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Hello and welcome to for the wild podcast, I'm Ayanna Young.

Today we're speaking with Abdul Malik Samoan.

The governance of urban space is increasingly predicated on a kind of systematic unsettlement

to keep things uncertain, eviction, extrusion, but no matter how difficult urban life becomes,

there is still the endurance of these kind of middle, uncertain, vulnerable,

but yet dynamic middle positions in which a sense of what we might call nationhood attempts to be built.

To set up this episode, we wanted to offer some context to Abdul Malik Samoan's work as a scholar,

theorist, and researcher. In this episode, Samoan talks us through the uncertain,

vulnerable, and dynamic positions in the choreography of global cities and contemplates what it means

to live an urban life. From the entanglements of resistance and protest to surveillance and

governance to the effects of climate change on the city environment, Samoan brings nuance and

depth to this vital conversation. As humanity shapes the city, it shapes us in turn, and as the world

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