Imagining, and Struggling in, Lisbon’s East Side

Tulumello, Simone

Simone Tulumello

Simone Tulumello is assistant research professor (investigador auxiliar) in geography at the University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences. His research interests, at the border among human geography, critical urban studies, planning and political economy, are: urban security and violence; housing policy and politics; austerity and neoliberal urban policy; urban imaginaries; Southern European and Southern US cities. He is currently finalizing his second monograph, with Andrea Pavoni, Urban Violence: Ontology, Materiality, Epistemology (under contract with Lexington Books, working title).

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 7November 21, 2022<November 22, 2022

Imagining, and Struggling in, Lisbon’s East Side

Where is Lisbon's East Side and who defines it? Simone Tulumello discusses the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the identity of the area and emphasises the conflictual nature of capitalist urbanism.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 7November 7, 2022<November 7, 2022

Cosmopolitan, Racialized, or Both: Conflicting Imaginaries in Mouraria

Simone Tulumello examines the tensions between racialization and cosmopolitanism in Lisbon’s Mouraria neighbourhood, where imaginaries of multiculturalism have been co-opted as part of the capital’s push for global city status.