Articles | Volume 79, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-253-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-253-2024
Forum contribution
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15 Aug 2024
Forum contribution |  | 15 Aug 2024

The (im)possibilities of critical urban scholarship in plausibly genocidal times

Laura Nkula-Wenz and Maren Larsen

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Short summary
This interface contribution reflects on the aftermath of a concerted national media campaign that targeted the Urban Studies unit at the University of Basel in November 2023. It shows how the advancement of the media's storylines by university leadership not only undermined critical urban scholarship and socially engaged pedagogy but also paralleled attacks against other critical theories elsewhere, which are reframed as divisive concepts.