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Figure 3: Promotional campaigns for associations selling irregular insurance around the country. Source: Website of the firm whose name has been anonymised. This ‘association-company’ is being investigated by the federal police operation called Seguro Fake and it is estimated that there are more than 100,000 clients in the country and a large number of accusations of non-payment of compensation.
23rd April 2025

The Business of Urban Security: Insurance and Illegal Protection in Violent Cities

C.P. Pow: selected essays
15th April 2025

C.P. Pow: selected essays

Dispatches from the Threshold
8th April 2025

Dispatches from the Threshold: tenant power in times of crisis

Cover of ANPUR 40 years: new times, new challenges in a diverse Brazil / editors José Júlio Ferreira Lima; Raul da Silva Ventura Neto; translation Silvia Benchimol and Ewerton Branco -- United Kingdom, Glasgow: Urban Studies Foundation, 2024.
24th March 2025

ANPUR and USF launch book commemorating 40 years of reflections on urban and regional planning in Brazil

Seminar participants at the closing event in São Paulo. Photo: Author unknown, 15 March 2024.
6th March 2025

Expanding Feminist Urban Struggles

Bloemfontein spatial justice field trip. Participants on Naval Hill.
21st February 2025

Overlooked Cities: Thinking and doing global urban studies differently seminar series

13th February 2025

The location of social housing as a differentiating factor: effects on the urban inequalities and opportunities of its recipients

Seminar 2 Open Colloquium “Researching Care and the City: experiences from Europe and Latin America” Bogotá, Colombia. Photo: Adriana Hurtado-Tarazona
31st January 2025

Women’s urban care practices through the lens of public social capital. A dialogue between Latin America and Europe

In front of the Chapel of Souls, Porto. Photograph by Aleksandra Milovanović.
24th January 2025

Before and after the USF International Fellowship

Sketch-Installation-copy-redu
15th January 2025

The Waiting Room Exhibition, Surabaya

30th December 2024

Interrogating the Role of Religious Actors in Shaping Urban Planning: Reflections from Middle Eastern and Latin American Cities

Colour aerial photograph of Jodhphur buildings
2nd December 2024

Writing Urban India — a new call for Fellows!

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"Before the USF senior fellowship, I ran a real risk of drowning in University administration and management responsibilities as I entered the ‘mid-career wildernness’. The fellowship reinvigorated my capacity, ideas and track record in research – and helped catapult me from mid- to senior career."

Professor Donald Houston, Senior Research Fellowship

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