Researchers

Hanna Zetterlund, PhD in human geography, with a long-standing interest in urban land development and public land ownership

Hillary Angelo is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Director of the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies, and was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for the 2022-2023 year. Her work offers a social-theoretical perspective on socio-ecological questions through historical and contemporary research […]

Erik Jönsson is an Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University. His research interests lie at the intersection of political ecology, science and technology studies, and landscape geography. He has in several research projects and based in different case studies explored the political role of future visions, rural planning conflicts and high […]

Nikolai Alvarado is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science and co-director of the Latin American and Caribbean Cities Collective at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on migrant urbanisms, street politics, migrant-state relations, and racialized body-space constructions from a global South perspective. His ethnographic work involves Nicaraguan […]

Simone Vegliò is a Project Researcher at Malmö University. He holds a PhD in Geography (King’s College London, 2019) and his research is situated at the intersection of Urban Geography and Political Geography. His current project interrogates the implementation of “global infrastructure” in South America’s River Plate basin. By focusing on commercial ports as key infrastructures […]

Nooreen is a PhD candidate in the Global Urban Studies Program at the School of Arts and Sciences Newark at Rutgers University-Newark. She is a licensed architect and urban designer and has worked on several distinguished planning, design, and policy research projects in the past. She has also served as an Adjunct faculty at the […]

Leonardo Ramondetti, Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Development, is Postdoc Researcher at Politecnico di Torino and Adjunct Professor at Università di Bologna. His field of research field of research is contemporary urban design and planning, with attention to infrastructure-led urbanisation. As a postdoctoral scholar, he is currently working on the research ‘Rescaling the Belt and Road Initiative: […]

Asha Sawhney is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In her dissertation project, she explores migration to and through the Americas, tying together perspectives from South Asia and Latin America. Her research lies at the intersection of migration studies, urban studies, and the study of social movements.

Demetra is a Lecturer in Architectural Humanities at the Manchester School of Architecture and a qualified Architect with professional experience in the UK, the US, and Cyprus. Her teaching focuses on creating cross-disciplinary dialogues between architecture and its adjacent disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester […]

Erika Garozzo is a PhD candidate in Urban Geography at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Catania. Her thesis delves into the impact of healthcare reconfiguration on urban and peri-urban landscapes, along with grassroots responses that aim to challenge neoliberal territorial governance. Her research interests encompass urban studies, feminism, and social movements