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Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
Tuesday Mar 11, 2025
On cities and the politics of development.
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Ben Bradlow, assistant professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton, talks to Alex about his book Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg.
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If our future is urban – and it is – why is it different to what we imagined?
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Are Johannesburg and São Paulo representative of what is going on in cities?
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How did democratic promise and neoliberal disappointment go together in the 1990s, through to today?
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What has been the role of social movements (e.g. for housing) in transforming cities and municipal government?
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Is the radical right in the global North and South fundamentally different? What is the urban dimension?
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What does China's lead in industries like electric vehicles mean for countries like Brazil?
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Is industrial upgrading possible under post-neoliberalism?
Links:
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Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg, Benjamin Bradlow, Princeton UP
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A processual framework for understanding the rise of the populist right: the case of Brazil (2013–2018), Tomás Gold and Benjamin Bradlow, Social Forces
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Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation, Peter Evans, Princeton UP
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