Suzanne Hall
Dr Suzanne Hall is Associate Professor in Sociology and Deputy Head of Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is an interdisciplinary urban scholar and her work connects the asymmetries of global migration and urban marginalisation. From the grounded perspective of peripheral street economies, Hall explores the racialised frameworks of citizenship and economic inequality and their everyday contestations. By moving between globe, state and street, she engages with the margins as a capricious space in which social sorting, cultural intermixtures and claims to difference are forged. Hall is compelled by how wide geographies shape our knowledge of the urban condition, and she is invested in the ethnographic possibilities of seeing political economies through the everyday. Her research focuses on spatial formations of precarious livelihoods and citizenship including: racial formations of colonisation and apartheid in Cape Town in the working life of refugee women (funded by a Philip Leverhulme Prize); the de-industrialisation of work from the vantage point of streets in urban peripheries in Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Manchester (funded by an ESRC award); and the global ‘regeneration’ of urban space in the context of a South London Street (supported by an LSE Cities Fellowship). Hall has collaborated with Huda Tayob and Thandi Loewenson on a curriculum on Race, Space and Architecture, and has been part of the Digital Makings of the City of Refuge project led by Myria Georgiou, and the Beyond Banglatown Project led by Claire Alexander. She is currently co-supervising PhD projects engaging with social and political formations of urban space including homelessness in Athens (Maria-Christina Vogkli); migrant solidarity in Istanbul (Helen MacKreath); and Palestinian life and land in Jerusalem (Lucy Garbett). Abstract
