Ethnografie urbaner Territorien: Metropolitane Urbanisierungsprozesse von Mexiko-Stadt
This book literally invites readers to roam the streets of Mexico City. Based on her many years of research on Mexico City, Monika Streule analyses diverse urban production and appropriation processes and shows how social power relations are deeply inscribed in the urban territory.
The study examines everyday urban situations, urban subjects and discourses on urban development and relates them to one another. It links everyday perspectives with a historical reconstruction of Mexico City’s urbanisation regime, which goes far beyond a city history in the conventional sense and allows the specific moments of territorial regulation to be captured. From this socio-territorial perspective, the author proposes a new interpretation of current urbanisation processes and presents the results in a thesis map of urban configurations for discussion.
Monika Streule develops not only new theoretical concepts for this purpose, but also transdisciplinary qualitative methods of critical urban research. By reconnecting and redefining familiar approaches and understandings, she shows how methodological innovations are influenced by decentralised urban theory and how they also help to shape and further change it. The methods and concepts presented provide a helpful toolbox for future urban research.
Author: Monika Streule