Selected Articles

2026. (with Carla Orendorff) “Encampment Geographies: Refuge Return, Refusal.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. OnlineFirst.
2026. (with Jennifer Blake, Meghna Nair, and Pamela Stephens) “Common Sense Law: Making Right/s in the Liberal City.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. OnlineFirst.
2025. (with Carla Orendorff and Pamela Stephens) “Displaceability by Design: The Spatial Governance of Mass Homelessness.”Urban Affairs Review OnlineFirst.
2023. “A Political Autopsy of Liberal Los Angeles.”Human Geography 17:1, 117-121.
2022. (as part of the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective) “Continuum of Carcerality: How Liberal Urbanism Governs Homelessness.”Radical Housing Journal 4:1.
2022. (as part of the After Echo Park Lake Research Collective) (Dis)Placement: The Fight for Housing and Community after Echo Park Lake.UCLA Luskin Institute for Inequality and Democracy.
2020. “Emergency Urbanism.” Public Books.
2003. “Paradigms of Propertied Citizenship: Transnational Techniques of Analysis.” Urban Affairs Review 38:4, 463-491.
2022. “How the Brutal Clearing of an LA Homeless Encampment can Teach SF what not to do in the Tenderloin” (with Sam Lutzker) San Francisco Chronicle,
2022. September. “Housing and Homelessness” Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/2/unhoused_residents_la_ballot_measure
2022. May. “Everyone has an Idea for Solving Homelessness. What if we Asked the Unhoused? Los Angeles Times Image Magazine https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2022-05-09/theo-henderson-ananya-roy-on-solutions-los-angeles-homelessness-unhoused-erasure-nimbys
2022. March. “One Year After LA Evicted the Unhoused from a Park, Few Are in Stable Housing.” The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/los-angeles-echo-park-unhoused-residents-homelessness
2024. (with Terra Graziani, Joel Montano, and Pamela Stephens) “Policing Tenancy: The Struggle for Housing and Land in Los Angeles.” Urban Geography 45:8, 1351-1370.
2021. (with Terra Graziani, Joel Montano, and Pamela Stephens) “Property, Personhood, and Police: The Making of Race and Space Through Nuisance Law.” Antipode 54:2, 439-461.
2021. “Undoing Property: Feminist Struggle in the Time of Abolition.” Society and Space.
2020. (with Terra Graziani and Pamela Stephens) Unhousing the Poor: Interlocking Regimes of Racialized Policing. White paper for the Square One Roundtable, Justice Lab, Columbia University.
2019. “Racial Banishment.” Keywords in Radical Geography: Antipode at 50.
2017. “Dis/Possessive Collectivism: Property and Personhood at City’s End.” Geoforum 80, A1-A11.
2015. (with Stuart Schrader and Emma Shaw Crane) “The Anti-Poverty Hoax: Development, Pacification, and the Making of Community in the Global 1960s.” Cities 44, 139-145.
2026. “Fugitive Sanctuaries.” Jewish Currents.
2019. “The City in the Age of Trumpism: From Sanctuary to Abolition.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 37:5, 761-778.
2019. (with Nicholas De Genova) “Practices of Illegalisation” Antipode, 52:2, 352-364.
2025. (co-edited with Terra Graziani and Annie Powers) Insurgent Ground: Land, Housing, Property. UCLA Luskin Institute for Inequality and Democracy.
2020. (co-edited with Terra Graziani, Hilary Malson, and Raquel Rolnik) Methodologies for Housing Justice Resource Guide. UCLA Luskin Institute for Inequality and Democracy.
2019. (co-edited with Hilary Malson) Housing Justice in Unequal Cities. UCLA Luskin Institute for Inequality and Democracy.
2021. August. “Want to Solve the Housing Crisis?” Interview conducted by Jay Kang, New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/opinion/housing-crisis-hotels.html
2021. May. “Shelter in Place: LA’s Fight for Housing in a Pandemic” Fault Lines Documentary, Al-Jazeera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aYEF6cSb4U
2021. “Planning on Stolen Land.” Planning Theory and Practice 22:1, 116-121.
2020. (with Willie J. Wright, Yousuf Al-Bulushi & Adam Bledsoe) “‘A World of Many Souths’: (anti)Blackness and Historical Difference.” Urban Geography 41:6, 920-935.
2016. “What is Urban about Critical Urban Theory?” Urban Geography 37:6, 810-823.
2016. “Who’s Afraid of Postcolonial Theory?” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40:1, 200-209.
2009. “The 21st Century Metropolis: New Geographies of Theory.” Regional Studies 43:6, 819-830.
2005. “Praxis in the Time of Empire.” Planning Theory 5:1, 7-29.
2001. “A Public Muse: On Planning Convictions and Feminist Contentions.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 21:2, 109-126.
2014. “Slum-Free Cities of the Asian Century: Postcolonial Government and the Project of Inclusive Growth.” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 35:1,136-150.
2011. “Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35:2, 223-238.
2009. “Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence, and the Idiom of Urbanization.” Planning Theory 8:1, 76-87.
2005. “Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning.” Journal of the American Planning Association71:2, 147-158.
2012. “Ethnographic Circulations: Space-Time Relations in the Worlds of Poverty Management.” Environment and Planning A 44, 31-41.
2012. “Subjects of Risk: Technologies of Gender in the Making of Millennial Development.” Public Culture 24:1, 131-155.
2008. “Global Norms and Urban Forms: The Millennium Development Goals.” Planning Theory and Practice 9:2, 251-274.