Jubileumsföreläsning IBF 25 år

Med anledning av att IBF firade 25 år bjöd institutet 2019 in till en jubileumsföreläsning med professor Ananya Roy från University of California, Los Angeles. Föreläsningen hölls på tema Racial Banishment - The Housing Question in Postcolonial America i Brusewitz-salen.

Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA, which promotes research and scholarship concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and in cities around the world and seeks to build power to make social change. Ananya’s research and scholarship has a determined focus on poverty and inequality. Her work has focused on urban transformations and land grabs in the global South as well as on global capital and predatory financialization.

Her books include City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty; Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South, Asia, and Latin America; Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global; Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South; and most recently, Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World.  

Two research priorities are central to Ananya’s current commitments. First, she leads a National Science Foundation funded research network on Housing Justice in Unequal Cities. This network is concerned with advancing policies and programs that address housing precarity in Los Angeles as well as in other parts of the world. Second, she has been actively involved in scholarship about sanctuary cities and cities of refuge. 

As evident in her recent article, The City in the Age of Trumpism: From Sanctuary to Abolition, she seeks to expand practices of welcome and hospitality in order to take account of the long histories of settler-colonialism, imperialism, and slavery.