Dr. F.I. (Frank) Mueller
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
- Postbus 15629
1001 NC Amsterdam
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Research
I am an urban geographer and a Research Fellow in EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Program, project title: Weaponizing Social Housing in Rio de Janeiro and Medellín. Until the end of 2023, I am Visiting Scholar in the Weatherhead Scholars Program at Harvard University.
My research focuses on housing and securitization in urban Latin America and beyond. I have studied land conflicts, “pacification”, and protests against involuntary resettlements in Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro. Informed by studies on the performativity of power, I have examined urban informality as a volatile role and ascription in everyday security encounters and in the socio-political and –spatial effects these generate.
From February 2021-January 2024 I will be conducting fieldwork in Latin America and explore emerging forms of governability in the securitized urban peripheries of Medellin and Rio de Janeiro. The retreat of residents to gated enclaves, the formation of right-wing neighborhood defense groups, the employment of surveillance technologies and private security firms, and new strategies to displace low-income populations to the urban peripheries can be studied as global assemblages of securitizing housing.
Secondly, funded by UvA's Centre for Urban Studies, I coordinate the research network ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime and its blog on the pages of Political and Legal Anthropology (PoLAR), together with Dr. Julienne Weegels (CEDLA).
Thirdly, I am co-PI of the research lab Protein Matters: Securitizing Zoonoses in the EU and the USA which is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation.
More information on each project can be found here.
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Publications
2023
- Mueller, F. I., & Richmond , M. A. (2023). The technopolitics of security: Agency, temporality, sovereignty. Security Dialogue, 54(1), 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/09670106221141373
Mueller, F. I., & Richmond , M. A. (Eds.) (2023). Special issue on Technopolitics of security. Security Dialogue, 54(1), 1-111. https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/sdib/54/1
2022
- Baquero, J., Mueller, F. I., Rauchecker, M., & Segura, R. (Eds.) (2022). El posacuerdo en Colombia: Procesos situacionales. Temporalidad, territorio y materialidad. Universidad del Rosario. https://doi.org/10.12804/urosario9789587849820
- Mueller, F. I. (2022). Housing Security: Placing Brazil’s Social Housing Program in a Violent Context. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 4(3), 390-400. https://doi.org/10.31389/jied.177 [details]
- Mueller, F. I., & Weegels, J. (Eds.) (2022). Illicities - City-Making and Organized Crime. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 4(3), 230-400.
- Müller, F. I., & Weegels, J. (2022). Illicit City-Making and Its Materialities. Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 4(3), 230-240. https://doi.org/10.31389/jied.169 [details]
2021
- Mueller, F. I. (2021). Standby urbanization: Dwelling and organized crime in Rio de Janeiro. Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization.
2020
- Mueller, F. I. (2020). Home Matters: The Material Culture of Urban Security. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12879
- Mueller, F. I. (Ed.) (2020). Home Matters: The Material Cultures of Urban Security. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
2019
- Grassiani, E., & Mueller, F. (2019). Brazil-Israel Relations and the Marketing of Urban Security Expertise. Latin American Perspectives, 46(3), 114-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X19831442 [details]
- Mueller, F. I. (2019). A Performative Approach to Urban Informality: Learning from Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro. Anthropologica, 61(1), 64-77.
- Mueller, F. I. (2019). Securing the Home: Crime, State Sovereignty and Social Housing in Medellín. Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 107, 95-115.
2018
- Mueller, F. I., & Steinke, A. (2018). Criminalising encounters: MINUSTAH as a laboratory for armed humanitarian pacification. Global Crime, 19(3-4), 228-249.
2017
- Mueller, F. I. (2017). Urban informality as a signifier: Performing urban reordering in suburban Rio de Janeiro. International Sociology, 32(4), 493-511. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268580917701585 [details]
- Mueller, F., & Segura, R. (2017). The Uses of Informality: Urban Development and Social Distinction in Mexico City . Latin American Perspectives, 44(3), 158-175. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X16682760 [details]
2016
- Müller, F. (2016). ¿El cuerpo en la ciudad? Improntas sobre el Derecho a la Ciudad desde México. In M. Rauchecker, & J. Chan (Eds.), Sustentabilidad desde abajo : Luchas desde el género y la etnicidad (pp. 191-217). Berlin: Lateinamerika-Institut der Freien Universität Berlin. [details]
- Müller, F., & Mueller, M-M. (2016). Im- und Export von Aufstandsbekämpfung: Von Rio de Janeiro nach Port-au-Prince und zurück. Peripherie: Zeitschrift für Politik und ökonomie in der Dritten Welt, 2016(1), 74-92. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v36i141.22890 [details]
- Müller, F., & Segura, R. (2016). Digitalizando a América Latina Urbana: Um novo estrato para as desigualdades persistentes?
. Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, 5(2), 10-13. [details]
- Müller, F., & Segura, R. (2016). Digitalizando la Latinoamerica Urbana: ¿Un nuevo estrato para las desigualdades persistentes? Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, 5(2), 6-9. [details]
- Müller, F., & Segura, R. (2016). Digitalizing Urban Latin America: A New Layer for Persistent Inequalities? Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, 5(2), 3-5. [details]
2014
- Müller, F. (2014). The Global City and its Other: Decentering Informality in and from Mexico City. (Fragmentierte Moderne in Lateinamerika,; No. 17). Berlin: Edition Tranvia . [details]
2021
- Mueller, F. I. (2021). Protagonists of Latin American Futures. Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, 9(1). https://www.crolar.org/index.php/crolar/article/view/383/html
- Mueller, F. I. (2021). Security, Uncertainty, and Urban Futures: A Conversation with Austin Zeiderman. Critical Reviews on Latin American Research, 9(1). https://www.crolar.org/index.php/crolar/article/view/381
- Mueller, F. I. (Author). (2021). The Politics of Urban Sand in Rio de Janeiro. Web publication or website, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. https://polarjournal.org/2021/02/10/the-politics-of-urban-sand-in-rio-de-janeiro/
2017
- Müller, F. (2017). Loïc Wacquant: Urban Outcasts. In F. Eckardt (Ed.), Schlüsselwerke der Stadtforschung (pp. 261-275). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10438-2_16 [details]
- Müller, F. (2017). [Review of: M.M. Müller (2016) The Punitive City : Privatized Policing and Protection in Mexico City]. Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 103, [book review 3]. https://doi.org/10.18352/erlacs.10225 [details]
Journal editor
- Mueller, F. (editor) (2012-2018). Critical Reviews on Latin American Research (Journal).
Others
- Weegels, J. (organiser) & Mueller, F. (organiser) (3-10-2019). ILLICITIES Workshop, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- Mueller, F. (organiser) (29-6-2017). Workshop on Securing Housing and the Governing of Uncertainty, Amsterdam. This workshop invites comparisons of how increasing uncertainties affect security practices and politics – and vice versa – in metropolitan areas in (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
2016
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Mueller, F. I., & Richmond , M. A. (Eds.) (2023). Special issue on Technopolitics of security. Security Dialogue, 54(1), 1-111.