Assoc Prof @Official_UPD, studying urban governance, planning, informality, & community development in the global South.

Manila, Philippines
Joined June 2021
The view from the Board of Regents Room in Quezon Hall, the administration building of the UP System, reveals the campus core of the UP Diliman (aka Diliman Republic) as a beautiful and well-manicured place—a vast green lung within the dense and often intense Metropolitan Manila.
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Our back to back edited volumes on Disaster Justice in the Philippines for @iampshev are at the @ateneopress booth at #MIBF A cross-disciplinary effort in disaster studies, urban studies, feminist scholarship climate & devt, & anthropology @RedenRecio KZ Canete
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Editorial: From heterodoxy to justice, from reflexivity to situated knowledge. IJURR’s editors offer a collective reflection on the role of critical urban studies today. 📖 ijurr.org/article/reflection…
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This piece—EPISTEMIC JUSTICE AND THE UNIVERSITY—is an offshoot of collective and individual reflections on our experiences as international early career scholars working in/for “world-class neoliberal universities”. Stephanie, Tanzil, Ishita & I began talking about this thinking-
This essay by @_stephbutcher, @TanzilShafique, @RedenRecio & Ishita Chatterjee challenges notions of 'ethics', 'engagement' and 'excellence', developing three ‘intentionalities’ for reclaiming the university as a site of justice tinyurl.com/4juw82bh
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writing collab four years ago when we were all based in Melbourne. We interrogate how academic precariat + critical scholars navigate the emancipatory potentials of the university within its tensions: "a site occupied by communities of resistance but also shaped by elitism".
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In this recently published book, Kim Dovey and I explain a spatial logic of informal urbanism that is central to the economic life and urban livelihoods in highly ‘informalized cities’ of the global South, which are often portrayed as ‘chaotic’ and out of control.
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We deploy the notion of 'inventraset' to show how informal street vending, transport and settlement are fundamentally integrated with each other and the more formal city.
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We argue that such ‘spatial logic’ of urban informalities is underpinned by several intersecting factors: market + capital, governance regimes, urban morphology, and image + visibility. Here's the link to the e-version of the book: link.springer.com/book/10.10…
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The December 2024 special issue (Volume 61, Issue 16) of #UrbanStudies is out now: ‘Digitalisation, Neighbourhood Change and Urban Social Processes’ guest edited by George C Galster and @januebl journals.sagepub.com/toc/usj…
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This 👇 Understanding the science is key to reducing cyclone and flood risks.
Bagamat nahaharangan ng bulubunduking Sierra Madre ang malakas na hangin, lalong lumalakas at dumarami ang bumabagsak na ulan dulot ng banggaan ng bundok at bagyo. Let's focus on keeping the mountain healthy not for it's wind mitigation, but to prevent flooding and landslides.
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"Why would a university that values academic freedom and its tradition of social criticism sign a “declaration of cooperation” with the military? Such a declaration whitewashes the escalating repression in UP and other schools..." upd.edu.ph/statement-of-the-…
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📣📚 Volumes I & II of our special double issue on Disaster Justice in 🇵🇭 for @iampshev now available at @ateneopress in Shopee: ph.shp.ee/NcHJGNK Also enquire at their physical store if you're dropping by MIBF Co-edited with @RedenRecio & @kairazoe #NoNaturalDisasters
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#OpenAccess debates paper by Kim Dovey and @RedenRecio: Inventraset assemblages: The spatial logic of informal street vending, transport and settlement ow.ly/5CVv50Tl5QP #informality #StreetVending #transport
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Join us tom for this month's @SEED_Connect conversation. @TanzilShafique, @Lata1319, @nitrasam + other Bangla scholars & activists will share their thoughts on the current 'socio-political moment' in Bangladesh.🙂 Zoom details are available👇 infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/202…
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2024 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: @USForg International Fellowships grant funding! 📢 Deadline: 05/07/24. These awards are intended to support urban scholars from the Global South with fully-funded 3-9 month research visits. Read more & apply here:ow.ly/YxES50R8oor
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(super late post) Glad to be a part of this important session about the imperatives, challenges, tensions and paradox of doing fieldwork and engaged scholarship... Salamat kay @SanjeevRoutray8 for the provocation... 🙂
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And to @anthropam, Chester Arcilla, Paul Muego and other colleagues + friends raising important questions and points on the poli-ethics of engaged research! 🙂 Nekstaym ulit. Tagay!🍺
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This morning I would like to lift up the statement issued by UCLA students on the night of April 30. I am haunted by this line: “The university would rather see us dead than divest.” I want to remind us all of their demands, those for which our students have risked everything.
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The 2nd instalment of the two-part special issue (SI) on disaster justice is now out! 📷 philippinestudies.net tinyurl.com/PSHEVMarch2024 Happy to have guest edited this SI with @kairazoe & @anthropam . To celebrate the International Women’s Month, this SI features articles
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written by women scholars (@kairazoe , Regina Macalandag, & Liberty de Rivera) and and interviews with three women practitioners. The frameworks, findings + insights foreground the importance of care, empathy, listening, and place-based knowledges in enriching disaster justice.
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Many thanks to the @iampshev Team led by Mike Pante for the opportunity to collaborate on this three-year project. Tagay! 🙂🍺
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