HeyJaredUrban Political Podcast
The Urban Political delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world.
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113 - Urban Political Economies and Geopolitical Worldmaking (Cities and Geopolitics V) (opens the original)
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The fifth episode of the Cities and Geopolitics series examines how contemporary geopolitical transformations are increasingly mediated through urban political economies. From industrial policy and strategic investment to financial flows, real estate speculation, and technological development, cities have become central arenas through which geopolitical rivalries are organised, negotiated, and materialised. This episode explores how urban space is reshaped by shifting configurations of global ca
112 - Remaindered Life and the Architecture of Migration (opens the original)
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Amid endless wars, authoritarianism, neocolonialism, and displacement, millions are being uprooted, while pervasive uncertainty grips millions more. As the world is remade through what some have described as neo-illiberalism, the very façade of humanitarianism, and indeed the boundaries of who counts as human, is beginning to unravel. Contemporary capitalism, imperialism, and colonial power produce vast populations whose lives are treated as disposable, surplus, or expendable. Yet the social wor
111 - Bonus Episode: Geopolitical Ecology (Cities and Geopolitics IV) (opens the original)
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What happens when we bring questions of power, territory, infrastructure, and ecological transformation into the same conversation? In this bonus episode of the Cities and Geopolitics miniseries, Nitin Bathla is joined by Malini Ranganathan and Garrett Graddy-Lovelace to explore the emerging field of geopolitical ecology. Moving beyond conventional understandings of geopolitics as a matter of states, borders, and great-power competition, the conversation examines how ecological processes, enviro
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