“A Network at the Intersection of Scholarship, Global Partnership, and the Politics of Housing”
The Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin invites you to join us for the HOUSING JUSTICE IN #UNEQUALCITIES CONFERENCE.
The Housing Justice in #UnequalCities Network (BCS 1758774) is funded by the National Science Foundation and brings together research communities whose work analyzes key geographies of housing precarity (evictions, homelessness, displacement, segregation, informal settlements) and examines established and emergent practices of housing justice. In doing so, it consolidates housing justice as a field of inquiry and sets the stage for future research in geography and urban studies.
Conference Agenda
9:00-10:00 am. Research Justice in Unequal Cities
Opening Remarks:
Ananya Roy, UCLA
Presenters:
Sophie Oldfield, University of Cape Town (via Zoom)
In Everyday City Struggles: Experiments in Collaborative Research
Terra Graziani and Hilary Malson, UCLA
Praxis: Reflection + Action
10:00-11:30 am. Rent and Property
Chair: Michael Lens, UCLA
Presenters:
Nicholas Blomley, Simon Fraser University
Rent, Precarity, and Property Relations
Gilda Haas, LA Coop Lab
Beyond Extraction
Sarah Treuhaft, PolicyLink
When Renters Rise, Cities Thrive: Building New Frames and Data to Power the Renter Movement
11:45 am-1:15 pm. Racial Banishment
Chair: Kelly Lytle Hernandez, UCLA
Presenters:
Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
“Ruins of a Great House”: Re-Earthing the Plantation and the Struggle for the Abolitionist Commons
Rahim Kurwa, University of Illinois, Chicago
The New “Man in the House” Rules: The Central Role of Gender and Family in the Policing of Housing Vouchers
Laura Pulido, University of Oregon
The Cultural Memory of Dispossession
= 1:15-2:00 pm. Lunch =
2:00-3:30 pm. Circuits of Carcerality and Financialization
Chair: Hannah Appel, UCLA
Presenters:
Desiree Fields, University of Sheffield
Financialization and Racial Capitalism After the Crisis
Hamid Khan, Stop LAPD Spying
Data Driven Displacement
Toussaint Losier, University of Massachusetts, Amherst/Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign
“To Tell the Whole Wide World This is Peoples’ Territory”: Human Rights and Housing Decommodification in the Praxis of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign
3:45-5:30 pm. Why a Global Research Network? Theory, Activism, Pedagogy
Chair: Eric Sheppard, UCLA
Presenters:
Gautam Bhan, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Imagining “Global” Collaborations within the Southern Urban Question
Tony Roshan Samara, Right to the City Alliance
Translocal Productions of Knowledge and Power
Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, LA Tenants Union
School of Echoes, The Making of the L.A. Tenants Union, or 101 Reasons You Can’t Do Politics Alone
Raquel Rolnik, University of São Paulo
Echoing Voices and Inventing Counter Narratives Displacements and Emplacements in Metropolitan Sao Paulo
5:30-6:30 pm: Reception
3rd floor Commons, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
