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 Geography 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. I am currently developing a new project on housing, care, and social reproduction in Chile as part of a broader transregional inquiry into radical housing and the micropolitics of urban life.

Before my doctoral studies, I worked as an early career researcher at the Housing Institute of the University of Chile and conducted research on feminist demonstrations and artistic interventions in public space in Santiago (Chile). I also lived in Argentina for several years prior to my master’s degree in London, where I worked across the public and third sectors on questions of urbanism and local economic development.

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. Situated within radical housing scholarship, feminist geography, and the geographies of affective life, my work investigates how practices of collective autonomy and solidarity sustain forms of living together amid urban precarity.

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.