Varvara Karipidou

Emergence of Stateness in Urban Development 27 June, 10am–3:30pm @VarvKar The workshop encourages the analysis & contrast of urban governance structures in Africa & East Europe, and explores how states & institutions influence urban development processes. ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…

Last of three under my directorship 2018-2024! - Urban Lab Publishes Activities Report 2021–2023 @UCLurbanlab @TheBartlettUCL @UCLgeography @UCLanthropology @UCLEast @UCL_IAS - check it out! ucl.ac.uk/urban-lab/news…

💡Come join us for a very intriguing presentation on the planning deviations in Bucharest by @VarvKar, who was recently awarded the prestigious Next Economy Trust Fellowship! 👇

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 Research Student Varvara Karipidou has been awarded the @UCL Next Economy Trust Fellowship for her research on the enduring impact of communism on urban development in Eastern Europe. 🏙️🎓 #Geography #Research #Fellowship

Check out this new article in #TheBartlettReview by @johntomaney with @LucyNatarajan and @myfanwy_t on 'left-behind' communities in evolving economies, highlighting a new research funded by @GrandChallenges on how to help people in these communities. 🔗 bartlett-review.ucl.ac.uk/left-behind-pl…

Looking forward to some rich discussion on rural, peripheral, peri-urban & 'left behind' places this week at #RSAWinter in London 🇬🇧 @regstud conference goers be sure to join us for an EdgeNet-Working lunch & #EdgyMatters sessions! Details👇

@AfterCities conference in Riga takes place next week! Our member @LoksovaTerezie will talk about the role of consultants in policy mobility in the session on emerging processes of place-making organised by @ArmineBagiyan and @VarvKar. Sep 20, from 9:00.

Recently, I participated in Annual International Conference by @RGS_IBG & presented my #ethnographic work on “Urban Informality & Power Contentions" around footpath tea stalls in Delhi in the session "Governing the Urban Age" chaired by @VarvKar @CroeseSylvia and Matthew Lane

The 4 decades between 1948 and 1989 saw a radical revision of previous critical and artistic positions & resulted in the emergence of some characteristically Eastern European responses to Milton’s works. Find out more about them in this #openaccess book: ow.ly/u4jE50LAVeI