Red Emma’s

Bio: Ananya Roy is Professor of Urban Planning and Social Welfare and inaugural Director of the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin.  Her scholarship has focused on urban transformations in the global South, with particular attention to the making of 'world class' cities and the dispossessions and displacements that are thus wrought. A separate line of inquiry has been concerned with new regimes of international development, especially those that seek to convert poverty into entrepreneurial capitalism and the economies of the poor into new markets for global finance. Her books include City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty; Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development; and, together with Genevieve Negron-Gonzales, Kweku Opouk-Agyemang and Clare Talwalker, Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World.  Her edited books include: Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South, co-edited with Emma Shaw Crane; Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global, co-edited with Aihwa Ong; and Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia, co-edited with Nezar AlSayyadThis talk serves as the keynote address for the two-day interdisciplinary workshop, "(anti)Blackness in the American Metropolis."  The workshop brings together scholars and activists to present on their work related to the overall topic, with particular attention to: worker cooperatives, municipal movements, the carceral continuum, transportation, health, housing, finance, displacement, and the environment.  It is sponsored by the Urban Geography journal, the Human Geography journal, the UMBC Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, the Institute for Urban Research at Morgan State University, and the Black Geographies Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.