Dr Josefina Jaureguiberry-Mondion

BA (Hons), Pontifical Catholic University of Chile; MSc Urban Studies, University College London; DPhil Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

I am a Lecturer in Human Geography at Christ Church, Oxford. I hold a DPhil in Geography and the Environment from the University of Oxford, an MSc in Urban Studies from University College London, and a BA in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

My doctoral research at Oxford examined the prefigurative politics of radical housing initiatives in Berlin, with particular emphasis on the affective and micropolitical dimensions of collective life. Based on immersive ethnographic fieldwork and participation in the city’s housing activism networks, the project explored how radical housing initiatives navigate and attempt to unlearn structural inequalities, turning housing itself into a site of struggle and transformation. Situated within radical housing scholarship, feminist and queer geography, and critical urban thought, the research illuminated the everyday complexities of prefigurative politics and collective living under conditions of urban precarity. 

Prior to my doctoral studies I worked as an early career researcher at the Housing Institute of the University of Chile conducting research on feminist demonstrations and artistic interventions in public space in Santiago, Chile; I worked across the public and third sectors on questions of urbanism and local economic development in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

For Prelims, I teach Human Geography. For the Final Honour School in Geography, I teach Space, Place, and Society and Environmental Geography.

My research brings together cultural and urban geography with a commitment to feminist and grassroots practices, exploring their experimental and prefigurative possibilities. It examines how people inhabit and make sense of space, attending to the emotional and affective dimensions of these experiences and the ways they can open possibilities for contestation and transformation. Drawing from feminist geography and the geographies of affective life, my work investigates how practices of collective autonomy and solidarity sustain forms of living together.

Jaureguiberry-Mondion, J. (2022) Spatialising the collective: the spatial practices of two housing projects in Berlin housing projects in Berlin. Social and Cultural Geography.

Campos Medina, L. and Jaureguiberry Mondion, J. (2021) The March as a Safe Space and Dynamics of Resocialization. Space and Culture.

Campos-Medina, L., Jaureguiberry-Mondion, J. and Silva-Roquefort, R. (2020) The space of the absent. Emotion, Space and Society, 37. 100712.

Silva-Roquefort, R., Campos-Medina, L. and Jaureguiberry-Mondion, J. (2020) Ropa tendida: Gestos de la experiencia cotidiana de la ciudad. Revista Rupturas, 10(2): 127-142.