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Was gestern/heute in dieser Stadt passiert ist, ist ein Politikum, das einer dringenden politischen Aufarbeitung aus 'linker' Perspektive bedarf. 'Wir holen uns die Stadt zurück',war unser Wahlkampfslogan 2016,als Die Linke Berlin. In welch unrühmliche ironische 1/ #SyndikatBleibt

I wrote a piece about how the catastrophe in Beirut was also partially caused by the depredations of global maritime capital and the deadly legal devices that make such danger possible. Thanks to Dan Hancox for commissioning & editing it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Rest in Power, David Graeber. A powerful and dedicated teacher, colleague, activist and comrade whose absence will be felt deeply. Photos from the first Decolonising LSE event, 11 June 2019, and the Climate Strike, 29 November 2019. You will live though thousands of us.

A couple of weeks to submit your abstracts to 'Dislocating #urbanstudies' WS! For details: iuresearch.se/cfps-dislocati… @KadiogluDefne @lorenamelgaco Miguel A. Martinez (Uppsala University) HELSUS University of Helsinki @IURMAU Urbaria Institute

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🎉 The 2021 Distinguished Scholarship Honors is bestowed on Cindi Katz for for her pioneering and sweeping contributions to the disciplinary fields of feminist geography, Marxist feminist theory, children’s geographies, political ecology, and epistemology. bit.ly/3mgPCC5

Next Wednesday (Dec 1, 10am WAT/CET) we'll host a webinar with Gabriele Bammer and Ayobami Ojebode discussing the co-production of research and the communication outputs to increase the impact of postgraduate research. You can register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Join us for our upcoming webinar on March 14 (11 am UTC+2). Miriam Maina Miriam Maina, Deborah Bunmi Ojo Deborah Bunmi OJO, and Nadine Appelhans will give you an insight into their research on challenges Africa's cities are facing. Zoom ID: 948 2475 7879, password: urbanlab

Our KNUST colleagues Clifford Amoako and Akosua Amaka-Otchere will present some of their work on artisanal mining in Ghana and other recent research this Thursday 5pm at IfA (room A 053, groundfloor). Join us in person or online (tu-berlin.zoom.us/j/68223357603)

The call for the 18-month postdoc fellowship at the school for Architecture and Planning (Wits) within the Wits-TUB-UniLag Urban Lab was extended and is open till April 30. Please find the details on the school's website: wits.ac.za/soap/bursaries…

Prof Sarah Charlton (Wits) will hold a lecture on "Making Viable Lives in A Southern Context" within Habitat Unit's Urban Talk series next Tuesday (June 13) at 6pm at TUB. Join us in person or online! You'll find more information and the zoom link here: urban-sdg-school.org/events/2023-06…

Marie Huchzermeyer and Fana Sihlongonyane together with ten other colleagues published a piece on the devastating fire in an appartment block in Johannesburg discussing ways forward to address the housing crisis in the inner city. theconversation.com/johannesburg-f…

CONFERENCE The Wits-TUB-UniLag Urban Lab is convening the African Urbanisms conference in October 2024 in Johannesburg, hosted by Wits School of Architecture and Planning. The call for session proposals is open until January 21. MORE is.gd/Vv91ef

CALL FOR SESSIONS there are two weeks left to submit session proposals for the African Urbanisms Conference happening at Wits School of Architecture and Planning in October! Find the details on the call here: is.gd/Vv91ef

REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS There are two more weeks to submit abstracts for the African Urbansims conference at Wits School of Architecture and Planning in October this year. The deadline is April 21.

Under the theme of Transformative Practices, the conference will critically engage with the status quo, asking how things could be done differently and what policy-makers and practitioners could learn from these reflections.

Urban Studies #BestArticle2023: The long shadow of territorial stigma: Upward social mobility and the symbolic baggage of the old neighbourhood by Miro Born ow.ly/e3fG50RJTps #OpenAccess

NEW BOOK "Everyday Urban Practices in Africa: Disrupting Global Norms" edited by Nadine Appelhans, Carmel Rawhani, Marie Huchzermeyer, Basirat Oyalowo and Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane is out now and available open acess: routledge.com/Everyday-Urban…