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

87 - Infrastructures of Urban Citizenship

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Infrastructural disconnect operates as a form of symbolic expulsion, redrawing the boundaries of urban citizenship.

Researcher Hannah Baumann presents a comparative analysis of how urban infrastructures shape citizenship for refugees and migrants across four cities: Jerusalem, Berlin, Bar Elias (Lebanon), and London. Through ethnographic research, she demonstrates how waste management and food systems become sites where non-citizens negotiate belonging, from Palestinians demanding equal sanitation services to Syrian refugees in Germany internalizing recycling as active citizenship.

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