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My #ethnography on #street life, #marginality and #development in #urban #Ethiopia, The Act of Living, is out today with @CornellPress cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=801… #AddisAbaba

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- The council has stated publicly that 68% of residents support the regeneration, citing engagement with more than 1,000 residents. However, available consultation documents do not clearly support this claim.

What is happening in Druids Heath? Newly released financial viability documents shows that the development is not only unviable. It is also unsustainable. Full posts here: ladywoodunite.com/2026/03/16/wha… Thread 👇👇

Neoliberalism is not market-led. It is about the state subsidizing the corporate world without delivering much in return to communities. The housing system fails because that the state subsidizes housing developers without claiming anything in return for the communities.

We established Otherwise Magazine to be able to experiment, work with multiple forms of storytelling and expand the boundaries of ethnography. This amazing issue curated by the one and only José Sherwood González does just that. Check it out otherwisemag.com/amoxtli

OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! Amoxtli is OUT! In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca – the Book of the Smoking Mirror – a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors otherwisemag.com/amoxtli

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Participation must move toward genuine collaboration and empowerment — through governance reform, firm guarantees for residents, and direct involvement in spatial and design decisions.

Yesterday, I gave a speech to the Homes Overview and Scrutiny Committee about the Ladywood regeneration. There was a lot to fit into 10 minutes. Full speech here: ladywoodunite.com/2026/02/27/lad… Video here: birmingham.public-i.tv/core/portal/we…