In this paper, I explore the links between infrastructure‐led development, urban
transformation and inequality in China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). I theorise the BRI as a …

The paper provides a nuanced reading of the ways in which conditions of precarity arising
from forced evictions are 'made'and 'unmade'in their unfolding, offering a way to appreciate …

The article explores the politics of life underground in Bucharest, Romania. It focuses on a
tunnel passing under Bucharest's central train station, where a community of drug users and …

Engaging with reflections on improper urban vocabularies, this article proposes a
translational turn to foreground dialogues—rather than equivalences—between languages …

This article provides an ethnographic perspective on urban planning by presenting the
creative practices of marginalized slum residents in Recife, Northeast Brazil, who are …

This special issue focuses on urban marginality in diverse contexts across the world (Africa,
Latin America, Arab States and Europe) and proposes anthropological perspectives on …

Opportunities for social and economic mobility have long been considered a key driver of
migration, with migrants seeking upward mobility, if not for their own generation, then for …

In this forum paper, I revisit the rich and coherent literature on inequality from the 1990s,
immersed in radical urban studies and Marxist political economy, and apply it to recent …

Slow scholarship offers an alternative way to do research, yet its implications for visual
practice and production remain implicit. In this article, I translate and apply key notions of …

Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of
unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin. An original …