Episode Archive

• The urban politics of density in and beyond the pandemic

  This podcast explores how the pandemic is changing density around the world and generating forms of politics. With a diverse group of scholars and practitioners from around the world, the podcas...

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• The Urban Hinterlands of Slavery

  The transatlantic slave trade had a lasting impact not only on the development of big ports like Liverpool, London, Nantes or Bordeaux, but also in cities that far less frequently associated wit...

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• Film-Making as Urban Research

  Emerging film-makers and urban researchers Nitin Bathla, Sandra Jasper, and Tino Buchholz speak about their avenues into film-production, why film amounts to a vital medium for urban research, a...

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• Urban Climate Finance at the edge of viability?

  Amidst the rapidly unfolding ecological crisis, current research is witnessing ever new financial strategies that aim at making money from urban climate risks. In this episode Hanna Hilbrandt in...

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• Mobilization and advocacy in contexts of massive urbanisation - Part 2
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• Mobilization and Advocacy in Massive Urbanization Contexts - Part I

  Throughout the global south, many urban regions have become massive. In the familiar renditions of this notion, urban regions, mushrooming in population and spatial footprints, teeter close to c...

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• Radical Municipal Politics in Latin America since the 1990s

  Gianpaolo Baiocchi offers us an historical overview of what he terms Radical Cities in Latin America and draws out some lessons from the past 30 years. Comparing these experiences to municipal p...

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• COVID-19 and its impact on public life and use of public space

  This episode discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the behavior of people in public spaces in Dortmund (Germany), San Francisco (USA) and Isfahan (Iran). My guests, Teresa Sprague and Ghazal Farja...

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• Murray Bookchin, Municipalism, Popular Democracy and Left Politics

  In this podcast we discuss the work of Murray Bookchin, relating it to the experiences and debates around municipalism and wider left political practices and theory. With our guests (Blair, Hila...

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• Multiple Crises and Radical Urban Research (AfterCorona #13)

  Starting off from her latest agenda-setting article "What does it mean to be a radical urban scholar-activist, or activist scholar today?" published earlier this year in the relaunch issue of th...

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