In Praise of the Margin Podcast
1) Learning to Transgress (with Leigh Patel)
Leigh Patel (Professor at the University of Pittsburgh and Author of No Study without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education) discusses how learning and struggle intertwine. Wha...Show More
2) The Fragmentary Social Life of the Metroscene (with Rashmi Sadana)
Rashmi Sadana (Author and Associate Professor at George Mason University) talks about the metroscene in Delhi and how mega-infrastructure projects (re)shape cities and crowds, based on her extensive r...Show More
3) Blackness (Re)making Place and Poetic Rhymes (with Dr. Rashad Shabazz)
Dr. Rashad Shabazz (Associate Professor in African American studies and geography at Arizona State University) walks us through how urban planning and policing social relations are mobilised to create...Show More
4) Reading Southern Theory and Knowledge Hegemony Through Informality (with Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan)
Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan (Research fellow at the Laboratory for Social Geography at the University of Florence in Italy) talks about his transition from architecture/urban planning in India to acade...Show More
5) Uncovering Colonial Violence in the Public Space (with Françoise Vergès)
Françoise Vergès, writer, historian, activist and public educator, walks us through the mise en scène of ‘the colonial triangle’ in the 12th Arrondissement in Paris. Between le Palais de la Porte Doré...Show More
6) Ruminations on the Built Environment and Modern Heritage (with Dr. Asma Mehan)
Dr. Asma Mehan (Postdoctoral fellow at Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology) talks about her work on the built environment, where she bridges between history and urban s...Show More
Ruminations on the Built Environment and Modern Heritage (with Dr. Asma Mehan)
24:37 | Oct 24th, 2021
7) Squatters, Urban Commoning, and Organization (with Dr. Miguel A. Martínez)
Prof. Miguel A. Martínez (Uppsala University) discusses his work on the leftist squatters' movements in the capitalist city, commoning the urban space, and squatting as a form of organization and alte...Show More
8) Bridging Voices Beyond the West (with Mariko Sugita)
Mariko Sugita, an editor, journalist, and researcher on all things architecture and urbanism talks about her projects that aim to connect voices beyond the borders. We discuss urban studies in the wes...Show More