Below is the full schedule of the forthcoming Cities, Space and Development seminar series in the Lent Term 2014. For any enquiries, please contact the seminar coordinator Dr Claire Mercer. The Research Seminar in Cities, […]
Event Summary Is ‘Pro-Poor Agricultural Growth’ Inclusive? Gender Perspectives on Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa Speaker: Dr Agnes Andersson, Department of Geography, University of Lund Date: 19 November 2013 Summarised by Professor Sylvia Chant […]
The latest LSE Review of Books Podcast features Hyun Bang Shin who talks about reading Marx under South Korea’s strict national security laws and how this has influenced his own work on urban displacement. Click here […]
For many, the word “urban” is synonymous with high-rise buildings, financial and cultural centres and inner-city life. But this ignores the existence of the suburbs. Boris Johnson’s initial election as Mayor of London in 2008 […]
Event Summary Inclusionary approaches to urban planning: lessons in poverty reduction from South Africa (Speaker: Professor Sue Parnell, University of Cape Town) Summarised by Dr Gareth A. Jones Academics rarely have much that is positive […]
Dr Romola Sanyal writes on LSE India Blog, introducing a special issue of Political Geography, “Geographies at the Margins: Borders in South Asia”. She argues that borders and margins are central to understanding South Asia’s history […]
New Field Research Method Lab blog launched at LSE A new Field Research Method Lab blog has been launched by Dr Hyun Bang Shin, bringing together researchers to appraise constraints that they have encountered in the field, […]
“The excessive amount of money spent on a mega event inevitably sucks up public money to address social needs – and it hasn’t gone unnoticed in Brazil.” Hyun Bang Shin explains why the world’s attention on Rio […]