Urban Political Podcast

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2024-02-29

  In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III)

This episode of the Urban Lives of Property Series expands discussions geographically and conceptually: Our guest in this episode, Jean-David Gerber, helps us think property from Switzerland and other places. Starting off with the observation that ther... 		  Hanna Hilbrandt & Markus Kip author
2024-02-09

  the Far Right and the City

In this discussion, members of the Terra-R (Territorialisations of the Radical Right) network examine the developments of the radical right in Germany beyond simplistic urban-rural and East-West attributions, and outline the current and future challeng... 		  Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland author
2024-02-01

  Rent Strike Series Episode 3

This is episode three of the Rent Strike Series, focusing on the Veritas Tenants Association’s ongoing multibuilding rent strike in San Francisco to demand a say in the terms of sale of their buildings. In November 2023, the Prado Group assumed ownersh... 		  Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland author
2024-01-20

  Episode 71 – Book Review Roundtable: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology

Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities—human and nonhuman—that make up the material politics of city making. Generating fresh conversations between posthuman... 		  Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland author
2024-01-12

  Cosmopolitan Solidarity

To live in the age of precarity is a tolling, everyday struggle. It erodes one's strength to carry on, live another day, and keep the hope for a modicum of prosperity due to come in some vague future. And when things get unbearably harsh, when the hege... 		  Hanna Hilbrandt & Markus Kip author
2023-11-30

  Property Rights Versus Tenants in Poland

Unregulated restitution of property to prewar owners (or rather their legal successors) remains a major source of conflict over housing in Poland, most notably in Warsaw. This episode features Beata Siemieniako, a Warsaw lawyer and urban activist who h... 		  Florian Peters, Markus Kip author
2023-09-21

  Rent Strike Series Episode 2

This is episode two of the Rent Strike Series, focusing on the Veritas Tenants Association’s ongoing multibuilding rent strike in San Francisco to demand a say in the terms of sale of their buildings. On August 30, corporate landlord Ballast Investment... 		  Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland, Mathilde Lind Gustavussen author
2023-09-01

  Book Review Roundtable: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning

Against the Commons underscores how urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future,... 		  Nitin Bathla author
2023-08-25

  Rent Strike Series Episode 1

The first in an ongoing series hosted by Mathilde Gustavussen 		  Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland author
2023-08-01

  Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy

We live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What imp... 		  Ross Beveridge, Nitin Bathla author