.@ConversationUS ::: #Peru has a new #PRESIDENT, its fifth in five years – WHO IS @PedroCastilloTe…? @CatesbyHolmes #Cecilia_Méndez_Gastelumendi.

A 51-year-old #farmer and #teacher who wears a #traditional_Andean_palm_straw_hat took office as Peru’s president on July 28, 2021, after a bitterly contested election. Pedro Castillo was virtually unknown in national politics when he eked out surprise victories in both the first and second rounds of the 2021 #Peruvian #presidential_election. His #right_wing_opponent, #Keiko_Fujimori – daughter of former...

.@4cities_eu ::: REMEMBERING #Edward_Soja [#Geography #Urban_Theory #Urbanists]

Soja, an influential political geographer and urban planner at UCLA, has written half a dozen books and countless essays imploring readers to rethink urban spaces and how they function in the political and social sphere. He is the father of “Thirdspace”, in which he says (in a book by the same title) “everything comes together…...