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The Life Cycle of the Libyan Coastal Highway: Italian Colonialism, Coloniality, and the Future of Reparative Justice in the Mediterranean

Emilio Distretti Antipode: a radical Journal of Geography, 2021 This paper explores the role of the Libyan Coastal Highway across history: originally built by fascist Italy during colonisation, in the postcolonial era Libya demanded Italy…

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SEMINAR | HOUSING CRISIS: THE WELFARE STATE, NEOLIBERALISM, AND THE CITY

Kenny Cupers is a guest panel speaker in a Critical Political Economy Seminar hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison happening on 18 March 2021, 16:00 (CST).

MA Critical Urbanisms Applications Open

MA Critical Urbanisms applications for the Fall Semester 2021 are open!

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COVID-19 Updates

For the University of Basel - Department of Social Sciences' coronavirus measures and safety concepts, please click this link to stay informed. For the overall safety concept by the University and the latest information with regards to the…

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On the Coloniality of Architectural Modernism in Germany

Kenny Cupers Kritische Berichte - Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 49, 2 , 2021 Undoing structural racism in architecture – the urgent task to which this journal issue aims to contribute – entails much more than rewriting…

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Geoagenda: Geographies of COVID-19

Our very own Maren Larsen and Giulia Scotto take part in "Geoagenda: Geographies of COVID-19" in cooperation with the Swiss Academy of Sciences.

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Urban Studies at the University of Basel

Kenny Cupers, Manuel Herz, Sophie Oldfield, Emilio Distretti, Laura Nkula-Wenz GeoAgenda, 2020 As part of the GeoAgenda issue "Building Urban Studies in Switzerland," this short piece summarizes the current research agenda of Urban…

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VIRUS URBANO: Documenting the Covid-19 space of emergency

Giulia Scotto GeoAgenda Magazine, 2020 This photo essay aims at documenting how the Covid-19 “space of emergency” was arranged in the city of Zurich in March 2020 and in the following months. At the same time, it explores the ways in which…

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Colonial Resonances

Jon Schubert Roadsides, 2020 Resonances of colonial aesthetics in the architecture and spatial layout of the Angolan port city of Lobito reveal the fundamental inequalities and unsustainability of extractive capitalism, then and now.

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Infrastructure Between Statehood and Selfhood: The Trans-African Highway

Kenny Cupers, Prita Meier (NYU) Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2020 Focusing on the project to build a trans-African highway network during the 1960s and 1970s, this article argues for the need to develop a more…

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