JOURNAL ARTICLE | Out soon in Urban Studies!

Date: November 7, 2022Author: Maria Khristine (Tin) Alvarez 0 Comments

I am very glad to share that I have a new peer-reviewed paper coming out soon in another dream journal.

This paper is coauthored with Gavin Shatkin and Vivek Mishra, and will be featured in the Debates section of Urban Studies.

Watch this space for updates!

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Peer-reviewed journal articles

Alvarez, M.K. (2019) Benevolent evictions and cooperative housing models in post-Ondoy Manila, Radical Housing Journal, 1(1), pp. 49-68.

Alvarez, M.K. & Cardenas, K. (2019) Evicting slums, ‘building back better’: Resiliency revanchism and disaster risk management in Manila, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 43(2), pp. 227-249.

Book chapter

Manahan, M.A. & Alvarez, M.K. (2020) An atlas of praxes and political possibilities: Radical collective action and urban transformations, In M’barek, M., Velegrakis, G., Hoetmer, R. and Rodríguez, A (eds.), Cities of Dignity: Urban Transformations Around the World, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Belgium, pp. 49-78.

Public scholarship

Alvarez, M.K. (2018) #OccupyPabahay and the politics of placelessness: Dispatches from Metro Manila, Philippines, The Funambulist, 20, pp. 4-5.

Alvarez, M.K. & Makalintal, J.M. (2020) What ‘relief’ for the poor should really look like, Al Jazeera 3 May [WWW document]. URL https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/relief-poor-200420101846748.html

I am a critical urban sociologist and geographer, and a political activist previously based in Manila and currently working on a PhD at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL).

In 2018, I won the Gilbert F. White Thesis Award (Master’s) given by the American Association of Geographers’ (AAG) Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group; and received the DPU 60th Anniversary Doctoral Scholarship Award from my current department.

My PhD research examines how a flood-resilient Metro Manila is being built in the aftermath of the 2009 Ondoy flood disaster which spurred the reconstitution of the Philippine disaster risk management framework. I aim to develop new conceptual tools for understanding the relationship between resilience on one hand and dispossession and urbanisation on the other. This is part of a larger intellectual project that seeks to understand the new logics, drivers, and modes of expulsion and urban production in Manila.

I have published theoretical and empirical research articles on the politics of ‘danger zone’ evictions and flood risk management. The first appeared as part of a symposium issue of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), and was recognised as a Top Cited Article for 2019-2020; while the second one was published in the Long Read section (focus on critical analysis and theory-making) of the launching issue of Radical Housing Journal.

My writings on cities have also appeared as essays in The Funambulist and Al Jazeera, and as a chapter in the book, Cities of Dignity: Urban Transformations Around the World, published by Rosa-Luxeumburg-Stiftung, Brüssels.

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Resilient city making: revanchism, ‘danger zone’ evictions, and urban production in post-Ondoy Manila

A critical examination of Metro Manila’s flood and disaster resilience project

JOURNAL ARTICLE | Out soon in Urban Studies!

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