Housing Justice in #UnequalCities Launch Conference
Los Angeles, California
January 31 – February 2, 2019
Conference Highlights
- View the video series of brief conversations around housing justice with #UnequalCities steering committee members
- Read How UCLA Is Talking About Housing Justice Where Housing Injustice Happens via KNOCK.LA
- Read ‘Unequal Cities’ Conference Highlights Housing Research via UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
- Read Housing Justice in #UnequalCities via FEM Newsmagazine
- View more captured moments from the conference
- Search #UnequalCities to view live tweets from the conference
Conference Program
January 31, 2019 | 6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Community Action Network | 838 E. 6th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021
“Let’s Get Free!” Struggles for Housing and Land in a Global Perspective
Reception & Cultural Performance:
Caroline Calderon, DJ & Talaam Acey, poet
Opening Remarks:
Pete White, Los Angeles Community Action Network
Presenters:
James DeFilippis, Rutgers University
The Potential and Limits of Community Land Trusts
Maria Kaïka, University of Amsterdam
Mortgaged Lives: The Biopolitics of Household Debt in Spain and Greece
Erin McElroy, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
On the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: The Politics, Ethics, and Methods of Mapping Gentrification and Resistance
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Brown University
Police, Displacement and Black Women’s Resistance
Spanish translation provided by Antena, a language justice advocacy collective.
February 1, 2019 | 9:00 a.m.-6:30 p.m.
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs | 337 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095
9:00-10:00 am. Research Justice in Unequal Cities
Opening Remarks:
Ananya Roy, UCLA
Presenters:
Sophie Oldfield, University of Cape Town (via Zoom)
In Everyday City Struggles: Experiments in Collaborative Research
Terra Graziani and Hilary Malson, UCLA
Praxis: Reflection + Action
10:00-11:30 am. Rent and Property
Chair: Michael Lens, UCLA
Presenters:
Nicholas Blomley, Simon Fraser University
Rent, Precarity, and Property Relations
Gilda Haas, LA Coop Lab
Beyond Extraction
Sarah Treuhaft, PolicyLink
When Renters Rise, Cities Thrive: Building New Frames and Data to Power the Renter Movement
11:45 am-1:15 pm. Racial Banishment
Chair: Kelly Lytle Hernandez, UCLA
Presenters:
Nik Heynen, University of Georgia
“Ruins of a Great House”: Re-Earthing the Plantation and the Struggle for the Abolitionist Commons
Rahim Kurwa, University of Illinois, Chicago
The New “Man in the House” Rules: The Central Role of Gender and Family in the Policing of Housing Vouchers
Laura Pulido, University of Oregon
The Cultural Memory of Dispossession
2:00-3:30 pm. Circuits of Carcerality and Financialization
Chair: Hannah Appel, UCLA
Presenters:
Desiree Fields, University of Sheffield
Financialization and Racial Capitalism After the Crisis
Hamid Khan, Stop LAPD Spying
Data Driven Displacement
Toussaint Losier, University of Massachusetts, Amherst/Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign
“To Tell the Whole Wide World This is Peoples’ Territory”: Human Rights and Housing Decommodification in the Praxis of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign
3:45-5:30 pm. Why a Global Research Network? Theory, Activism, Pedagogy
Chair: Eric Sheppard, UCLA
Presenters:
Raquel Rolnik, University of São Paulo
Displacements and Emplacements in Metropolitan São Paulo: Echoing Voices and Inventing Counter Narratives
Tony Roshan Samara, Urban Habitat/Right to the City Alliance
Translocal Productions of Knowledge and Power
Tracy Rosenthal, LA Tenants Union
School of Echoes, The Making of the L.A. Tenants Union, or 101 Reasons You Can’t Do Politics Alone
Gautam Bhan, Indian Institute for Human Settlements
Imagining “Global” Collaborations within the Southern Urban Question
5:30-6:30 pm: Reception
3rd floor Commons, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
