International Seminar

Latin American city: coloniality and racial capitalism

23 & 24 February 2026, 1:30pm-3h30pm (GMT)

Online

Programme

February 23rd 2026 (Presentations in portuguese)

13:30 – Opening

13:35-13:55 - Coloniality and geographical space: issues for debate
Margarida de Cássia Campos

13: 55-14:15 - The limits of progressive urban policies in the postcolonial era: an analysis of urban planning in Brazil and South Africa from the perspective of racial capitalism
Lorena Melgaço

14:15-14:35 - The racial property regime and the production of white self-segregation in Nova Lima, Brazil
Luana Xavier Pinto Coelho

14:35-14:50 – commentary Ana Rita Alves

14:50-15:30 - debate


February 24th 2026 (Presentations in Spanish)

13:30 - Opening

13:35-13:55 - Detonative development and racial capitalism: Imaginaries and spatial articulations of state power
Claudia Fonseca Alfaro

13:55-14:15 - Urban uncommons (Los des-comunes urbanos): Gobernanza racial, colonialidad urbana, y las políticas de re-existencia
Giulia Torino

14:15-14:35 – Sense of place, plots and plantations in Colombia
Ylver Mosquera-Vallejo

14:35-14:50 - Urban spectralities: Afro-indigeneity, coloniality, and racial commons in Guerrero, Mexico
Ulises Moreno-Tabarez

14:50-15:15 - commentary Silvia Maeso

15:15-15:45 - debate