{"title": "The ecologies of the marginalised, everyday socio-environmental struggles in São Paulo’s peripheries", "start": "2026-11-12T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Development Planning Unit, UCL", "address": "Tavistock Square 34, WC1H 9EZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/everyday-socio-environmental-struggles-in-sao-paulos-peripheries-tickets-2001880806381?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society"], "description": "A talk in the DPU Dialogues in Development series about everyday socio-environmental struggles in the peripheries of São Paulo, at the intersection of housing exclusion and environmental crisis. It features Dr Lucas Lerchs, a postdoctoral fellow at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, and is chaired by Dr Giovanna Astolfo. The research explores how everyday inhabitation processes of ecological reserves are co-produced and transformed by conditions of socio-ecological marginalisation. The talk is followed by a 30-minute screening of a documentary filmed in the periphery of São Paulo.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-ecologies-of-the-marginalised-everyday-socio-environment-45822/", "official_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2026/nov/ecologies-marginalised-everyday-socio-environmental-struggles-sao-paulos-peripheries", "image": "https://noky.io/images/17ec19515a0463886a1ebdc80fa1315efd68c43c6fe0fd2f9e05e5e4a6ab9a36-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Development Planning Unit, UCL", "address": "Tavistock Square 34, WC1H 9EZ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Built Environment", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00Z", "place": "North Kensington Library", "address": "Ladbroke Grove 108, W11 1PZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/urbanism/urban-development", "nature/environment"], "description": "\"The Built Environment\" is a public talk on flooding, drought and saving trees, part of the \"Our Eco Crisis\" series at North Kensington Library. It is hosted by Isis Amlak, a long-time local activist and campaigner for racial and social justice who sits on the board of the Octavia Foundation. Guests will speak about new development changes in the area and their effects, with recent local flooding that closed the Children's Library and the loss of mature plane trees in Holland Park among the concerns. 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It is run by Emily Falconer of the University of Westminster's School of Social Sciences together with Cavendish Living Lab community connectors Mariam Selim and Yumeng Yang, in partnership with the university's Centre for Social Justice Research. Drawing on focus groups with Korean, Caribbean, Italian, Chinese, Alevi and Jewish communities in London, it explores food practices that promote sustainability through low-waste cooking, preservation and adaptation, and argues that food is also a site of identity, belonging and exclusion in a global city. Attendees from outside the university are asked to reserve a spot by emailing the organisers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-scraps-into-delicacies-39998/", "official_url": "https://www.westminster.ac.uk/events/homelands-research-seminar-series-scraps-into-delicacies", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b46362028ab658f3f697265648b25fc60960aa4d871f82fa1b3fa9534e33e81b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-talk-twelve-days-shook-middle-east", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. 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