Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe
FRINGE
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Alena Ledeneva and Peter Zusi, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL
The FRINGE series explores the roles that complexity, ambivalence and immeasurability play in social and cultural phenomena. A cross-disciplinary initiative bringing together researchers from the humanities, social sciences and area studies, the series examines how seemingly opposed notions such as centrality and marginality, clarity and ambiguity, can shift and converge when embedded in everyday practices.
Alena Ledeneva is Professor of Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of UCL.
Peter Zusi is Lecturer at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies of UCL.
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Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun is a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria, and a visiting research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His PhD thesis considered just sustainability in informal settlement intervention and green infrastructure in Johannesburg. His research interest is low-income urban housing and environmental sustainability, with a focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
Thomas Aguilera is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Rennes and Director of the masters programme Governing Territorial Changes. His research interests include public policies, urban governance, social movements, informal housing and tourism in Europe (France, Spain, UK). He has published articles on the governance of squats and slums, on the effects of squatting movements on urban policies and on the conflicts around tourism regulation in Europe. He is a member of the Cities are Back in Town urban research programme of Sciences Po Paris and participates in the SqEK (Squatting Everywhere Kollective) network.
Rachelle Alterman is Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning and Law at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, where she currently heads the Lab on Comparative Planning Law and Land Policy and serves as a senior researcher at the Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research. She is the Founding President of the International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights and an Honorary Member of the Association of European Schools of Planning. She is often invited to share her knowledge with a range of governmental bodies and the media in Israel, with UN-Habitat, the OECD, the World Bank, several European countries and Chinese government bodies.
Ins Calor is an architect and geographer who did her PhD in Geography and Spatial Planning at the New University of Lisbon. In her thesis, she focused on the interconnection between illegal development and planning systems, presenting an international comparative perspective on Mediterranean countries. She is currently working as a planner at a Portuguese municipality and as a researcher at CEGOT (Geography and Spatial Planning Research Centre) at the University of Porto. Her main research interests are planning enforcement, development control and planning law.
Clarissa Campos is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of So Joo del-Rei, Brazil, since March 2014. She started a doctorate in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in 2016. Her research is about urban social movements whose main form of action is the occupation of land for self-construction and of abandoned buildings, in the context of struggles for housing and for the right to the city, and she has focused on Brazilian and Spanish cases in the last 10 years.
Alan Gilbert worked as a lecturer, reader and professor of geography at University College London between 1970 and 2010. His research is concerned with urbanisation and poverty in developing countries, and particularly in Latin America and South Africa. He has undertaken projects on: housing subsidies in Chile, Colombia and South Africa; secondary housing markets in Colombia and South Africa; the impact of globalisation on urban life in Latin America; and rental housing in informal settlements in Africa, Asia and Latin America. He has published extensively and has authored or co-authored nine books, edited four others and written well over a hundred academic articles on these topics.
Udo Grashoff is DAAD Lecturer on Modern German History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London and a member of the FRINGE research centre. He is interested in taboo subjects in the context of German dictatorships, and has published books on suicide, as well as informal housing in the German Democratic Republic. He analyses grey zones and individual agency in borderline situations. In 2019, he was awarded the title Privatdozent at the University of Leipzig for his study on betrayal within the Communist resistance movement in Nazi Germany (forthcoming). He has published two books and several articles on informal occupation of flats in East Germany (Schwarzwohnen).
Eliza Isabaeva is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies of the University of Zurich. She obtained her doctoral degree in 2017. She is interested in political anthropology, urban anthropology, multiculturalism and citizenship studies. Her research has covered various aspects of migration, including a masters thesis on international migration (particularly migrant remittances) and a doctoral thesis on internal migration (particularly illegal squatter settlements). Her new post-doctoral project aims to investigate forced migration, focusing on the deportee communities in Kyrgyzstan.
Miguel A. Martnez is Professor of Housing and Urban Sociology at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University. His research has covered topics such as urban sustainability, segregation, housing, density, globalisation, mobility, governance and participatory methodologies. In addition, he has participated in various social movements and conducted research about urban and housing activism. In 2009, he contributed to the launch of the activist-research network SqEK (Squatting Everywhere Kollective) and published several articles and books about the subject of squatting. Most of his writings are available at www.migualangelmartinez.net.
