ABSTRACT
With reference to the writings of Lucius Burkhardt and the Situationist International, this chapter explores the sociological possibilities of learning from the ground of the city through walking and deriving. The photographic tracing of construction site projects in the migrant neighborhood of Kreuzberg in Berlin forms the starting point for a reflection on the glocal intersectional inequalities of neoliberal capitalism, which materialize in racialized gentrification, displacement, and policing of the poor and migrant classes, and which are legitimized by racialized and gendered ideologies of bourgeois life. Meanwhile, the constructivist grounded theory analysis of the photographs points to grassroots struggles for the right to the city and shows that the new metropolis won't be built without them.
