Research projects

	Cultural flagships: pathways, practices and politics of a global urban type This project examines cultural flagships such as iconic museums, libraries and concert halls as constituting an emerg... More...	2020-2024
	Paris 2024, Los Angeles 2028: A turnaround for the Olympics after the crisis? In this project we propose to investigate whether the preparations for the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 and Los Angele... More...	2019-2022
	Making, being and becoming rat: Rethinking the city’s relationship with nature My research project examines how cities and citizens enact their relationship to nature through the... More...	2017-2022
	Mega-events as urban interventions: growth and impacts The costs and infrastructural requirements of mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the Football World Cup put them ... More...	2017-2019
	Thinking with the Global Easts Carving up the world into Global North and Global South has become an established way of thinking about global differ... More...	2016-2025
	"Fanatic Energy in the Wrong Places": Potemkin Neoliberalism and Domestic Soft Power in the 2018 Men’s Football World Cup in Russia Mega-events like the World Cup have a documented history of profound effects on the cities that host them. Proponents... More...	2016-2019
	Hazardous planning: improvising the Olympics This project is about planning the unplannable: mega-projects that stretch over several years, sometimes decades, and... More...	2016-2025