Dr Deborah Fromm
Funding period: 1 April 2024 – 31 August 2024
Type of funding:
Other Grants
DOI: https://doi.org/10.69752/85B7-H891
Award Number: USF-EVT-240301
Income and wealth inequality have grown in many countries in the last decade. These inequalities are most visible in cities and are arguably related to the form of urban growth. As we know, many of the most unequal cities in the world, according to the Gini coefficient, are concentrated in the so-called Global South. Cities like Johannesburg, São Paulo, Manila, or Nairobi, regardless of their innumerable cultural, demographic, and political differences, are recognized for their socio-economic disparities, urban infrastructure problems, and high rates of violent crime.
Setting out to promote South-South analysis and encourage a discussion about emerging urban service markets and new zones of resources accumulation in the South was the main intellectual goal of the workshop ‘Money and Politics in Unequal Cities: Analytical Insights from The Global South’, funded by the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) and organized by Deborah Fromm, Gareth Jones and Morgan Carmellini. The workshop was hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) on the 17th and 18th of June and brought together urban researchers from Ecuador, India, Brazil, China, Argentina, South Africa, Serbia, Ghana, Indonesia and the Philippines to reflect on the production of cities and the marketisation of urban services in their interfaces with economic interests, social conflict and political disputes.
You can read more about the workshop here.
This workshop was supported by a USF Event Support Funding grant awarded to USF International Fellow Dr Deborah Fromm.