Job title:
Graduate Student
Department:
Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
Bio/CV:
Pol Fité Matamoros is pursuing a PhD in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, as recipient of the Regent’s Fellowship. His research explores fascism as a spatial matter—i.e. as not only deploying certain spatial tactics, but also as premised on certain spatial imaginaries—through the case of early 20th century Spain. Its key contention is that exploring fascism through a spatial lens illuminates the links between European imperialism and fascism that are hinted at when calling the latter “the boomerang effect of colonialism,” thus revising our understanding of fascist movements.
Research interests:
- Global / Transnational
- Governance / Democracy
- Urbanism
