Dr Victoria Habermehl (she/her)
School of Geography and Planning
Lecturer in Urban Studies and International Development
Full contact details
School of Geography and Planning
Room E10
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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I undertook my BA, Masters and PhD in Geography at the University of Leeds. My PhD focused on examining the everyday life practices of a market in Buenos Aires. It examined the long temporalities of social change focused on heterogeneous state relationships, territorial praxis and economic antagonisms. I was awarded my PhD in 2015.
On completion of my PhD, I have worked on a series of research projects, starting with “Economics in the Public Sphere” at University College London, STS, followed by “Timescapes of Urban Change”, at Brunel University, Sociology, “Whose Knowledge Matters?” and “Whose Heritage Matters?” both at the University of Sheffield in the Urban Institute and “DenCity” in the Department of Geography at Durham University.
- Research interests
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My research focuses on social justice issues in the Majority and Minority world, examining the intersectional (re)production of inequality and everyday political responses to this. My work advances important debates in Urban Studies and Geography.
I have developed my own research specialisms leading independent research tracks across diverse geographical settings exploring inequality and social justice in the Majority and Minority world. My work particularly advances three key themes: Firstly, Urban Economies; popular economies and contested territories, Secondly, Urban knowledge politics: feminist and everyday practices and Thirdly, Critical development approaches and creative methods.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- The density dialectic: between hard and gentle densification in London. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. View this article in WRRO
- In desperate need: public sanitation in contemporary London. Antipode. View this article in WRRO
- Terrestrial bodies. Dialogues in Human Geography. View this article in WRRO
- Density as a politics of value: Regulation, speculation, and popular urbanism. Progress in Human Geography, 47(5), 664-679. View this article in WRRO
- Urban popular economies: territories of operation for lives deemed worth living. Public Culture, 34(3), 333-357. View this article in WRRO
- Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university. CITY: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, 26(4), 562-586. View this article in WRRO
- Everyday antagonisms : organising economic practices in Mercado Bonpland, Buenos Aires. Environment and Planning C : Politics and Space, 39(3), 536-554. View this article in WRRO
- The risk of austerity co-production in city-regional governance in England. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(3), 555-571. View this article in WRRO
- Producing territory: territorial organizing of movements in Buenos Aires. Geographica Helvetica, 74, 153-161. View this article in WRRO
- Territories in contestation: Relational power in Latin America. Territory, Politics, Governance, 6(3), 302-321. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- Contested Markets, Contested Cities In González S (Ed.) Routledge
- The density dialectic: between hard and gentle densification in London. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. View this article in WRRO
- Teaching activities
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I contribute to the following teaching activities:
- TRP 234 Urban Theory
- GEO126 Global Development History and Key Debates
- GEO 128 Knowledges, Power and Interdisciplinarity
- GEO 417 Ideas and Practice in International Development
- GEO 6803 Professional Skills for International development
- TRP 337 Dissertation and TRP 6406 Dissertation