Cities and Multiple Nationalisms

Date and time
Thursday 24 April 2025, 5.30-7.30 pm UK time

Location
Room 121-123, Devon House, 58 St Katharine’s Way, Northeastern University London, London, E1W 1LP

Cities and Multiple Nationalisms 

This event is part of a long-term engagement delineating the conceptual and practical boundaries concerning the impact of different forms of nationalism on the political geographies of cities. Increasing populist and authoritarian currents worldwide signal a growing urgency given the rise of tensions between cities and multiple forms of neo-nationalism. The speakers will explore how and in what ways nationalism possess the potential to influence the nature of urbanisation in the Middle East, Ukraine and India, as they interact in the remaking of global urban studies.

Event Schedule*: Start 5.30pm

Urban Salon Welcome (Phil Hubbard, Kings College London)

Introduction & Chair (Jonathan Rock Rokem, Northeastern University London)

Speakers:

Bulldozer Hindutva: Ethnonationalist scapegoating and Cumulative Eviction Logics 

(Liza Weinstein, Northeastern University Boston)

Military Frontline Cities 

(Michael Gentile, University of Oslo)

Polarizations: when Neo-nationalism meets Global Urbanism 

(Oren Yiftachel, BGU & University College London)

Discussant: Jenny Robinson (University College London)

Q&A

Drinks 7.30pm

*Please register for the event via Eventbrite link below and bring proof of identity document or a photo of your ID on mobile. Pre-registration and ID is required by security at the entrance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/urban-salon-cities-and-multiple-nationalisms-tickets-1302986249949?aff=oddtdtcreator

About the Participants

Liza Weinstein is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University Boston. She is editor of International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR), and is currently completing a book titled, The Logics of Dispossession: Local Histories of India’s “World Class” Evictions, which analyses the shifting politics of housing insecurity and anti-eviction activism across urban India. She is also leading a National Science Foundation-funded study on the intersection of legal exclusion, embodiment, and territorial stigma in non-notified communities in Mumbai.

Michael Gentile is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oslo and associate editor of Eurasian Geography and Economics. He has worked with various themes related to Central and Eastern Europe, including housing, socio-spatial differentiation and, more recently, urban geopolitics. His current regional focus is on Ukraine and he is principal investigator of the Norwegian Research Council project Ukrainian Geopolitical Fault-line Cities: Urban Identities, Geopolitics and Urban Policy.

Oren Yiftachel is an (emeritus) Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Political and Legal Geography, at BGU, Beersheba, and a Prof. (hon) of Geography and Planning at University College London. In a wide range of publications his work has focused on critical understandings of the relations between space, power, inequality and conflict. He uses international comparative research, theoretical development and a focus on Israel/Palestine. Yiftachel is also a social and political activist who is member of several organizations working for social justice, equality and peace, mainly with indigenous and marginalized groups.

From wastelands to islands of waste: Journeys through marginal spaces in Tokyo and London

Date and time
Monday 10 February 2024, 6-7.30 pm UK time

Location
Room 225, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, WC1H 0NN

From wastelands to islands of waste: Journeys through marginal spaces in Tokyo and London

The margins of the late-modern metropolis have long formed a somewhat ambiguous site for environmental and social scientists alike. 

In this Urban Salon event we embark on a journey from the wastelands of London to the islands of waste in Tokyo. Along the way we will chart the complex ecological, social, cultural and political geometries of urban interstice, while offering a comparative approach which moves beyond Anglo/Eurocentric accounts of marginal spaces.

About the Participants

Kumiko Kiuchi is Associate Professor at Institute for Liberal Arts, Institute of Science Tokyo. She completed her DPhil. at University of Sussex in English Literature. She has published a number of articles on modernism in Europe (especially on genre and intersemiotic translation) and a regular contributor to the English literary magazine SNOW. She was the project manager of ‘Screening Patrick Keiller’s Robinson Trilogy in Japan’ and an editor and contributor to the booklet Landscapes in Time:Patrick Keiller’s  ‘Robinson Trilogy (2015). She is currently working on a comparative study on the narratological and geopolitical functions of rivers and bridges in films featuring London and Tokyo.

Ben Platt is a ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is primarily a cultural geographer with interests in landscape, aesthetics and power. His PhD research explored emerging approaches to landscape urbanism in East London – with particular focus on marginal spaces and ruderal ecologies. Ben has also written on the notion of weird geographies and ecologies. 

Matthew Gandy is Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Kings College Cambridge. He is a cultural, urban, and environmental geographer with particular interests in landscapeinfrastructure, and more recently bio-diversity. His most recent book Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space is winner of a 2023 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize awarded by the Foundation for Landscape Studies and UVA School of Architecture. He has also directed documentary films including the award-winning Natura Urbana: the Brachen of Berlin.

Reserve your space here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-wastelands-to-islands-of-waste-tickets-1217780216409?aff=oddtdtcreator

Walking as method

Date and time
Monday 11 November 2024, 6-7.30 pm UK time

Location
Room 225, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, WC1H 0NN

Walking as method

The study of walking is located somewhere between literary criticism, with its interest in the sensory realm of the modern subject, and a variety of ground-level interpretations of cultural and material practices. 

In this urban salon event we explore how the simple act of walking can serve as an entry point for diverse perspectives on space, society, and the modern self.

About the Participants

Matthew Gandy is Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Kings College Cambridge. He is a cultural, urban, and environmental geographer with particular interests in landscapeinfrastructure, and more recently bio-diversity. His most recent book Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space is winner of a 2023 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize awarded by the Foundation for Landscape Studies and UVA School of Architecture. He has also directed documentary films including the award-winning Natura Urbana: the Brachen of Berlin.

Phil Hubbard is Professor of Urban Studies at King’s College London. He has published widely on questions of class, gentrification and the impacts of urban policy on socially marginalised populations. His books include Cities and Sexualities, The Battle for the High Street, and Key Ideas in Geography: City.

Clare Qualmann is an Associate Professor at the University of East London, and an artist/researcher with an interdisciplinary performance based practice. From a background in the visual arts her work engages a range of participatory methods, and a range of media to explore and reveal the overlooked – the politics and potentials of everyday life.

James Vigus is a Senior Lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary. His research focuses the literature and philosophy of the period of European Romanticism, especially the early reception of German thought in Britain, with particular emphasis on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Henry Crabb Robinson.

Reserve your space here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walking-as-method-tickets-1037695594457

Borderland: Identity and belonging at the edge of England

Date and time
Monday 20 May 2024, 6-7.30 pm UK time

Location
Room 225, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, Bartlett School of Planning, UCL, WC1H 0NN

Borderland: Identity and belonging at the edge of England

Please join us at our next event to mark the launch of Phil Hubbard’s latest book: Borderland: Identity and belonging at the edge of England. 

The event will include reflections on the book from the author and discussions by experts in the fields of cultural and historical geography, urban studies, and social anthropology. 

Book Description

Over recent years, the issues of Brexit, COVID and the ‘migrant crisis’ put Kent in the headlines like never before. Images of asylum seekers on Kent beaches, lorries queued on motorways and the crumbling white cliffs of Dover all spoke to national anxieties, and were used to support ideas that severing ties with the EU was the best – or worst – thing the UK has ever done.

In this coastal driftwork, Phil Hubbard – an exiled man of Kent – considers the past, present and future of this corner of England, alighting on a number of key sites which symbolise the changing relationship between the UK and its continental neighbours. Moving from the geopolitics of the Channel Tunnel to the cultivation of oysters at Whitstable, from Derek Jarman’s feted cottage at Dungeness to the art-fuelled gentrification of Margate, Borderland bridges geography, history, and archaeology, to pose important questions about the way that national identities emerge from contested local landscapes.

“A powerful, poignant and beautifully written journey through the frontier lands of Brexit Britain. This is travel writing with a purpose, charting an anxious and often hostile landscape with care and passion.” Alastair Bonnett, author of The Age of Islands: In Search of New and Disappearing Islands

About the Participants

Phil Hubbard is Professor of Urban Studies at King’s College London. He has published widely on questions of class, gentrification and the impacts of urban policy on socially marginalised populations. His books include Cities and Sexualities, The Battle for the High Street, and Key Ideas in Geography: City.

Matthew Gandy is Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Kings College Cambridge. He is a cultural, urban, and environmental geographer with particular interests in landscapeinfrastructure, and more recently bio-diversity. His most recent book Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space is winner of a 2023 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize awarded by the Foundation for Landscape Studies and UVA School of Architecture. He has also directed documentary films including the award-winning Natura Urbana: the Brachen of Berlin.

Yasminah Beebeejaun is a Professor of Urban Politics and Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Her work is concerned with feminist and anti-racist approaches to planning theory and practice. Her articles have been published in many journals including Environment and Planning C, Journal of Planning Education and Research, Planning Theory, Planning Theory and Practice, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. She is co-editor of The Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City.

Farhan Samanani is a Lecturer in Social Justice in the School of Education, Communication and Society at King’s College London. His work explores how people build forms of connection, understanding and common cause across lines of meaningful difference, in the contemporary UK. He works closely and collaboratively with communities on issues ranging from racial justice, to accessible cities, to climate change, seeking to understand and support everyday efforts to build a better future. His most recent book is entitled How To Live With Each Other: An Anthropologist’s Notes on Sharing a Divided World. 

Gentrification and Public Policy: Comparative Perspectives

Date and time
Tuesday 1 November 2022, 5-6.30 pm UK time

Location
Room PAR.1.02, Parish Hall, Sheffield Street, LSE WC2A 2HA

Direction: Campus Map (see here for access guide)

Please kindly note that this is a hybrid event. A Zoom link will be provided to those who complete pre-registration.

Pre-registration via Eventbrite

Gentrification and Public Policy: Comparative Perspectives

Please join us at our next event to mark the launch of the latest book in the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series: The Commodification Gap: Gentrification and Public Policy in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg by Matthias Bernt.

The event will include reflections on the book from the author and discussions by experts in the field of housing, gentrification and social change.

This event is hosted in collaboration with LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre and LSE Department of Geography and Environment.

Register here to attend in person or online.

 

Book Description

The Commodification Gap provides an insightful institutionalist perspective on the field of gentrification studies. The book explores the relationship between the operation of gentrification and the institutions underpinning – but also influencing and restricting – it in three neighbourhoods in London, Berlin and St. Petersburg. Matthias Bernt demonstrates how different institutional arrangements have resulted in the facilitation, deceleration or alteration of gentrification across time and place.

The book is based on empirical studies conducted in Great Britain, Germany and Russia and contains one of the first-ever English language discussions of gentrification in Germany and Russia. It begins with an examination of the limits of the widely established “rent-gap” theory and proposes the novel concept of the “commodification gap.” It then moves on to explore how different institutional contexts in the UK, Germany and Russia have framed the conditions for these gaps to enable gentrification. The Commodification Gap is an indispensable resource for researchers and academics studying human geography, housing studies, urban sociology and spatial planning.

 

About the Participants

Matthias Bernt is a sociologist and political scientist who works as a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space in Erkner, Germany. He is also Adjunct Professor at Humboldt University in Berlin. His research focuses on the interrelations between urban development and urban governance. In addition to academic work, Matthias has actively participated in various tenant movements in Berlin for more than two decades.

Loretta Lees is Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, USA. She is an urban geographer who is internationally known for her research on gentrification/urban regeneration, global urbanism, urban policy, urban public space, critical geographies of architecture, and urban social theory. She has been identified as the only woman in the top 20 most referenced authors in urban geography worldwide (Urban Studies, 2017). Since 2009 she has co-organised The Urban Salon: A London Forum for Architecture, Cities and International Urbanism. She is also a Scholar-Activist who supports and co-produces research with, community groups and social movements, most recently with respect to the demolition of council estates in London.

Michael Edwards works on the relationship between property markets and planning, mainly in the UK and Europe. He is active in London planning, most recently supporting community groups in challenges to successive London Plans, supported by UCL Public Engagement Unit. Michael is a founding member of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA), the Planners Network UK (PNUK), and JustSpace.

Hyun Bang Shin (@urbancommune) is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. He is Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and is also a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation.

 

 

 

 

 

Dictating to the Estate, a documentary play

Date and time
Monday 6 June 2022. Play from 7.30 pm with panel discussion from 9.15 pm.

Location
Maxilla Social Club, 2 Maxilla Walk, London, W10 6SW (the nearest tube is Latimer Road)

Dictating to the Estate, a documentary play

The Urban Salon is delighted to be hosting a face to face eventa documentary play Dictating to the Estate by Nathaniel McBride, directed by Lisa Goldman and Natasha Langridge, followed by a panel discussion with Pete Apps, Inside Housing; Loretta Lees, co-organiser of the Urban Salon and outgoing Chair of the London Housing Panel; and Liam Ross, Edinburgh School of Art.

Dictating to the Estate is a documentary play about events leading up to the Grenfell Tower fire. Using emails, blogs and council minutes, it tells the story of the refurbishment of the tower and the residents’ attempts to hold the council to account. At the same time, it places these events in a wider context of austerity, deregulation and estate regeneration.’

Tickets for the event are available at: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/2a-maxilla-walk/maxilla-social-club/dictating-to-the-estate/e-rxzyjz

The tickets are £15 each, £7.50 concessions.

This event will also be a chance to say goodbye to Loretta who moves to Boston University in the US in late June, but will remain a co-organiser of the Urban Salon.

 

 

Natura Urbana: Ecological constellations in urban space – Matthew Gandy

Date and time
Tuesday 3rd May 2022
6-7.30 pm (British Summer Time)

Location
via Zoom

Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space by Matthew Gandy 

Speakers: 

Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge)

Harriet Bulkeley (Durham University)

Rivke Jaffe (University of Amsterdam)

Erik Swyngedouw (University of Manchester)

Discussant:

Phil Hubbard (King’s College, London)

Chair:

Jenny Robinson (University College London)

Register here.


The Urban Salon is delighted to host the launch of Matthew Gandy’s new book, Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space (MIT, 2022). Matthew draws together different strands of urban ecology as well as insights derived from feminist, posthuman, and postcolonial thought to explore the “other nature” that flourishes in marginal urban spaces, at one remove from the controlled contours of metropolitan nature. This is not the poor relation of rural flora and fauna. As he notes, these islands of biodiversity underline the porosity of the distinction between urban and rural, which he explores through close attention to diverse cultures of nature at a global scale.

Matthew Gandy (University of Cambridge) will present his new book which will be followed by a panel discussion and then a Q&A with the audience. 

Matthew Gandy is Professor of Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Concrete and Clay and The Fabric of Space, both published by MIT Press.

 

Book launch: Defensible Space on the Move – Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick

Date and time
Tuesday 19th May 2022
7-9 pm (British Summer Time)

Location
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), 1 Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2AR, United Kingdom

Book launch: Defensible Space on the Move – Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick

Direct link for registration: https://www.rgs.org/events/summer-2022/book-launch-defensible-space-on-the-move/

 

Please join us in our next event for the launch of the latest book in the RGS-IBG Book Series: Defensible Space on the Move, by Loretta Lees and Elanor Warwick.

The event will include reflections on the book from the authors and experts in the field of housing policy and design.

A drinks reception will follow.

 

Book Description

Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Defensible Space makes an important conceptual contribution to policy mobilities thinking, to policy and practice, and also to practitioners handling of complex spatial concepts.

  • Critically examines the geographical concept Defensible Space, which has been influential in designing out crime to date, and has been applied to housing estates in the UK, North America, Europe and beyond
  • Evaluates the movement/mobility/mobilisation of defensible space from the US to the UK and into English housing policy and practice
  • Explores the multiple ways the concept of defensible space was interpreted and implemented, as it circulated from national to local level and within particular English housing estates 
  • Critiquing and pushing forwards work on policy mobilities, the authors illustrate for the first time how transfer mechanisms worked at both a policy and practitioner level
  • Drawing on extensive archival research, oral histories and in-depth interviews, this important book reveals defensible space to be ambiguous, uncertain in nature, neither proven or disproven scientifically

 

About the Authors

Loretta Lees is an urban geographer who is internationally known for her research on gentrification/urban regeneration, global urbanism, urban policy, urban public space, critical geographies of architecture, and urban social theory. She has been identified as the only woman in the top 20 most referenced authors in urban geography worldwide (Urban Studies, 2017). Since 2009 she has co-organised The Urban Salon: A London Forum for Architecture, Cities and International Urbanism. She is also a Scholar-Activist who supports, and co-produces research with, community groups and social movements, most recently with respect to the demolition of council estates in London. She is the current Chair of the London Housing Panel funded by the GLA and Trust for London; and the incoming Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, USA.

Elanor Warwick worked as an architect and urban designer before focusing on built environment research, particularly design quality and the delivery of good, affordable housing and places. As Head of Research at CABE (Commission for Architecture and Built Environment), she delivered research to shape the policy for a wide range of Central Government Departments (MHCLG, DfE, HO, and the Treasury) and the Greater London Authority. She now works within the social housing sector leading the research and policy team at Clarion Housing Group, England’s largest housing association, whilst continuing to teach and supervise postgraduate students at UCL and Cambridge Universities.

 

Roundtable: Living heritage and urban informalities: perspectives from Southeast Asian cities

Date and time
Monday 6th December 2021
12.30 – 2 pm (GMT); 7.30 – 9 pm (Bangkok)

Location
Online

Roundtable: Living heritage and urban informalities: perspectives from Southeast Asian cities

Panelists

Marina Kolovou Kouri (Urban Designer and Researcher, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL, U.K.)

Elizabeth Rhoads (Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Lund University, Sweden)

Jayde Roberts (Senior Lecturer, UNSW, Australia; SEAC Visiting Fellow)

Sri Suryani (PhD student, Sheffield University, U.K.)

Supitcha Tovivich (Lecturer, Silpakorn University, Thailand)

Moderator

Catalina Ortiz (Associate Professor, Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL, U.K.; SEAC Associate)

Chair

Hyun Bang Shin (Professor of Geography and Urban Studies, LSE, U.K.; Director, LSE SEAC)


The Urban Salon is delighted to host a roundtable discussion together with the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (LSE SEAC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Bartlett Development Planning Unit at the UCL on community practice and heritage featuring the voices of researchers working on Southeast Asia.

Heritage making has often focused on the built form, at the expense of leaving out intangible heritage and everyday life of communities. Living heritage is a concept that enables to rethinking of urban futures based on multiple temporal trajectories and alternative epistemologies of what gets valued in the city and whose spatial practices are legitimized. In exploring living heritage in South East Asian cities we bring together diverse researchers reframing the understanding of it as a process grounded in the everyday practices of communities and as a strategy to gain political leverage to combatting spatial and epistemic violence.

Biographies of Participants

Marina Kolovou Kouri is an urban designer and researcher working on community-led development with a focus on Myanmar. She has been collaborating with grassroots organizations in Yangon, coordinating and/or participating in projects around urban safety, housing, informality, and displacement. She is part of the research team in the ongoing project “Yangon Stories: Framing Living Heritage as Tool to Prevent Spatial Violence,” led by the Development Planning Unit.

Elizabeth Rhoads is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Human Rights in Southeast Asia, splitting time between the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies and the Centre for Human Rights Studies at Lund University.

Jayde Roberts (@JaydeThissa) is a senior lecturer in the School of Built Environment at UNSW Sydney and an interdisciplinary scholar of Urban Studies and Southeast Asian Studies. Her research in Myanmar focuses on urban informality, heritage-making, and the effects of transnational networks. During her 2016-2018 Fulbright US Scholar term, she worked with Myanmar’s universities and municipal departments to investigate discourses of urban development in Yangon. Her book, Mapping Chinese Rangoon: Place and Nation among the Sino-Burmese, was published by University of Washington Press in 2016.

Sri Suryani is a PhD student at the University of Sheffield investigating the displacement process of riverbank settlements by flood-risk mitigation policy in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her research aims to understand the social process in displacements, differentiated water infrastructures, and the temporality of spatial politics.

Supitcha Tovivich is a full-time Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University. She was the Head of Department of Architecture (2015-2018). She received her Ph.D. from the Bartlett DPU, University College London, and her MA in Humanitarian and Development Practice, Oxford Brookes University. Her expertise is in participatory design, participatory community development, co-create city rehabilitation, community engagement, and urban design intervention. Her practice focuses on the integration of architectural education, community-based design studio, and tactical urbanism. She has been working with a number of local communities in Bangkok such as the Khlong Bang Luang community, which is an old canal-sided settlement, the 24-hours Bangkok Flower Market, and other communities in Bangkok Old City Area.

Catalina Ortiz (@cataortiza) is a Colombian urbanist. She uses critical pedagogies and decolonial methodologies to study the politics of space production in cities of the global south in order to find alternative ways to forge spatial-racial-epistemic justice. She currently works as Associate Professor and co-Programme Leader of the MSc Building and Urban Design in Development at University College London.  

Hyun Bang Shin (@urbancommune) is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. He is Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and is also a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation.

Register here.

Image is a photograph of Singapore from Hyun Bang Shin.

 

Roundtable: Comparative Urbanism for Southeast Asia

Date and time
Tuesday 26th October 2021
12 pm (BST)

Location
Online

Roundtable: Comparative Urbanism for Southeast Asia

Panelists

Emma Colven (University of Oklahoma; London School of Economics and Political Science)

Junjia Ye (Nanyang Technological University; ; London School of Economics and Political Science)

Shaun Sheng Kiat Teo (National University of Singapore)

Jeremie Molho (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies)

Chair

Hyun Bang Shin (London School of Economics and Political Science)


The Urban Salon is delighted to host a roundtable discussion together with the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (LSE SEAC) at the London School of Economics and Political Science on comparative urbanism in Southeast Asia. This event is also part of the Southeast Asia Forum organised by LSE SEAC.

The renewed and sustained interest of urban theorists in comparative methodologies has generated a wealth of comparative urban research over the past two decades. However, this scholarship remains dominated by research on African and European cities, with Southeast Asia cities not especially well represented. Bringing together scholars whose work engages with sites across Southeast Asia and beyond, this roundtable discussion is convened to reflect on the present state and future of comparative urban research, and the potential of comparative urbanism to enrich understandings of Southeast Asia. Two sets of questions will guide the discussion: (1) What kind of theory-building or testing does comparative research make possible? How do comparative methodologies generate insights into the particular and the general, the local and the global? (2) How do the panelists choose and conceptualize their research sites? Are some sites incommensurable? What kinds of connections or relationalities does comparative research elucidate?

 

Emma Colven (@EmmaColven) is Assistant Professor of Global Environment at the University of Oklahoma and SEAC visiting Fellow. Her research explores themes of socio-ecological change, environmental expertise, and environmental politics in cities of the global South.

Junjia Ye is is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and SEAC visiting Fellow. Her research interests lie at the intersections of cultural diversity, critical cosmopolitanism, class, gender studies and the political-economic development of urban Southeast Asia.

Shaun Sheng Kiat Teo (@ShaunSKTeo) is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. He is interested in the development of comparative tactics for analytical and conceptual innovation in urban studies. Thematically, his work focuses on experimental urban projects and their underpinning state-society relations. His work seeks to contribute to furthering tactical innovation in comparative urbanism and to theorizing the state’s relevance for progressive urban transformation.

Jérémie Molho (@jeremiehmolho) is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

Hyun Bang Shin (@urbancommune) is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science and directs the LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre. He is Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and is also a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation.

Register here.

Images are collages of photographs from Hyun Bang Shin, featuring Bangkok, Hanoi, Manila, Ho Chi Minh City and Kuala Lumpur.