Dr. Sandeep Kandikuppa is a Research Fellow at the East-West Center, Honolulu. He has a PhD in Environment from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His current research delves into issues at the intersection of climate change, livelihoods, labor, and natural resources and has published in various academic venues, including Climatic Change, Rural Sociology, World Development, Human […]
Dr. Pallavi Gupta is a feminist political geographer. Pallavi received her Ph.D. in Geography from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In her current research, Pallavi examines the intersections of gender, caste, labor, space, and waste within urban public infrastructure. Currently, Pallavi is working as an instructor in the Department of Geography, University of […]
Shelley Kotze is a PhD candidate in Human Geography, at the University of Gothenburg. Her research is concerned with the governance of urban parks, with a particular focus on the urban regimes which underpin the models of funding, relationships between design and management, and the implications of resulting multifunctionality.
Nazem Tahvilzadeh is associate professor in political science and lecturer in public administration at Södertörn University. His research deals with issues of democracy, citizen participation, public policy and administration in urban governance.
Ståle Holgersen is associate professor in Human Geography at Örebro University. He is the author of “Staden och Kapitalet” (2017) and “Krisernas tid” (2022) (both at Daidalos), and his research interests include crisis, class, cities, housing and political ecology.
Lisa Kings is an associate professor of social work at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research interests center on the intersections between civil society and critical urban research. She has published on the organization of local associations and social movements in marginalized neighbourhoods.
Nathan Siegrist is a PhD student in sociology at the Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg. In his research, Nathan seeks to investigate how urban movements, squats and autonomous spaces influence urban development in contemporary Europe. For these purposes, he has a particular interest in current developments in Central and Eastern Europe.
Lenita Kefala is a PhD student in ethnology at the Department of Ethnology, Gender studies and History of religion at Stockholm University. In her thesis project, she investigates experiences of the contemporary sublet housing market in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research interest is the intersection of housing inequality, lived experiences, precarity and feminist theory.
Karoline Blix Hjelle is a Doctoral Research Fellow in sociology at the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. She is currently working on a doctoral dissertation exploring how notions of creating a ‘self’ through choice is expressed in a context of high school choice among Oslo youth, and how these ideas tie […]
Laleh Foroughanfar is a researcher at Institute for Urban Studies at Malmö University. She holds a PhD (2022) from Lund University School of Architecture. Her research focuses on urban marginalization, otherwise architecture, and socio-materiality and temporalities of everyday life. Her PhD thesis, entitled The Street of Associations: Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö, […]