Mara Ferreri is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has a PhD in Geography from Queen Mary University of London (2013) and has worked for many years on questions of urban precarity, gentrification and temporariness. Before joining the IGOP she has taught and held research positions at Queen Mary University of London, the London School of Economics and the Doctoral Training Center, Goldsmiths College. In 2015/16 she was a lecturer in Human Geography at Durham University. Her current research project Commoning Housing (2016-19) investigates housing commoning in Barcelona and London and is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 665919.
Web: https://uab.academia.edu/MaraFerreri
Relevant publications
Ferreri, M. 2018. Refurbishment versus demolition: the case of municipal housing in London, Housing for Degrowth: Principles, Models, Challenges and Opportunities. Edited by Anitra Nelson and Francois Schneider. Routledge: London.
Ferreri, M. and Trogal, K. 2018. “This is a Private-Public Park”: encountering Architectures of Spectacle in post-Olympic London, City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action, 22(4), pp. 510-526. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2018.1497571
Ferreri, M. and Sanyal, R. 2018. Platform economies and urban planning: Airbnb and regulated deregulation in London, Urban Studies, 55(15), pp. 3353-3368. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098017751982.
Ferreri, M. and G. Dawson 2018. Self-precarization and the spatial imaginaries of property guardianship, Cultural Geographies.
Ferreri, M. 2017. Beyond ‘Staying put’: reflections on discursive strategies in recent anti-gentrification movements, Urbanistica 3, 5(13), pp. 89-93. Available here.
Ferreri, M. 2017. Els comuns com un verb, Special Issue ‘La pólitica del comù’, Nous Horitzons, 215, pp. 40-46.
Ferreri, M., Dawson, G. and Vasudevan, A. 2017. Living Precariously: Property Guardianship and the Flexible City, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42 (2), pp. 246–259.
Lees, L. and Ferreri, M. 2016. Resisting gentrification on its final frontiers: the case of the Heygate Estate in London (1974-2013), Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 57, pp. 14–24.
Ferreri, M. and Lang, A. 2016. Notes from the temporary city: Hackney Wick and Fish Island. London: public works.
Ferreri, M. 2016. Review of Isabell Lorey’s State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography (online).
Ferreri, M. 2016. ‘Where’s the trick?’ Practices of commoning across a reclaimed shop front. In L. Dawney, S. Kirwan and J. Brigstocke (eds) Space, Power and the Commons. Routledge: London. pp. 113-130.
Ferreri, M. 2016. Pop-up shops as interruptions in (post-)recessional London. In C. Lindner and S. Jordan (eds) Cities Interrupted: Visual Cultures and Urban Space. Bloomsbury: London, pp. 141-56.
Ferreri, M. 2015. The seductions of temporary urbanism, Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization, 15(1), pp. 181-191.
Ferreri, M. and Caselli, D. 2013. Acting in the emerging void. Notes on gentrification at Isola. In Isola Art Center (ed.) Fight-Specific Isola: Art, Architecture, Activism and the Future of the City. Archive Books: Milan, pp. 335-361.