Sven Daniel Wolfe is an urban and political geographer at the Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Lausanne. He is part of Prof. Dr. Martin Müller's research team M3 (Materialities | Multiplicities | Metropolis).
He is interested in mega-events, urban development, and the cultures of protest and resistance. He is currently occupied by three avenues:
His doctoral thesis investigated diverse expressions of neoliberalization and domestically-targeted soft power in the articulation of the 2018 Men's Football World Cup in two peripheral cities in Russia. It is available online open-access here.