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Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
Grace engages in both ethnographic research and the analysis of popular culture to advance, localize and contextualize specific forms of cosmopolitanism and neoliberal urban projects in Nigeria.
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Rae Baker
Rae Baker is an assistant professor in the School of Education, in the Education and Community Action Research doctoral program at the University of Cincinnati. They primarily use community-lead and community focused methods to investigate the relationship between race and racism, power and resistance, and land/property in the North American settler colonies. Their areas of inquiry include political economy and ecology, gender and queer studies, housing and critical planning, and labor.
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Angela Becher
Angela researches Chinese contemporary art and film with a particular focus on digital media. Her work examines cultural responses to pressing issues of urban equity and the rural-urban divide.
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Eray Çaylı
Eray teaches and researches the visual and spatial politics of violence especially but not exclusively in the geography that, today, is called Turkey and in its diasporas.
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Bobby Farnan
Bobby’s research investigates the interplay of knowledge co-production, environmental governance, and infrastructure politics. He is seeking to advance a plural approach to recognition struggles through his current work on the politics of informal settlements in Nepal and Thailand.
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Dena Qaddumi
Dena’s research draws on postcolonial urban theory and political geography. She is interested in how 21st century revolutionary cities extend and depart from their previous decolonial trajectories.
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Lakshmi Priya Rajendran
Lakshmi is an interdisciplinary social scientist with a background in architecture, urban design and planning.Her past and current research advances theoretical and empirical work on how city-making creates exclusionary landscapes of sustainable development in the Global South and developing alternative imaginaries for urban futures in the Global South and North.
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Tanzil Shafique
Tanzil’s research looks at the production of informality as a material arrangement and social production. He is interested to understand how colonial planning regimes have normalized exclusionary principles and unjust relationalities regarding the informal settlements in Dhaka, and how to decolonize such planning regimes.
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Melanie Dennis Unrau
Melanie is a poet and scholar of poetry and poetics with an interest in the poetics of petrocultures, settler colonialism, just energy transition, and anticolonialism/ decolonization. Melanie lives on traditional Anishinaabe, Assiniboine, Cree, Dakota, and Dene territory and the homeland of the Métis, in Winnipeg, Canada.
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Naluwembe Binaisa
Naluwembe’s interdisciplinary research and creative practice traverses the transnational urban realities of Africa’s people and diasporas through critical enquiry into mobilities of belonging, identities, cosmologies and gender across the longue durée.
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Delacey Tedesco
Delacey Tedesco lives and works on unceded syilx/Okanagan territory. She is affiliated with the college of Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS Penryn) at the University of Exeter, UK and is an associate member of the Institute for Community Engaged Research (ICER) with the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) in Kelowna, Canada. Her work on urban settler coloniality, racialisation and whiteness, material metaphors, aesthetics, and fashion curation engages collective creative practice and practice-based theory as political interventions into everyday and academic life.