Hoai Anh Tran is an Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Studies, MalmöUniversity. Tran’s research investigates social and spatial justice in urban and housingpolicies, urban space production and inclusive public space. Her research in Vietnamhighlights the role of ‘informal’ initiatives in the production of affordable housing andinfrastructures, as well as in the shaping of […]
Anders Melin is an Associate Professor in Ethics at the Department of Global Political Studies. His main field of research is environmental ethics, and he is currently the PI of a project on energy scenarios and justice, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, and a project on value conflicts in urban biodiversity management, funded by […]
Marcus Mohall holds a PhD in human geography from Uppsala University. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Thematic Studies at Linköping University. His research interests revolve around the political economy of (public) transportation infrastructures, housing, and urban planning and policy more broadly.
Dr Clara Rivas Alonso successfully defended her Human Geography PhD thesis ‘State-led gentrification and time in Okmeydanı, Istanbul: Resisting uncertainties through everyday solidarities’ at the University of Leicester, UK, and under the supervision of professor Loretta Lees. She carried out an ethnography of a deeply contested informal urban space, the area of Okmeydanı in Istanbul, threatened […]
Mia Ågren is a PhD Student at the division of Landscape Architecture at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Drawing on her bachelor in Sociology and Master in Environmental Communication she combines Critical Race theory and urban landscape theory to explore systematic bias in Swedish Municipal green space planning and practice towards non-White populations.
I am a senior lecturer in the subject area of ‘planning in cultural environments’ at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Landscape Architecture Division, Uppsala. My works have developed at the intersections of architecture, landscape, urbanism and critical social theory and cultural studies. In my research, I have focused […]
Özlem Çelik is a University Researcher at Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki. After her PhD degree in Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield, Özlem previously worked as a postdoc fellow at Helsinki, Lund and Middle East Technical universities and as a lecturer at Yasar University. Her research has an […]
Aparna Parikh is a feminist urban geographer whose work focuses on gendered dimensions of urban environmental belonging in South Asian cities. Parikh’s ongoing projects in Mumbai include feminist investigations of indigenous urban worlds and on housing challenges in light of authoritarian vegetarianism in India. She is also involved in collaborative projects on urban climates and on critical […]
Karen Paiva Henrique is an Assistant Professor in Governance and Inclusive Development at the University of Amsterdam. Her research and teaching focuses on human-environment interactions, uneven urban development, and the climate crisis. Her current projects investigate the un/just implications of climate adaptation across the urban South, the role of power in shaping resilience as concept and […]
Laura Belik is a PhD Candidate in Architecture at University of California, Berkeley. She holds an MA in Design Studies from Parsons- The New School and a B.Arch in Architecture and Urban Planning from Escola da Cidade (São Paulo/ Brazil) . Laura’s most recent publications are the book chapter “Mobilizing Labor for Infrastructure in Northeast […]