Melanie Lombard
Melanie Lombard is Lecturer in the Urban Studies and Planning Department at University of Sheffield, UK. Her work explores global shelter inequalities through the nexus of residents’ everyday constructive activities and urban policy, focusing on urban informality and land conflict in cities. She has published widely in journals and contributed chapters to several edited collections.
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Urban Informality
An Introduction
By Melanie Lombard and Philipp Horn
This book provides an introductory overview to the concept of ‘urban informality’, taking an international perspective across the global North and South. It explores theoretical understandings of the term, and looks at how it affects ways of living, such as land use, housing and basic services, working lives and political informality.
Participating in Peace
Violence, Development and Dialogue in Colombia
By Jefferson Jaramillo-Marín, Luz Mery López-Lizarazo, Adriel Ruiz-Galvan, Matthew Louis Bishop, Juan Mario Díaz-Arévalo, Juan Miguel Kanai, Melanie Lombard, Simon Rushton, Anastasia Shesterinina, Henry Staples and Helen Louise Turton
This book reflects on what people in two different Colombian communities have achieved through participatory peacebuilding. The authors explore different forms of local agency, the prospects for non-extractive academic engagement, and practical and theoretical lessons for participating in peace in other conflict-affected settings.