
Raksha Vasudevan
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Senior Program Manager, Thriving Communities Tech Assistance Center @ICMA |adjunct @UPP_Hunter |climate change, community engagement, youth| she/her
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Bread-and-butter urban planning methods developed in the US and Europe have been deployed in ongoing settlement expansion and the apartheid projects of Israel. A thread w/ scholarly resources on our discipline's complicity in anti-Palestinian injustice: news.climate.columbia.edu/2016/06/22/lan…


'"History can’t be written without us in the center": Colonial trauma, the cartographic body, and decolonizing methodologies in urban planning' by Bjorn Sletto @magdanovoae & Raksha Vasudevan journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…


In the absence of an historical and systemic context, the focus will be placed increasingly on explaining disparate racial outcomes through ‘individual failings’ and ‘cultural differences’, rather than collective things that could be done to address them. shelterforce.org/2023/08/16/wil…



📢📢 Urban Environmental Sociologists, come work with us! Environmental Studies & Sociology Tulane School of Liberal Arts are hiring an advanced assistant or associate professor. Please RT & ask any questions, I'm in the search committee. Apps due by 10/15 apply.interfolio.com/130789


Open letter to Mayor Karen Bass from researchers Institute on Inequality & Democracy expressing grave & urgent concerns about the displacement of, & escalating police violence against, the Aetna Street community, where we have been doing research and collaborative pedagogy for a year. Read & amplify. 1/7


“Thanks to a generous donation by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Wayne State University is proud to announce a multi-year cluster hire of 50 tenured or tenure-track faculty over a three-year period, the establishment of the Detroit Center for Black Study waynetalent.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…


539 UT Austin faculty, representing all ranks and 15 of the University’s colleges and schools, signed an open letter expressing a lack of confidence in President Jay Hartzell. The letter has also been sent to the leaders of the Faculty Council UT Austin Council.
