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Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members

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“My Hamburg” – “My Rio de Janeiro“ Ordinary Homeless Cities?” Geographies of Homelessness in the context of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Hamburg (Germany)

January 23

Katharina Schmidt, Working Group Critical Geographies of Global Inequalities, Institute for Geography, University of Hamburg, Germany The photo...

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Regulation by ambiguity: The spatial politics of a Paraguayan frontier economy

August 19

Jennifer Tucker, University of California at Berkeley, Department of City and Regional Planning Since the 1980s, extra-legal networks of custom...

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Emerging Gang Geographies

May 18

Dirk Kinsey, Portland State University, Department of Geography  This project examines changing patterns of youth and gang violence in the...

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Cultivating capital: Urban agriculture, eco-gentrification, and resistance in the Sustainable City

May 18

Nathan McClintock, Portland State University, Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning This mixed-methods project examines urban agriculture's...

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Philadelphia Field Project: Toward a use-value geography of poverty

May 9

Lakshman Yapa - Pennsylvania State University - Department of Geography The project is to build an interdisciplinary research initiative on urban...

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Resilience of the Residuals in the Post-Welfare Inner City

May 9

Geoffrey DeVerteuil - Cardiff University - School of Planning and Geography The focal point for this book is on the ‘how’ of resilience, the...

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