This is my response to the talk on ‘Migrant City’ by Les Back at the Department of Psychosocial Studies Research Seminar, Birkbeck on 28 January 2019. The collaborative ethnography ‘Migrant City’ is remarkable in its refusal to separate migration from race, empire and contemporary geopolitics. Back, Sinha, Bryan, Baraku and Yemba produce rich, beautiful and … More Notes on ‘Migrant City’ by Les Back and Shamser Sinha with Charlynne Bryan, Vlad Baraku and Mardoche Yemba by Yasmeen Narayan

This year I’m working in the Sociology Department on an ESRC funded postdoctoral fellowship. The project primarily involves writing a book that draws together my doctoral research on London’s pop-up culture with my postdoctoral research into pop-up and micro housing. The book, which will be published by Zed, argues that pop-up culture has rebranded precarity … More Precarity Rebranded: Pop-up Logics for Crisis Times by Ella Harris