Living the Dream: youth, unemployment, and the promise of a middle-class life in Cairo
May 1Harry Pettit, London School of Economics The rise of a Global Middle Class has been lauded by development institutions, the media, and academia...
Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members
Filter by: All | Economic Crisis | Poverty discourse | Inequality | Difference: | Places: N. America, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia
Political infrastructure: community wireless mesh networks and urban politics
March 24Emma Slager, University of Washington In this project, I examine community-built Internet infrastructure as it relates to broader struggles for...
Governing the “Post-Conflict” City: Urban Futures in Bogotá
March 16Emma Shaw Crane, New York University The progressive urban planning projects of Bogotá, Colombia are celebrated globally as models of inclusion,...
The Politics of Cross Class Alliance-Building in a Mixed-Income Neighborhood
March 16Anisa Jackson, University of Washington This research project considers the politics of cross-class relationships in the Seattle mixed-income...
A Multi State Study of Monetary Sanctions
March 9Alexes Harris, Associate Professor of Sociology Recent media attention on the justice practices of imposing fiscal penalties highlights the need...
Planning for property? (Counter)performing property within and beyond “land use” planning
March 4Trevor Wideman, PhD student @ Simon Fraser University This project questions the concept of “land use” as it has been used in the discipline...
The RPN at Urban Color-Lines: thinking through inequality, democracy, and a politics of hope
February 29Yui Hashimoto (Ph.C., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Magie Ramírez (Ph.C., University of Washington), Yolanda Valencia (Ph.D. student,...
The politics of SNAP: Stimulus, Stigma, and Supermarket Redlining
February 23Jerry Shannon, University of Georgia The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) has long been touted for...
Practicing solidarity: Mexican Hometown Associations in New York City
February 22Araby Smyth, University of Kentucky, Department of Geography I am interested in how people cope with and resist neoliberal governance and...