Urban Political Podcast · Ross Beveridge, Markus Kip, Mais Jafari, Nitin Bathla, Julio Paulos, Nicolas Goez, Talja Blokland

100 – Looking Back, Looking Forward

·1 hr 35 min·5 clips
The move to authoritarianism, fascism, the resistance to that - and at the same time somehow detect new movements or ways of thinking.
The Urban Political podcast celebrates its 100th episode with co-founders Ross Beveridge and Markus Kipp reflecting on its punk-rock origins in 2019 Berlin, how the academic podcasting landscape has professionalized, and their favorite episodes covering global struggles from Hong Kong to Iran. The second half features regular guests discussing how urban research must grapple with rising authoritarianism, the decline of radical municipalism, and the challenge of maintaining hope in a defensive political moment.

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A hundredth episode that looks back to 2019 and ahead through a broad, theory-heavy discussion of urban crisis.

Episode 100 uses the hundredth installment as a chance to take stock, tracing the podcast back to its 2019 start and forward to what urban research and practice seem to need now.

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You want a hundredth episode that looks back on the podcast's origins and keeps the urban debate live.

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