Laleh Foroughanfar is an urban scholar with an interest in urban marginalization, migrants’ infrastructures, culture-led post-industrial regeneration, sonic urbanism, and feminist-decolonial epistemologies. She has previously examined the everyday urbanism and migrants’ infrastructures produced by migrants to make life and livelihoods possible in Norra Grängesbergsgatan in Malmö. Probing the three-fold infrastructural production (spatial, socio-economic, temporal), she illustrates how these supportive, yet vulnerable infrastructures lay the groundwork for negotiating the right to remain and thrive in the place while navigating the multiple border logics of everyday life amid neoliberal urban governance and surveillance. Currently, she is researching sound-politics and urban governance in relation to a post-industrial genealogy of marginalization and stigmatization, in the context of post-industrial regeneration in Malmö.
Laleh Foroughanfar
Publications
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Of singularities and new spatialities : An interview… | article-journal | 2026 |
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Eurovision and the City : “United by Music”… | article-journal | 2025 |
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Sound as Urban Matters | article-journal | 2025 |
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Writing the Borderlands of Desire and Distance :… | article-journal | 2024 |
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A Street Otherwise- Migration and Contested Livelihoods in… | article-journal | 2023 |
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Editorial : Class and the City | article-journal | 2023 |
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Migration, place-making and the rescaling of urban space | article-journal | 2023 |
Research Themes
Green and Just Cities is a new theme within the IUR which aims to highlight and contribute to a deeper understanding of the physical geographical and ecological dimensions of urban justice. The theme provides a bridge between urban studies and environmental studies by examining the multiple ways the natural and built environments are co-constitutive, and…
Global Urbanism aims to explore the heterogeneity/diversity of urban conditions, practices and experiences in different geographical locations. It aims to highlight how contemporary urban theorization reflects (or fails to reflect) this diversity. The theme challenges assumed urban hierarchies and highlights urban practices outside the mainstream state-led and market-led frameworks, particularly activities carried out by people…
At the IUR, urban humanities mobilizes humanities scholars to engage with the full range of human expression in and of the urban, from literature and visual culture to public art, the built environment, memory, and heritage. These explorations open new ways of understanding and imagining urban space, lived cities, and the cultural object we call…