metamorfosea en esplendor el temor ante el paso del tiempo, la angustia ante la muerte — Henri Lefebvre, La Producción del espacio.
Saben que el espacio del poder estatal es el enfoque de mi presentación hoy. De hecho [...]
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Delivering searing criticism on the psychosis of absolute power, Victor Serge’s second novel to be featured in my new article in Annals of the American Association of Geographers is a masterly work. The Case of Comrade Tulayev was written in 1942 and is situated [...]
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One of the most striking features of Victor Serge’s writings has to be the way he captures spatial arbiters that shape the practices of empowerment and containment within the territorial form of the city. As argued in my latest journal article published here in [...]
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Under capitalism, how does the state organise space in our everyday lives through the streets we walk, the monuments we visit, and the places where we meet?
This was the question that animated my ‘Sydney Insights’ (or Professorial Inaugural Lecture) that was delivered on [...]
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In my research on the Monument to the Revolution, as one of the foremost commemorative spatial sites of state power in Mexico City, now published in Journal of Latin American Studies, I have previously blogged on:
1) how a focus on monuments enables a way of revealing the history of [...]
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I argue in a recent article in Journal of Latin American Studies that the Monument to the Revolution in Mexico City stands as an ambiguous carrier of utopian promise, which links past and present generations of struggle. Specifically, my concluding point was that this architectural space [...]
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