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Hanna Hilbrandt is a Professor of Social Geography and Urban Studies at the University of Zurich (UZH). Her research focuses on advancing a global, comparative research agenda regarding processes of marginalization, housing, and urban development, particularly in the context of global financial markets and the climate crisis. She emphasizes urban everyday lives and the negotiations of global regulatory changes that affect urban life, specifically examining urban spaces in Mexico, Switzerland, and Germany. Her published work includes the book "Negotiating Formalities. Housing, Governance and the State in Berlin's Allotments," which explores themes of transgression and planning conflict in housing exclusion. Currently, she leads projects that investigate housing precarity and the intersections of household debt with housing development in collaboration with feminist scholars in Latin America. Hilbrandt also engages in epistemological questions around knowledge production, focusing on geographical practices and issues of eurocentrism in research. Additionally, she serves as editor-in-chief of the European multilingual journal Geographica Helvetica and is involved in various collaborative initiatives aimed at addressing urban public issues.
Department of Law