Cities@Tufts Lectures

Graduate student hunger: Just Us dinners and food resources with Ashanee Kottage

The Just Us Graduate Student Dinners emerged from a recognition of the quiet crisis of food insecurity and isolation that many graduate students—especially Global Majorit

Defining environmental justice communities when 'equity' is a banned word with Marcos Luna

Since the emergence of the Environmental Justice movement, maps have been pivotal tools in revealing patterns of environmental and social inequality, in legitimizing what

The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places with Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

Where would you take someone on a guided tour of your neighborhood? In her recent book, The Cities We Need (MIT Press), photographer and urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani

The Pointillistic City: Well-Being and Equity in Communities and their Places with Dan O'Brien

The Pointillistic City extends the classic observation that "neighborhoods matter" for health and well-being, arguing that we need to pay more attention to the other geog

Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and Institution Building with Monica White

Dr. Monica M. White presented Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and Institution Building." The presentation provided context for understanding agriculture as a str

Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona with Megan Saltzman

Megan Saltzman presented her new book--Public Everyday Space: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona--which explores how everyday practices in public space (sitting, p

A History of Violence: The Legacy of Environmental Racism in Canada with Ingrid Waldron

Canada was founded on enslavement and dispossession, most exemplified by its assimilationist ideologies and policies, the displacement, subjugation and oppression of Indi

Local Leadership for Climate Justice with Hessann Farooqi

This talk explores how and why city governments can step up to lead on climate action and how resident organizing is critical in making this happen. This talk also explor

From City to Sink: Urban Carbon Removal as Promise and Practice with Duncan McLaren

Climate policy increasingly relies on techniques to remove CO2 from the environment as a supplement to cutting emissions: counter-balancing residual emissions in 'net-zer

Solidarity Cities: Examining Solidarity Economies at the Urban Level with Maliha Safri

Contemporary urban discourse is caught in a binary between the Gentrified City, and the Disinvested City. Maliha Safri's new book presents an alternative urban imaginary:

Environmental Justice, Political-Economic Inequalities, and Pathways to Justice with Prakash Kashwan

Most researchers of environmental and climate justice agree that political and economic inequalities hurt the environment, racial minorities, Indigenous Peoples, and othe

Mutual Aid Lessons from East Boston

This is a special bonus episode of the Cities@Tufts podcast! Last fall, Tufts University Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Urban Environmental Policy and Planning, Penn

Decolonizing Climate and Energy Policy with Noel Healy

Addressing the climate crisis requires more than incremental reforms; it necessitates a transformative approach that dismantles deep-seated inequalities and confronts the

Mobilizing Food Vending with Ginette Wessel

Throughout US history, street food vending has rarely been considered an improvement to modern society or its capitalist economy. However, beginning in 2008, a new genera

Reimagining Urban Planning with Jose Richard Aviles

Reimagining Urban Planning is a talk based on the monthly webinar series of the same name hosted by the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley. This talk openl

Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies with Charisma Acey

Urban Environmental Marronage: Connecting Black Ecologies from Coastal Nigeria to the American South explores how marginalized communities in coastal Nigeria and the Amer

Hacking the Archive: The Quest for More Just Urban Futures with Karilyn Crockett

Hacking the Archive: The Quest for More Just Urban Futures with Karilyn Crockett explores a Boston-based project that gamifies collective memory-driven social research an

Urban Mobility for Human Autonomy with Peter Norton

Measured by distance and speed, today North Americans move more than ever. Movement, however, is but a means to an end; more movement is not in itself beneficial. Movemen

Social Cooperative Academy: Why social coops offer potential transformation of care and more

Cities@Tufts is still on our summer break, but we have a special offering for you this month. For the past eight weeks, Shareable has co-hosted the Social Cooperative Aca

Architects Without Frontiers: A Journey from Divided Cities to Zones of Fragility with Professor Esther Charlesworth

Professor Esther Charlesworth's talk for the Boston Salon on May 1, 2024 focused on her nomadic design journey across the last three decades. In trying to move from just