Global Metropolitan Studies is a community of scholars across disciplines at UC Berkeley that investigates major transformations in cities around the world.
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📰 Pleased to share the publication of faculty affiliate @TrapenbergFrick's article in @JPER7, celebrating the work of ACSP Distinguished Educator Betty Deakin! Betty played a critical role in the development of GMS, and we are happy to see her so honored. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Fue un gusto participar del panel “Trabajos móviles” en la @UNAM_MX. Muy importante escuchar las ponencias sobre el movimiento de trabajadores “informales”, su visibilidad en la Ciudad y sus implicaciones para la gobernanza urbana.
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As the semester is officially over, there is no better news than the publishing of "Embodying Peripheries," free for download at
books.fupress.com/catalogue/….
The book will be launched in June at the Milan Triennale (Arch Week, OffCampus @Polimi) and will be available in print by then
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"BUNKER: The optimism of the pessimistic"-- a photo exhibition I have curated is about to open at @ced_berkeley on May 15th!
Special thanks to the sponsors: The Joan E. Draper Architectural Research Endowment, @gmsberkeley, and the Environmental Design Library.
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Join us in-person on Thurs. 5/4 for a Matrix on Point, "Expropriation: Global Perspectives on Property and Power," with Sai Balakrishnan, @puckengman, and @gwbusiness's @noel_maurer, mod. by @CC_Rosenthal. @ced_berkeley @gmsberkeley @UCBHistory. REGISTER: forms.gle/5KGhdXZCt4M9KhpQ9
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Am so excited to be part of this amazing cohort of scholars studying the history of political economy with my project "Capturing Public Value: A Genealogy of Neoliberal Approaches to Land Value Capture Instruments in Colombia". Thank you @llchristyll and the selection committee
Thrilled to announce the next cohort of History and Political Economy Project Research Grantees - what cool projects! Thank you to our selection committee: Stefan Link, Amy Offner, Eric Helleiner, & Alex Kentikelenis, for all their work. hpeproject.org/2023grantees
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ABF Speaker Series presents a talk by this Wed., 4/26, by @BerkeleyGeog's @FieldsDesiree on technological progress as a fundamental part of how relationships to land are constituted and reconstituted—and in whose interests—throughout global capitalism. americanbarfoundation.org/ev…
ALT Digital Experiments with Landed Property: The Global, the Historical, and the Geographical by Desiree Fields, Political Economies, University of California, Berkeley
🎙️GMS former co-director Alison Post is speaking next week at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (@HarvardDRCLAS). Register for the event here!
04/25 @ 12PM EDT: Why Are Urban Services Still So Bad in Large Cities?
More than 80 percent of Latin Americans live in cities. This panel explores why and how governments improve urban services, and how these policies vary across Latin American cities.
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Join us for the roundtable "Beyond Ag and Water: New Directions in the History of California’s Central Valley" made possible by @gmsberkeley - this Wed (4/12)
💪Research by scholars of and from the CV about religion, race, gender, finance, and policing
metrostudies.berkeley.edu/ev…
📅 GMS DE students (current and prospective) mark your calendars for the final talk of our Spring 2023 Urban Discussion Series to be held in the
@SocSciMatrix! In-person only.
*Note that the April 6th event has an updated speaker and time.
RSVP: forms.gle/MiLnHeSRrUKL37nVA
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Episodio especial #TrafficAmericas sobre abolicionismo y activismo trans 🏳️⚧️ con Daniela Maldonado (@toloposungo y @redcomunitariat), @amyritterrbusch y Álvaro Escobar, en colaboración con @labna_uniandes @sergemont
open.spotify.com/episode/39h…
Hosts: @sebastiandsz +@ipenarandac!
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Please spread the word: tomorrow (3/8) at 12pm, a talk by @joguldi! Join in person if you can: @gmsberkeley @ced_berkeley @ESPM_Berkeley @ERGBerkeley @UCBHistory @UCBLettersSci @EthnicUc @BerkeleyLaw @BerkeleyGeog @ISASatBerkeley @UCBerkeleyISSI REGISTER: forms.gle/ASRaawNv3JEuTYPc9
Join us next Wed. 3/8 at 12pm PT (in-person and online) for @SouthernMethod Professor @joguldi on her book "The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights" (@yalepress). With @N2PE_Network and @paulpierson. RSVP: forms.gle/ASRaawNv3JEuTYPc9
Tonight! RSVP here:
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Really exciting to see this book chapter come out! A pleasure to have worked with both @KevinCredit and Luc and discussing the “retail apocalypse” 🔥🔥🔥
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Episodio nuevo de #Sur_Urbano 👏Este episodio surge del evento “Afro-Feminismos en Colombia: políticas anti-racistas, producción de conocimiento y artivismo” con @glendapalaciosq y Yanith Cristancho, y moderado por @castilloangela_ . Y es 💪🎇open.spotify.com/episode/38g…