Property and Urbicide
How do families rebuild after war in Lebanon? This episode explores housing, displacement and power, plus global stories shaping cities today.
This month, Tom and Beth are joined by Hannah Sender and Mariam Bazzi to discuss how propertied families in small towns in Lebanon have responded to violence and displacement over the past years.
When left with no savings, and little help to repair and reconstruct after military interventions, property becomes a moral relationship, as much as a personal asset: what ought housing to be used for, when urbicide becomes a core goal of warfare?
Also on our radar:
- Infrastructural causes of flooding in Nairobi
- What Cubans in Miami reveal about how diaspora shape urban politics
- Banksy's loss of anonymity in an era of surveillance capitalism
- Data centre politics in the French local elections
- Scam centres in Cambodia
- Habermas, an unrecognised urbanist?
Guests:
Hannah Sender is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. Her current research examines land and housing relations in Lebanon.
