Best Nitin Bathla Podcasts (2025)

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89 - Book Presentation: Turkish Muslim Women in Berlin 31:41

5d ago31:41

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Navigating Boundaries in the City Kulkul presents her ethnographic work with Turkish Muslim women in Berlin as evidence that community is not an entity but is produced by instrumentalizing specific forms of identification and boundary-making.In examining the role of community in the case of her participants, Kulkul finds that religion and culture a…

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88 - In Conversation with Heather Dorries (The Urban Lives of Property Series V) 45:02

19d ago45:02

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The Urban Lives of Property Series In this episode of The Urban Lives of Property, Markus Kip and Hanna Hilbrandt speak with Heather Dorries, about the intersections of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in urban property regimes. Drawing on Dorries’ recent publications and her wider expertise on property, Indigeneity, and urbanism the episo…

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87 - Infrastructures of Urban Citizenship 37:31

1M ago37:31

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With Examples from the UK, Lebanon and Germany This talk focuses on the role of public services in delineating the boundaries of belonging and possibilities of participation in cities. Drawing on the notion of 'infrastructural citizenship', it asks how non-citizens navigate access to urban circulations and how rights and responsibilities are negoti…

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86 - Book Review: Concrete City 52:23

2M ago52:23

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Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa Concrete City: Material Flows and Urbanization in West Africa delivers a theoretically informed, ethnographic exploration of the African urban world through the life of concrete. Emblematic of frenetic urban and capitalistic development, this material is pervasive, shaping contemporary urban landscapes…

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85 - Authoritarian Urbanism in Eurasia 31:09

2M ago31:09

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Examples from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan This episode is part of our Think&Drink Series in collaboration with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies working with the Humboldt University Berlin. Today’s speaker is Andrei Semenov, an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Nazarbayev Univers…

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84 - How Cities Can Transform Democracy 41:16

3M ago41:16

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Urban Political x Groningen University: Where Is Urban Politics? This is the first seminar in the series 'Where is Urban Politics?' a hybrid seminar series hosted by the University of Groningen, in the academic year 2024-2025. For more information on recent and forthcoming events: https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/where-is-urban-politics-series This …

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83 - Book Presentation: Dithering for the Common Good 45:28

4M ago45:28

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Productive misunderstandings in cooperative urban development This is a new episode from our Think&Drink series in collaboration with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies and the Humboldt University Berlin.Co-operative urban development is the buzzword of the moment. It stands for the pursuit of a fairer city that is orientated towards the com…

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82 - Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times 59:05

5M ago59:05

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Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptu…

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81 - Urban Political x Think & Drink: Maroš Krivy. 27:40

5M ago27:40

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Valuing indeterminacy: Terrain vague, temporary use and the production of urban expertise in Barcelona and Berlin.This is the first episode of a new series from Urban Political. In collaboration with the Georg Simmel Center for Urban Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, this series will feature speakers from the center’s Think & Drink Colloquium.…

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80 - Spatial Planning in Israel/Palestine and the Gaza War 1:28:49

7M ago1:28:49

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In this episode, we explore the role of land policies and spatial planning in the Israel-Palestine conflict. Our two guests, Oren Yiftachel and Orwa Switat, discuss the historical context of the conflict, focusing on how settler colonialism and land regimes have shaped hierarchical types of citizenship and exacerbated tensions. The conversation loo…

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79 - Not in my Gayborhood! 34:22

9M ago34:22

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Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen In this episode, we are discussing Theodore Greene’s latest book, Not in my Gayborhood! Gay neighborhoods and the rise of the vicarious citizen, published by Columbia University Press in July 2024. This book is a lively and generous study of gay neighborhoods in Washington DC, highlighting the…

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78 - Book Review: Waste and the City 1:16:56

10M ago1:16:56

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Author: Colin McFarlane, Critics: Vanesa Castan Broto and Julia Wesely Our Guests:Vanesa Castan Broto is a Professor of Climate Urbanism at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield where she takes a feminist perspective on questions of sustainable urban innovation, just transitions, urban resilience and infrastructure systems.Twitter - @VaneBai…

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Episode 77 - Post-Socialist Infrastructure 49:06

11M ago49:06

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In this episode we talk about garages, trams and trolleybuses! Our guests for this episode, Tauri Tuvikene and Wladimir Sgibnev, help us think about post-socialist mobility in terms of continuities and ruptures. Using examples from Estonia, East Germany, and the former Soviet Union, they question the future of mobility, highlight the importance of …

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Episodio 76 - En conversación con Clara Salazar (The Urban Lives of Property Series IV) 1:05:53

1y ago1:05:53

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Ejidos y asentamientos autogestionados en Mexico In this inaugural Spanish-language episode of the Urban Political Podcast, Clara Salazar delves into the history and concept of the ejidos—collective forms of land ownership introduced by the Mexican Revolution in 1917. Following this, the state began redistributing land to impoverished farmers under…

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Episode 75 – Book Review Roundtable: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology 1:00:40

1y ago1:00:40

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Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities—human and nonhuman—that make up the material politics of city making. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, Barua reveals how these actors shape, integrate, subs…

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In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III) 1:16:17

1y ago1:16:17

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Property, Planning and Institutional Power: A view from Switzerland This episode of the Urban Lives of Property Series expands discussions geographically and conceptually: Our guest in this episode, Jean-David Gerber, helps us think property from Switzerland and other places. Starting off with the observation that there is no single understanding o…

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the Far Right and the City 53:40

1+ y ago53:40

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With the research network Territorialisations of the Radical Right (Terra-R). Tune in for our new episode on the far-right and the city! In this discussion, members of the Terra-R (Territorialisations of the Radical Right) network examine the developments of the radical right in Germany beyond simplistic urban-rural and East-West attributions, and …

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Rent Strike Series Episode 3 27:07

1+ y ago27:07

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The third in an ongoing series hosted by Mathilde Lind GustavussenThis is episode three of the Rent Strike Series, focusing on the Veritas Tenants Association’s ongoing multibuilding rent strike in San Francisco to demand a say in the terms of sale of their buildings. In November 2023, the Prado Group assumed ownership of 20 Veritas-owned buildings…

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Cosmopolitan Solidarity 1:02:38

1+ y ago1:02:38

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A talk on Hope, Affection, and Welcoming the 'Other' To live in the age of precarity is a tolling, everyday struggle. It erodes one's strength to carry on, live another day, and keep the hope for a modicum of prosperity due to come in some vague future. And when things get unbearably harsh, when the hegemony of neoliberalism has individualised the …

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Property Rights Versus Tenants in Poland 26:17

1+ y ago26:17

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Beata Siemieniako on the restitution of housing and tenants' struggles Unregulated restitution of property to prewar owners (or rather their legal successors) remains a major source of conflict over housing in Poland, most notably in Warsaw. This episode features Beata Siemieniako, a Warsaw lawyer and urban activist who has been supporting tenants …

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Rent Strike Series Episode 2 24:37

1+ y ago24:37

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The second in an ongoing series hosted by Mathilde Lind Gustavussen. This is episode two of the Rent Strike Series, focusing on the Veritas Tenants Association’s ongoing multibuilding rent strike in San Francisco to demand a say in the terms of sale of their buildings. On August 30, corporate landlord Ballast Investments won the auction for Veritas…

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Book Review Roundtable: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning 1:10:26

1+ y ago1:10:26

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Against the Commons underscores how urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure…

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Rent Strike Series Episode 1 48:12

1+ y ago48:12

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the Veritas Tenants Association’s (VTA) in San Francisco Episode description: This is the first episode of the Rent Strike Series from Urban Political, a multi-episode series about the Veritas Tenants Association’s (VTA) on-going rent strike against San Francisco’s largest landlord, Veritas Investments, Inc. The episode brings in tenants and organi…

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Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy 59:30

2y ago59:30

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Ross Beveridge, Philippe Koch and their critics We live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What implications does this have for democracy? This incis…

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Book Review Roundtable: Migrants and Machine Politics 1:00:16

2y ago1:00:16

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Adam Auerbach and his critics As the Global South rapidly urbanizes, millions of people have migrated from the countryside to urban slums, which now house one billion people worldwide. The transformative potential of urbanization hinges on whether and how poor migrants are integrated into city politics. Popular and scholarly accounts paint migrant …

Podcasts Worth a Listen

Nitin Bathla Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Urban Political Podcast

Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland

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89 - Book Presentation: Turkish Muslim Women in Berlin 31:41

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88 - In Conversation with Heather Dorries (The Urban Lives of Property Series V) 45:02

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87 - Infrastructures of Urban Citizenship 37:31

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86 - Book Review: Concrete City 52:23

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85 - Authoritarian Urbanism in Eurasia 31:09

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84 - How Cities Can Transform Democracy 41:16

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83 - Book Presentation: Dithering for the Common Good 45:28

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82 - Book Review Roundtable: Infrastructural Times 59:05

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81 - Urban Political x Think & Drink: Maroš Krivy. 27:40

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80 - Spatial Planning in Israel/Palestine and the Gaza War 1:28:49

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79 - Not in my Gayborhood! 34:22

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78 - Book Review: Waste and the City 1:16:56

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Episode 77 - Post-Socialist Infrastructure 49:06

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Episodio 76 - En conversación con Clara Salazar (The Urban Lives of Property Series IV) 1:05:53

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Episode 75 – Book Review Roundtable: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology 1:00:40

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In Conversation with Jean-David Gerber (The Urban Lives of Property Series III) 1:16:17

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the Far Right and the City 53:40

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Rent Strike Series Episode 3 27:07

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Cosmopolitan Solidarity 1:02:38

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Property Rights Versus Tenants in Poland 26:17

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Rent Strike Series Episode 2 24:37

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Book Review Roundtable: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning 1:10:26

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Rent Strike Series Episode 1 48:12

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Book Review Roundtable: How Cities Can Transform Democracy 59:30

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Book Review Roundtable: Migrants and Machine Politics 1:00:16