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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 18h

🆕 New #USFblog post: "Urbanisation beyond Nusantara: a new, more sustainable growth machine?" Looking beyond administrative boundaries, former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Galuh Syahbana Indraprahasta explores the 'Tri-City Superhub' in Indonesia. 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/xXt3d #UrbanStudies #USF

Two large sculptures frame a view of Nusantara's government district, with hills and trees in the background. Text overlay reads 'USF Blog: Urbanisation beyond Nusantara — A new, more sustainable growth machine?' by Dr Galuh Syahbana Indraprahasta.

USF Blog quote tile on a grey background: 'Taking a city-region lens to examining the broader urbanisation of Nusantara offers a fresh perspective and empirical insights, especially since Nusantara and its surrounding areas are still in the early stages of development.'

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 25/09/2026

🆕 #USFBlog: "Repairing the city? From shiny new infrastructure to the everyday labour of keeping infrastructure 'alive'" Former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Lazarus Jambadu on water infrastructure maintenance, politics, and urban inequality across Accra and Dar es Salaam. 🔗 zurl.co/XJUEG #USF

Photo of a partially dug-up road in Accra or Dar es Salaam, with a man in a white shirt standing beside the excavation, a red barrier, and street life in the background including a motorbike taxi and a truck. Text overlay reads "USF Blog: Repairing the city — From shiny new infrastructure to the everyday labour of keeping infrastructure 'alive'," credited to Dr Lazarus Jambadu.

Dark blue tile with white text reading a quote from the USF blog: "Perhaps what we call a 'system' is actually a constantly moving assemblage of materials, people, institutions, skills, and improvisations held together through maintenance and repair work. Thus, the city works because someone is constantly working to make it work." USF Blog label in top left.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 23/09/2026

🔔 New on #USFBlog: "Open Kitchen: Weaving protection and care for communities on the move" Prof Andrés Salcedo Fidalgo, Liliana Gaviria, and Karol Viviana Cubillos Gutiérrez on a USF Urban Urgencies project in Bogotá.🇨🇴 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/TJh3T 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/efcIn #USF #USFUrbanUrgencies

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 21/09/2026

🔔 Upcoming event: "Navigating sacredness in the Anthropocene: Towards a post-secular political ecology?" 📅 25 September 2026 | 09:30–14:00 (GMT+2) 📍 Institute of Advanced Study, Sweelinck Room, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 🔗 Register: zurl.co/S4rrS 👉 More details: zurl.co/zmVgU #USF

Event tile with a light blue background featuring the title "Navigating sacredness in the Anthropocene: Towards a post-secular political ecology?". It lists the presenters' names (Raina Ghosh, Maria Raquel Passos Lima, Lav Kanoi, and Giovanna Capponi) at the bottom left and features a right-pointing arrow icon at the bottom right.

Informational event tile with a light blue background displaying logistical details: date and time (25 September 2026, 09:30 - 14:00 GMT+2), location (Institute of Advanced Study, Sweelinck Room, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), language (English), and a brief description about exploring post-secular political ecology.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 18/09/2026

📢 Call for Papers: "Urban polycrisis and creative storytelling: A feminist/and decolonial approach to urban pedagogies" — co-convened by USF International Fellows Dr Nian Paul and Dr Raina Ghosh at ISA 2027 in Gwangju, Korea. 🇰🇷 🗓️ Abstracts by 14 October 2026 🔗 zurl.co/IUIIV #UrbanStudiesFoundation

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 16/09/2026

🔔 New #USFBlog post: "Withdrawing from the city: Co-researching social withdrawal in Osaka and Seoul" Dr Didi Kyoung-Ae Han on a USF Urban Urgencies project in Osaka and Seoul. 🇯🇵🇰🇷 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/k3Fz7 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/yqqSR #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #USFUrbanUrgencies

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 14/09/2026

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards Event La Universidad en los contextos de encierro: Universities in Contexts of Confinement 📅 16 September 2026 | 13:00–15:00 (GMT-5) 📍 Auditorio Paulo Freire, National Pedagogical University, Bogotá, Colombia 🗣️ Spanish & English 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/ppWwi

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 09/09/2026

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards online training session "AI agents for human mobility in healthy & sustainable cities" 🗓️ 29 September 2026 🕐 18:00 China (UTC+8) | 15:30 India (UTC+5:30) | 11:00 UK (UTC+1) 🔗 Register: zurl.co/Ox6G5 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/iGKH5 👉 Project website: zurl.co/RVNA4

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 07/09/2026

📢 New open access publication by former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Dr Syeda Jenifa Zahan in Antipode. "The production of carcerality in state-led redevelopment of informal settlements in Delhi, India" 🇮🇳 🔗 zurl.co/rHN6A #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #India #Housing #USF

A light blue graphic with a "PAPER" badge in the top left corner. Large text in the center reads: "The production of everyday carcerality in state-led redevelopment of informal settlement in Delhi, India." The author's name, "Syeda Jenifa Zahan," is in the bottom left, and a right-pointing arrow is in the bottom right.

A light blue graphic showing a thumbnail of the academic paper "The Production of Everyday Carcerality in State-Led Redevelopment of Informal Settlement in Delhi, India" from the journal Antipode. Below the paper thumbnail is a large quote: "The conceptual framing of everyday carcerality provokes questions on intimate yet often invisible interconnections among housing, homing, and carcerality in geographies that are not prison, yet are connected to the logics and logistics of the punitive state and its deepening entanglements with capitalist extraction of land and housing value."

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 04/09/2026

🆕 New #USFBlog post: "PRIVATEVICTIONS: Confronting the privatisation of evictions and building tenant power in Spain" Dr Ana Santamarina on "PRIVATEVICTIONS", a USF Urban Urgencies project. 🇪🇸 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/Lkcdz 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/yCLr3 #UrbanStudies #USF #UrbanUrgencies #Housing

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 02/09/2026

📚 New book by former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Max Holleran and Samuel Holleran "Scattered Steel: The Afterlife of the World Trade Center" — how fragments of the Twin Towers became modern relics, scattered across fifty states and built into hundreds of local memorials. 🇺🇸 🔗 zurl.co/L6UwL #USF

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 31/08/2026

📢 New publication out! "Who is a construction worker? Bureaucratic arbitrariness, entrepreneurial unions and performances of eligibility in Delhi" by former #USFPostdoctoralResearchFellow Dr Sanjeev Routray. 🔗 zurl.co/n6xtq #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #LabourRights #India

Light grey background graphic displaying a preview of the academic article. Below the preview is a quote: "As the bureaucrats of labour boards arbitrarily pronounce themselves as authenticators and the union agents embrace an ethic of usefulness, the workers must systematically perform that they are genuine workers by deploying a wide variety of cultural and bodily tactics to prove their authenticity and claim their entitlements. In so doing, they deploy their speech-acts, comportments, physical attributes and bodily signs as evidence for their claims as worker-citizens."

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 25/08/2026

🆕 New #USFBlog post: "Listening to women's narratives of urban collapse in Tripoli, Lebanon" Ms Joana Dabaj on "Urban collapse, care, and climate: Women's narratives of polycrises in Tripoli", a USF Urban Urgencies project. 🔗 Read here: zurl.co/hhn9O 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/YgbFN #USF #UrbanStudies

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 21/08/2026

📚 C.P. Pow — Selected Essays | Free to download This open access collection of ten of C.P. Pow's most impactful essays is free to download, produced by the #USF to honour the legacy of his contribution to urban studies. 🔗 Learn more and download the book: zurl.co/Vvmcd #UrbanStudiesFoundation

Branded quote card from the Urban Studies Foundation featuring a photograph of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, showing apartment tower blocks and a tall abstract metal sculpture on a wide, empty boulevard. The quote reads: 'In many ways, the current fixation on the ecological city (shengtai chengshi) speaks to the multiple anxieties, aspirations, and ambitions of the Chinese state's ecological civilization project that aims to build a harmonious and sustainable society without compromising economic growth.' Attributed to C.P. Pow's essay 'Building a Harmonious Society through Greening: Ecological Civilization and Aesthetic Governmentality in China'.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 14/08/2026

📢 Book launch: Modelos urbanos en movimiento: geografías, actores y agendas políticas en América Latina (Urban models in motion: geographies, actors, and political agendas in Latin America). 🗓️ 26 August 2026, 13:30 CDMX 🗣️ In Spanish 🔗 zurl.co/KzAAx ID: 263 836 872 676 836 | Passcode: oV7SV6ra

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 07/08/2026

📢 New publication by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Basirat Ashabi Oyalowo in the Urban Studies Journal. "Spatial justice and resilience: Unpacking community responses to lockdown policies in Lagos" 🔗 Read the article: zurl.co/fJFFX #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF #SpatialJustice

Dark blue slide featuring a preview of the Urban Studies journal article by Basirat Ashabi Oyalowo. Text below reads: "A look at how communities in Lagos responded to the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown — and why reactive resilience alone is not enough to correct long-standing disadvantages without a spatial justice framework to drive pre-crisis transformative change."

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 05/08/2026

Branded quote card from the Urban Studies Foundation featuring a photograph of Sentosa Cove, Singapore, showing a luxury waterfront tower and a motor yacht on the water. The quote reads: 'Beneath the gleaming transnational landscapes of privilege in Sentosa Cove, a grimmer reality prevails. [...] Growing socioeconomic disparities are being managed by creating highly privatized and customised consumption spaces for global elites.' Attributed to C.P. Pow's essay 'Living it up: Super-rich enclave and transnational elite urbanism in Singapore'.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 03/08/2026

🎥 Screenings continue: "Territory" by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Telma Hoyler "Territory" follows a left-wing candidate navigating politics on São Paulo's urban periphery. Supported by a #USFKnowledgeMobilisationAward. ▶️ Trailer: zurl.co/iQL8B 🔗 Info: zurl.co/eL7Hr #UrbanStudies #USF

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 30/07/2026

🎉 Introducing six new Urban Urgencies projects by the Urban Studies Foundation. Six rapid-response projects tackling housing precarity, urban heat, food insecurity, climate risk, social withdrawal, and industrial soil legacies — each with a non-academic partner. 🔗 Read more: zurl.co/NUoOC #USF

USF graphic: 'Introducing six new Urban Urgencies projects', over a photo of a rent-strike protest in Madrid.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 24/07/2026

📖 New #USFblog guest post by Julia Strutz and Zena Asswad: "Studying cities at war: The destruction of knowledge infrastructures and exclusions" 👉 Read the blog post: zurl.co/8lXXT 📚 Access the publication: zurl.co/EDM5X ℹ️ Learn more: zurl.co/QDjcV #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 22/07/2026

📚 C.P. Pow — Selected Essays | Free to download We're pleased to share this curated collection of ten of C.P. Pow's most impactful essays, produced by the #USF to honour the legacy of his contribution to urban studies. 🔗 Learn more and download the book: zurl.co/Cgyho #UrbanStudiesFoundation

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 20/07/2026

🆕 #USFBlog: "Two decades of southern urban theory: Notes beyond informality" Dr Sushmita Pati, Dr Anwesha Ghosh, Dr Mukta Naik, and Dr Chandrima Mukhopadhyay on a USF-funded workshop in Delhi examining southern urbanism as a subfield: its tensions, its evolution, and its limits. 🔗 zurl.co/VesaG

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 17/07/2026

📢 New open access publication by #USF Writing Urban India Fellow Dhiren Swain in Contemporary South Asia. "Negotiating the urban margins: 'committees' and in situ slum titling in Odisha's Basti settlements" 🔗 Read the article: zurl.co/BkobX 🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/rN84X #UrbanStudiesFoundation

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 15/07/2026

🔔 USF Blog! "Public art for whom?": Creativity and urban futures in Delhi Former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Nian Paul on how state-led public art in Delhi reshapes who gets to access and belong in urban space. 🇮🇳 Read the guest post 👉 zurl.co/a2vfC #UrbanStudes #USF #SpatialJustice

USF Blog banner titled 'Public art for whom?': Creativity and urban futures in Delhi, over a photo of a colourful mural depicting a flying Hindu deity figure on a flyover underpass wall in Delhi. Credit: Nian Paul.

Quote on grey background reading: 'co-production is a deeply political act. While it holds potential for democratic engagement, state-led cultural regeneration often commodifies aspects of co-production, concealing deeper structural exclusions.' USF Blog branding in top corners.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 13/07/2026

📢 Read "Khula area: The urban and the pathological" by USF Writing Urban India Fellow Shweta Rani A look at how dengue governance in Delhi reveals the intersection of public health, urban infrastructure, and power. 🇮🇳 🔗 zurl.co/FyurO  #UrbanStudies #USF #UrbanStudiesFoundation

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 09/07/2026

📢 New publication by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Sarita Pillay Gonzalez in Environment and Planning A. "Consolidating homegrown property empires and transforming a local state: The multiple trajectories behind commercial cityscapes in Johannesburg after apartheid" 🔗 zurl.co/nXOV3 #UrbanStudies

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 03/07/2026

“By inscribing and mapping the moral-cultural logic onto urban spaces, residents of gated communities thus attempt to ‘soften’ and ‘naturalise’ exclusionary territorial landscape by reconstituting it as the pristine civilised spaces befitting Shanghai’s ‘cultivated’ middle class.” - Quote from the essay “Securing the ‘civilised’ enclaves: gated communities and the moral geographies of exclusion in (post-)socialist Shanghai” by C.P. Pow on a background of an image from the book.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 30/06/2026

📢 “The Ethnographic Sketchbook: Drawing as a method for Creative and Critical Practice”, presented by #USFInternationalFellow Raina Ghosh at the Pluriversal Methods Forum. 📅 2 July 2026 | 10:00–15:30 (UTC+1)  📍 Hybrid: UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London  🔗 zurl.co/uZftW #USF

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 29/06/2026

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards event "Panthakunja Park: Fight for the Urban Commons in Dhaka" is the fifth masterclass in "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair". 📅 2 July 2026 | 4.00 pm Dhaka | 3.00 pm Karachi | 3.30 pm Delhi 🔗 Register here: zurl.co/GE0dn 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/ti6AU #USF

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 26/06/2026

⏰ Reminder: USF International Fellowships grant funding callFully-funded Urban Studies Foundation program, which offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. 🗓️ Deadline: 6 July 2026 (23:59 UTC+0) 🔗 Learn more & apply: zurl.co/Ou5M7 #UrbanStudies

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 25/06/2026

🎥 New documentary by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Sandra Carolina Pulido Chaparro! "Ellas" explores memory and resistance in self-built neighbourhoods in northern Bogotá. A poetic reflection on inequality, gentrification, and the right to housing. 🇨🇴 ▶️ Watch now: zurl.co/Yxswi #UrbanStudies #USF

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 24/06/2026

📚 New open access book from #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grantholders Guillermo Jajamovich, Isabel Duque Franco, and Ryan Anders Whitney! "Modelos urbanos en movimiento: geografías, actores y agendas políticas en América Latina" 🔗 Download: zurl.co/RFNRq  🔗 Learn more: zurl.co/ANgjN

Book launch graphic showing the cover of "Modelos urbanos en movimiento: geografías, actores y agendas políticas en América Latina", published by Café de las Ciudades, alongside a description of the volume as a new edited collection from USF Seminar Series Award grantholders, available to download free online in Spanish.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 19/06/2026

⏰ Reminder: USF International Fellowships grant funding call Fully-funded Urban Studies Foundation program, which offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. 🗓️ Deadline: 6 July 2026 (23:59 UTC+0) 🔗 Learn more & apply: zurl.co/of3D6 #UrbanStudies

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 18/06/2026

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards event "Lyari Kaur Kinaray: Forgotten Ecologies in a Changed Climate" is the fourth masterclass in "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair". 📅 22 June 2026 | 3.00 pm Karachi | 4.00 pm Dhaka | 3.30 pm Delhi 🔗 Register: zurl.co/VYN6M 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/fwF9b #USF

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 17/06/2026

📢 Extending Comparisons: Putting Eastern Europe and Africa in Conversation Final #USFSeminarSeriesAwards seminar in a cross-regional series exploring urban politics across Benin and Tallinn. 📅 1–2 July | UCL London & Online 👉 Info and registration: zurl.co/2WUKf 🔗 Programme: zurl.co/Mwaf9 #USF

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 15/06/2026

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards event "Talking Poromboke: Healing Chennai" is the third masterclass in "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair". Anchored by Nityanand Jayaraman. 📅 20 June 2026, 4:00 pm (IST) 🔗 Register: zurl.co/1qhuE 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/QK8JH #UrbanStudies #USF #SouthAsia

Event promotional flyer for Talking Poromboke: Healing Chennai

Event details and description: "Poromboke, Tamil for commons, has degraded in colloquial Tamil to a caste-loaded pejorative referring to worthless places and people. Revealing Chennai's unevenness as read through water & Poromboke, the city's youth will lead a masterclass on what ails the city and what they are doing to repair it."

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 12/06/2026

📢 Upcoming seminar from #USFInternationalFellow Dr Michael Gameli Dziwornu — how large-scale festive events like Detty December transform urban space in West African cities. 📅 24 June 2026 | 09:30–11:30 (GMT+1) 📍 University of Manchester 🔗 zurl.co/aREvd #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation

Event details graphic showing date, time, location and description for the "Festivalising the Postcolony" seminar on 24 June 2026 at the Department of Architecture, University of Manchester.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 08/06/2026

🎥 Watch "Servis: commoning commutes" on YouTube ▶️ zurl.co/4mGgZ 👉 The story behind the film by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Eda Beyazit: zurl.co/ulSo7 A documentary funded by a #USFKnowledgeMobilisationAward 🇹🇷🚌 #UrbanStudies #USF #UrbanStudiesFoundation #Istanbul

Flyer for the documentary "Servis: Commoning Commutes" on the daily commutes of female domestic workers in Istanbul, on a background of a film still featuring a suburban street

Quote from the documentary “I’ll keep going”, with the commentary that Gül reflects on the need to keep working, despite her dreams of retirement

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 05/06/2026

📢 #USFSeminarSeriesAwards Event Feminist Geographies of Carcerality in Palestine, a seminar exploring how prison violence extends into urban spaces, and the gendered dimensions of the carceral system. 📅 13 June 2026, 13:00 📍 Birzeit & Zoom 🔗 Register: zurl.co/t87cV 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/0ZpzA

Event flyer for "Feminist Geographies of Carcerality in Palestine"

Event details: 13-Jun-2026, 13:00, Room 316, IALIIS, in person and online. Language: English & Arabic. The seminar examines the instruments of violence employed within prisons, and how these instruments extend beyond prisons to encompass urban spaces. It explores manifestations of the carceral regime and analyzes the gendered dimensions of the carceral system as well as its systematic practices of violence and torture.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 03/06/2026

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards event "Dehat in Flux: Facing Climate Anxiety in Peri-Urban Delhi" is the second masterclass in "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair". Anchored by Dr Rohit Negi. 📅 8 June 2026, 5pm (IST) 🔗 Register: zurl.co/1VKQf 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/7OnMO #UrbanStudes #USF

"Dehat in Flux: Facing Climate Anxiety in Peri-Urban Delhi" is the second online masterclass in the five-city seminar series "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair"

Young people are not a "future generation" waiting to fix things. They are already sustaining urban life amidst environmental decay, and it is this ordinary, incremental repair, often without recognition or support, that the seminar series Ordinary Ecologies of Repair wants to make visible across five South Asian cities. "Dehat in Flux: Facing Climate Anxiety in Peri-Urban Delhi" is the second in the five-city masterclass series, taking place on 8 June 2026 at 5:00pm IST. Anchored by Dr Rohit Negi (Associate Professor, Public Policy and Management, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta)

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 01/06/2026

🎬 New documentary by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Sandra Carolina Pulido Chaparro! "Ellas" explores memory and resistance in self-built neighbourhoods in northern Bogotá. A poetic reflection on inequality, gentrification, and the right to housing. 🇨🇴 ▶️ zurl.co/ahpeY #UrbanStudies #USF

Flyer for the documentary "Ellas" by Sandra Carolina Pulido Chaparro, with the subtitle "Memory and resistance in Bogota", on a background of a still from the film.

Quote from the film: "This place, the one they point their fingers at, is where all the rock and the hands came from that built up that other Bogotá. This place is now at risk of being erased, eliminated from the history of the city."

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 29/05/2026

📢 Upcoming #USFSeminarSeriesAwards Event "Marammat: Youth Holding the City Together" is the opening masterclass of the five-city seminar series "Ordinary Ecologies of Repair". Anchored by Dr Anant Maringanti. 📅 5 June 2026 | 4:00 pm (IST) 🔗 Register: zurl.co/M52vu 👉 Learn more: zurl.co/IDpS5

Event promotion flyer for "Marammat: Youth Holding the City Together", the first online masterclass in the five-city seminar series “Ordinary Ecologies of Repair”

Event details: 5 June 2026 | 4:00pm Delhi | 3:30pm Karachi | 4:30pm Dhaka; Online; Young people are not a "future generation" waiting to fix things. They are already sustaining urban life amidst environmental decay, and it is this ordinary, incremental repair, often without recognition or support, that the seminar series Ordinary Ecologies of Repair wants to make visible across five South Asian cities. Marammat: Youth Holding the City Together is the opening masterclass from Hyderabad. Anchored by Dr Anant Maringanti

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 27/05/2026

🎬 "Servis: commoning commutes" — now on YouTube ▶️ Watch now: zurl.co/8uJdd 🔗 The story behind the film by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Eda Beyazit: zurl.co/Bd445 A documentary funded by a #USFKnowledgeMobilisationAward 🇹🇷🚌 #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #Istanbul

Servis: Commoning Commutes, a documentary on the daily commutes of female domestic workers in Istanbul, on a background of a film still featuring the main character's hands.

Quote from the documentary Service: Commoning Commutes: "Servis opens up a space for sharing knowledge, experiences, and strategies."

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 22/05/2026

🆕 #USFblog post: "From the littoral, making Coastal Commons" Dr Ulises Moreno-Tabarez and Dr Dulce María Quintero Romero introduce a Special Feature in City emerging from Coastal Commons, a seminar series supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. 🔗 zurl.co/BMDeA #UrbanStudies #USF

USF blog post titled "From the littoral, making Coastal Commons" on the background of a dimly lit altar adorned with flowers, candles, and offerings in a traditional setting.

Quote from the USF blog post: "We did not want theory to leave the coast, have its language cleaned up elsewhere, and return only as explanation. We wanted theory to remain answerable to the people who made it possible."

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 20/05/2026

🎬 New documentary from former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Telma Hoyler! "Territory" follows a left-wing candidate navigating politics on São Paulo's urban periphery. Supported by a #USFKnowledgeMobilisationAward. ▶️ Watch the trailer: zurl.co/bHXF6 🔗 Screening, festival & press info: zurl.co/x5btm

Urban Studies Foundation flyer for the documentary "Territory" by Telma Hoyle. Through Geraldo’s story, Territory explores how religion, crime, and entrepreneurial values are reshaping people’s sense of democracy.

The documentary "Territory" centres on Geraldo, a left-wing candidate for São Paulo’s (BR) City Council in the 2024 municipal elections. A long-time activist in the Workers’ Party, the protagonist faces the challenge of adapting to modern campaign strategies, appealing to evangelical voters, and confronting the rise of the far right within his community in the city’s southern periphery.

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Eda Beyazit @edabeyazit.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🎬 If you have half an hour to spare this weekend, I’d love to invite you to watch our short film, Servis: commoning commutes, directed by @erhankugu.bsky.social and supported by the @urbanstudiesfoundation.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttj9... more on👉 www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2026/04/27/f...

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From moving lives to moving images: the making of a documentary on the daily commutes of female domestic workers in Istanbul - Urban Studies Foundation

In this guest post Dr Eda Beyazit describes the making of ‘Servis: commoning commutes’, a documentary on precarity, class and daily mobilities of female

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 18/05/2026

⏰ Reminder: USF International Fellowships grant funding call now open Fully-funded Urban Studies Foundation program, which offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. 🗓️ Deadline: 6 July 2026 (23:59 UTC+0) 🔗 Learn more & apply: ow.ly/1iEv50YYSMg

Urban Studies Foundation announces International Fellowships Call for Applications with a call for applications over a colorful painted staircase background.

Grant open to early-to-mid-career urban scholars from the Global South with PhDs awarded in the last 10 years, requiring a mentor and online application by 6 July 2026.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 15/05/2026

📢 New #USFblog post: “What makes the good city?” Dr Andrew Tucker discusses "Intersections on the Periphery: the Good City in a Time of Crisis", a seminar series supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant. 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/LkvR50Z0cV3 #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #USF

"What makes the good city?" USF blog post title over a dense urban cityscape at sunset with layered buildings under a dramatic cloudy sky.

Held across two workshops, the series brought together established and emerging scholars from diverse geographical contexts to grapple with how urbanisation manifests at the peripheries of cities, and the central role these spaces play in contemporary urban growth.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 13/05/2026

🎬 "Servis: commoning commutes" — now on YouTube ▶️ Watch now: ow.ly/PrnH50YYXsk 🔗 The story behind the film by former #USFInternationalFellow Dr Eda Beyazit: ow.ly/KLGK50YYXsl A documentary funded by a #USFKnowledgeMobilisationAward 🇹🇷🚌 #UrbanStudies #UrbanStudiesFoundation #Istanbul

Text explaining how gated communities emerged on Istanbul's outskirts during the pandemic, affecting precarious workers and transport.

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Urban Studies Foundation @urbanstudiesfoundation.org · 08/05/2026

We're pleased to share news from #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grantholder Dr Liza Cirolia. Dr Cirolia is co-editing a special issue on Southern Urbanism(s) and the call for papers is now open. 🗓️ Abstract deadline: 1 August 2026 🗓️ Full paper deadline: 15 January 2027 👉 ow.ly/H0vq50YWttQ

Call for papers on Southern Urbanism, on a background of a busy urban street in with pedestrians, vehicles, and tall buildings under a hazy sky.

Call for papers with abstract deadline 1 August 2026 and full paper deadline 15 January 2027, inviting contributions that creatively and ambitiously deploy the contemporary and diverse imperatives and impulses of southern urbanism.

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