33. CLEANING UP THE CITY: Waste-lands in Mumbai and Lagos (+moving capitals, +renaming cities, +urban running events and more) cover art

33. CLEANING UP THE CITY: Waste-lands in Mumbai and Lagos (+moving capitals, +renaming cities, +urban running events and more)

33. CLEANING UP THE CITY: Waste-lands in Mumbai and Lagos (+moving capitals, +renaming cities, +urban running events and more)

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In this month's episode, Beth and Tom reflect on UN World Clean-up Day, inviting Deji Akinpelu (Centre for Housing and Sustainable Development (CHSD) University of Lagos), and Purva Dewoolkar (School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester) to share their work rethinking waste management and sanitation in Lagos and Mumbai. Also on the radarWhy do capital cities get moved, and will Uganda be moving its capital?What does new UK sanctions on Israeli settlements mean for the two-state and ‘shared homeland’ solutions? And what is the potential role of cities?What is the history of cities seceding from nation-states?How do massive urban running events have positive and negative effects on the city?As the quest for (urban) superintelligence ramps up, what are the generational differences in how we approach AI?What’s in a name? With Trump renaming more geographies, can Tom remember the former names of cities in Beth’s quiz? Guests: Deji Akinpelu is a documentary filmmaker, photographer and advocate for inclusive urban development whose practice documents architecture, heritage and everyday urbanism across Lagos and West Africa. He founded the Rethinking Cities Initiative (RCI) in 2017, following the forced eviction of the waterfront community at Otodo Gbame, and has since built a body of work that treats the recording of the city, its buildings, its cultural traditions and its threatened settlements, as an act of advocacy for their survival.ACRC: Transforming informal settlements in Lagos through community-drive WASHDisplaced: A City’s ScarsPurva Dewoolkar is Bicentenary Research Fellow in the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester. Dewoolkar’s research integrates human geography, urban studies, critical development studies, and Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH), collaborating with Mumbai's campaign for Universal Access to Water and Manchester's cultural institutions to develop care-centred, community-led approaches for documenting and understanding urban infrastructural struggles in the Global South, centring the lived experiences and vocabularies of resistance.On shaky grounds: situating safe sanitation in Mumbai’s sub-surface legacies of wasterHabitation counter-stories: thinking from the autoconstructed basti-Cheeta Camp, MumbaiSewers and sewage treatment in Mumbai: Temporality, difference, competing universals and infrastructural entanglements.LinksSponsor Beth to raise money for War Child UKOff the Shelf – Festival of Words, Sheffield 2026References:Jaim Yacobi and Omar Dajani - 'Shared Homeland Paradigm' ESRC projectJane Jacobs - Cities and the Wealth of NationsCharles Tilly - Cities and States in World HistoryEdensor & Larsen - Rhythmanalysing marathon runningHow to be an Anti-Capitalist CityDavid Robinson - The Intelligence TrapCugurullo et al - The Rise of AI Urbanism in Post-Smart CitiesThe Conversation - ‘Gen Z is pushing back against AI’Prerona Das - Smart Cities Beyond Methodological CityismPrince Guma - The Temporal Incompleteness of Infrastructure and the UrbanGabriella Bennett - How to Build a CityHosts:Tom Goodfellow is Professor of Urban Development in the Global Development Institute, and CEO of the African Cities Research Consortium, University of Manchester. His research focuses on the political economy of urban development and change in Africa, particularly the politics of urban land and transportation, conflicts around infrastructure and housing, and urban institutional change. (linkedin.com/in/tom-goodfellow-0b418441) Beth Perry is Professor of Urban Epistemics and Director of the Urban Institute at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the relationships between urban expertise, governance and justice, underpinned by a commitment to co-producing collective intelligence across multiple scales to address complex urban challenges. She has worked in cities in Africa, Europe and the UK. (linkedin.com/in/itsbethperry)Email feedback to: urbanradarpod@gmail.comYou can also follow us on instagram: @urbanradarpodcastThanks to the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester for providing time, resources and equipment to support this podcast. And to Sam Burgum, for post-production editing and promotion.
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