Geographica Helvetica (Sep 2024)

Holding space for strangeness: in favor of critical utopianism in urban geography

  • A. Schwarz,
  • A. Schwarz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-277-2024
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 79
pp. 277 – 281

Abstract

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What could urban geographers continue to learn and unlearn from critical utopianism and emancipatory futurities? This contribution seeks to recover transformative academic practices and work towards didactics of speculative estrangement. Specifically, I propose to draw on science and speculative fiction literature to support the revision of established geographical imaginations and epistemologies in a higher-education context.