Latest Urban studies Podcast Episodes
78 - Book Review: Waste and the City
Urban Political Podcast - July 17, 2024 16:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating cons...
Episode 77 - Post-Socialist Infrastructure
Urban Political Podcast - June 19, 2024 09:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode we talk about garages, trams and trolleybuses! Our guests for this episode, Tauri Tuvikene and Wladimir Sgibnev, help us think about post-socialist mobility in terms of continuities and ruptures. Using examples from Estonia, East Germany, and the former Soviet Union, they question...
Episodio 76 - En conversación con Clara Salazar (The Urban Lives of Property Series IV)
Urban Political Podcast - April 29, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this inaugural Spanish-language episode of the Urban Political Podcast, Clara Salazar delves into the history and concept of the ejidos—collective forms of land ownership introduced by the Mexican Revolution in 1917. Following this, the state began redistributing land to impoverished farmers u...
Episode 75 – Book Review Roundtable: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology
Urban Political Podcast - March 27, 2024 10:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities—human and nonhuman—that make up the material politics of city making. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, ...
In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III)
Urban Political Podcast - February 29, 2024 08:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode of the Urban Lives of Property Series expands discussions geographically and conceptually: Our guest in this episode, Jean-David Gerber, helps us think property from Switzerland and other places. Starting off with the observation that there is no single understanding of property, Jea...
the Far Right and the City
Urban Political Podcast - February 09, 2024 09:13 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this discussion, members of the Terra-R (Territorialisations of the Radical Right) network examine the developments of the radical right in Germany beyond simplistic urban-rural and East-West attributions, and outline the current and future challenges for academia and civil society alike.
Rent Strike Series Episode 3
Urban Political Podcast - February 01, 2024 04:35 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is episode three of the Rent Strike Series, focusing on the Veritas Tenants Association’s ongoing multibuilding rent strike in San Francisco to demand a say in the terms of sale of their buildings. In November 2023, the Prado Group assumed ownership of 20 Veritas-owned buildings, while on Ja...
Episode 71 – Book Review Roundtable: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology
Urban Political Podcast - January 20, 2024 09:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities—human and nonhuman—that make up the material politics of city making. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, ...
Cosmopolitan Solidarity
Urban Political Podcast - January 12, 2024 16:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTo live in the age of precarity is a tolling, everyday struggle. It erodes one's strength to carry on, live another day, and keep the hope for a modicum of prosperity due to come in some vague future. And when things get unbearably harsh, when the hegemony of neoliberalism has individualised the ...
Property Rights Versus Tenants in Poland
Urban Political Podcast - November 30, 2023 10:10 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsUnregulated restitution of property to prewar owners (or rather their legal successors) remains a major source of conflict over housing in Poland, most notably in Warsaw. This episode features Beata Siemieniako, a Warsaw lawyer and urban activist who has been supporting tenants in their struggle ...
Rent Strike Series Episode 2
Urban Political Podcast - September 21, 2023 10:45 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is episode two of the Rent Strike Series, focusing on the Veritas Tenants Association’s ongoing multibuilding rent strike in San Francisco to demand a say in the terms of sale of their buildings. On August 30, corporate landlord Ballast Investments won the auction for Veritas Investments’ de...
Book Review Roundtable: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning
Urban Political Podcast - September 01, 2023 06:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAgainst the Commons underscores how urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a post...
Rent Strike Series Episode 1
Urban Political Podcast - August 25, 2023 10:11 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe first in an ongoing series hosted by Mathilde Gustavussen
Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy
Urban Political Podcast - August 01, 2023 07:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What implications does this have for democracy? This...
Book Review Roundtable: Migrants and Machine Politics
Urban Political Podcast - July 01, 2023 13:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly ...
In Conversation with Vera Smirnova (The Urban Lives of Property Series II)
Urban Political Podcast - June 19, 2023 10:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this second part of the series Urban Lives of Property, Hanna and Markus talk to Vera Smirnova, a human and political geographer to discuss property and territory from a Russian perspective. Smirnova’s genealogical account moves from the Czarist period to this day, illuminating also the curren...
Russian Academia and Urban Activism in Times of War: Insights from St. Petersburg
Urban Political Podcast - May 22, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsMeet urban scholar Oleg Pachenkov who left Russia few weeks after the invasion of Ukraine. Markus speaks with him about his personal and professional trajectory as a critical scholar bringing him to Berlin. The conversation covers the breakdown of the public sphere in Russia within weeks after th...
In Conversation with Nick Blomley (The Urban Lives of Property Series I)
Urban Political Podcast - April 02, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis podcast series explores the "life of property" in urban theory and practice. In conversations with scholars who have led the way in property debates, it aims is to advance conceptual and theoretical groundwork on this notion that fundamentally shapes everyday urban lives and political discus...
Are Community Land Trusts Transformative?
Urban Political Podcast - March 17, 2023 14:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsCommunity land trusts are proliferating across the globe, promoted as a potential solution to the ever-worsening affordable housing crisis. CLTs provide a mechanism for decommodification, collective ownership, and community control; however, those ideals are hard to operationalize, and many CLTs ...
On Peripheralisation
Urban Political Podcast - February 09, 2023 17:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHow do “peripheries” form? And how does urbanization generate processes of peripheralization? Today, urban research is increasingly confronted with processes of extended urbanization that unfold far beyond cities and agglomerations: novel patterns of urbanization are crystallizing in agricultural...
Inside the Woman Life Freedom Movement in Iran
Urban Political Podcast - January 30, 2023 12:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsListen to this gripping account from the current „Woman Life Freedom“ movement in Iran and its impact on cities and its inhabitants. The movement was sparked by the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini in the custody of the Islamic regime’s „morality police“ in September 2022. After several weeks of upris...
Forums of Discussion: sub\urban - journal for critical urban research
Urban Political Podcast - January 12, 2023 17:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHaving just celebrated the 10th anniversary of the important German-language journal for critical urban research, Ross speaks with sub\urban editorial members Gala Nettelbladt and Nina Gribat about why it is important to publish urban research in German, the challenge of organizing a horizontal e...
Book Review Roundtable: Art & Climate Change
Urban Political Podcast - November 25, 2022 09:05 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe book provides an overview of ecologically conscious contemporary art that responds to today’s environmental crisis, from species extinction to climate change. Art and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency. When the future of life on Ear...
Urbanization: A Contested Concept (Urban Concepts Series)
Urban Political Podcast - October 05, 2022 05:10 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsUrbanization has become central in recent political discourses, as well as a contested concept in experts' spheres. This podcast of the Urban Political delves into the phenomenon of urbanization and traces back how the idea of "expanding cities" is causing disagreement in urban studies and leadin...
Dispatch from RC21 Conference 2022 – Ordinary cities in exceptional times
Urban Political Podcast - September 12, 2022 17:23 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe RC21 Conference 2022, “Ordinary cities in exceptional times,” was held in Athens from August, 24 to 26. A large group of participants from all over the world gathered for was the first in-person conference of the RC21 network since the start of the pandemic. However, the pandemic continued to...
Dispatch from INURA Conference 2022 in Luxemburg
Urban Political Podcast - July 27, 2022 08:35 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThe 30th annual INURA Conference entitled "Small State Big Transitions” was held in Luxembourg from June 25 to 28. Over 60 participants gathered at the conference to learn about the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and to celebrate the 30 years INURA. This year’s conference was organised by the Urban St...
Landscapes of Care and Control
Urban Political Podcast - July 13, 2022 22:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis episode looks at urban landscapes of care and control that emerged during the pandemic in Santiago de Chile (Chile), Bogotá (Colombia) and Berlin (Germany). It is a comparative conversation on the urban impasse of state interventions and everyday logics under COVID19 in each of these cities ...
Book Review Roundtable: Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds
Urban Political Podcast - June 01, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode moderated by Nitin Bathla, the author Colin McFarlane discusses his recent book Fragments of the City with the critics Theresa Enright, Tatiana Thieme, and Kevin Ward. In analyzing the main arguments of the book, Theresa discusses the role of aesthetics in imagining, sensing, and ...
Racism and Social Mix
Urban Political Podcast - May 08, 2022 14:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsSocial mix has become a central planning discourse worldwide to address urban inequalities and segregation as key urban problems of the 21st century. Far from being benevolent, the discourse of social mix and its related implementations are subjected to a fundamental critique highlighting racist ...
Community and Commons (Urban Concepts)
Urban Political Podcast - March 31, 2022 10:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this first episode of the Urban Concept series, Louis Volont (MIT, Boston) and Thijs Lijster (University of Groningen) discuss with Talja Blokland (Humboldt University, Berlin) the concepts of community and commons and consider implications for urban research and action. The series introduces ...
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