Organizers
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Organizers
Nina Ebner is a postdoctoral research fellow, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation, at the Colegio de México. She is a feminist economic geographer whose research examines the contested processes of economic development and precarious labor in the United States-Mexico borderlands.
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Matina Kapsali
Matina Kapsali is currently an Urban Studies Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. She is an interdisciplinary urban scholar whose work spans Architecture, Urban Planning, Geography, and Urban Studies to interrogate the relationship between urban space and politics through a feminist post-foundational approach. She holds a PhD in Geography and Planning from AUTh and an MSc from The University of Manchester. Her areas of interest are urban commons, urban political movements, housing and public space.
Contributors
Lazaros Karaliotas is a senior lecturer in urban geography at the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow. His work focuses on urban movements with a particular interest in how they build solidarities across differences through specific spaces and infrastructures from below
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Ana Santamarina Guerrero is a postdoctoral researcher in the Critical Urban Studies Research Group in the UNED (Spain). Her research addresses questions around urban commons, migration, housing and social reproduction in Glasgow (UK) and Madrid (Spain).
Ana Santamarina Guerrero
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Sage Ponder is an incoming assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Texas - Austin. Her research is concerned with understanding the racialization of urban finance, and the implications for environmental justice and social reproduction.
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Alejandro de Coss-Corzo is an urban geographer working at the intersections of urban political ecology and infrastructure geographies. His work analyses the everyday political ecological relations between infrastructure, environment and the urban as mediated and enabled by labour. Alejandro’s research has mainly focused on Mexico City, carrying out ethnographic and archival research on hydraulic politics, technologies and ecologies since 2015. This work highlights the the role that infrastructural labour has in producing and reproducing unequal socio-spatial relations through the everyday management of water, itself understood as a constitutive part of regimes of urban politics and power.
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Amy Horton is a lecturer in economic geography at University College London. She researches social infrastructures of care and housing, including questions around financing, ownership and the experiences of the care workforce. With Joe Penny, she is the author of Disrupting the Speculative City: Power, Property and Community in London (UCL Press, September 2024).
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Joe Penny is a lecturer in the UCL Urban Laboratory. He researches spatio-political transformations in the context of austerity urbanism, financialization and rentierism in London, focusing on the local state, land and housing as key sites of struggle.
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Mantha Katsikana is a feminist geographer, interdisciplinary artist and activist, interested in issues of social reproduction, urban justice, feminist geohumanities and DIY media and archiving as well as collaborative and decolonial knowledge production. Her current research explores the ways affective geographies of social reproduction are formed through women’s and feminized subjects’ caring and commoning practices in the urban, during the multiple, overlapping “crises” and on-going austerity, post-2007, in Athens, Greece.
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Sarah Marie Hall is Professor in Human Geography at the University of Manchester. Her research explores everyday life and economic change using feminist theories, methods and praxis.
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Cristina Temenos is a Reader in Human Geography and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Her research is focused on health inequalities and the politics of access to care in cities globally, developing this work in relation to policy mobilities, drug use and treatment, public health, housing, economic austerity, environmental sustainability, transport, and climate change.
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Aliki Koutlou is an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow, based at the Department of Politics, University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the intersections between social reproduction and utilities-based indebtedness in Southern Europe and explores how the everyday realities of life and debt are shaped by gendered and capitalist power relations at times of crisis and restructuring.
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Magali Marega is an anthropologist and postdoctoral researcher in the work and inequality seminar at the colegio de mexico
Magali Marega
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Eda Beyazit Ince is a research fellow in Active Travel and Micromobility at the University of West of England, Centre for Transport and Society (CTS). Her research focuses on socio-spatial inequalities created by transport infrastructures, mobility-driven inequalities, gendered and classed mobilities, and low-carbon cities.
Eda Beyazit Ince
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Colectivarte is a civil society organization that has existed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico since 2011. Formed as a result of community-based advocacy, it works on initiatives and projects designed to address and prevent forms of violence.
La Promesa is a community center located in south east Ciudad Juarez. This space promotes art and culture as community organizing strategies. It is a main project of Colectivarte.
Colectivarte/La Promesa
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Heart & Parcel is a small education and food project based in Manchester, UK bringing people learning English from different communities together to develop their English language skills through food-related methods
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Irida Women’s Center is a safe, participatory, and inclusive space for women from across the world. Irida is a Greek, non-profit, humanitarian organization based in Thessaloniki. It provides support and resources to protect, empower, and support women to take ownership of their lives and become agents of change.
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Austerity + Altered Lifecourses is a research project at the University of Manchester which aims to understand how austerity has impacts that are felt on the ground long after implementation of policies and funding cuts.
Organisations
Irida Women’s Center
Heart & Parcel
Inspire Women Oldham
Austerity + Altered Lifecourses team
Colectivarte/La Promesa (Ciudad Juarez)
Heart&Parcel (Manchester)
