In this month’s Knowledge Cafe Session, Lana Salman, Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, will give a broad overview of her book project exploring the citizenship practices of Tunisia’s popular neighbourhood inhabitants, especially women, and what these practices reveal about the permeable boundary between the “state” and the “economy”. Furthermore she will also discuss her new project which entails an analysis of the changing contours of the welfare state in Lebanon, Tunisia and Belgium, whilst focusing on social work, migration and dignified housing.
About the speaker
Lana Salman is a scholar of international development and urban politics. Her work and research are interdisciplinary and aim to bridge the global south/north divide. Before coming to the University of Toronto, she was a Marie-Curie fellow at Ghent University.
