Together with his colleagues Paroj Banerjee, Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL), and Ishita Chatterjee, O.P. Jindal Global University, India, Raffael Beier (IPS) has received funding through the USF Seminar Series Award 2025-2026. The seminar series "Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decentre urban knowledge" highlights the contributions of early-career and underrepresented scholars who explore diverse forms of urban inhabitation, moving beyond what we typically consider “normal” ways of dwelling. By delving deeply into the everyday lives of urban residents, the series aims to demonstrate how people living in cities are questioning and challenging mainstream ideas about how we should inhabit our urban spaces. The project seeks to define ‘non-dominance’ as spatio-temporal ontologies located at peripheries of power, which can be read through the deviations from normative expectations of how people should inhabit the city.
Building further on a 2023 hybrid double-session at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG), this seminar series responds to both an intellectual and structural injustice in urban knowledge production. Consisting of a host of activities – such as keynote lectures, field engagements, drafting a special issue for Urban Studies, presentations of papers from ECRs and URSs, writing and publishing sessions, this seminar series is aimed at achieving three cross-cutting impacts – de-centring academic knowledge production, mentoring ECRs and URSs for advancement of scholarship and forwarding urban justice through scholar-activist co-productions. Three hybrid events are planned across three diverse cities, London (UK), January 2026, Mohali (India), April 2026, and Dortmund, September 2026.
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