Prof. Dr. Julie Ren

Hilbrandt, Hanna, & Ren, Julie. (2025). Doing urban geography in times of crisis: introduction to the forum “Urban geography in times of crisis”. Geographica Helvetica, 80, 23–29. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-23-2025

Dimitrakou, Ifigeneia, & Ren, Julie. (2025). Critical geographies of everyday crisis. City. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2024.2447688

Hilbrandt, Hanna, & Ren, Julie. (2025). Reworking relations of epistemological authority in teaching collaborations. City. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2024.2447684

Ren, Julie. (2024). Specifying elsewheres and middles. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14, 444–446. https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231168884

Ren, J. (2024). The City after Property: a conversation on critical geographies of race and property The city after property: abandonment and repair in postindustrial Detroit , by Sara Safransky, Durham, USA, Duke University Press, 2023, 328 pp., $28.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4780-2078-3 [Journal-article]. Urban Geography, 45(5), 895–896. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2343542

Ren, J. (2023). Book review forums: reviving a platform [Journal-article]. Urban Geography, 44(4), 567–569. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2183616

Ren, J. (2023). Comparative geographies (pp. 69–73). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800883499.ch14

Ren, J. (2023). MAKING A COMPARATIVE CASE: The Art Biennial in Dakar and Taipei (pp. 185–194). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429287961-15

Ren, J. (2023). Exceptionalism and theorizing spatial inequality: Segregation research on cities in China. Journal of Urban Affairs, 45(7), 1225–1237. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2021.1921592

Ren, J., Dimitrakou, I., Gehriger, L., Grafe, F.-J., & Hilbrandt, H. (2023). Boring dystopias in fictional geography. Affective atmospheres of enclosure Langweilige Dystopien in fiktiven Geographien. Sub\Urban, 11(1-2), 205–234. https://doi.org/10.36900/suburban.v11i1/2.737

Ren, Julie, Matter, Charlotte, Sancarlo, Rosa, & Marano, Virginia. (2023). Crisis and Collectives Shaping Art Events: From Events that Matter to Events that Care. Third Text, 37(5-6), 601–615. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2023.2297626

Chakkalakal, S., & Ren, J. (2022). UN/DOING FUTURE, UNSETTLING TEMPORALIZATION. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 46(5), 845–850. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13101

Hilbrandt, H., & Ren, J. (2022). Refracting Eurocentrism, operationalizing complicity: The Swiss Sonderfall as a vantage point. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 40(4), 589–606. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758221107671

Ren, J. (2022). A more global urban studies, besides empirical variation. Urban Studies, 59(8), 1741–1748. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980221085113

Ren, J. (2022). Theme park follies: the publics of art biennials in Dakar and Taipei. Urban Geography, 43(6), 857–864. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2022.2049535

Ren, J. (2021). Obscuring representation: Contemporary art biennials in Dakar and Taipei. Geographica Helvetica, 76(2), 103–113. https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-76-103-2021

Ren, J. (2020). Book review: Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning Through Southern Cities [Journal-article]. Urban Studies, 57(14), 3002–3005. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020951025

Ren, J. (2020). Postcolonial Urbanism. In Urban Studies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780190922481-0018

Ren, J. (2015). Gentrification in China? In Global gentrifications (pp. 329–348). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447313472.003.0017

Ren, J., & Luger, J. (2015). Comparative urbanism and the ‘Asian City’: Implications for research and theory. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 39(1), 145–156. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12140

Ren, J. Y., & Langhout, R. D. (2010). A recess evaluation with the players: Taking steps toward participatory action research. American Journal of Community Psychology, 46(1), 124–138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-010-9320-2