Parcours / Biographie

Jacob Geuder is an urbanist with a focus on social movements, digital media, and urban politics. He has worked as Lecturer at Princeton University and the University of Basel before joining the Responsible City project. During his PhD, Geuder conducted an ethnographic comparative study of video activist practices in Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro. This research led to the creation of the Urban Video Archive project, a repository for digital video activism from Brazil, hosted in the Latin America Ephemera Collection by Princeton University. Another significant aspect of this research focuses on the right to the city and housing. As co-founder of Stadt für Alle Basel, he organized a series of publications that examine power, property and the historical transformation of real estate markets (Betongold poster series). In 2024, Geuder expanded his research on housing to include issues of racial segregation in the US housing market, collaborating with April de Simone (Undesig the Red Line). In his academic practice, Geuder consults for NGOs focused on climate and social justice, worked for the Institute of Public Art, collaborated with independent grassroots media collectives in the Global South and right-to-the-city initiatives in the Global North. These practical research experiences inspire his approach to co-creating critical and collective research projects.

Enseignements

• Undergraduate courses taught at the Anthropology Department of Princeton University: Just Housing? Racial Capitalism and the Right to the City, Spring 2024 – Anthropology of Law, Spring 2024
• Graduate courses taught in the Master programs of African Studies and Critical Urbanism at the University of Basel since 2016: Power and Property: Transformation Areas and disputed Narratives of Urban Renewal, Fall 2024 – Real Estate City: Financialization and Housing Struggles in Basel, Fall 2023 – City Research Studio, Spring 2021 – The city for whom? A cultural history of land ownership and the socioeconomic effects of proprietary rule in the city, Spring 2020 – African Digital Revolution or Digital Revolution in Africa?, Spring 2018 – Writing Workshop, Fall 2016 & Fall 2017 – “The Right to the City” in the Global South, Spring 2016

Multimédia :

• Publicatin about « Just Housing ? » course and collaborative project with The Practice of Democracy: https://anthropology.princeton.edu/news/equitable-housing-one-class-time
• Betongold Posters: https://stadtfueralle.info/?page_id=99

Publication :

• Stadt fur Alle. (2024) “Betongold Matthäus”, print with 8’000 copies distributed to all households in respective neighborhood in Basel.
• Geuder, Jacob. (2023) “From Expansion to Empowerment” in: Daniel Mutibwa, Julia Lazarus, Ursula Boeckler, Alexandra Weltz-Rombach (eds.), Radical Film, Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil, Berlin: K-Verlag.
• Geuder, Jacob. (2023) “Book Review: Seeing Human Rights – Video Activism as Proxy Profession by Sandra Ristovska”, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Vol. 100, No. 3.
• Geuder, Jacob. (2022) “Video Activism as Bottom-Up City Making,” in: Kenny Cupers, Emilio Distretti, Manuel Herz, Laura Nkula, Sophie Oldfield, and Myriam Perret (eds.), What is Critical Urbanism, Zurich: Park Books.
• Stadt fur Alle. (2022) “Betongold Klybeck + Kleinhüningen”, print with 7’000 copies distributed to all households in respective neighborhoods in Basel.
• Stadt fur Alle. (2021) “Rosental”, print with 4’000 copies distributed to all households in respective neighborhood in Basel.
• Alcântara, Livia and Geuder, Jacob. (2018) “(Urban) Space, Media and Protests: Digitalizing the Right to the City?,” in: Robert Fischer and Jenny Bauer (eds.), Perspectives on Henri Lefebvre: Theory, Practices and (Re-)Readings. Berlin: De Gruyter.
• Geuder, Jacob. (2017) “The Right to the City,” in: Iolanda Pensa, Marta Pucciarelli, Fiona Siegenthaler, Marilyn Douala Bell, Kamiel Verschuren, Xandra Nibbeling, Lucas Grandin, Asta Adukaite, and Maud de la Chapelle (eds.): Public Art in Africa, Geneva: Metisse Presse.
• Geuder, Jacob. (2016) “Digitale Ambivalenzen – Medienaktivismus in Rio de Janeiro,” in: Widerspruch, Vol. 67.