Isabella

Pojuner

Isabella's research broadly examines the memory culture related to historic and ongoing dispossession in England. More specifically, she investigates gaps in the Land Registry of England and Wales to understand more about the specific dynamics in the formation of England's property culture, particularly in relation to its colonial trajectories. Title by registration is the infrastructure that underpins modern property markets around the world, but is also an institutional form of memory that obscures and often undermines untitled land users. Working within the UK land justice movement, she is engaged in historical and contemporary varieties of the English land question.

 

While at the Urban Institute, Isabella will be working on research projects examining children's legal geographies of property (Professor Elsa Noterman, University of Nottingham) and the development of AI infrastructure in England and Wales (Professor Brenna Bhandar, Allard School of Law). She is completing a PhD in Geography at the University of British Columbia, co-supervised by Bhandar and Dr Priti Narayan (Geography, UBC), with Dr Callum Ward (Urban Institute and School of Management, University of Sheffield) as committee member.

 

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