Dr Libby Porter

  • I am a scholar-activist in planning and geography with research, teaching and activist interests on a number of different questions: Indigenous rights in urban planning and natural resource management; cities and diversity; urban regeneration, gentrification and displacement; the impact of sporting mega-events on cities; sustainability and urban governance.

  • The efforts of Indigenous peoples around the world are leading, albeit sometimes slowly, to an increasing recognition of Indigenous rights in land and political governance. However, there is often a strange silence within a key profession and policy area whose activities have a profound effect on those rights and recognition processes – and that is ... Read more