The **Urban Political** delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world. Providing informed views, state-of-the-art knowledge, and unusual insights, the podcast aims to advance our understanding of urban environments and how we might make them more just and democratic. The **Urban Political** provides a new forum for reflection on bridging urban activism and scholarship, where regular features offer snapshots of pressing issues and new publications, allowing multiple voices of scholars and activists to enter into a transnational debate directly. Hosted and produced by: Ross Beveridge (University of Glasgow) Markus Kip (Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Mais Jafari (Technische Universität Dortmund) Nitin Bathla (ETH-Zürich) Julio Paulos (Université de Lausanne) Nicolas Goez (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Talja Blokland (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Hanna Hilbrandt (Universität Zürich) Powered in partnership with the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Music credits: "Something Elated" by Broke For Free, CC BY 3...
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 22 hours 33 minutes
episode 66: Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy
Ross Beveridge, Philippe Koch and their critics
episode 64: In Conversation with Vera Smirnova (The Urban Lives of Property Series II)
Thinking about Appropriation, Dispossession and Expropriation in Theory and Practice
episode 63: Russian Academia and Urban Activism in Times of War: Insights from St. Petersburg
Conversation with Oleg Pachenkov
episode 62: In Conversation with Nick Blomley (The Urban Lives of Property Series I)
Thinking about Appropriation, Dispossession and Expropriation in Theory and Practice
episode 61: Are Community Land Trusts Transformative?
Community 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 function more as traditional affordable housing providers than as urban commons...
episode 60: On Peripheralisation
A discussion with Shubhra Gururani, Christian Schmid, Michael Lukas, Giulia Torino, Metaxia Markaki, and Faiq Mari
episode 59: Inside the Woman Life Freedom Movement in Iran
Reflections from urban scholar-activists in Tehran
episode 58: Forums of Discussion: sub\urban - journal for critical urban research
Ross speaks with Gala Nettelbladt and Nina Gribat