A început ploaia – Fighting for the right to housing in Bucharest
April 26Michele Lancione, Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield Accordingly to Amnesty International, in Romania ‘the right to housing is not...
Relational Poverty Research by RPN Members
Filter by: All | Economic Crisis | Poverty discourse | Inequality | Difference: | Places: N. America, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia
Visualities of Homelessness and Ecology: Of Hot Spots and High Lines
April 18Eric Goldfischer, PhD Student in Geography, University of Minnesota Cities have long tried to influence the ways in which homelessness, and...
Place and Citizenship at Home
January 13Sheryl-Ann Simpson, University of California, Davis, Landscape Architecture + Environmental Design When inequality happens within one...
Multi-sectoral approaches to poverty reduction: charity or change?
September 26Shauna MacKinnon, Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Inner City Studies, University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, Canada is a mid-size city in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Rural Women and the Uneven Process of Inclusion
September 17Tara Cookson, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become the world’s most popular tools for...