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 research and scholarship concerned with displacement and dispossession in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the world. Working with social movements, the Institute seeks to build power and abolish structures of inequality, within and beyond the university. A scholar of global racial capitalism, Ananya’s research has focused on urban transformations and land grabs, global circuits of financialization, postcolonial development and projects of poverty management. In comradeship with unhoused communities, her current research is concerned with racial banishment and counter-geographies of refusal and rebellion in Los Angeles. Along with Robin D.G. Kelley, Ananya currently leads a Mellon Foundation Race & Racialization project titled Housing the Third Reconstruction. Ananya’s academic books include City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty; Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South, Asia, and Latin America; Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global; Territories of Poverty: Rethinking North and South; Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World; and the forthcoming Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding Humanism. Ananya was named a Freedom Scholar by the Marguerite Casey Foundation in 2020.
More about Ananya
- Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography
- The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy
- Founding Director, UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy
- https://challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/ananya-roy/