Suzanne Hall is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she directed the Cities Programme.
Hall formerly practised as an architect in South Africa focusing on public projects for the first democratically elected state.
Hall’s work focuses on everyday claims to space and how political economies of displacement shape racial borders, migrant livelihoods, and urban multiculture.
[8] Hall describes ‘edge economies’ as ‘located in the expanding terrain of redundancies and casualised employment; they surface where the effects are most likely to be located, and they reveal who is most likely to be affected.’ [9] Hall co-founded the Race, Space and Architecture open access curriculum in 2020 with Huda Tayob and Thandi Loewenson.
[10] In 2022 Hall was selected to give the inaugural ‘Cities Annual Lecture’ at Birkbeck University.