Joan Chaker is an economist and historian of capitalism currently completing her PhD at Harvard. Her dissertation, “A Muleteers’ History of Global Capitalism: Social, Environmental, and Cultural Transformation in Nineteenth-Century Lebanon,” traces the entanglement of mobility, labor, and accumulation in the modern Middle East. She is also a member of Public Works Studio in Beirut. In a […]
Viktoriya Vinik is a PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at York University. Her dissertation examines the politics of housing in Israel-Palestine, with a focus on the West Bank. It analyzes housing as a Zionist state-building project, tracing how housing production organizes class relations and ground rent under settler-colonial rule. She can be reached […]
Feras Hammami is an urban policy analyst and Associate Professor of Conservation at the University of Gothenburg. His research focuses on the politicisation of cultural heritage in contexts of urban transformation, with particular attention to displacement, refugee camps, and the spatial politics of memory and governance under conditions of settler colonialism, conflict, and peacebuilding. His work […]
Jennie Gustafsson is a political-economic geographer with an interest in rental housing, municipal governance, and housing inequality. She is currently researching institutional investments in rental housing, the effect of residential property investments in local rental markets beyond larger cities, and the municipal governance of international property investors. She is also interested in tenants’ lived realities, […]
Nina Gren is a senior lecturer in Social Anthropology at the Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden. Gren is interested in social transformation in contexts of political violence, collective memory, death, family, gender, and diasporic relations. Her current research focuses on the Israeli military occupation and its effects on family relations and everyday life and […]
Nasim Hamed is an architect and a Teaching and Research Assistant in the Department of Architectural Engineering and Planning at Birzeit University in Palestine. His research interests focus on spatial sociology, counter-colonial planning, and the production of resilient spaces under settler-colonial challenges.
Shaden Awad is an Architect and Associate Professor at the Department of Architectural Engineering and Planning at Birzeit University. Her work focuses on spatial politics under settler colonialism, decolonial urban studies, and feminist and indigenous epistemologies of space. She has published on urban transformations and contested geographies, the social construction of home, and socio-spatial resilience, […]
Leila Javanmardi is a scientific officer at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, contributing to the development of strategic research programs on urban resilience and urban transformation. She earned her PhD in Urban Studies from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, where her doctoral research examined the relationship between political systems and the built environment. She has engaged in scholarly and applied […]
Tim Fraske is a post-doc researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. His work focuses on mobility studies and socio-technical change, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary and experimental research. He holds a PhD in Economic Geography from Kiel University and has previously worked on urban and regional […]
Zongtian Guo is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Healthcare-AI group. He earned his PhD in Geography from Trinity College Dublin. Zongtian’s interdisciplinary research lies at the intersection of digital governance, healthcare innovation, and urban transformation. His current project explores how artificial intelligence and digital technologies reshape healthcare […]