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Ananya Roy

Ananya Roy

Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and the Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is inaugural director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, which advances scholarship concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the world. Roy’s current research is concerned with “racial banishment,” the expulsion of working-class communities of color from cities through racialized policing and other forms of state-organized violence. icon

Emergency Urbanism

By Ananya Roy

Housing-justice movements ask: How can unhoused people be considered trespassers on state-owned land?

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