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This four-part podcast series from 果冻影院 Urban Laboratory explores what the term 鈥楤lack Urbanisms鈥� can offer us as we think about cities and urban experience.

New episodes available weekly from Friday 1 October.

Using the influential work of Prof AbdouMaliq Simone on Blackness and the Urban as a starting point, throughout this podcast series we听source different perspectives articulated by researchers from across Europe and Africa, including Dr Lioba Hirsch, Prof Ola Uduku, Dr H茅l猫ne Neveu-Kringelbach, Victoria Okoye, Dr Evance Mwathunga, and Prof Wilbard Komb茅.听

Scripted and hosted by (Universit茅 Libre de Bruxelles), the podcasts emerge from two sessions hosted by the Urban Lab and curated by (果冻影院) in 2019, as part of an international conference exploring emerging themes and critical methodologies at the frontiers of urban theory and practice.

The podcast series was co-ordinated by Dr Clare Melhuish (果冻影院), produced by Deborah Shorind茅 for , and supported by Dr Kamna Patel, former Bartlett Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. The podcast artwork is by听Jahnavi Inniss. With thanks to the at ULB.听

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Episode 1: Blackness and the urban

Published: 1 October 2021

In this first episode听we revisit excerpts of Prof AbdouMaliq Simone鈥檚 2019 talk from the conference 鈥楢t the frontiers of the urban鈥� that considered the multiplicities of Black Urbanisms as a series of refrains, calls and responses, parallel but complicit investigations and makings. Our aim here is to interpret some of his insights and transpose them to urban research in various cities.

Prof. AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, and Visiting Professor at the African Centre for Cities and Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Episode 2: Black Urbanisms meet the Black City

Published: 8 October 2021

In this episode we address Prof Simone鈥檚 notion of the 鈥渉allucination of Whiteness鈥�, revisit Dr Lioba Hirsch鈥檚 response on the coloniality and antiblack entanglements of Western global health, and are joined by Prof Ola Uduku who helps us consider these recordings in relation to her own research as Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture.

Dr Lioba Hirsch is a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Prof Ola Uduku is Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture.

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Episode 3: Black Urbanisms, Unsettling and Collectives on the Run

Published: 15 October 2021

Previously in this podcast we examined Prof AbdouMaliq Simone鈥檚 talk on 鈥楤lackness and the Urban鈥�, and used it to think through the racialised city. In this episode, we unpack another key aspect of Simone鈥檚 talk: his articulation of Blackness as a form of unsettling. We are joined by the social anthropologist Dr H茅l猫ne Neveu Kringelbach, whose work takes us to Francophone West Africa.

Dr. H茅l猫ne Neveu Kringelbach is Associate Professor of African Anthropology at 果冻影院.

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Episode 4: Black Urbanisms and Theorising from Africa

Episode 4: Black Urbanisms and Theorising from Africa

Published: 22 October 2021

In this final episode of 果冻影院 Urban Laboratory鈥檚 podcast series, we continue to put Prof AbdouMaliq Simone鈥檚 work on 鈥楤lackness and the Urban鈥� in conversation with scholars who also presented during the 鈥楢t the frontiers of the urban鈥� conference. Here we probe the relationship between Black urbanisms and land governance in African cities with Dr Evance Mwathanga, alongside excerpts from Prof Wilbard Kombe鈥檚 talk on the urban transformations being driven by an inadequately regulated market/real estate sector.

Dr Wilbard Kombe is Professor of Urban Land Management and Director of the Institute of Human Settlements Studies at Ardhi University.

Dr Evance Mwathunga is the Head of Geography and Earth Sciences Department at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.

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