We are witnessing a proliferation of new critical scholarship on the manifold forms of
extractivism. Yet, there are risks associated with extraction being rendered a broad …

This work responds to isolating urban places, and contributes new ways for thinking about
placemaking. Progressing through autoethnography and prototyping, we critique design …

All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you.(Octavia E. Butler in Parable
of the Sower, 1993) Ghosts of bodies that inhabit urban natures. Territorial ruins left in the …

This study draws attention to the role of urban redevelopment practices in shaping
indigenous social infrastructures and community life in the post-displacement and …

The Urban Pulse series was launched under the direction of Helga Leitner in 2008, with a
mandate to focus on emerging issues in cities and urban life across the globe (Leitner …

Compartmentalized historiography of cities and labor hinders us from seeing the common
grounds and contour lines connecting disparate places, periods, processes, institutions, and …

Mexico is a multi-cultural megadiverse country, which due to its geographical and climatic
characteristics also represents a strategic potential refuge for endangered species. It is …

Although “urban” and “fisheries” are not commonly paired in the analyses of either urbanism
or fisheries governance, today's large-scale fisheries are often closely organised in …

This paper analyzes the connections between real estate speculation and authoritarian
populism in El Salvador. Focusing on president Nayib Bukele's term as mayor of Nuevo …

Tourism is linked to new dynamics of capital accumulation in a wide variety of destinations
worldwide, boosting the attraction of real estate investments. In Latin America, the state …