Claire Bullen

My research focuses on urban social relations around the Mediterranean tackling rather broad questions: How do people who live in urban areas give meaning and value to their lives? What shapes their participation in city-making? How is this changing within multi-scalar relations (local, city-wide, national, transnational, global). What can we learn by thinking comparatively about these processes? My recent field sites include Marseille in France, Oran in Algeria and Tangier in Morocco.

I am keen to learn from and collaborate with scholars exploring societal transformation in Arabic-speaking cities around the Mediterranean and beyond.

I am particularly interested in working with those developing urban analysis from a non-Western  perspective and I wish to work with and learn from colleagues to develop collaborative comparative perspectives on societal changes and challenges that go beyond north/south binaries.

Academic career