Front cover of Environment & Urbanization journal, Urban reform coalitions: volume 37, number 1, April 2025.
NEW | The contribution of urban reform coalitions to inclusive and equitable cities
A new special issue of Environment & Urbanization, edited by @ezanahw.bsky.social and Diana Mitlin, explores how urban reformers come together to advance inclusive urban futures.
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Along with an editorial from @ezanahw.bsky.social and Diana Mitlin, the special issue features articles reflecting on diverse issues, including the formation and functioning of effective coalitions, the politics of this process, and their contribution to urban change.
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P57: Reimagining urban futures: Addressing urban informalities, conflicts, exclusion, and displacement through reform coalitions in the south
The session examines the role of multi-stakeholder coalitions in tackling the predicaments of urban informalities, land conflict, exclusion, and displacement through amplifying marginalized voices, co...
We invite you to propose papers for our panel, Reimagining Urban Futures: Addressing Urban Informalities, Conflicts, Exclusion, and Displacement through Reform Coalitions in the South, at the DSA conference on June 25โ27, 2025, University of Bath (Hybrid).
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My Sheffield Urbanism 2024 Lecture series โGlobal Corridor: Techno-Territorial Constellations on a Transforming Planetโ is now available to watch online
The Urban Histories of the Corridor (youtube.com/watch?v=dDCi...)
Corridor urbanisation - A new global geography? (youtube.com/watch?v=yBbL...)
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Putting class back on the agenda. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐
long-term observer Ethiopia and the Horn
The official Bluesky account of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. youtube.com/lastweektonight
Lecturer in Economic Geography @LancasterEnvironmentCentre working on coloniality, waste and sanitation labour.
More at: https://hazardouslabourgeographies.net/
The Food Equity Centre exists to challenge the power and politics that make food systems inequitable.
https://ids.ac.uk/foodequitycentre
Brazil, South Africa, UK
A research project that critically explores how โnature-based solutionsโ and other approaches are applied in the contexts of Southern Africaโs rangelands.
repairproject.org
Sharing stories and thinking about the politics & ecologies of crisis, enclosure, commoning and possibilities for building plural futures.
Get involved: futurenatures.org
Podcast: futurenatures.org/podcast
We provide social science evidence on demand, capacity-building and networking spaces on emergencies that relate to health, conflict or the environment. Find out more: www.socialscienceinaction.org
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Research on development, geography, and inclusion.
Fellow - Institute of Development Studies/University of Sussex
Researcher, fan of participatory and inclusive approaches to global development, Director of Institute of Development Studies, wanabee Celtic and trad musician
Research Fellow at IDS, working on mobilities, learning, gender and family relations in Africa. Special focus on children and youth. Views are mine, not my employer's.
Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow
IDS and ICTD. ๐๐ง
Director of Evidence and Impact at the Institute of Development Studies and doctoral researcher at University of Bath. Interested in evidence into policy and epistemic communities.
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Researcher of activism, labour, accountability, and humanitarianism in the Arab World & elsewhere | co-founder of The Accountability Archive | Personal account, views, especially the bad ones, are my own.
Academic working on digital citizenship, digital rights, digital authoritarianism, digital disinformation, civic tech, digital surveillance and all that jazz. Free typo with every post.
Member, Food Equity Centre @foodequitycentre.bsky.social
Professorial Fellow,
Institute of Development Studies @ids.ac.uk
Professor of Global Public Policy, Nutrition & Health Equity, University of Sussex, UK
Professor of environment & development; Water, sanitation, climate, covid; human rights; displacement; feminist; anti-fascist; Editor @Natureandspace; UK, India, Austria, Norway. Twitter migrant; also on @Lylamehta@mas.to & LinkedIn. Views my own;
Interested in global development, inequality, the climate crisis. And cycling. Head of communications at the Institute of Development Studies @ids.ac.uk / www.ids.ac.uk
