New podcast on the urban logic of action – COVID19
21 April 2020
Julie-Anne Boudreau, lead researcher of TRYSPACES has participated to the Urban Political podcast and talked about the urban logic of action in Mexico and Montreal in the COVID19 crisis.
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“Drawing on insights from her latest book “Global Urban Politics”, Julie-Anne Boudreau puts the current response to the coronavirus in Mexico City and Montreal in a larger frame of understanding. She elaborates on the difference between urban and state logics of action and its importance to grasping the divergent situations. As a point of hope, she highlights that there is nothing inevitable about the current crisis developing into forms of authoritarian technocracies.”
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