/474/ Urban Power in a Planet of Slums ft. Ben Bradlow
Bungacast11 Mars 2025

/474/ Urban Power in a Planet of Slums ft. Ben Bradlow

On cities and the politics of development.

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Ben Bradlow, assistant professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton, talks to Alex about his book Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg.

  • If our future is urban – and it is – why is it different to what we imagined?

  • Are Johannesburg and São Paulo representative of what is going on in cities?

  • How did democratic promise and neoliberal disappointment go together in the 1990s, through to today?

  • What has been the role of social movements (e.g. for housing) in transforming cities and municipal government?

  • Is the radical right in the global North and South fundamentally different? What is the urban dimension?

  • What does China's lead in industries like electric vehicles mean for countries like Brazil?

  • Is industrial upgrading possible under post-neoliberalism?

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