What is a “Sensible” Wage?
April 28Ryne Moses Maloney-Risner - University of Washington Seattle has been receiving national attention for its progressive political culture since...
Unfree labour and social reproduction
April 16Kendra Strauss-Donald, Simon Fraser University, Department of Geography This work is comprised of several strands, which build on a broader...
OutsideIN – 1,000 Safer by 2015
April 16Real Change, Seattle, Washington, Advocacy and Organizing Program Last January, 3,123 men, women and children were counted without basic shelter...
Contesting the neoliberal metropolis: macroeconomics and/in the city and the 2013 protests in Brazil
April 16Felipe Magalhães – Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil - Department of Geography A wide range of heterogeneous social...
Governing Urban Poverty: Boston, Dublin and Vancouver
April 16Karen Murray - York University - Department of Political Science Empirically, Karen aims to document the governmental and political character and...
Figments of the future: the irony of shelter and security on the Seattle streetscape
April 14Nick Gottschall, University of Washington, Jackson School of International Studies I You can see the gentrification of Seattle’s...
Housing Melbourne Project
March 31Andrea Sharam, Swinburne University of Technology, Institute for Social Research This multi-faceted project responds to the serious decline in...
The making of good migrant workers and the low-wage nation
March 31Carolyn Pinedo Turnovsky, University of Washington, American Ethnic Studies and Law Societies and Justice Program How can we more fully understand...
The New One-Night House: Losing and Gaining Propertied Citizenship After the Foreclosure Crisis
March 31Maggie Wilson, University of Washington, Department of Geography “There is a belief around the world that if you can build a house between sunset...