UI welcomes Junia Mortimer USF International Fellow

Following a competitive and successful application process the Urban Institute is delighted to welcome Junia Mortimer as an International Fellow from the Urban Studies Foundation (2025-2026).

Junia

Junia is working on the project “Urban-Nature Archives: Spatial Practices of Futurity in Brazilian Amazonian Frontier”. Her project focuses on hybrid social-spatial practices that emerge from the photographic collection by Professor Roberto Monte-Mór as “futurities” to contemporary environmental crises. Professor Monte-Mór worked as an urban planner in the region in the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. 

Junia's research seeks to investigate social-spatial practices as constitutive of urban epistemics, working with photographic archives and following a historical perspective in order to face contemporary challenges derived from extractivist modern urbanization processes. She is interested in developing sensorial methodologies in urban studies, especially visual methods, which may unravel “urban-nature futurities” through more collective ways of seeing. She has worked with Zumvi Afro-Photographic Archive and Arlete Soare’ Collection, both based in Salvador/Ba, Brazil, and is currently working with a photographic collection from the Amazonian frontier in the 1980s. 

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