New Article: Interstitial ecologies: Everyday cosmopolitics of pigeon-human cohabitation in the urban margins

Author: Aseela Haque

Link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 2026 USF International Fellowships - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South.

Deadline: 6 July 2026
Read more & apply : https://ow.ly/ezMb50YILbw

New article: Animals, beaches, stars and spirits. A more-than-human approach to Caribbean ecologies

Authors: Alana Osbourne, Rivke Jaffe, Olivia Gomes da Cunha, Wigbertson Julian Isenia

Link: erlacs.org/article/view...

Meet Raina Ghosh, our temporary team member!

As part of this writing fellowship, Raina will be mentored by Prof. Dr. Rivke Jaffe from the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies (GPIO).

Her research project is on sacred riverfronts in India.

New article: The digital K9: Affect, social media, and the projection of the police image

Author: Ricardo Díaz García Frade

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article: Urban Inequalities

Author: Rivke Jaffe

Link: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Recently, Eline and Rivke practiced for their pest control exam, and passed! Now they are certified pest managers. Get in contact with them for all your questions about pest control management.

Congratulations to you both!

⏰ Reminder: Urban Urgencies funding call now open

There’s still time to apply for the Urban Urgencies grant from the Urban Studies Foundation — supporting rapid, collaborative research on pressing urban challenges worldwide.

🗓️ Deadline: 23 March 2026 (23:59 UTC).

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Workshop organized by Rivke Jaffe and Olívia Gomes da Cunha, Dec. 1-2 at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Amsterdam

Team member and PhD-researcher Eline van Oosten is in the Folia, speaking about "Rats in Amsterdam ‘are symptomatic of inequality’". On the relationship between rats and social inequality in Amsterdam.

English:
www.folia.nl/en/wetenscha...
Dutch:
www.folia.nl/wetenschap/1...

Rivke Jaffe was a guest speaker on the podcast 'Onder Planologen' (Among Planologists) in episode #13 'Meersoortige planning' (Multispecies planning). Multispecies justice, and how to include rats and pigeons in urban planning are discussed.

Podcast:
www.buzzsprout.com/1854885/epis...

We are excited to inform you that we have launched ANIMAPOLIS on Instagram! Follow us on:

@animapolis_uva

Check out our ANIMAPOLIS website! Here, you can learn more about the research, meet our team, and stay updated with the latest news:

Our team member Rivke Jaffe was a guest speaker for the audiodocumentary 'A pigeon friendly city', part of the podcast DOCS (NTR/VPRO). A story on the role of pigeons in relation to humans in urban spaces.

Full details:
dezwijger.nl/programma/ee...
Podcast:
www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/doc...

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