Ash Alam

@urbanmargin

Senior Lecturer @unimelb @msdsocial | Counter-cities, small cities, migration, care & infrastructure. Migrant Australian 🇦🇺, roots in Bangladesh 🇧🇩.

Melbourne, Victoria otago.ac.nz/geography/staf… Joined June 2015

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Ash Alam @urbanmargin Jan 20, 2025

What can real estate billboards tell us about the great Australian Housing Dream, migrant housing/homemaking, and suburbanisation of Melbourne's growth corridors?
Check my new article with @TheBigNA
Link to 50 free copies: tandfonline.com/eprint/7SBHNPT…
@MSDSocial

Ash Alam @urbanmargin Dec 15, 2024

New article alert 👏
@TheBigNA & I analyse how growth area migrant suburbs and suburban lives are produced, mediated and consumed!
#suburb #Migrants
#Melbourne
@MSDSocial
Open access link: doi.org/10.1177/004209…

journals.sagepub.com The (re)enchantment of suburbia: Mediation of the production and consumption of Melbourne’s outer... Contemporary suburban landscapes have developed at scale, in variety, at speed and with ethnic concentrations or superdiversity. These complexities call for the...

Ash Alam @urbanmargin Aug 1, 2024

If you are in Melbourne next Thursday (Aug 8) join us @MSDSocial Japanese Room & listen to Prof @michelelancione on Politics of Home/Homelessness.
In-person session will be followed by drinks at the Clyde!
DM for zoom link.
#infUr seminar
#Informal #Urbanism #Research Hub

Ash Alam @urbanmargin May 5, 2024

Come join our upcoming @MSDSocial #Informal #Urbanism Hub #infur- seminar this Thursday (May 9) with @sabinaandron 👏 to learn about what walls and surfaces can tell us about our cities 👍
DM or see our LinkedIn post for zoom link to join virtually!

Ash Alam @urbanmargin May 4, 2024

New piece conceptualising ‘disruptions’ in New Zealand’s small-towns and the roles immigrant mobilities play in them 👇
Open access link: link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…