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Urban Political Podcast

Urban Political Podcast

De: Ross Beveridge Markus Kip Mais Jafari Nitin Bathla Julio Paulos Nicolas Goez Talja Blokland
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The **Urban Political** delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world. Providing informed views, state-of-the-art knowledge, and unusual insights, the podcast aims to advance our understanding of urban environments and how we might make them more just and democratic. The **Urban Political** provides a new forum for reflection on bridging urban activism and scholarship, where regular features offer snapshots of pressing issues and new publications, allowing multiple voices of scholars and activists to enter into a transnational debate directly. Hosted and produced by: Ross Beveridge (University of Glasgow) Markus Kip (Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Mais Jafari (Technische Universität Dortmund) Nitin Bathla (ETH-Zürich) Julio Paulos (Université de Lausanne) Nicolas Goez (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Talja Blokland (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Hanna Hilbrandt (Universität Zürich) Powered in partnership with the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Music credits: "Something Elated" by Broke For Free, CC BY 3.0 US If you would like to produce an episode with us or have comments, please get in touch! Follow us on Twitter: @political_urban Instagram: @urban_political Featured on wisspod: https://wissenschaftspodcasts.de/podcasts/urban-political/ Email: urbanpolitical@protonmail.com Ciencia Ciencias Sociales
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  • 101 – Authoritarian Populism and the City

    101 – Authoritarian Populism and the City
    Dec 12 2025
    Across the world, a rightward populist turn is reshaping politics, everyday life, and the spaces we inhabit. This series examines the rise of authoritarian urbanism born from the convergence of state power, militarised violence, infrastructure-led development, and racialised and religious nationalism. As neoliberalism faces a crisis of legitimacy, these forces work to consolidate control and drive new waves of urbanisation that deepen social polarisation. Alongside these authoritarian transformations, we trace the everyday democratic practices—subtle acts, collective refusals, and imaginative alternatives—that contest authoritarian rule and open space for different urban futures. Through conversations with researchers, activists, and practitioners, the series takes stock of this authoritarian conjuncture and asks how power, urbanisation, and resistance intersect in shaping our worlds. This episode focuses on the turn towards an ‘authoritarian populism’ as means of securing and extending neoliberal urban policy, and the extent to which a new political formation is being formed through popular contestation in and over urban space. The episodes discusses research on the USA, India, Brazil and the UK to identify both commonalities and differences across how authoritarian leaders mark out new enemies of the nation, extend police powers over the city, and how populist positioning serves to secure the interests of real-estate developers. We suggest that this authoritarian turn may even take us beyond neoliberalism towards an urbanism that is both illiberal in its politics and development model. The episode is hosted by Gareth Fearn with guests Natalie Koch, Malini Ranganathan and Leonardo Fontes. It is one of a three-part series which cover different aspects of ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’, based on a special issue in the Urban Studies Journal edited by Guldem Ozatagan, Gareth Fearn and Ayda Eraydin.
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    1 h y 33 m
  • 100 – Looking Back, Looking Forward

    100 – Looking Back, Looking Forward
    Nov 28 2025
    This episode is our 100th! We are delighted that we have reached this landmark and thank all our listeners and contributors since we started the Urban Political in 2019. To mark the occasion of this 100th podcast we have produced a special issue containing two parts, in which we look backwards and forwards on all things Urban and Political. In the first part, Markus Kip and Ross Beveridge talk to Mathilde Gustavussen about the origins of the podcast, why they set up the podcast, how things have changed since the beginning and what their favourite episodes are. In the second part of the episode, Ross, Markus and Nitin Bathla talk to four of our most regular and brilliant guests: Roger Keil, Colin McFarlane, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Colin MacFarlane and Urban Political collective member Hanna Hilbrandt. We ask them to look back 6 years - to 2019 - and consider what has changed in the urban political landscape, what urban research and practice needs to do to grasp the contemporary moment. Finally, the third question is asking what they think, in reality, might change in the coming years. Thanks for your support as a listener!
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    1 h y 35 m
  • 99 - The Impossible Possibility of 'Home'

    99 - The Impossible Possibility of 'Home'
    Nov 6 2025
    What does it mean to be at 'home', when 'home' is the expression of structural forms of violence, at the intersection of anthropocentrism, patriarchy, heteronormativity and racial capitalism? As the COVID-19 pandemic showed, home can be read as a juncture where many of the inequalities of our time come and are held together structurally; yet, at the same time, home maintains an attractive lure to itself, as a place one is called to defend or to work toward, in order to be freed from subjections that seem to render home impossible in the first place. In this talk, the aim is to stay close to this only apparent contradiction, which Michele would like to name the “impossible possibility of home.” With this notion, he interprets the unjust and violent foundations of home not as opposite to, but as foundational to, its capacity to allude to one’s own betterment in terms of belonging, security, and care. This means to say that the lure of home as a space of belonging is emerging from the foundations of home itself, rather than being a means toward salvation from its violence. The impossible possibility of home lies in home’s capacity to sell a diagram of liberation as a line of flight, a breakthrough from its unjust underpinnings, while in immanent, lived, and felt terms, that diagram is a very powerful function of those. The speaker in this episode is Michele Lancione, an Urban Scholar, who is not only thinking about cities, but also actively reshaping how we understand them.
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    51 m
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