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Cities, austerity and its discontents

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Research Associates 

Dr. Raphael Bischof
Dr. Jenni Cauvain
Manuel Fernandez Garcia
Professor Mike Geddes
Ines Newman
Dr. Hillary Shaw
Dr. Richard Vilaregut

Visiting Fellows

Stephan Treffers
Miriam Ureta

News and recent posts

  • Social Care Levy – not quite what it seems.
  • Accumulation and Consensus in Political Economy. Bridging the gap.
  • The impact of the Free School Meal Voucher Scheme on inter-temporal sustainability and sustainable deficit.
  • The politics of ‘belonging’
  • Social Mixing and the London East Village: Exclusion, Habitus and Belonging in a Post-Olympics Neighbourhood
  • The Urban Political Economy of ‘Austerity Islamophobia’
  • Muslim Women’s Political Participation in France and Belgium: Ever Shrinking Spaces
  • CURA invites expressions of interest from outstanding prospective PhD students
  • Governance-driven democratisation and democracy-driven governance: democratic radicalization and co-optation in the case of Barcelona
  • After the “Age of Austerity”: From COVID-19 to a New “Social Contract”? 

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