About 

“Collective caring in and against urban crises” is a participatory podcasting and knowledge co-production project which develops critical pathways to impact through two main types of activities: (1) a mini documentary podcast series (two 40-60 min episodes)  and (2) two 2-hour online workshops (and their compilation in the form of an online zine-guide-resource) with the participation of communities, activists, scholars and policy actors. The workshops will explore skill-sharing on designing, producing and releasing media in a collaborative context as well as discussing and developing strategies and practices on ethical engagement and collaboration between communities and scholars, actors and policy makers, in collaborative projects, as well as strategies to combat exclusion from participatory governance and form strategic alliances. 

Research team 

Mantha Katskana is a feminist geographer, transdisciplinary artist and activist, interested in issues of social reproduction, urban justice and ethics of urban planning, affect and affective labor, feminist geohumanities and DIY media as well as collaborative and decolonial knowledge production. Her doctoral research explores the ways affective geographies of social reproduction are formed through women’s and feminized subjects’ caring and commoning practices in the urban, during the multiple, overlapping ‘crises’ and on-going austerity, post-2007, in Athens, Greece. Mantha’s research explores different ways of knowing/feeling in and about the urban, seeking to highlight the obscured narratives of marginalized subject’s lives and anti-capitalist resistance in the city.

Matina Kapsali is an Urban Studies Foundation Research Fellow based at the Geography Department, University of Manchester. She is a scholar-activist and a feminist urban geographer working and thinking around issues of social reproduction, political movements, political subjectification and creative research methodologies. Over the last 15 years, she has been actively participating in anti-austerity and refugee solidarity movements in Greece. She holds a PhD in Geography and Planning from the School of Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and a Master’s degree on Global Urban Development and Planning from the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester.