PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Neville, Laura, Oldenburg, Silke (2026). Fluid Toxicities: Violent Affective Ecologies in Cartagena, Colombia. Antipode 58, no. 5: e70190. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70190.

Neville, Laura (2025). Taking care of others’ waste: Racialised and gendered bodily politics of household recycling infrastructural labour in Cartagena, Colombia. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544251360541

Müller, Martin, Rihoux, Quentin & Neville, Laura (2025). Toward change in the uneven geographies of urban knowledge production. Nature Cities. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00202-4.

Neville, Laura (2024). Disappearance, emergence, and appearance: garbage and the politics of placemaking in Cartagena, Colombia. Social & Cultural Geography, 25(10), 1554–1574. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2024.2347867

Neville, Laura, Tovar Cortes, Luisa Fernanda (2023). “Waste pickers’ formalisation from Bogotá to Cartagena de Indias: dispossession and socio-economic enclosures in two Colombian cities.” Sustainability. Special Issue “Community-Based Participatory Waste Management and Recycling “ edited by Jutta Gutberlet. 15(11):9047. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15119047

Oldenburg, Silke, Neville, Laura. (2021). Navigating the Archipelago City: everyday experiences and socio-political imaginaries of urban floods in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 97: 139-163. https://doi.org/10.4000/cal.13420

Contreras, Yasna, Neville, Laura, González, Rodrigo. (2019). In-formality in access to housing for Latin American migrants: a case study of an intermediate Chilean city, International Journal of Housing Policy, 19(3), 411-435. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2019.1627841

Book chapter

Neville Laura. (2024) In the shadow of the circular economy: waste pickers’ formalisation and the politics of a changing recycling economy in Cartagena, Colombia. In O’Hare Patrick and Rams Dagna (eds.) Circular Economies: Between the Promise of Renewal and Unequal Global Circulation. Zed Books : Bloomsbury Publishing: London.DOI: 10.5040/9781350296664.0010

Reviews

Neville, Laura (2019) Book review: Shaping Cities in an Urban Age edited by Ricky Burdett and Philipp Rode. LSE Review of Books. 

PhD thesis

Neville, Laura (2023). Urban Disposabilities: Garbage and the Relational Politics of Place-Making in Cartagena, Colombia. Université de Lausanne, Faculté des géosciences et de l’environnement.

Podcast

Orlando Deavila Pertuz, Laura Neville, Silke Oldenburg, Javier Ortiz Cassiani, (2025) Urban Racial Politics in Cartagena, Colombia, The Urban Political Podcast, 94. https://urbanpolitical.podigee.io/94-urban-racial-politics-in-cartagena-colombia