INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS
ESSAYS & MEDIA featuring INSTITUTE RESEARCHERS
- #FoodNotRent Strike on April 1st in LA’s Mariachi Plaza
APRIL 1, 2020 – Video interview (en español) via Noticias 62 TV feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Elizabeth Blaney
- Weaponizing COVID-19
MARCH 23, 2020 – Video interview (en español) feat. Institute faculty researcher Amy Ritterbusch with Bogotá-based activist Juli Salamanca of Red Comunitaria Trans
- Grading in a Time of Crisis
MARCH 21, 2020 – Blog post via Academe Magazine by Institute faculty researcher Noah Zatz
- The Singular And Sinister Exceptionality Of The Coronavirus (COVID-19)
MARCH 14, 2020 – Article via ABP Live by Institute faculty researcher Vinay Lal
- The Algorithmic Ecology: An Abolitionist Tool for Organizing Against Algorithms
MARCH 2, 2020 – Article via Medium by Institute community partner Stop LAPD Spying Coalition
- Debtors of the World, Unite!
FEBRUARY 27, 2020 – Article via Boston Review by Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Trump Confesses to Just How Bigly the Olympics Screws Over the Poor
FEBRUARY 20, 2020 – Article via Daily Beast feat. Institute Student Advisory Board member Spike Friedman
- Interview with Nithya Raman, Candidate for Los Angeles City Council District 4
FEBRUARY 14, 2020 – Article by Institute Student Advisory Board member Spike Friedman
- The Radical Possibilities of Not Paying Your Student Loans
FEBRUARY 7, 2020 – Article via The New Republic feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel and Institute community partner Debt Collective
- 5 Young People On Why They’re Refusing to Pay Their Student Loans
FEBRUARY 7, 2020 – Article via Teen Vogue feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- Stolen Land
FEBRUARY 4, 2020 – Podcast via Housing Justice Los Angeles feat. Institute director Ananya Roy
- Racial Capitalism, Power & Resistance: Keynote Videos & Highlights for 2020
JANUARY 15, 2020 – Article via Neighborhood Funders Group feat. Institute director Ananya Roy
- Senator Warren Has a Plan to Cancel Student-Loan Debt — Without Congressional ApprovalJANUARY 14, 2020 – Article via The Chronicle of Higher Education feat. Institute community partner the Debt Collective
- How Mississippi’s ‘Supercharged Temp Agencies’ Provide Inmate Labor to Businesses
JANUARY 9, 2020 – Article via Mississippi Today feat. Institute faculty researcher Noah Zatz
- The Power of Debt: Identity and Collective Action in the Age of Finance
JANUARY 7, 2020 – Podcast via New Books in Anthropology feat. Institute associate faculty director Hannah Appel
- From an Activist to a Comedian, Here Are 11 L.A. People to Watch in 2020
DECEMBER 27, 2019 – Profile via Los Angeles Magazine feat. UCLA Activist-in-Residence Jane Nguyen
- Local Activists Target Olympic Preparations as Catalyst of Gentrification
DECEMBER 17, 2019 – Article via KCRW feat. Institute community partners LA CAN and NOlympics LA
- 55 Voices for Democracy: Ananya Roy
DECEMBER 14, 2019 – Thomas Mann House “55 Voices for Democracy” video series feat. Institute director Ananya Roy
- 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 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 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 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 Cancel Student Debt Has Its Origins in Occupy Wall Street
APRIL 27, 2019 – Article via MarketWatch feat. Institute community partner Ann Larson
- 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 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 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
INSTITUTE DISPATCHES
- Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchMarch 31, 2020
- Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchOctober 16, 2019
- Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchJune 3, 2019
- Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchDecember 18, 2018
- Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchSeptember 27, 2018
- Institute on Inequality and Democracy DispatchMay 15, 2017
