Idalina Baptista

Idalina Baptista is the Sir Nigel Mobbs Research Fellow for the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities. She holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. Idalina’s main research interests focus on the theoretical and practical challenges of contemporary urban governance, with a wide geographical focus.

Her work operates at the intersection of urban theory and governance theory, investigating the geographical sites of theory production, what it means to govern the city, how certain forms of governing become possible and the patterns of urbanization, citizens, and livelihoods they engender. She is currently doing research on notions of “urban flexibility" in governing cities undergoing processes of reconstruction after a disaster and/or coping with situations of endemic crisis in Africa and the Caribbean.

For her doctoral dissertation, Idalina examined the use of regimes of exception as alternative forms of governance to deliver large-scale urban rehabilitation projects in Portugal. She is currently working on publishing her dissertation by discussing how practices of exception became widespread instruments in urban governance and its implications to contemporary ideologies of urbanism, state, and citizenship. 

 

 

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