FEATURED IN IJURR
THE POLITICS OF VIOLENT CONCATENATIONS
Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork, this article examines face-to-face violent interactions in a high-poverty squatter settlement in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Delving into the situational interactions and biographies of those who simultaneously exercise and suffer violence—victims and perpetrators—we...
IMPROVISING COVID RELIEF IN NEW DELHI: Rehearsal and Improvisational Capacity in Informal Student Networks
Building on qualitative interviews, this article brings into view how New Delhi university students organized improvised forms of Covid relief during the Delta coronavirus wave in the spring of 2021. Responding to a lack of care due to state negligence and a breakdown of public and private healthcare infrastructure,...
URBAN PLANNING PARADOXES AND SOCIOSPATIAL FRAGMENTATION: The Superblock Barcelona Case (2016–2023)
Barcelona is an interesting living laboratory for studying the role of the local scale in urban planning. Since the early stages of what is known as the Barcelona Model (1979–1994), analysis of Barcelona's urban planning based on the creation of public spaces at a local scale has become a priority. More recently,...
SEPTEMBER ISSUE
Glovo Rider stands outside the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, waiting for more orders from one of the several fast-food chain restaurants in that corner (detail from a photo by Nicolás Palacios, March 2024)
Stop EACOP (African Crude Oil Pipeline) (detail from a poster photographed by Maren Larsen, June 2023)
A Taiwanese Public-Private Partnership Original Equipment Manufacturing factory where defective iPhone backs are being methodically destroyed under the watchful eye of local customs officials, offering a revealing look at the underside of China’s rapid urban and industrial expansion (detail from a photo by Yong Zhang, April 2019)
