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Latest Urban Radar podcast available: Brexit, austerity and youth futures

In this episode Professor Sarah Marie Hall from the University of Manchester reflects on ten years since Brexit and specifically how austerity has altered the lifecourses of young people in Barcelona, Sardinia and Greater Manchester.

Urban Political podcast
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Urban Political podcast on 'Corridors, Logistics, and Circulation’

Jon Silver recently appeared on the Urban Political podcast as part of the third episode of the Cities and Geopolitics.

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Key note talk: Over-exposure: Enforcement, the Climate Emergency, and Entangled Urban Inequalities

You are invited to join an online key note delivered by Sam Burgum on Wednesday 1 July 1530-1700 that explores ore the entanglements of inequalities to understand something like ‘homelessness’ in its complexity.

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New Video and Blog: Insights from Our Fieldwork in China for PLURALIZE

In November 2025, the PLURALIZE research team conducted fieldwork in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in western Sichuan, China, as part of our project on Environmental Justice and Green Transition in Ganzi.

UI Visiting Fellow - Simone Toji

UI welcomes Simone Toji - Research Fellow at the Maria Sybilla Merian Center Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America

Simone is a Newton International Fellow undertaking the project ‘Reconsidering urban narratives in Brazil: Central areas in São Paulo as problems and potentialities.’
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Book launch - Producing Mayaland 

Join Claudia Fonseca Alfaro to discuss her new book, Producing Mayaland: Colonial Legacies, Urbanization, and the Unfolding of Global Capitalism from the Antipode Book Series, Wiley.

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Urban Life at the Extensions

UI’s Senior Professorial Fellow AbdouMaliq Simone is taking up the third iteration of the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship.

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Decolonial Cities Beyond Justice

UI Associate Dr Tanzil Shafique has organised the Decolonial Cities Collective’s first Dialogue event, a virtual conversation between Heather Dorries (University of Toronto) and Monika Streule (LSE)
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The Urban Institute's Sheffield School delivers a musical piece in five movements

UI's Professor Maliq Simone and colleagues have recently published a collection of essays that arose from a series of curated online discussions initiated by the UI during lockdown with those working in urban labs across the global South.