Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland
98 episodes
2 weeks ago
The **Urban Political** delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world.
Providing informed views, state-of-the-art knowledge, and unusual insights, the podcast aims to advance our understanding of urban environments and how we might make them more just and democratic.
The **Urban Political** provides a new forum for reflection on bridging urban activism and scholarship, where regular features offer snapshots of pressing issues and new publications, allowing multiple voices of scholars and activists to enter into a transnational debate directly.
Hosted and produced by:
Ross Beveridge (University of Glasgow)
Markus Kip (Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Mais Jafari (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Nitin Bathla (ETH-Zürich)
Julio Paulos (Université de Lausanne)
Nicolas Goez (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Talja Blokland (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Hanna Hilbrandt (Universität Zürich)
Powered in partnership with the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Music credits: "Something Elated" by Broke For Free, CC BY 3.0 US
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The **Urban Political** delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world.
Providing informed views, state-of-the-art knowledge, and unusual insights, the podcast aims to advance our understanding of urban environments and how we might make them more just and democratic.
The **Urban Political** provides a new forum for reflection on bridging urban activism and scholarship, where regular features offer snapshots of pressing issues and new publications, allowing multiple voices of scholars and activists to enter into a transnational debate directly.
Hosted and produced by:
Ross Beveridge (University of Glasgow)
Markus Kip (Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Mais Jafari (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Nitin Bathla (ETH-Zürich)
Julio Paulos (Université de Lausanne)
Nicolas Goez (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Talja Blokland (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Hanna Hilbrandt (Universität Zürich)
Powered in partnership with the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Music credits: "Something Elated" by Broke For Free, CC BY 3.0 US
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This episode is part of our Think&Drink Series in collaboration with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies working with the Humboldt University Berlin. Today’s speaker is Andrei Semenov, an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Authoritarian urbanism has recently become a buzzword applied to different settings and situations. Andrei attempts to clarify the conceptual foundations of this term by using a combination of political science and urban sociology analytical frameworks. He shows that the authoritarian part refers to the dictators' response to two key challenges to their rule: elite factionalism and mass uprisings. While a wide set of strategies is available to dictators, the instruments and practices of urban development constitute one possible way of responding. More specifically, he argues that authoritarian urbanism simultaneously aims at two (not always compatible) goals: providing rents to ensure the elites' loyalty and satisfying the mass demand for housing and a comfortable urban environment. He illustrates these features with examples from Eurasian countries and concludes with some further research questions.
Urban Political Podcast
The **Urban Political** delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world.
Providing informed views, state-of-the-art knowledge, and unusual insights, the podcast aims to advance our understanding of urban environments and how we might make them more just and democratic.
The **Urban Political** provides a new forum for reflection on bridging urban activism and scholarship, where regular features offer snapshots of pressing issues and new publications, allowing multiple voices of scholars and activists to enter into a transnational debate directly.
Hosted and produced by:
Ross Beveridge (University of Glasgow)
Markus Kip (Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Mais Jafari (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Nitin Bathla (ETH-Zürich)
Julio Paulos (Université de Lausanne)
Nicolas Goez (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Talja Blokland (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Hanna Hilbrandt (Universität Zürich)
Powered in partnership with the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Music credits: "Something Elated" by Broke For Free, CC BY 3.0 US
If you would like to produce an episode with us or have comments, please get in touch!
Follow us on
Twitter: @political_urban
Instagram: @urban_political
Featured on wisspod: https://wissenschaftspodcasts.de/podcasts/urban-political/
Email: urbanpolitical@protonmail.com
