Dr. Jacob Geuder
Jacob Geuder is an urban sociologist focusing on social movements, digital media and urban policy. After working as a lecturer at Princeton University and the University of Basel, he began a research position in 2024 in the SNF project “Responsible City” at the University of Neuchâtel and ETH Zurich.
Geuder’s research focuses on housing struggles, the right to the city and racial segregation. He is a co-founder of the association Stadt für Alle Basel (City for All Basel), where he is involved in the publication of the poster series Betongold. For his work on residential property in Switzerland he was awarded the Prix Rorep. He has lived and worked in the United States, Brazil, South Africa, Mali, Ghana, Portugal and Germany, including research stays at the Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Políticos(IESP) at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and the ISCTE at the University of Lisbon. Geuder’s academic practice is grounded in collaborations with video activists, right-to-the-city initiatives, and artists across the Global South and North. He works in German, English, French, and Portuguese.
In his doctoral thesis at the University of Basel under the supervision of Sophie Oldfield and Christian Schmid he conducted a comparative ethnographic study on video activism in Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. It will be published under the title “Visualizing Urban Struggles. Video Activism as Utopian Practice” by v. Hase & Köhler Verlag in Leipzig. His research led to the creation of an Urban Video Archive project, based at Princeton University Library.
Jakob Geuder: publications
Jakob Geuder: website Université de Neuchâtel