Victoria Habermehl
Visiting Scholar
Victoria Habermehl is a PhD candidate in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds.
Her work is focused on contestations in the city; investigating relationships between the city, people, capital and space in order to develop understandings of how ruins are created in the city and to whom they are productive. In particular she is focusing on how capital in the city can inform attempts to ‘occupy’ and subvert space, affecting movements abilities and struggles to address their social reproduction.
Participating Years
2012–2013
Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future
The last year has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of political and social protest across the globe. Each location of struggle, whether the revolutions sometimes called the “Arab Spring” or the vigorous demonstrations of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, provides important lessons in how we understand social change in the current conjuncture.What is the longue durée of such struggle? How do uprisings reconfigure the social? How are they represented and is representation itself an uprising?