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  • On ‘The City in the Age of Trumpism’: A Conversation with Ananya Roy

    NOVEMBER 13, 2019 – Article via societyandspace.org feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • Words that Matter: Black and Indigenous Solidarity and the Right to Language

    NOVEMBER 6, 2019 – Article via Beacon Broadside feat. Institute faculty researcher Kyle T. Mays

  • The Case for Economic Disobedience

    NOVEMBER 6, 2019 – Podcast via The Intercept feat. Institute community partner Debt Collective’s Astra Taylor

  • Notes on a Cultural Strategy for Belonging

    OCTOBER 23, 2019 – Strategy paper via Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley by Evan Bissell feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • The Right to Housing

    OCTOBER 23, 2019 – Podcast via Goethe Institut’s Big Pond feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • Housing Justice in Unequal Cities

    OCTOBER 21, 2019 – Article via the Goethe Institut feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • ‘Why or Go to Jail’: How LA Courts Force Thousands To Do Unpaid Labor

    OCTOBER 16, 2019 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute faculty researcher Noah Zatz

  • Why This ‘Genius’ Scholar Is Mapping Out The World’s Largest Jail System

    OCTOBER 11, 2019 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute faculty researcher Kelly Lytle Hernández

  • UCLA Awarded Mellon Foundation Grant to Examine Histories and Practices of Sanctuary

    OCTOBER 10, 2019 – UCLA Sawyer Seminar press release feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • New Measure HHH Audit: Too Little Done, Too Slowly

    OCTOBER 8, 2019 – Interview via KPCC’s AirTalk feat. Institute community partner Pete White

  • How a Group of Student Debtors Took on Their Banks—and Won

    OCTOBER 8, 2019 – Article via GQ feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah C. Appel

  • Bernie Sanders is Right. It’s Time to Abolish Medical Debt.

    OCTOBER 4, 2019 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute community partner the Debt Collective

  • A Wealth of Knowledge About Debt

    OCTOBER 3, 2019 – Article via UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah C. Appel

  • L.A. Vows to Void 2 Million Court Citations and Warrants. Homeless People Will Benefit Most.

    OCTOBER 2, 2019 – Article via Los Angeles Times feat. Institute community partner Pete White

  • LAPD’s Call for 10,000 Eyes and Ears: Counterinsurgency in Your Community

    SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 – Article via Medium by Institute community partner Stop LAPD Spying Coalition

  • Urban Inequality in "World Class" Cities

    SEPTEMBER 7, 2019 – Podcast via Blueprint for Living with Jonathan Green feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • Property as Simulacrum: Informality and Illegality in the Postcolony

    AUGUST 20, 2019 – Melbourne School of Design Dean’s Lecture feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • Armoring Up for the Fight Against Housing Injustice

    AUGUST 15, 2019 – Article via UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs feat. Raquel Rolnik and Institute director Ananya Roy

  • The Fight for Free College is Your Fight Too

    JULY 23, 2019 – Article via The Chronicle of Higher Education feat. the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin

  • There Is Power in a Debtors’ Union

    JULY 12, 2019 – Article via Dissent feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah C. Appel

  • UCLA’s Ananya Roy on Housing Inequality and Market-Driven Displacement

    MAY 27, 2019 – Article via The Planning Report feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to End Student Debt is Glorious. We Can Make It a Reality.

    APRIL 24, 2019 – Article via The Guardian feat. Institute community partner the Debt Collective

  • Academia, Grassroots Organizations, and Debt: Towards a Genuine Collaboration

    APRIL 22, 2019 – Article via Public Seminar by Institute community partner Ann Larson

  • Occupying the Master’s House

    APRIL 3, 2019 – Podcast via Team Human feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • Ananya Roy in Conversation with Laura Postarini and Tyrene Calvesbert

    MARCH 15, 2019 –Podcast via GSAPP Conversations feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • Cities in the Trump Era

    FEBRUARY 24, 2019 – Article via The Blue and White Magazine feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • What’s at Stake in Contemporary Anti-Gentrification Movements?

    FEBRUARY 6, 2019 – Essay via societyandspace.org by UCLA graduate student Kimberly Miranda

  • Activist-in-Residence to Teach New Generation Skills to Enact Social Change

    FEBRUARY 5, 2019 – Article via Daily Bruin feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Micah White

  • Finding Ways to Turn the University Model Inside-Out

    JANUARY 31, 2019 – Article via Next City feat. Institute director Ananya Roy, Institute graduate researcher Hilary Malson, and UCLA Activists-in-Residence

  • Global Markets, “The National Economy,” and The Licit Life of Capitalism

    JANUARY 22, 2019 – Podcast via New Dawn with Michael C. Dawson feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah C. Appel

  • At the Intersection of Activism, Housing, and Politics

    JANUARY 14, 2019 – Article via UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Micah White

  • Race Makes Markets: Subcontracting in the Transnational Oil Industry

    DECEMBER 18, 2018 – Article via Social Science Research Council (SSRC) feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah C. Appel

  • Women Beyond Bars: A Post-Prison Interview with Jennifer Claypool and Wendy Staggs

    FALL 2018 – Article via UCLA Women’s Law Journal by Institute faculty researcher Bryonn Bain

  • Do the Poor Bring Crime With Them?

    FALL 2018 – Article via Blueprint Magazine feat. Institute faculty researcher Michael C. Lens

  • Eviction Lab Misses the Mark

    AUGUST 22, 2018 – Article via shelterforce.org by Institute graduate researcher Terra Graziani and Institute community partner Erin McElroy

  • What Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits Need Funders to Understand After the 2016 Election

    JULY 12, 2018 – Executive summary by UCLA Luskin graduate students C. Aujean Lee, Rachel Wells, Silvia Gonzalez, and Susan Baik 

  • On Migration, Borders, and Freedoms

    MAY 29, 2018 – Podcast via Relational Poverty Network feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • For Asian Immigrants, Cooperatives Came From the Home Country

    MAY 22, 2018 – Article via yes! magazine by UCLA Activist-in-Residence Yvonne Yen Liu

  • Op-Ed: 50 Years After the Chicano Blowouts, Still Waiting for Justice and the Need to Reject More Police in Our Schools

    MARCH 6, 2018 – Article via LA School Report by UCLA Activist-in-Residence Manuel Criollo

  • Transnational Histories: Global Aspects to Racial Capitalism

    NOVEMBER 2017 – Podcast via New Dawn with Michael C. Dawson feat. Institute director Ananya Roy

  • The Rise of the Carceral State: Prisoner Organizing, Politicization, and Surplus Labor

    OCTOBER 2017 – Podcast via New Dawn with Michael C. Dawson feat. Institute faculty researcher Toussaint Losier

  • Op-Ed: A Better Way to Solve the Housing Crisis — Tax Land, Not Development

    JULY 19, 2017 – Article via Los Angeles Times by Institute faculty researcher Michael C. Lens

  • Putting Activism Into Context

    JUNE 26, 2017 – Article via UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs feat. UCLA Activists-in-Residence Funmilola Fagbamila and Lisa Hasegawa

  • The Myth of Meritocracy in the Era of Black Lives Matter

    MAY 9, 2017 – Article via The Guardian by UCLA Activist-in-Residence Funmilola Fagbamila

  • Resisting the Trumpism of Local Policies

    MARCH 6, 2017 – Essay by UCLA Luskin graduate student Riley O’Brien

  • The Audacity of "Woke"

    FEBRUARY 20, 2017 – Interview via KPCC feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Funmilola Fagbamila

  • Jeff Chang Interview: Don’t Mourn, Organize. Don’t Despair, Create

    JANUARY 23, 2017 – Essay by UCLA Luskin graduate student Andrés Carrasquillo

  • Research and Resistance: Reflections Since the J18 Events

    JANUARY 20, 2017 – Essay by UCLA Luskin doctoral student Rachel Wells

  • 3 Truths About Trumpism

    January 18, 2017 – Video essay via GOOD.is by Institute director Ananya Roy

  • Divesting from Whiteness: The University in the Age of Trumpism

    NOVEMBER 29, 2016 – Essay via societyandspace.org by Institute director Ananya Roy

  • After Trump

    NOVEMBER 16, 2016 – Essay via Boston Review by Institute faculty researcher Robin D. G. Kelley

  • In Defense of Poverty

    JULY 19, 2016 – Essay via Social Science Research Council (SSRC) by Institute director Ananya Roy

  • The Relational Poverty Network at Urban Color-Lines

    MARCH 2, 2016 – Blog post by graduate students Yui Hashimoto, Magie Ramírez, Yolanda Valencia, Trevor Wideman

  • Urban Color-Lines Event Challenges Racial Segregation

    FEBRUARY 7, 2016 – Audio essay via Daily Bruin Radio about the Instutite’s inaugural event Urban Color-Lines

  • Institute Graduate Student Researchers Interview Urban Color-Lines Activist

    FEBRUARY 4, 2016 – Interviews by UCLA Luskin graduate students feat. Ashraf Cassiem, Willie “JR” Fleming, Patricia Hill, and Pete White

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