Helga Leitner - Urban Studies Inside/Out: Theory, Method, Practice

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Dimitar Anguelovis a graduate student in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research lies at the intersection of geographical political economy, urban development, and governance, focusing on how financialization and marketization processes articulate with development policies and practices in the European Union and Indonesia. His current research investigates the institutionalization of a market-based publicprivate partnership regime for infrastructure financing in Indonesia, and the hybrid outcomes of this process as it encounters the political economy and developmental legacies of the Indonesian state. His work has been published in Urban Studies and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.Rachel Bokis a graduate student in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests center on global urbanism, critical urban theory, and geographical political economy. Her current research examines the globalization of the urban solutions industry through methodological approaches of global ethnography.Kenton Cardis a filmmaker and PhD student in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include urban political economy, social movements, and housing policy. His past research has been published in Jacobin, Progressive City, Architectural Theory Review, and Design Philosophy Papers, and he has served as the Managing Editor of Critical Planning Journal and an advisor to the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin.Emma Colvenis Assistant Professor of Global Environment in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. As an urban geographer and political ecologist, her research explores themes of socio-ecological change, environmental expertise, and urban water politics in cities of the global South. Drawing on postcolonial urban theory, her research is motivated by the goal of producing a deeper understanding of urban political ecologies from a Southern perspective.Andre Comandonis a doctoral candidate in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles Luskin School of Public Affairs. His research is concerned with the equity and governance implications of segregation. This research follows two paths that contribute to theories of spatial inequality. He studies, through a combination of quantitative and institutionalist methods, the changing landscape of diversity in US cities with an emphasis on Los Angeles. At the same time, he pursues the broadening of theoretical and methodological tools to understand segregation through international comparative analyses.Joseph A. Danielsis a doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia and the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham. His current research follows the emergence of crowdfunding as an experimental form of urban governance and its marketization as a critical part of an emerging platform capitalism. His ongoing research interests include crowd theories, collectivity, money and finance, and urban and digital geographies.Nina Ebneris a graduate student in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist political economy, critical development, and border studies. She is currently doing research on economic development and labor market participation on the USMexico border. She believes strongly in the importance of collaborative research, and is involved with grassroots efforts to end migrant detention, and to create more sustainable economic futures for border residents.Tyler Harlanis Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies in the Department of Urban and Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is an economic geographer and political ecologist with research interests in low-carbon restructuring, environmental governance, and rural and regional development, with a focus on China. His current work examines the geography and socio-environmental implications of Chinas energy transition.Nafis Hasanis a PhD candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests lie in the emerging techno-politics of public bureaucracies, digital technologies, and governance. Given huge investment in ICT for governance across the global South, his research asks, if ICTs are not meeting their putative goals of ushering in transparency and accountability, what have they been doing? His current work is based in India, and examines the effects of digital technologies on the material and ideological elements of a district bureaucracy.Tom Howardis a graduate student in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia. He is an urban geographer and institutional political economist with interests in economic restructuring, social regulation, and urban governance. His research has primarily focused on the dynamics of local policymaking, politicaleconomic transformation, and the politics of urban and regional development.Fernanda Jahn-Verriis a doctoral candidate in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research interests are focused on access to adequate housing, poor peoples movements, informality, and postcolonial theory, her current work being concerned with the right to the city, displacement processes, and the role of the judiciary in practices of dispossession in Brazil.Helga Leitneris Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on migration, cities, citizenship and communities, urban governance, and urban development and sustainability. She has published four books, including