Rivke Jaffe (photo: Dirk Gillissen)
Rivke Jaffe (photo: Dirk Gillissen) - Rivke Jaffe, professor of Urban Geography at the UvA, has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Th grant, which amounts to 2.5 million euros, will allow her to conduct research into the role that animals play in the development of urban inequalities. In her project 'Political Animals: A More-than-Human Approach to Urban Inequalities' (ANIMAPOLIS), Jaffe will examine the role of animals in the formation of urban inequalities, asking: How do animals' interactions with humans and infrastructures co-produce the unequal distribution of risks and resources across urban spaces and populations? The project focuses on two critical urban domains, security and public health, that are often characterised by stark inequalities, and takes the role of key animals within these domains - dogs and rats, respectively - as a unique analytical entry-point. Political animals. Urban inequalities are not only produced by people. Security dogs are socialized to identify threatening individuals on the basis of classed and raced markers. Rats pose a public health risk, and thrive in low-income areas with decaying sanitation infrastructure.
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