Dr Victoria Habermehl
Faculty of Social Sciences
Urban Institute Visiting Fellow, Durham, UK
- Profile
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Victoria is a Research Associate in the Department of Geography at Durham University. She is working on the ERC ‘DenCity’ project, focused on understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on urban density and intensity across London, New York and Milan.
She was a Visiting Fellow at the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, collaborating on the Sheffield Desk on Popular Economy. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of Leeds, focused on organising in-against-and-beyond crisis in Buenos Aires, Argentina, examining the economy, state and territory.
She previously worked as a Research Associate in the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield, on ‘Whose Heritage Matters?’ and ‘Whose Knowledge matters?’ projects.
- Research interests
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Her 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. Her work advances economic geography and urban studies, examining everyday life in cities and the antagonistic processes involved in urban politics- embodied in social reproduction, neighbourhood organising, gentrification and displacement. She advances debates on how the economy is understood and reshaped through crisis, narratives of economic informality and everyday economic practices such as economic solidarity initiatives, autogestion and popular economy.
She has research experience in Latin America, particularly in Buenos Aires, as well as in different urban contexts in Manchester, London, Kisumu, Cape Town and Barcelona, and is involved in several international research networks.