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Spaces of Dissent, Protest and Transformation: Past, Present and Future

According to the human rights group, Article 19, more than 5.6 billion people in the world have seen a decline in their freedom of expression over the last decade (Article 19, 2025).

In the UK, for example, the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 is notable for not only strengthening the police capacities to govern physical places to protest, but also in granting police greater legal powers to restrict what they judge to be more ‘sensual’ protest tactics, such as ‘noise’ and ‘intimidation’. Pioneering surveillance mechanisms – facial recognition and digital profiling – similarly empower the authorities to not only arrest protestors in public space, but also to pre-empt activism and curtail it before it even occurs. Similar surveillance mechanisms are also at work in urban regeneration schemes.

But ordering and governing public spaces of dissent and protest have rich historical legacies in modern British and European histories. For example, the zoning of public spaces to regulate and govern protest was a common police tactic in nineteenth-century London, while the authorities adopted sensual (e.g. ‘noise’) and surveillance mechanisms of the time to monitor activists in London’s urban spaces.

Through an innovative convergence of disciplinary perspectives this symposium will explore these issues through a range of case studies from the past and the present to highlight some themes for future research on spaces of dissent, protest and transformation. Topics include:

• The changing nature of public spaces of protest in the UK from the nineteenth century until the present.
• Monuments, public landscapes and free speech.
• Social movements and protest.
• Sensual public spaces, aesthetics, and experiences.
• Socio-legal regulation of protest.

This event is in collaboration with the  Political Studies Association: Political and Social Movements Group and Human Geography Research Group Brunel

Symposium Details

 1pm: Arrival

 1.10pm: Introduction

 1.30pm: Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire): Resistance to the Ongoing Enclosure of Public Space: Protest as Practices of Commoning.

2.15-2.30pm: Break

2.30-3.30pm: Matthew Hughes (Brunel University):Regulating Dissent in British Mandate Palestine, 1917-1948.

Jasbinder Nijjar (Goldsmith College):Resisting Racial Police Warfare Through Radical History.

3.30-3.45pm Break

3.45-4.45pm Anneleen Kenis (Brunel University): A Race Against the Clock? On the Paradoxes of Acting ‘Now’ in the Climate Struggle.

John Roberts (Brunel University): The Neoliberalisation of the Marble Arch Landscape for Free Speech.

 4.45-5.00pm Conclusions

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Cinema and the City in the Era of Planetary Urbanisation

This book talk asks what it means to approach cinema not only as a medium of representation, but as a method of urban research. In presenting Cinema and the City in the Era of Planetary Urbanisation (2026, JOVIS), Nitin Bathla reflects on how film can open alternative ways of sensing, documenting, and analysing contemporary urbanisation. The volume brings together interdisciplinary contributions that treat cinema as an active participant in the production of urban knowledge, rather than a passive mirror of the city.

Drawing on case studies that span urban centres, infrastructural corridors, and extended urban landscapes, the book situates cinema within debates on planetary urbanisation, infrastructure, labour migration, and environmental transformation. Contributors examine how cinematic practices register urban processes that unfold across scales and temporalities, often remaining invisible to conventional planning, policy, and analytical frameworks.

The book foregrounds film as a situated and embodied practice of inquiry that intervenes in how urbanisation is made visible and intelligible. Attending to sensory, temporal, and affective registers, the contributions unsettle dominant visual regimes and open space for alternative urban imaginaries and modes of engagement.

The talk will be accompanied by the screening of selected excerpts from Bathla’s documentary Not Just Roads, which is also discussed in the volume. The film excerpts will be used to reflect on cinema’s capacity to operate as a research practice—one that intervenes in debates in urban political ecology by foregrounding infrastructure, everyday life, and environmental struggle.

Read the open-access book

Watch the open-access film

This event is in collaboration with the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE.

Meet our speaker, discussants and chair

Nitin Bathla is Group Leader in Infrastructure Geography at the University of Zurich, and Lecturer in Urban Studies at ETH Zurich. He is the author of the award-winning book Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methods for Urban and Landscape Studies and the critically acclaimed documentary Not Just Roads. He serves as an editor at Urban Geography and the Urban Political Podcast. His research is situated in the field of urban political ecology, with a focus on infrastructure, environmental governance, and the socio-ecological dimensions of urbanization. His work combines transdisciplinary academic inquiry with artistic practices.

Mónica Degen is Professor of Urban Studies, Brunel University London. She has worked on a range of international projects researching the role sensory experiences play in framing architectural practices, urban planning and culture in cities from Doha to Cologne, Barcelona and London. She has written on how the transformation of public spaces affects different communities, processes of cultural regeneration and the sensory and temporal experiencing of urban places from high streets, heritage areas or shopping malls. In recent years her work has  examined how digital technologies are transforming the design and experience of cities discussed in her latest book ‘The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change’ co-authored with Gillian Rose (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Myria Georgiou is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE. Professor Georgiou researches and teaches on migration and urbanisation in the context of their increasing mediation and digitisation. In research conducted across 8 countries over the last 25 years, she has been studying communication practices and media representations that profoundly, but unevenly, shape meanings and experiences of citizenship and identity.  Her latest book is Being Human in Digital Cities (Polity/Wiley 2024, winner of the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication book award, 2025). She is also the author and editor of five other books, including  The Digital Border (2022, NYU Press, with L.Chouliaraki) and The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration (2019, with co-editors K.Smets, K.Leurs, S.Witteborn, R.Gajjala).

Hyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Head of the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK, Professor Shin has contributed to reshaping the understanding of contemporary urban transformation, emphasising the socio-political dynamics of cities in rapidly developing regions, particularly in East and Southeast Asia. From 2018 to 2023, he served as Director of theSaw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE, fostering interdisciplinary research on Asia. He was the Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research from 2021 to 2024 and a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation from 2016 to 2023, contributing to global urban scholarship and mentorship. Since 2009, he has co-organised The Urban Salon, a London-based forum for architecture, cities, and international urbanism.

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The Department of Geography and Environment is a centre of international academic excellence in economic, urban and development geography, environmental social science and climate change.

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Book Launch: Postcapitalist Cities

Book Launch: The Chaos Precinct: Johannesburg as a Port City (Jacana, Johannesburg) by Tanya Zack

This event is in collaboration with the UCL Urban Laboratory.

Meet the author

Tanya Zack is a South African urban planner and writer whose work has focused on urban regeneration, contemporary migration, informal work, urban policy and affordable housing. Her writing in Wake Up This Is Joburg (Duke University Press, 2022) has been lauded for being amongst the freshest and most original material on an African city. It was included in the longlist of the 2024 Sunday Times/Exclusive Books Literary Awards. The products of her professional practice in Johannesburg’s inner city, including an inner-city transformation policy, and a study of cross border shopping, are recognised as ground-breaking interventions. She grew up in a near inner-city suburb.

To discuss the book, which Tanya Zack will first present, we have invited the following panel:

Professor Laura Hammond (Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Knowledge Exchange and Professor of Development Studies at SOAS). She has been conducting research on conflict, food security, refugees, migration and diasporas in and from the Horn of Africa since the early 1990s. She is the author of ‘This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia’ (Cornell University Press: 2004), editor (with Christopher Cramer and Johan Pottier of Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges [Brill 2011] and several book and journal articles.

Dr Beacon Mbiba (Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University) is a scholar of urban studies and international development. Beacon is a leading writer on Zimbabwean urban planning and development, including markets, housing and diaspora, with key articles Current research interests include better data to understand African urbanisation, peri-urbanisation, land transformations, accumulation by dispossession, diaspora-led development and integration of new migrants to the United Kingdom.

Professor Jennifer Robinson (Professor of Human Geography, UCL). Jennifer is author of Ordinary Cities (Routledge, 2006) and Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies (Wiley-Blackwell, 2022). She has researched and published on urban development politics in Johannesburg for over two decades. Her current collaborative ERC funded research, focuses on the transnational circuits shaping large scale urban developments in three African contexts (Accra, Ghana; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Lilongwe, Malawi).

The panel will be chaired by Prof Claire Mercer (Geography, LSE). Claire’s early work developed postcolonial approaches to civil society and diaspora (Development and the African Diaspora, Bloomsbury, 2009) and more recently she has focussed on the significance of property to middle class reproduction in suburban Dar es Salaam, in her book, The suburban frontier: middle class construction in Dar es Salaam (University of California Press, 2024).

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Established in 2005, the UCL Urban Laboratory investigates, proposes and disseminates critical solutions to a wide range of social, physical and technological urban and built environment issues, with a focus on the grand challenges of our time.

The Urban Salon is a London-based forum for architecture, cities, and international urbanism.

People-led Development: interstitial practice and the production of differential spaces in Hanoi

In this event, Hoai Anh Tran presents key discussions in her recently published book People-led Development: Interstitial Practice and the Production of Differential Spaces in Hanoi (2026, Routledge), co-authored with Ngai-Ming Yip. Using Hanoi as a case study, the book explores city-making with a focus on activities carried out by ordinary people.

The book integrates the concept of interstitial practice with Lefebvre’s framework of the production of differential space to conceptualise the diverse and seemingly ad-hoc space-making activities of urban residents. These practices are situated in relation to the state’s disciplining projects through housing and urban planning. Moving beyond a simplistic, dichotomised discussion of informality and formality the book examines the tensions between state-driven visions of modernized urbanisation and everyday spatial practices of ordinary people. The book demonstrates how focusing on interstitial practices enables a more nuanced understanding of the diverse processes through which various forms differential spaces are produced.

By focusing on the more “ordinary components” of city-making that are often overlooked or neglected, the book highlights the spatial agency of ordinary people in responding to the imposition of state-sanctioned abstract spaces and the suppression of state social engineering. It argues that induced or minimal differential spaces, while fragmented and limited in scale, carry political significance. These spaces not only act as forms of resistance, but their accumulation also holds transformative potential.

This event is in collaboration with the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE.

Meet our speaker, discussants and chair

Hoai Anh Tran is an Associate Professor of Built Environment at the Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University, Sweden. Her research provides a critical analysis of the relationship between the state and society in urban space production, in the formulation and implementation of urban and housing policies, as well as the relationship between people and the built environment, with studies from Vietnam and Sweden. Her research topics include urban development policies and social justice, sustainable planning, urban space production, housing research, gentrification, everyday mobility, informality, and rhythm analysis.

Mara Nogueira is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London. She is an urban geographer with an interdisciplinary background in Geography and Economics and research expertise on urbanisation in the Global South with a focus on socio-spatial inequalities and grassroots mobilisation in Brazil. Her scholarship is committed to identifying the roots and ways of addressing socio-spatial inequalities with an aim to promote social justice. She is the Principal Investigator of the project Globalisation from below: livelihoods, trade and transnationalism in Brazil’s informal economy, funded by the British Academy.

Hanh-An Trinh is a PhD student at the Department of Geography & Environment at LSE. Her current research looks at the everyday imaginaries of urban futures, examining how the residents and workers anticipate and speculate on the futures of themselves and of their city.

Hyun Bang Shin (@urbancommune) is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Head of the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the UK, Professor Shin has contributed to reshaping the understanding of contemporary urban transformation, emphasising the socio-political dynamics of cities in rapidly developing regions, particularly in East and Southeast Asia. From 2018 to 2023, he served as Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at LSE, fostering interdisciplinary research on Asia. He was the Editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research from 2021 to 2024 and a trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation from 2016 to 2023, contributing to global urban scholarship and mentorship. Since 2009, he has co-organised The Urban Salon, a London-based forum for architecture, cities, and international urbanism.

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The Urban Salon is a London-based forum for architecture, cities, and international urbanism.

Developing an Anti-Displacement Tool for the City of Louisville, KY

In 2023, the City of Louisville, Kentucky, passed an Anti-Displacement Ordinance, a major victory for the Louisville Tenants Union which was championed by progressive city council member Jecorey Arthur. This talk shares the process of implementing the next step of the policy: developing an Anti-Displacement Tool, which had to be approved by the City Council prior to use (it was passed in late 2024).

The tool’s aim is to mitigate the displacement that can occur from publicly subsidized housing projects. The tool will also serve as an online, open access resource for the public. The dashboard we developed for the tool innovates on two fronts: First, it combines data inputs about proposed residential projects together with multiple sources of data to create a measure of displacement risk in and around the area in which the proposed project is to be built. Through a statistical model the tool estimates the impact of the project on local rent levels and home values. Second, the tool uses these quantitative outputs (the measure of displacement risk) with a matrix that enables the City to say no to some proposed projects, or yes but with certain changes as a condition of funding. Read more.

Meet our speaker and chair

Professor Loretta Lees (@LorettaCLees) (MAE, FAcSS) is an urban geographer and urbanist who is internationally known for her research on gentrification, urban regeneration, global urbanism, urban policy, urban public space, and urban social theory. She is currently Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University and a visiting professor at Singapore Management University’s Urban Institute and in Geography & the Environment at LSE.

Since 2024 she has co-organised the Boston Urban Salon; she previously co-organised 2009-2022 The Urban Salon: A London forum for architecture, cities and international urbanism and 2016-22 the Leicester Urban Observatory. She was Chair of the London Housing Panel 2020-22 working with the Mayor of London.

She has published 18 books and nearly 80 journal articles. Her lastest book, co-authored with Elanor Warwick – Defensible Space: mobilisation in English Housing Policy and Practice was awarded the International Planning History Society (IPHS) Book Prize #1 2024. In 2023 she was ranked in the top 2% of most highly cited scholars internationally (Scopus, Elsevier, 2023). In 2022 she was awarded the Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award by the Urban Affairs Association.

Professor Hyun Bang Shin (@urbancommune) is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and Head of Department at the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE.

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The Department of Geography and Environment (@LSEGeography) is a center of international academic excellence in economic, urban and development geography, environmental social science and climate change.

This event is in collaboration with the Department of Sociology and The Urban Salon.

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

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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

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 landscape, infrastructure, 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.

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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 landscape, infrastructure, 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.

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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 landscape, infrastructure, 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.