Seeing the City
How do we understand cities in times of conflict and change? This episode explores photos archives and new ways to study cities across the Global South.
In this episode Tom and Beth are joined by visiting researchers to the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester, Junia Mortimer and Felipe Magalhães.
They discuss:
- How can we see and understand the city in this geopolitical age of conflict and global uncertainty?
- How can photographs and visual archives make visible the complexities of cities, particularly those in the Global South?
- When seeing directly is not possible, what other approaches can help us analyse the intense volatility of cities impacted by urbanisation and industrialisation processes?
- What do these methods mean for urbanists interested in urban change? What endures, what transforms and how do we validate what counts as knowledge?
Guests:
Junia Mortimer is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Urban Planning at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She is currently an Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield. She has curated exhibitions including Urbanos Arquivos (2023) in Salvador, which won first prize in the 2024 Arquisur Competition and she coordinates the Laboratory of Experiments on Image and Architecture.
Felipe Magalhães is an Assistant Prof at the Department of Geography, UFMG, Brazil and Visiting Fellow at University of Manchester. He has been working on popular and solidarity economies, deindustrialization and extractivism in the Brazilian context. He has recently published in the journals Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, IJURR and Antipode.
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Credits
- Guest: Junia Mortimer (Assistant Professor at the Department of Urban Planning at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Urban Studies Foundation International Fellow at the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield)
- Guest: Felipe Magalhães (Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Visiting Fellow at University of Manchester)
- 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