For our 92nd episode, J.T. the L.A. Storyteller Podcast is honored to feature Ananya Roy (@ananyaUCLA), Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography at UCLA and the inaugural Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Roy is also co-author of (Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake, which is a major new study of state-backed displacement and gentrification in L.A. released just this March 2022. Our conversation touches on Roy’s arrival to Los Angeles from Kolkata, India–the seventh most populous city there–as well as what makes our Southern California region a critical battleground for civil and human rights in the U.S. today; we also discuss a special anecdote from Roy’s time in Kolkata–which you can hear more about here–and finally, revanchism, a term used to describe the state and authorities’ retaliatory and property-based valuation of people and their rights, or lack thereof.
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