@sururbano
A podcast about Latin American cities, hosted by @ipenarandac and Flavia Leite, based out of UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning. DM us if you're interested in cohosting or proposing an episode or collab!
@gabrielhetland.bsky.social is associate professor of Latin American Studies and Sociology at @albany.edu
Albany and author of the book “Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn”. cup.columbia.edu/book/democra...
Venezuela is caught btw renewed U.S. imperial threats and the Maduro government's repression. But before, it was the site of an experiment in participatory democracy that even the opposition was forced to engage - democracy on the ground w @gabrielhetland.bsky.social
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This episode is cohosted by Robinson Markus. Robbie is a PhD student in urban planning at @LuskinUCLA , has a masters in Sociology from @LSEGeography, and studies the intersections between housing and climate change in Latin America.
@azeiderman.bsky.social is Professor of Geography at @LSEGeography. He is an interdisciplinary scholar who specializes in the social and political dimensions of urbanization and the environment in Latin America, and holds a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University.
Zeiderman takes us close to the companies managing the logistics sector, their actuarial logics of security and risk, and imperatives of circulation. But he also details the life inside a tow-boat, and the way tacit knowledge resists the fungibility of racialized labor today.
Austin Zeiderman is the author of Artery: Racial Ecologies on Colombia’s Magdalena River. His book is available Open Access here: ow.ly/ibeS50WjL0F
In our latest episode, we talk to @azeiderman.bsky.social about the entanglements of race, capital and space along the Magdalena River's logistics corridor in post-conflict Colombia.
Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/44dY...
En el 2009, se inició la obra de Ciudad Verde, un proyecto inmobiliario de vivienda de interés social para casi 50.000 personas.
Pero - ¿qué pasa después? ¿Qué nos muestra la cotidianidad de los habitantes sobre esta política de vivienda?
¡No se pierdan a @ahurtadot.bsky.social en Sur-Urbano!
Some of my favorite leftist Latin American scholars were in a room talking about what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador have to teach a socialist in the belly of the beast - truly you do not want to miss this episode, so many actually practical and urgent lessons here
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A true powerhouse lineup with Edwin Ackerman, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Gabriel Hetland and @triofrancos.bsky.social, moderated by @llchristyll.bsky.social (an an excessively enthusiastic intro by yours truly @ipenaranda.bsky.social )
Season 7 launches 🔥 by reflecting on "What Zohran Can Learn from Latin America's Pink Tide" - with some insightful analyses on the challenges for the Zohran administration , and what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil +Ecuador have to teach us open.spotify.com/episode/75Oo...
We know it’s been a while but…. GET READY for Sur-Urbano’s Season 7🔥
Episodes include
- What Latin American cities can teach
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
- Social Housing
- Logistics Corridors in the Magdalena
- Left local politics in Venezuela
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Insurers of last resort are state-enabled programs meant to provide insurance to properties that insurers refuse to cover. And yet in our @cplusc.bsky.social report, we find these plans are ill designed to meet their policy objectives, and are instead run by and for the private insurance sector 🧵
Y felicitaciones a Josué Chávez, parte del equipo editorial de @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, y es investigador de economía y cultura contemporánea centroamericana. Cuando grabamos esta entrevista era todavía estudiante de PhD en el Depto de Español y Portugués de @upenn.edu, y ya se GRADUÓ! 🎉
Danilo Rivera es investigador de políticas sociales y macroeconómicas panameñas. Tiene una maestría en Economía por la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana en Bogotá
@celopezm.bsky.social es investigador en políticas públicas e historia panameña. Tiene una maestría en Estudios Sociales y Políticos de América Latina por la Universidad Alberto Hurtado, en Santiago de Chile.
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social es una publicación enfocada en economía política. Publica en español, ingles y portugués artículos rigurosos sobre la economía, ciencias políticas, historia, finanzas y política pública. PW trabaja con académicos establecidos e investigadores emergentes
Exploramos cómo la historia de Panamá ha estado inmersa en el imperialismo, cómo la falta de autonomía generó dependencia de la finanza y finca raíz y promocionar este modelo territorial dual, del éxito y corrupción de Martinelli, su legado con Murilo,y la lucha por la defensa de la soberanía
El modelo transitista —anclado en el canal, puertos y finanzas— generó un crecimiento y desigualdad histórica. Hoy, el 86 % del PIB de Panamá se concentra en las provincias cercanas al canal, mientras la ruralidad sigue atrapada en baja pobreza. Una economía dual, por diseño.
Discutimos el artículo, "Transitos Turbulentos: El Canal de Panamá bajo mando nacional" en @phenomenalworld. www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...
🚨Nuevo Episodio🚨La promesa de Trump de "recuperar" el Canal evoca periodos del expansionismo EEUU. Junto con @phenomenalworld, @Celopezm+@DaniloRLL, hablamos sobre el transitismo como modelo de desarrollo, legados imperialistas + la coyuntura actual open.spotify.com/episode/3cU0...
This episode was hosted by Sebastian Solarte, a PhD Candidate at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He uses a political ecology lens to study grassroots movements aiming to overcome energy poverty in rural Colombia.
Prof. Veronica Herrera is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Political Science in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. She is also author of "Water and Politics: Clientelism and Reform in Mexico". She holds in Political Science PhD from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Comparing advocacy movements for river pollution remediation in Buenos Aires, Bogotá+Lima, the book explores how citizen-led efforts create environmental governance through networks of:
💪impacted communities (bonding mobilization)
💪 and resourced allies (bridging mobilization)
We discuss Prof. Herrera's new book "Slow Harms and Citizen Action Environmental Degradation and Policy Change in Latin American Cities" global.oup.com/academic/pro... @oxunipress.bsky.social
Beyond addressing a massive phenomenon that deserves more coverage (92% of pollution related deaths are in middle+low income countries), the book has lessons for all social movements on framing political problems, building off existing movements + institutionalizing policy change
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Toxic pollution kills 12.6 million people a year—nearly 1/4 of all global deaths; yet environmental harms are often slow-moving+difficult to detect. Sebastián Solarte talks to Prof. Veronica Herrera about how citizen action creates policy change open.spotify.com/episode/5nQ2...
💚El coraje, compromiso y solidaridad del Movimiento "Puente Vivas Nos Queremos" en Cuenca, Ecuador, me inspiró profundamente. Gracias a Liz Zhingri y @domevalch.bsky.social por compartir sus aprendizajes y valentía en la lucha por una ciudad feminista 💜