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Adam Abdullah

@a8junea

Asst Prof Social Sciences @ibakarachi @sess_iba. Associate Director @KarachiUrbanLab. PhD, City and Regional Planning @metu_odtu.

Karachi, Pakistan Katılım Kasım 2014
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Adam Abdullah@a8junea·
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Muhammad Toheed, Urban Planner
Muhammad Toheed, Urban Planner@UrbanPlannerNED·
This academic endeavor provided me valuable insights into complex dynamics at play in informal settlements/markets & challenges faced by marginalized communities in asserting their rights & defending their homes & livelihoods. @MacktoomSoha @DrGulnazAnjum @a8junea @ArsamSal
Prof Nausheen H Anwar@nha3383

It took a while but finally a hard copy version of our @IDRC_CRDI funded project report on Land, Governance & the Gendered Politics of Displacement in Urban Pakistan , is ready with lots of copies for distribution. If you want a copy, DM me.

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birgan gokmenoglu@birgangokmenog·
This article is the first in a Special Issue on the Political and Transformative Uses of Time that I am co-editing with Colin Ruggero @megafauna. Exciting new papers are on the way!
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Soha Macktoom
Soha Macktoom@MacktoomSoha·
And after a long wait, it is finally out!! My paper, co-authored with @nha3383 and @jamiejcross has been published in Urban Studies, which talks about the ways in which street vendors negotiate shade in the changing urban climate of Karachi. @KarachiUrbanLab @sess_iba
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New #SpecialIssue paper by @MacktoomSoha, @nha3383 and @jamiejcross: 'Hot climates in urban #SouthAsia: Negotiating the right to and the politics of shade at the everyday scale in #Karachi' @KarachiUrbanLab ow.ly/AA5550PLbBC

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Prof Nausheen H Anwar
Prof Nausheen H Anwar@nha3383·
It’s out! Pleasure to co-author this piece w/ my colleague @MacktoomSoha & @jamiejcross . On the politics of shade in urban South Asia… inspired by lthe work of the late, great Mike Davis on heat & shade. We introduce a conceptual framework for thinking about politics of shade.
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New #SpecialIssue paper by @MacktoomSoha, @nha3383 and @jamiejcross: 'Hot climates in urban #SouthAsia: Negotiating the right to and the politics of shade at the everyday scale in #Karachi' @KarachiUrbanLab ow.ly/AA5550PLbBC

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GIScience
GIScience@GIScience_conf·
“Cities out of data?” We kick off this morning with our fantastic keynote speakers @j_p_albuquerque from @UrbanBigData and Caroline Kabaria. Welcome everyone to #GIScience23 🗺️📍
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IJURR.org@IJURResearch·
Join us tomorrow for a discussion on the everyday politics of thermal violence in urban South Asia, co-hosted with @iihsin. Full details and registration can be found here: ijurr.org/news/urbanheat…
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Indian Institute for Human Settlements
The latest issue from the @IJURResearch (IJURR) on Extreme Heat and Urban South Asia includes contributions that highlight key issues pertaining to the challenges that rising temperatures pose for cities in South Asia. @nha3383
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Resilience Development Initiative
Yesterday, 6 September 2023 was the first day of the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) Conference Programme “Overlooked Cities in Asia:  Interrogating blind fields in urban knowledges and praxes". This conference is co-hosted by RDI in deBraga Hotel, Bandung from 6-8 September 2023.
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