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• Pollution, Slow Harms and Citizen Action with Veronica Herrera

  Toxic pollution kills 12.6 million people every year—nearlyone-quarter of all global deaths – and 92% of these deaths occur in middle or low-income countries. Yet despite its deadliness, environmental harms are oftena slow-moving and long-standing problem, which can be difficult to detect and thus “invisible” in some ways which result in inaction and complacency. So what can be done?  In her book “Slow Harms and Citizen Action: Environmental Degradation and Policy Change in Latin American Cities”,  Professor Veronica Herrera asks: When and how do people mobilize around slow harms?  By examining the cases of Buenos Aires, Bogotá and Lima, the book looks at how citizen movements can push the state to implement en­vironmental rights protections, and how ideas about pollution as a policy problem become institutionalized. This episode was hosted by Sebastián Solarte. Sebastián is a PhD Candidate at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. In his research, he uses a political ecology lens to study grassroots movements aiming to overcome energy poverty in rural Colombia. Beyond his work, he is passionate about exploring places with his bicycle and finding new food spots.Veronica Herrera, our guest, is an Associate Professor ofUrban Planning and Political Science in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles. I study the political economy of development and environmental politics and policy, with a focus on cities, civil society, and Latin America.

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• Vivas nos Queremos: La Lucha por la Ciudad Feminista en Ecuador con Liz Zhingri

  Un día de Septiembre del 2020, en uno de los puentes del centro histórico colonial de Cuenca, en Ecuador, apareció un graffiti escrito. Leía: Nosotras parimos, nosotras decidimos, en respuesta al veto presidencial al Codigo de Salud, que habíabuscado despenalizar el aborto en todas sus causales. El gobierno local denunció lo que llamó un acto de vandalism, y lo blanquéo, borrando el mensaje. Unos meses después hubo un aumento de femicidos en Ecuador, y 6 mujeres fueron asesinadas en un poco tiempo, la mitad en Cuenca. De nuevo apareció un mensaje en el Puente: Quieren que dejemos de rayar sus muros? FACIL:  DEJEN DE MATARNOS Y así se dió una lucha feminista por la reapropiación del espacio público y en contra de la violencia hacia las mujeres. Se logró que se instalara una placa en el Puente; posteriormente fue vandalizada, y las lideresas de estos movimientos amenazadas; hubieron movilizaciones y repression, manoseo politico y logros profundos. La lucha por el “Puente Vivas nos Queremos”  da pie para reflexionar sobre la relación entre el género y la ciudad, las huellas coloniales de muchas de nuestrasciudades, y el espacio público como objeto de luchas políticas y memoria colectiva. Para inspirarnos con su lucha y compartir aprendizajes, en este episodio hablamos con dos de las participantes del moviemiento Puente Vivias Nos Queremos. Una es nuestracohost, Domenica Valverde, estudiante de maestría en inovación, Desarrollo Humano y Sostenibilidad en la Universidad de Ginebra. Juntas entrevistamos aLiz Zhingri, activista y comunicadora feminista de Cuenca. El coraje, compromiso y solidaridad de Liz y Domenica fueron el antídoto perfecto para estos tiempos difíciles, y me inspiraron profundamente – espero que sientan lo mismo.

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• RERUN: What makes cities more or less unequal? With Ben Bradlow

  The question of inequality haunts the global north and south as economic, racial and other forms of inequality appear to grow deeper and to more devastating effects. But although this is a global problem, it is not an inevitable or homogeneous one, and local actors can have a role in responding to this dynamic. That is why in today’s episode we ask: ‘Why are some cities more equal than others?”. To answer this question, Flavia Leite and Isabel Peñaranda talk to Ben Bradlow, an associate research scholar and lecturer at Princeton. Through a south-south comparison of Sao Paulo and Johanseburg, Ben argues that some cities are better at reducing inequality than others because of their degree of embeddedness and cohesion.Bradlow's book, Urban Power (forthcoming with Princeton University Press) asks “Why are some cities more effective than others at reducing inequality?” To answer this question, he compares the divergent politics of distributing urban public goods — housing, sanitation, and transportation — in two mega-cities after transitions to democracy: Johannesburg, South Africa, and São Paulo, Brazil. Because the book isn’t out yet, we based our interview on two papers: a 2022 paper in Theory and Society – ⁠Embeddedness and cohesion: regimes of urban public goods distribution ⁠– and a 2021 paper in City & Community –⁠Weapons of the Strong: Elite Resistance and the Neo-Apartheid City⁠Ben Bradlow is an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University and a Lecturer in Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs. He is trained as both a sociologist and city planner, and holds a PhD in Sociology from Brown University (2020), and a Masters in City Planning from MIT (2013).Flavia Leite is a PhD student in City & Regional Planning at UC Berkeley. Her research interest revolves around the relationship between formal and informal housing markets, with a specific focus on housing financialization, access to credit, and housing policy in Latin America.

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• Sur-Urbano on DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS de Bad Bunny

  Este es un episodio atípico, y un poquito improvisado. Enél, entrevisto a tres puertoriqueños – Juan Arroyo, Coral Murphy y Ashely Ortiz, quienes son periodistas de música y estudiantes de doctorado en temas afines – para que nos ayuden a entender el album en su contexto. Descubríademás que Sebastián Duque, mi editor y colaborador esencial en este podcast, es un erudito del reggaeton, entonces también lo invite a participar. Juntos analizamos algunas de nuestras canciones favoritas desde la perspectiva musical, política y territorial.  Vamos perfilando la crisis existencial en la que se encuentra Puerto Rico, afligido por la herencia del colonialismo y en unaentrecrucijada entre convertirse un estado más de los Estados Unidos, o un movimiento cada más poderoso que busca la independencia. Es, como ha dicho Bad Bunny, su album más Puertoriqueño, pero también más universal. Lo que ha presenciado Sebastián en Cartagena, o yo en Washingon Heights en Nueva York, o los Puerto Riqueños en su isla, es un proceso de despojo de su derecho a la ciudad, a su territorio. Y realmente en este momento, cuantos no sentimos – estemosen Estados Unidos, América Latina, o demás –que los intereses de Sillicon Valley y el gran capital no nos está convertiendo, en cierto sentido, en extraños en nuestra propia tierra? Que el mundo se está forjando para interesas incompatibles con el bienestar de nuestras comunidades? Arrancamos con una conversación con Juan Arroyo, periodista de medios y sobre todo de música que ha escrito para publicaciones como Rolling Stone, Pitchfork y demás.Me acompaña como cohost y partícipe Coral Murphy,colega de doctorado de UC Berkelye, y también periodista para medios como el Guardian y the New York times. Segundo acto, con Sebastián Duque, Cartagenero exiliado aBogotá y editor del podcast. Para finalizar, hablo con Ashley  Ortiz Chico, estudiante de Doctorado en Estudios Latinoamericanos en la Universidad de Tulane quien trabaja temas de justicia Ambiental y decolonialidad en Puerto Rico. El trabajo de Ashley centrael trabajo de organizaciones comunitarias que combinan la proteccion de la memoria historica y y cultural con la proteccion ecológica. 

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• Latinos for Trump and the Multi-Racial Right with Daniel Martinez HoSang

  Since his inauguration just over a week ago, President Donald Trump has signed 8 executive orders and taken over 21 actions linked to immigration, evoking the notion of an “invasion” to justify a harsh military approach and promising “mass deportations”. Three days ago, his administration’s decision to use military airplanes to deport migrants – often handcuffed and treated like criminals – set off a diplomatic crisis with Colombia. Our president Gustavo Petro refused to accept two military flights with deported Colombians; Trump’s response was a disproportionate and vindictive weaponization of tariffs, which he threatened to raise 50%, and a repeal of all government official visas. Even though Petro ultimately accepted the fights, the fallout continues. Colombia was made an example of, to send the message that anyone that responds to Trump with anything other than complete submission – both inside and outside the US - will be aggressively punished. And yet in perhaps the most racist and overtly imperialist expression of the Republican party, Trump won with a significant increase of the Latino vote. The inspiration for this episode of Sur-Urbano was the shift towards the right in predominantly latino cities in the US. Miami-Dade county, which is 70% latino, swung republican for the first time since 1988. In counties all over the US-Mexico border - which tend to be majority or have large latino populations - the Trump vote grew by 10 to 25%, even in cases where Trump lost. This even happened in blue states and cities; in California, the largely latino Central Valley supported trump, and even in Queens and the Bronx in New York, the Trump vote increased by around 20%.   It is more important than ever to understand the unique power of the multi-racial right. And for this, I joined forces with cohost and political theorist Will Callinson  to interview Prof. Daniel HoSang, professor of American studies at Yale University. Daniel is an interdisciplinary scholar of racial formation and racism in politics, and coeditor of a forthcoming book titled The Politics of the Multiracial Right. I learned so much from this conversation, and am convinced that any hope of resistance must stem from a reckoning within the left, which includes better understanding of what drives voters – particularly the working class and of color – to the right.  Will Callison (williamcallison.bsky.social) is a political theorist and a Lecturer in Social Studies at Harvard University.

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