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Marginal Nightscapes: contradictions of neoliberal urbanism in Mumbai, India

February 27

Aparna Parikh, Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University The growth of the neoliberal service sector in Mumbai, India, has...

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Joyful Academic Subjects

January 23

Karen Falconer Al-Hindi, Department of Geography and Women’s & Gender Studies, University of Nebraska at Omaha Pamela Moss, Department of...

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Feeding the Crisis: Work, Gender and the Growing Food Safety Net in the U.S.

September 29

Maggie Dickinson, Assistant Professor, Guttman Community College, CUNY The food safety net has experienced unprecedented growth in the 21st...

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Middle Class Identities and Job Instability: explorations on class identifications of temporary state workers

September 11

Santiago García Martín, Social Sciences PhD. Candidate, Centro de Investigaciones Sociohistóricas, Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y...

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Who Governs the ‘Ungovernable’? Examining the Modes of Governance in Urban Informality

August 4

Redento B. Recio, The University of Queensland, School of Geography, Planning, and Environmental Management Over the years, studies have noted...

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Viviendo del rebusque: studying how law affects the working poor in Bogotá-Colombia

May 6

Laura Porras, University of Ottowa My doctoral dissertation focuses on describing, understanding, analyzing and evaluating how both State and...

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Local social innovation, welfare state restructuring and anti-poverty policies

May 2

Stijn Oosterlynck, Associate Professor, Research Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City (OASeS), Department of Sociology,...

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Rural Women and the Uneven Process of Inclusion

September 17

Tara Cookson, University of Cambridge, Department of Geography Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) have become the world’s most popular tools for...

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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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