CISSR SPOTLIGHT

Global Perspectives on Urbanization in Developing Cities

In what ways is the process of urbanization in low-income contexts today different from the processes that created American and European cities centuries before? In collaboration with the Neubauer Collegium, the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, and the Program on the Global Environment, CISSR hosted a virtual conference in which social scientists and urban planners from across the global together interrogated the process of “becoming urban” in global perspective.

Among several featured speakers was CISSR Faculty Fellow Marco Garrido, whose book, The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila, investigates urban fragmentation as mediated by class in Manila. For this work, Professor Garrido was recently awarded the Asia/Transnational Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Asia and Asian America, and the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award by the ASA Section on Political Sociology. You can read more about Dr. Garrido’s work here.

UPCOMING EVENTS

AROUND TOWN & DOWN THE ROAD

NEWS & RESEARCH ROUNDUP

Steven Pincus Joins CISSR as Newest Member of Faculty Board

Steven Pincus, Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of British History and the College, joins Paul Poast, Alan Kolata, Emily Osborn (ex-oficio), and Director Jenny Trinitapoli as a member of the CISSR Faculty Advisory Board. Professor Pincus is an expert on Britain and its Empire, comparative revolutions, and comparative empires. Since returning to The University of Chicago in 2018, Professor Pincus has been contributing to CISSR’s mission both through his remarkable and truly global scholarship and as an institution-builder. He mentors students, reviews proposals, co-convenes two bi-weekly CISSR forums (“History and Social Sciences” and “Empires and Atlantics”), and is a wonderful interlocutor for the entire CISSR community.

Lackluster engagement with transitional justice can lead to autocratic backsliding

CISSR Faculty Fellow Monika Nalepa’s article “Transitional justice and authoritarian backsliding” was recently published—open access—in Constitutional Political Economy. Nalepa argues that a refusal to engage with transitional justice can be linked to democratic erosion, and uses the cases of Poland and Hungary as examples of post-Communist authoritarian backsliding. Read more here...

State Coercive Power and Political Violence in

South Asia

How are leftist insurgencies in democratic contexts distinct from those arising under authoritarian regimes? CISSR 2019-2020 Faculty Fellow Paul Staniland theorizes the causes of this form of civil war, particularly in the context of South Asia, in a new article for Comparative Political Studies. Professor Staniland also investigates this question in a recent piece for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he is a nonresident fellow in the South Asia Program. Although anti-state insurgency in this region is down, he writes, state coercive power has continued to grow. Read more here...

Securing Land Rights for Black Farmers in Zimbabwe

For Foreign Policy, CISSR Faculty Fellow Michael Albertus cites his own research on land reform in Latin America, urging the international community to push Zimbabwe to protect Black farmers with policies that secure their land rights. Read more here...

Gender and Cabs in Urban India

Join us in congratulating 2019-2020 CISSR Dissertation Fellow Sneha Annavarapu. Her paper “Risky Routes, Safe Suspicions: Gender, Class, and Cabs in Hyderabad, India” recently won the 2020 ASA Sociology of Development Graduate Paper Award. A strong proponent of public writing, Dr. Annavarapu previously wrote about the ways women navigate the use of rideshare apps in Hyderabad for Public Books. You can read more here.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…

 In a conversation with the editors of World Politics Review, CISSR Book Fellow Adom Getachew discusses her book, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, and why “decolonization” means more than nation-building. For this work, Dr. Getachew has been awarded the J. David Greenstone Prize in the Politics & History Section of the American Political Science Association, as well as the W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award from The National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Getachew, and access the podcast and transcript here.

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