78 - Book Review: Waste And The City Urban Political podcast

Author: Colin McFarlane, Critics: Vanesa Castan Broto and Julia Wesely

Our Guests: Vanesa Castan Broto is a Professor of Climate Urbanism at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield where she takes a feminist perspective on questions of sustainable urban innovation, just transitions, urban resilience and infrastructure systems. Twitter - @VaneBailo

Colin McFarlane is Professor of Urban Geography at Durham University. His work focusses on the experience and politics of urban life. This includes an interest in urban knowledge, learning, densities, fragments, and infrastructure, especially sanitation. He is author of Waste and the City: The Crisis of Sanitation and the Right to Citylife (Verso, 2023), Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban Worlds (University of California Press, 2021), and Learning the City: Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage (Wiley, 2011), and Principal Investigator on the DenCity project. Twitter - @ColinMcFarlane3

Julia Wesely is a Postdoctoral researcher at the Urban Studies Working Group, Institute of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in development planning from The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London and been a Research Fellow at the DPU in programmes including Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality and OVERDUE-Tackling the sanitation taboo across urban Africa. Her research, teaching and public engagement broadly focuses on the intersections of urban (in)equalities, environmental (in)justices and critical pedagogies. Julia has worked in collaboration with universities, civil society organisations, NGOs and social movements from several Latin American, African and European cities and she is part of the ECR collective “Overlooked Cities” as well as a nimbly organized network discussing the “Public Role of Universities in International Engagement”. Twitter - @juwesely

Host: Nitin Bathla is a lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich, where he works as part of the transdisciplinary project on agri-urbanisms at the Chair of Sociology. He also coordinates the Doctoral Programme at the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies at the Department. His research practice actively combines academic research with artistic practices of filmmaking, and socially-engaged art. He is the director of award-winning film Not Just Roads, which premiered at several important film festivals across the world. Twitter – @nitin_bathla