Category: Polycrisis

  • 95 – The Urban Crisis at Night (Urban Polycrisis Series)

    95 – The Urban Crisis at Night (Urban Polycrisis Series)

    Engaging the Polycrisis after Dark To what extent does the current polycrisis intensify in urban settings during nighttime hours? Night lives are already characterized by precarity, urban inequalities, deeply seeded health and wellbeing concerns and a life ‘in the shadows’. In this Polycrisis series episode, Michele Acuto, Andreina Seijas and Alessio Kolioulis take us on…

  • 94 – Urban Racial Politics in Cartagena, Colombia (Urban Polycrisis Series)

    94 – Urban Racial Politics in Cartagena, Colombia (Urban Polycrisis Series)

    Cover Photo Credits: Roger Romero This episode will be conducted in Spanish, in line with the podcast’s aim to de-center urban knowledge production by showcasing distinctive urban perspectives, and linguistic viewpoints English We are thrilled to introduce you to the second episode of our series on Urban Polycrisis. Join us for an episode in Spanish…

  • 93 – Normative Insurgency: Responses to the Urban Polycrisis from the Global South (Polycrisis Series)

    93 – Normative Insurgency: Responses to the Urban Polycrisis from the Global South (Polycrisis Series)

    This is the first episode in a new series on urban polycrisis! The series will explore the complex set of protracted, interconnected, and mutually reinforcing crises that disproportionately affect urban centers and urban populations, ranging from housing, democracy, transit, infrastructure, inequality, conflict, the environment, to health. That cities experience crisis is nothing new, of course.…