Best Zürich University Of Arts Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 75 – Book Review Roundtable: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology 1:00:40

1M ago1:00:40

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Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities—human and nonhuman—that make up the material politics of city making. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, Barua reveals how these actors shape, integrate, subs…

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In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III) 1:16:17

2M ago1:16:17

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Property, Planning and Institutional Power: A view from Switzerland This episode of the Urban Lives of Property Series expands discussions geographically and conceptually: Our guest in this episode, Jean-David Gerber, helps us think property from Switzerland and other places. Starting off with the observation that there is no single understanding o…

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the Far Right and the City 53:40

3M ago53:40

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With the research network Territorialisations of the Radical Right (Terra-R). Tune in for our new episode on the far-right and the city! In this discussion, members of the Terra-R (Territorialisations of the Radical Right) network examine the developments of the radical right in Germany beyond simplistic urban-rural and East-West attributions, and …

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Rent Strike Series Episode 3 27:07

3M ago27:07

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The third in an ongoing series hosted by Mathilde Lind GustavussenThis is episode three of the Rent Strike Series, focusing on the Veritas Tenants Association’s ongoing multibuilding rent strike in San Francisco to demand a say in the terms of sale of their buildings. In November 2023, the Prado Group assumed ownership of 20 Veritas-owned buildings…

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Cosmopolitan Solidarity 1:02:38

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A talk on Hope, Affection, and Welcoming the 'Other' To live in the age of precarity is a tolling, everyday struggle. It erodes one's strength to carry on, live another day, and keep the hope for a modicum of prosperity due to come in some vague future. And when things get unbearably harsh, when the hegemony of neoliberalism has individualised the …

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Property Rights Versus Tenants in Poland 26:17

5M ago26:17

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Beata Siemieniako on the restitution of housing and tenants' struggles Unregulated restitution of property to prewar owners (or rather their legal successors) remains a major source of conflict over housing in Poland, most notably in Warsaw. This episode features Beata Siemieniako, a Warsaw lawyer and urban activist who has been supporting tenants …

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Rent Strike Series Episode 2 24:37

7M ago24:37

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The second in an ongoing series hosted by Mathilde Lind Gustavussen. This is episode two of the Rent Strike Series, focusing on the Veritas Tenants Association’s ongoing multibuilding rent strike in San Francisco to demand a say in the terms of sale of their buildings. On August 30, corporate landlord Ballast Investments won the auction for Veritas…

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Book Review Roundtable: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning 1:10:26

8M ago1:10:26

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Against the Commons underscores how urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure…

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Rent Strike Series Episode 1 48:12

8M ago48:12

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the Veritas Tenants Association’s (VTA) in San Francisco Episode description: This is the first episode of the Rent Strike Series from Urban Political, a multi-episode series about the Veritas Tenants Association’s (VTA) on-going rent strike against San Francisco’s largest landlord, Veritas Investments, Inc. The episode brings in tenants and organi…

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Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy 59:30

9M ago59:30

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Ross Beveridge, Philippe Koch and their critics We live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What implications does this have for democracy? This incis…

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Book Review Roundtable: Migrants and Machine Politics 1:00:16

10M ago1:00:16

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Adam Auerbach and his critics As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant …

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In Conversation with Vera Smirnova (The Urban Lives of Property Series II) 1:17:53

10M ago1:17:53

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Thinking about Appropriation, Dispossession and Expropriation in Theory and Practice In this second part of the series Urban Lives of Property, Hanna and Markus talk to Vera Smirnova, a human and political geographer to discuss property and territory from a Russian perspective. Smirnova’s genealogical account moves from the Czarist period to this d…

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Russian Academia and Urban Activism in Times of War: Insights from St. Petersburg 1:51:11

11M ago1:51:11

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Conversation with Oleg Pachenkov Meet urban scholar Oleg Pachenkov who left Russia few weeks after the invasion of Ukraine. Markus speaks with him about his personal and professional trajectory as a critical scholar bringing him to Berlin. The conversation covers the breakdown of the public sphere in Russia within weeks after the start of the war i…

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In Conversation with Nick Blomley (The Urban Lives of Property Series I) 1:20:04

1y ago1:20:04

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Thinking about Appropriation, Dispossession and Expropriation in Theory and Practice This podcast series explores the "life of property" in urban theory and practice. In conversations with scholars who have led the way in property debates, it aims is to advance conceptual and theoretical groundwork on this notion that fundamentally shapes everyday …

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Are Community Land Trusts Transformative? 1:00:09

1y ago1:00:09

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Community land trusts are proliferating across the globe, promoted as a potential solution to the ever-worsening affordable housing crisis. CLTs provide a mechanism for decommodification, collective ownership, and community control; however, those ideals are hard to operationalize, and many CLTs function more as traditional affordable housing provi…

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On Peripheralisation 1:36:06

1y ago1:36:06

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A discussion with Shubhra Gururani, Christian Schmid, Michael Lukas, Giulia Torino, Metaxia Markaki, and Faiq Mari How do “peripheries” form? And how does urbanization generate processes of peripheralization? Today, urban research is increasingly confronted with processes of extended urbanization that unfold far beyond cities and agglomerations: no…

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Inside the Woman Life Freedom Movement in Iran 1:02:42

1y ago1:02:42

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Reflections from urban scholar-activists in Tehran Listen to this gripping account from the current „Woman Life Freedom“ movement in Iran and its impact on cities and their inhabitants. The movement was sparked by the killing of Mahsa Jina Amini in the custody of the Islamic regime’s „morality police“ in September 2022. After several weeks of upris…

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Forums of Discussion: sub\urban - journal for critical urban research 1:04:29

1+ y ago1:04:29

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Ross speaks with Gala Nettelbladt and Nina Gribat Having just celebrated the 10th anniversary of the important German-language journal for critical urban research, Ross speaks with sub\urban editorial members Gala Nettelbladt and Nina Gribat about why it is important to foster discussion around urban research in German, the challenge of organizing …

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Book Review Roundtable: Art & Climate Change 48:45

1+ y ago48:45

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Maja & Reuben Fowkes and their Critics The book provides an overview of ecologically conscious contemporary art that responds to today’s environmental crisis, from species extinction to climate change. Art and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency. When the future of life on Earth is threaten…

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Urbanization: A Contested Concept (Urban Concepts Series) 56:46

1+ y ago56:46

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Conversation with Johanna Hoerning and Hillary Angelo Urbanization has become central in recent political discourses, as well as a contested concept in experts' spheres. This podcast of the Urban Political delves into the phenomenon of urbanization and traces back how the idea of "expanding cities" is causing disagreement in urban studies and leadi…

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Dispatch from RC21 Conference 2022 – Ordinary cities in exceptional times 54:19

1+ y ago54:19

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The RC21 Conference 2022, “Ordinary cities in exceptional times,” was held in Athens from August, 24 to 26. A large group of participants from all over the world gathered for was the first in-person conference of the RC21 network since the start of the pandemic. However, the pandemic continued to dominate the conference with a number of participant…

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Dispatch from INURA Conference 2022 in Luxemburg 52:55

1+ y ago52:55

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Small State Big Transitions The 30th annual INURA Conference entitled "Small State Big Transitions” was held in Luxembourg from June 25 to 28. Over 60 participants gathered at the conference to learn about the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and to celebrate the 30 years INURA. This year’s conference was organised by the Urban Studies Group at the Depart…

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Landscapes of Care and Control 1:13:09

2y ago1:13:09

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A comparative conversation on the urban impasse of state interventions and everyday logics under COVID19 This episode looks at urban landscapes of care and control that emerged during the pandemic in Santiago de Chile (Chile), Bogotá (Colombia) and Berlin (Germany). It is a comparative conversation on the urban impasse of state interventions and ev…

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Book Review Roundtable: Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds 1:26:12

2y ago1:26:12

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Author Colin McFarlane and his Critics Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. Fragments of the City examines the fragments themselves, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience, politics, and expression of cities. How does the city appear when we look at it through its fragments? For those…

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Racism and Social Mix 1:14:48

2y ago1:14:48

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Roundtable with Javier Ruiz-Tagle, Julie Chamberlain, Martine August, and Moritz Rinn Social mix has become a central planning discourse worldwide to address urban inequalities and segregation as key urban problems of the 21st century. Far from being benevolent, the discourse of social mix and its related implementations are subjected to a fundamen…

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Episode 75 – Book Review Roundtable: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology 1:00:40

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In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III) 1:16:17

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the Far Right and the City 53:40

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Rent Strike Series Episode 3 27:07

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Cosmopolitan Solidarity 1:02:38

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Property Rights Versus Tenants in Poland 26:17

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Rent Strike Series Episode 2 24:37

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Book Review Roundtable: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning 1:10:26

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Rent Strike Series Episode 1 48:12

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Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy 59:30

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Book Review Roundtable: Migrants and Machine Politics 1:00:16

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In Conversation with Vera Smirnova (The Urban Lives of Property Series II) 1:17:53

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Russian Academia and Urban Activism in Times of War: Insights from St. Petersburg 1:51:11

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In Conversation with Nick Blomley (The Urban Lives of Property Series I) 1:20:04

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Are Community Land Trusts Transformative? 1:00:09

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On Peripheralisation 1:36:06

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Inside the Woman Life Freedom Movement in Iran 1:02:42

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Forums of Discussion: sub\urban - journal for critical urban research 1:04:29

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Book Review Roundtable: Art & Climate Change 48:45

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Urbanization: A Contested Concept (Urban Concepts Series) 56:46

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Dispatch from RC21 Conference 2022 – Ordinary cities in exceptional times 54:19

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Dispatch from INURA Conference 2022 in Luxemburg 52:55

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Landscapes of Care and Control 1:13:09

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Book Review Roundtable: Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds 1:26:12

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Racism and Social Mix 1:14:48

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