Diana Mitlin

@DianaMitlin

urban poverty, urban inequality, urban development , urban social movements. University of Manchester and International Institute for Environ. and Dev.

Joined January 2012
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  1. 7 hours ago

    Join an alliance committed to rethinking approaches to tackle poverty and inequality in the UK

    We are recruiting! Help us find a Finance & Operations Manager and a Senior Development Worker to join the small and dynamic team at CLASS (support agency to the Community Savers network) Please circulate widely...!
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  2. Jan 29

    Rich research on the realities of women's work: Improving young women’s working conditions in Tanzania’s urban food vending sector via

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  3. Jan 24

    African cities, COVID and climate: public knowledge on urban planning is needed via . Another great contribution from Patrick and Valentina Nyame on the same theme is here:

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  4. Jan 21

    We are delighted and honoured that eight emerging African scholars have made this commitment to support the research programme of

    We're delighted to welcome eight new to the team! 🙌 Get to know them here 👉
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  5. Jan 6

    And a huge thanks to our authors who have helped build a community of scholars (academic and non-academic) committed to a more inclusive knowledge platform to transform urban development in the global South

    Our journal Environment and Urbanization with 652,862 article downloads in 2021. Scary. I remember earlier years when we thought 1,000 article downloads a year was good.
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  6. Jan 1

    So many congratulations . I am delighted to read this news and to learn that the UK has honoured you in this way.

    Very honoured indeed to have received the OBE in the UK's New Year's Honours list for 2022.
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  7. 28 Dec 2021

    Geographies of generosity: Remembering Clive Barnett

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  8. 27 Dec 2021

    Urban Studies of Accra

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  9. 23 Dec 2021

    Good to see our urban poverty blog made it onto this list . Hopefully growing awareness of the scale of urban poverty as a result of the pandemic will result in more investment in tenure security, basic services and livelihood opportunities in 2022!

    Our most-read blogs of 2021 discuss issues around and knowledge, fighting , sustainable livelihoods, progressing action, poverty and resilience, and and intersectionality.
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  10. 21 Dec 2021

    Covid-19 vaccine tracker: the global race to vaccinate via The residents of informal settlements in the global South do not score highly here!

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  11. 21 Dec 2021

    Justice for Perween. Her extraordinary legacy lives on. Four sentenced to long jail terms for Perween Rahman murder

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  12. 14 Dec 2021

    Many congratulations. Looking forward to reading the chapters.

    As we all limp towards the finishing line of 2021, here is but one thing I am super excited to see emerge in 2022. Thank you to all my co-editors and our contributors - it's looking fab!
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  13. 14 Dec 2021

    Addressing the Crisis in Urban Water Access | Water Economics and Policy discusses how utilities, NGOs, community groups and local govt. have recognised (or not) and responded to (or not) challenges of intermittency and affordability

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  14. 13 Dec 2021

    Congratulations . Your amazing work to take forward a new urban agenda for grassroots led change has been recognised!

    Thank-you to our sisters and teachers hope you enjoy our good news from "...it has been amazing to watch women translate these ideas for the UK context"
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  15. 12 Dec 2021

    One such innovation has been women community leaders from disadvantaged neighbourhoods in greater Manchester learning new organising strategies from the global South. A transnational alliance for social justice.

    Urban innovation in the 'Global South' - my five cent on issues to watch in 2022 via
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  16. 11 Dec 2021

    Good to read this. I have struggled to see what is new in NIE. Speaking as someone who was taught economics 30 years ago!

    Replying to @PeterEvans_Guv @Twitter @hamarquette
    I remember with other gov advisers being told (by economists) New Institutional Economics was the holy grail, & it explained organisations in ways no one had thought about before…in spite of a forensic historical deconstruction, they could not be persuaded otherwise
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  17. 8 Dec 2021

    How Nairobi’s ‘road for the rich’ resulted in thousands of homes reduced to rubble. Another example of inequitable development; alternative approaches are needed! ⁦⁩

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  18. 4 Dec 2021

    Fr. Anzorena has made an amazing contribution to social justice for those living in informal settlements across the global South

    Happy to see this amazing man honoured for his work with the urban poor. is grateful to Father Jorge Anzorena for his counsel and friendship.
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  19. 27 Nov 2021

    Another demonstration of the power of community to community learning!

    We hosted an exchange visit of climate change champions from Nairobi organised by where our chairman showed them how we recycle glass bottles into glass tumblers using a glass cutter
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  20. 24 Nov 2021

    Fabrice Monteiro’s best photograph: a spirit emerges from a rubbish dump in Senegal

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