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The Bartlett is excited to announce the launch of Black Urbanisms, a new four-part podcast series from UCL Urban Laboratory to mark聽Black History Month.聽

Using the influential work of sociologist Prof聽AbdouMaliq Simone on Blackness and the Urban as a starting聽point,聽this new聽podcast series sources different perspectives on the utility of the term聽鈥楤lack Urbanisms鈥� and what it can offer us as we think about cities and urban experience.

Hosted by聽聽(Universit茅 Libre de Bruxelles), Black Urbanisms emerges from聽two Urban Lab sessions curated by聽聽in 2019 as part of an聽 on emerging themes and critical methodologies at the frontiers of urban theory and practice and features聽contributions from聽Dr聽Lioba Hirsch,聽Prof聽Ola Uduku,聽Dr聽H茅l猫ne Neveu-Kringelbach, Victoria Okoye,聽Dr聽Evance Mwathunga, and聽Prof聽Wilbard Komb茅.聽

In the first episode, host Dr Alana Osbourne revisits excerpts of Prof AbdouMaliq Simone鈥檚 2019 talk from the conference that considered the multiplicities of Black Urbanisms as a series of refrains, calls and responses, parallel but complicit investigations and makings. The aim here is to interpret some of his insights and transpose them to urban research in various cities.

Other episodes, which will be released every Friday throughout October,聽consider Blackness as a form of unsettling in the racialised city, Prof Simone鈥檚 notion of the 鈥渉allucination of Whiteness鈥�, and theorising from Africa.

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