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THE COSMOPOLITICS OF CATS AND WILDLIFE ON CAPE TOWN’S URBAN EDGE
Free-ranging cats are widely tolerated in cities, and animal welfare organizations increasingly allow for ‘trap, neuter and release’ (TNR) of unowned cats. We show, using the example of a university campus adjacent to a national park in a large metropole, that this has implications for cosmopolitics over...
PLANNING A EUROPEAN RACIAL CITY: Dealing (with) Dread in Twenty-first-century Berlin
In this article I examine a participatory planning initiative in contemporary Berlin to propose a theoretical reflection on the entanglements between race and urban futures in the German capital. The promoters of the planning initiative aimed to solve the problem of drug dealing in an inner-city park. Motivated by no...
CARE INFRASTRUCTURES IN CHILE DURING THE PANDEMIC: Communitarian Weavings, Spaces and the Production of Common Goods
The article addresses the role that communities played in managing the social and health crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic in two Chilean cities. Chile is an interesting case study owing to its intense and prolonged confinement measures, which focused heavily on individuals and households. Using key concepts...
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A detail showing a female construction worker in India (photo by Justin Morgan, November 2009, CC BY-SA 2.0. URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Female_construction_worker_in_India_(4180249684).jpg)
A detail of the Integral Centre of Services in Zapopan, Mexico (photo by Mariana Reyes, December 2024)
A detail of a redeveloped commercial building in Halle (Saale) (photo by Matthias Bernt, March 2023)
