What is Global in Inequality?

Part of a week of activities for the IAS Research Summit - Rethinking Urban Inequalities.

This session will question what "global" means in the study and governance of urban inequality. David Jácome-Polit will examine governance in the Global South and the fragility of administrative structures that can undermine even well-intentioned technological reform, and Jessica Espey will address the building of global observatories and the politics of comparability across contexts. A panel on Creative Urban Futures will follow responding to the morning’s talks. The session will close with the first stage of Speculative City News workshop, in which participants take their own research and pitch a future news story grounded in their data — a method for testing how findings might find their way into journalism and public discourse, before the participants move into full storytelling production in the afternoon.

Featuring IAS Visiting Fellows - 

• Associate Professor Jessica Espey, University of Southampton
• Carlos David Jacome Polit, Delft University of Technology & ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability
• Dr Juliana Gonçalves, TU Delft
• Dr Caitlin Robinson, University of Bristol

Arrivals from 9:45 am for a 10:00 am start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be available after this session from 1:00 pm

This event is hybrid format, please use the required booking button at the bottom of the page to choose either in-person or online attendance.
(Please note that in-person spaces are limited and booking is required, so we can manage numbers for catering and also the space in the seminar room)

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