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.
Mariam Bazzi is a researcher at the Beirut Urban Lab, working on cultural heritage destruction and reconstruction in Palestine and Lebanon. Previous work included tracking the urbicide in Gaza.
Credits
- Guest: Dr Hannah Sender (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield)
- Guest: Mariam Bazzi (Researcher at the Beirut Urban Lab)
- Podcast Production, Presentation & Editing: Tom Goodfellow (Professor of Urban Studies and International Development at the University of Sheffield)
- Podcast Production, Presentation & Editing: Beth Perry (Professor of Urban Epistemics at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Urban Institute)
- Post-Production Editing & Marketing: Polly Clifton (Student at the University of Sheffield)
- Training & Production Support: Jack Clayton (Creative Media Service Support Adviser at the University of Sheffield)
- Distribution, Promotion and Marketing: Vicky Simpson (Research Manager at the University of Sheffield)
- Podcast Cover: Dan Farley Designs
- Music: Horizon (Music by Tom Goodfellow, Recorded & Produced by Alan Thomson), Falling Down (Music by Tom Goodfellow, Performed by the Dice, Produced by Alan Thomson)
- Special Thanks: Supported by the Faculty of Social Science and the Creative Media Suite at the University of Sheffield