Jan Spurk

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Jan Spurk is Professor of Sociology at Paris Descartes University.

Urbanization of Empire: Plantation, Space, and Racial Terror

CONTRIBUTIONS

Pedestrians wearing facemarks walk past the Eiffel Tower in May 2020

The World Before and After the Corona Crisis

RECENT ARTICLES

Urbanization of Empire: Plantation, Space, and Racial Terror

Gabriel Cruz , Rebeca Barros Passos, Igor Thiago Silva de Sousa

February 11, 2026

Black City: The ‘Urban’ as Refusal and Abolition

Jaime A. Alves

February 9, 2026

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