Articles | Volume 79, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-277-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-79-277-2024
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09 Sep 2024
Forum contribution |  | 09 Sep 2024

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

Anke Schwarz

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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.