Comparing Urban Responses to the Pandemic and their Implications
Reflecting on how shocks are applied as tools to further political agendas, Creighton Connolly, S. Harris Ali, and Roger Keil consider the implications for racialized inequalities and the Global South-North divide. Two months after the first conversation with out guests, at a moment when the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic, Creighton, Harris, and Roger analyze how cities have responded in different ways and what kind of lasting effects we should expect in our urban lives. **Guests:** **Creighton Connolly** is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies and the Global South in the School of Geography, University of Lincoln, UK. He researches urban political ecology, urban-environmental governance and processes of urbanization and urban redevelopment in Southeast Asia, with a focus on Malaysia and Singapore. He is editor of ‘Post-Politics and Civil Society in Asian Cities’ (Routledge 2019), and has published in a range of leading urban studies and geography journals. Previously, he worked as a researcher in the Asian Urbanisms research cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. **S. Harris Ali** is a Professor of Sociology, York University in Toronto. He researches issues in environmental sociology, environmental health and disasters including the social and political dimensions of infectious disease outbreaks. He is currently conducting research on the role of community-based initiatives in the Ebola response in Africa. **Roger Keil** is a Professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University in Toronto. He researches global suburbanization, urban political ecology, cities and infectious disease, and regional governance. Keil is the author of "Suburban Planet" (Polity 2018) and editor of "Suburban Constellations" (Jovis 2013). A co-founder of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA), he was the inaugural director of the CITY Institute at York University and former co-editor of the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Erschienen: 21.05.2020
Dauer: 00:59:41
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Experiences in India and Canada
How is the pandemic affecting conditions of labour and migrant workers? How are Unions and other organisations reacting? In this wide-ranging and forensic discussion with Michelle Buckley (Toronto), Rajan Pandey (Bangalore) and Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay (Mohali) tell us about on-going struggles around mobility and labour in Canada and India. We hear about how the Indian state is seeking to unravel regulation and working rights under the guise of enabling the economy to deal with the crisis and how the situation is deepening inequalities and conflicts around ethnicity and religion. We also discuss how labour organisations in Canada are gearing up for the struggles to come and consider what 'resistance' means. **Guests:** **Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay** (Assistant Professor, Humanities & Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali) is a historical anthropologist of the Present. My earlier and ongoing research projects explore themes in informality, infrastructure technologies and governmentality studies in late-colonial and postcolonial India. I am particularly invested in studying the materiality of mass politics as India transitioned from imperial sovereignty to popular sovereignty. I am also interested in the genealogies of Marxism and Fascism infested in popular consciousness in South Asia. **Michelle Buckley** is an urban and economic geographer in the Department of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough. A former Lecturer at Mansfield College, Oxford and at the School of Environment & Technology at the University of Brighton, UK, her research is broadly concerned with the experiences of mobile workers employed in the construction trades, and with the politics of labour, gender, citizenship, and race that sustain contemporary urbanization, homeownership, and real estate investment. **Rajan Pandey** is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Christ (Deemed to be University) Bangalore. He did is PhD on peasant politics and anti land acquisition agitations in post globalization India from Centre for Political Studies, JNU. He also has an experience of around a decade working as a freelance journalist covering politics and elections across India. He has co-authored a book "Battleground UP" on politics in India's most populous state, along with several academic articles and many journalistic pieces. His interests lie in electoral politics, social movements, migration studies, political economy and geographies of work in post colonial settings.
Erschienen: 16.05.2020
Dauer: 00:42:56
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Migration and Labour Struggles (AfterCorona #7)"
Insights from Kenya and South Africa with J.A. Akallah and M. Huchzermeyer
Erschienen: 05.05.2020
Dauer: 00:53:51
Kenya and South Africa with J.A. Akallah and M. Huchzermeyer
Erschienen: 03.05.2020
Dauer: 00:27:08
Rethinking Planning with Viola Schulze Dieckhoff and Christian Lamker
Erschienen: 29.04.2020
Dauer: 00:35:20
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Post-growth, Post-Covid? (AfterCorona #5)"
Colin McFarlane on politics, opportunities, and research ethics of the crisis
Erschienen: 22.04.2020
Dauer: 00:41:27
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Blaming Density (AfterCorona #4)"
Insights from Mexico and Canada with Julie-Anne Boudreau
Erschienen: 18.04.2020
Dauer: 00:39:55
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Urban Logics of Action (AfterCorona #3)"
Labor, Homeschooling, and the Practice of Community
Erschienen: 08.04.2020
Dauer: 00:39:41
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Inequalities of the Lockdown (AfterCorona #2)"
Laura Roth on Democracy and Feminism
Erschienen: 05.04.2020
Dauer: 00:37:05
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "The New Municipalism (part 2)"
Cooperatives, Social Media, and Local Impacts
Erschienen: 31.03.2020
Dauer: 00:32:24
Weitere Informationen zur Episode "Digital Community Organizing (AfterCorona #1)"
