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Urbanization, Gender, and the Global South: A transformative knowledge network (GenUrb)

February 27

PI: Linda Peake, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada Situated within the dynamic early 21st century context of urbanization, the GenUrb project...

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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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Transient Spatialities, Embedded bodies – An ethnographic exploration of the everyday practices of pavement dwellers in Mumbai

January 30

Paroj Banerjee, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) This thesis examines how urban...

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Spaces in Transition? Mapping Manila’s Peri-Urban Fringe

May 2

Arnisson Andre C. Ortega, University of the Philippines, Population Institute In recent decades, neoliberal restructuring has facilitated dramatic...

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(In)Visible Boundaries: Uneven Housing Development and the Spatialization of Class in Nanjing, China

March 19

Sarah Tynen, University of Colorado - Boulder, Department of Geography Since 1978, free-market economic reforms in China decentralized state power...

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The #GlobalPOV Project

February 10

Ananya Roy, University of California Los Angeles and Abby VanMuijen, University of California, Berkeley The turn of the century is marked by the...

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The Great Transformation: Neoliberalization, the urban commons and socio-spatial justice in Jakarta, Indonesia

February 4

Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography Asian cities long have labored under the shadow of...

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Himalaya Climate Change Adaptation Programme

December 3

Asuncion Lera St.Clair, Research Director, CICERO-Center for International Climate and Environmental Research- Oslo  The Himalaya Climate Change...

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Global Capitalism: A Love Story, an Enigma, a Tragedy

December 1

Jim Glassman, University of British Columbia Global poverty and income inequality studies have received variable attention since the Second World...

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