Prof. Dr. Monika Streule

Moni­ka Streu­le enga­ges with the social pro­duc­tion of space, urba­nisati­on pro­ces­ses and inven­ti­ve metho­do­lo­gies of qua­li­ta­ti­ve rese­arch. She is inte­res­ted in com­pa­ra­ti­ve urba­nism and a rela­tio­nal under­stan­ding of urban ter­ri­to­ry from decen­te­redper­spec­ti­ves for a more glo­bal approach to under­stan­ding cities. Moni­ka Streu­leholds a MA in Social Anthro­po­lo­gy, Socio­lo­gy and Poli­ti­cal Sci­en­ces from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Zurich. She recei­ved seve­ral grants, inclu­ding the Marie-Skło­dows­kaCurie Fel­low­ship from the Euro­pean Uni­on and the Fel­low­ship for Pro­s­pec­ti­ve Rese­ar­chers from the Swiss Natio­nal Sci­ence Fund. She was a visi­ting rese­ar­cher at the Lon­don School of Eco­no­mics LSE, at the Uni­ver­si­dad Nacio­nal Autó­no­ma de Méxi­co UNAM in seve­ral occa­si­ons, and con­duc­ted post-doc­to­ral stu­dies at the Insti­tu­te of Advan­ced Stu­dies of the Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don UCL, at the Hafen­Ci­ty Uni­ver­si­ty Ham­burg, and at the Uni­ver­si­dad Tec­noló­gi­ca de La Haba­na José Anto­nio Eche­ver­ría CUJAE. She is an asso­cia­ted rese­ar­cher at the Insti­tu­to de Inves­ti­ga­cio­nes Socio-Econó­mi­cas de la Uni­ver­si­dad Cató­li­ca Boli­vi­a­na, La Paz.

Moni­ka Streu­le was rese­ar­ching and tea­ching at the Chair of Socio­lo­gy at the Depart­ment of Archi­tec­tu­re, ETH Zürich from 2009 to 2021. In April 2016, she obtai­ned her PhD at ETH Zürich for her the­sis on metro­po­li­tan urba­niza­ti­on pro­ces­ses of Mexi­co City. For this eth­no­gra­phic rese­arch at such an unu­su­al metro­po­li­tan sca­le, she deve­lo­ped, appli­ed and dis­cus­sed novel empi­ri­cal stra­te­gies for urban stu­dies. This pro­ject was part of the rese­arch modu­le “Pat­terns and Pathways of Urba­ni­sa­ti­on in Com­pa­ra­ti­ve Per­spec­ti­ve” of the Chair of Socio­lo­gy and the Future Cities Lab Sin­ga­po­re, which was published by Moni­ka Streu­le und Chris­ti­an Schmid in the edi­ted volu­me “Voca­bu­la­ries for an Urba­ni­s­ing Pla­net”.

In 2024, Moni­ka Streu­le was appoin­ted as a Pro­fes­sor of Social Anthro­po­lo­gy in the Depart­ment of Social and Poli­ti­cal Sci­en­ces at Uni­ver­si­dad Ibe­ro­ame­ri­ca­na, Mexi­co City. Curr­ent­ly, she leads the rese­arch pro­ject “Ter­ri­to­ri­a­li­ties in Resis­tance to Urban Extra­c­ti­vism”, that seeks to under­stand socio-envi­ron­men­tal con­flicts and the lea­ding role of women* in social orga­nisati­ons. The pro­ject focu­ses on the stu­dy of sports mega­pro­jects in the con­text of the 2026 World Cup.

Moni­ka Streu­le: web­site

Moni­ka Streu­le: website Uni­ver­si­dad Ibe­ro­ame­ri­ca­na

Voca­bu­la­ries for an Urba­ni­s­ing Planet