Dr Sara Gonzalez
Research overview
I am interested in how our cities are becoming spaces for the expansion of neoliberalism and how ideas and policies of neoliberal urbanism emerge, travel and mutate at different spatial scales. Increasingly I am also focusing on resistance to these processes by social movements and community groups. I have so far mainly concentrated in international research comparing different European cities but I am looking forward to expanding this geographical focus.
Contact details
Room 1.49
School of Geography
University of Leeds
University Road
Leeds LS2 9JT UK
Email:
s.gonzalez
Telephone:
+44 (0) 113 34
36639
Student hours:
Mondays 3-5pm and Thursdays 3-4.30. Just turn up at these times or email me if inconvenient.
Latest publications
- González S (2011) The North/South divide in Italy and England: Discursive construction of regional inequality, European Urban and Regional Studies, 18, pp.62-76. doi: 10.1177/0969776410369044
- González S (2011) Bilbao and Barcelona 'in motion'. How urban regeneration 'models' travel and mutate in the global flows of policy tourism, Urban Studies, 48, pp.1397-1418. doi: 10.1177/0042098010374510
- Gonzalez S; Moulaert F; Martinelli F (2010) ALMOLIN: How to analyse social innovation at the local level?, In: Moulaert F; Martinelli F; Swyngedouw E; Gonzalez S (Ed) Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?, Routledge, pp.49-67.
- Gonzalez S; Martinelli F; Moulaert F (2010) Creatively designing urban futures: a transversal analysis of socially innovative initiatives, In: Moulaert F; Martinelli F; Swyngedouw E; Gonzalez S (Ed) Can Neighbourhoods save the City?, Routledge, pp.198-218.
- Moulaert F; Sywngedouw E; Martinelli F; Gonzalez S (2010) Can neighbourhoods save the city? Community development and social innovation, Routledge.
Current projects
- Towards a new urban deal? Uneven local responses to the global recession. This research focuses on 4 European cities and how the global financial crisis has affected them and how the cities are reacting.
- CONTESTED CITIES. This is a staff/postgraduate mobility network between Spain, UK, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Brazil. It will fund exchange visit to look at the contested spatialities of urban neolineralism.
- ACME: I am the Spanish editor of ACME, An International e-Journal for Critical Geographies.
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