Ananya Roy at InfUr-: Interview with Kim Dovey and Crystal Legacy

Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA, which promotes research and scholarship concerned with displacement and dispossession.

While on a visit to InfUr-, she sat down with Kim Dovey and Crystal Legacy for an interview. Watch here:

ANANYA ROY at INFUR with Kim Dovey & Crystal Legacy 00:00 Introduction - On urban informality 04:03 On informality and capitalism 06:10 On deep democracy & self-organization 10:08 On the language of 'slums' vs 'informal settlements' 12:37 On tactical urbanism 17:33 On architecture 23:51 On urban planning 28:39 On research justice 33:19 On research frameworks: postcolonial, assemblage and planetary urbanism 37:08 On mapping and urban legibility 41:52 On critical urban theory 45:34 On poverty, inequality and democracy InfUr- Informal Urbanism research hub https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/informal-urbanism