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Two days after Michael was killed, I wrote this short piece about what he meant to me – and more importantly, what he meant to us. It was the hardest thing I've ever written. Thanks to Verso Books for running it. versobooks.com/blogs/news/the…

Please save the date for the "Border Zones of Global South Asia: Diaspora, Dispossession, and Decolonization" symposium taking place on Monday, April 7 at Northeastern University (Boston, MA). Register here: eventbrite.com/e/border-zones…

Available online now: NAVIGATING STATE SPACES: Methodological Insights and Reflections from Research in India, Mexico and Kenya by Mariana Reyes Carranza, Fenna Imara Hoefsloot, Neha Gupta, Dennis Mbugua Muthama and Jesus Flores: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Nice to see that my paper on ‘everyday infrastructures of urban life’ is now in print at IJURR.org. I reiterate the need to reorient the foundational parameters of infrastructure… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Online in Early View EXPERT FIXERS: Bureaucratic Informality, Brokerage and the Politics of Land in Mumbai by Sangeeta Banerji onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

The March issue is available online now, with 12 original articles and an Interventions Essay. Find the full issue here: ijurr.org/issue/vol-49-n…

Join us in the exhibition area, booth 314, at the #AAG2025! IJURR Editors Mona Fawaz, Liza Weinstein & Nik Theodore will be available to chat at the times below:

Thank you Current History for giving me an opportunity to contribute on the politics of extreme heat in Pakistan.

Penny Koutrolikou, Antonis Papangelopoulos & Christos Georgakopoulos argue philanthropic urbanism is an inter-relation of neoliberal urbanism and corporate philanthropy prompted by the ‘favourable conditions’ offered by crises: tinyurl.com/yyrsf64r

Reminder: the first deadline for submission of symposium proposals to IJURR is coming up on May 1st. Please ensure you have your submissions sent in by then! You can find the full information on our Author Guidelines page ijurr.org/author-guideli…

.@felmagalhaes.bsky.social emphasizes the role of economic instability in shaping the Latin American urban processes, highlighting the need to integrate economic volatility into urban studies for a more accurate understanding of urban precarity tinyurl.com/42p57xsf

Excellent analysis of global South's polycrisis through a study of "unnatural rain" in Howra-Kolkata! Not to be missed.

Call for abstracts to the ESA RN37 Urban Sociology Midterm Conference in Coimbra (Portugal), September 3-5, 2025. Submit by May 10th the latest. esarn37.hypotheses.org/3250 #urban #Sociology

How does density come to matter in urban change? This paper by Vicky Habermehl & I is in this issue of IJURR - setting out a dialectics of urban density based on our research in London. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

My co-editors and I IJURR.org wrote an editorial outlining some elements of the critical urban studies needed in these perilous times. Unfortunately, placed behind a paywall, but we're working to get it out. Stay tuned...

My paper, ‘Everyday Infrastructures of Urban Life’, now published in this latest issue of IJURR: ijurr.org/issue/vol-49-n…

The article studies the boatmen of Banaras who use the components of BJP's political ideology to call into question the politically charged project of world-class city making in Banaras. By काबुल का गधा। 📖 ijurr.org/article/produc…

How do wanghong (influencer) consumption practices reshape Chinese cities? This paper shows how digital platforms amplify new aesthetic tastes, driving urban change and exclusion — revealing cultural politics beyond gentrification. By: Liu Cao 曹流 📖 ijurr.org/article/the-po…

The field of fixing—a brokerage structure within Mumbai’s municipal corporation—challenges the idea of Southern cities as sites of planning failure. Not just deregulation or discretion, it makes the urban state visible to local populations. 📖 ijurr.org/article/expert…

📚 Friday Reads from IJURR This week’s review spotlights Justice at Work by Marc Doussard & Greg Schrock. 🔍 Reviewer Jessica Garrick (University of Denver) 📝 Read the full review: ijurr.org/book_review/ju… #UrbanStudies #IJURRReads #JusticeAtWork #CityPolitics #FridayReads