Shiva is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi. Her doctoral research revolves around the political economy of care and social reproduction, with focus on the labouring lives of women care workers in India. Her primary research interests include informality, welfare, labour […]
Niloufar Vadiati is an urbanist and digital geographer whose work examines the relationship between technologies and cities from a grassroots perspective. She is currently a DFG Research Fellow at the Digital Geography professorship at Goethe University Frankfurt, where she is conducting research on post-platform urbanism, focusing on increasingly automated and AI-enabled platforms. Over the next three […]
Masha Hupalo is an architect who writes and teaches in Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the way policy and high-frequency data inform planning and design, the legal construct of territory and borders, and new forms of governance and ownership. As an educator, Masha worked at SCI-Arc and Aarhus School of Architecture, where she received […]
Susan Campbell is an interdisciplinary designer working at the intersection of tenant activism, design advocacy, and critical urban theory. She holds an MDes in Design from York University in Toronto and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design from OCAD University in Toronto. Campbell investigates how the tenant movement engages in extra-legal resistance against […]
Henrika Kangas is a research assistant at Malmö University whose work focuses on housing policy, housing allocation mechanisms, digitalization, and urban planning. Her research centers on questions of housing access – how it is structured, who is granted it, and how allocation systems function within different welfare state contexts. She holds a master’s degree in […]
Kavita Ramakrishnan is Associate Professor in Geography and Global Development at the University of East Anglia. She is an urban geographer who specializes in experiences of belonging, informality, and everyday life on the margins. Her research to date focuses on three strands: 1) the lived experiences of eviction and resettlement in India; 2) refugee provisioning, care, and asylum-seeking […]
Tariq Jazeel teaches at University College London in the UK. He is Professor of Human Geography, founding co-Director of UCL’s Centre for the Study of South Asia and the Indian Ocean World, and Faculty Fellow as well as former co-Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation. His research is positioned […]
Dr Wangui Kimari is an urban anthropologist based in Nairobi, Kenya. Wangui is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town, and participatory action research coordinator for the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC), a community-based organization in Mathare, Kenya. Her work draws on many local histories and interdisciplinary theoretical […]
Miguel Kanai is an urban geographer whose works focuses on large-scale urbanisation processes and the role that infrastructure provision plays in shaping urban and peri-urban environments. A Senior Lecturer at the University of Sheffield, School of Geography and Planning, Miguel obtained his PhD in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) he has taught […]
Madina Tlostanova is a feminist thinker and fiction writer, and a professor of gender studies at Linköping University in Sweden. Her interests include decoloniality, feminist theories from the Global South, the postsocialist human condition, fiction and art, and critical future studies. Her most recent collection of essays and speculative fiction is Narratives of Unsettlement. Being Out-of-Joint as […]