Authors Alex Werth and Brandi Thompson Summers offer perspective on cultural geography and Black belonging in Oakland on the AAG panel, "Oakland as Subject and Setting: Doing Black Geographies in Place."
Authors Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr celebrate the 2026 AAG Annual Meeting leading a first-ever “mini-tour" based on their book, a collective history of resistance and survival in the face of ongoing oppression.
Author and first-gen scholar Samuel Shearer discusses his book, "Kigali," an ethnography exploring the politics of urban design, displacement, and the dual crises of capitalism and ecology in Kigali, Rwanda.
In “The Right to Suburbia,” Willow S. Lung-Amam details who’s benefitting from redevelopment in Washington, D.C.’s suburbs – and who’s being pushed out.
In "Building the Black City," Joe William Trotter, Jr., traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present.
Today is the ten-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death and a critical moment to reflect on the uprisings. While some view these contemporary revolts as solely driven by police aggression, our modern unrest narrative is more complex. Through interviews for my new book Slow and Sudden Violence, Ferguson and Baltimore community leaders identified police brutality as a cause of the uprisings, but they also voiced other significant frustrations.
The IJURR Book Series has established itself as a cornerstone in the field of global urban studies, pushing the boundaries of critical, interdisciplinary, and theory-driven urban research across the globe. Entering a new phase with its partnership with UC Press starting in 2024, the IJURR Book Serie
