User:Cmoyer1/Ananya Roy

= Ananya Roy =

Work
In 2014, Roy, in conjunction with the Blum Center for Developing Economies and the UCLA Luskin Institute for Inequality and Democracy developed the #GlobalPOV project. The project uses digital and social media to expand the conversation about global poverty beyond the confinements of academia. Rather than provide solutions to global poverty, it encourages people to reflect and critically engage with their relationship to spatially distant poverty as well as poverty that exists within the context of one’s everyday life. Videos narrated by Roy, Khalid Kadir (UC Berkeley lecturer), Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales (University of San Francisco professor), and Clare Talwalker (UC Berkeley lecturer) are uploaded to YouTube, and conversations are encouraged over twitter via the hashtag, #GlobalPOV.

Since the inauguration of President Trump in 2016, Roy has published several articles about the need for planners to be politically engaged. Together with the UCLA Abolitionist Planning Group, Roy created a resource guide titled “Abolitionist Planning for Resistance” that frames key issues around which to mobilize political action such as civil liberties, policing, housing rights, union labor, sanctuary cities, and environmental justice.

In her article “The Infrastructure of Assent: Professions in the Age of Trumpism,” Roy criticizes the eagerness of built environment professions, specifically architecture, planning and international development, to uncritically align themselves with racist governments, institutions, figures of power in exchange for recognition and profit. She argues that students, educators, and professionals must reject a culture of complicity and develop one of “disobedience, refusal and resistance.”

Co-Authored Book

 * 2017. "Teach.Organize.Resist," UCLA Luskin Institute for Inequality and Democracy, co-authored by Ananya Roy, Andrés Carrasquillo, Daniel Bessner, Matt Spark, Richard Hebdige, Janet O'Shea, Laura Murat, Malini Ranganathan, Helga Leitner.

Articles

 * 2016. "Whiteness: The University in the Age of Trumpism" Society and Space.