In today’s episode, we examine the interdependence between urban displacements, surplus populations and surplus capital in Susanne Soederberg’s recent book “Urban Displacements. Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism” published in late 2020 with Routledge.  We explore the links between surplus money and surplus workers, social and rental housing, precarious work and urban poverty under capitalism, but also the political role of state actors in the  reproduction of surplus capital and surplus populations  producing cycles of urban displacements. Check out Susanne's book "Urban Displacements. Governing Surplus and Survival in Global Capitalism" Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Displacements-Governing-Surplus-and-Survival-in-Global-Capitalism/Soederberg/p/book/9780367236199 You can follow Susanne on Twitter @soederberg1 Susanne's departmental webpage:  https://www.queensu.ca/devs/susanne-soederberg Susanne's publications on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susanne-Soederberg/research For a sample of Susanne's previous work Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781315761954/debtfare-states-poverty-industry-susanne-soederberg Evictions: A Global Capitalist Phenomenon https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dech.12383 Other readings recommended by Susanne The Financialization of Housing by Manuel Aalbers https://www.routledge.com/The-Financialization-of-Housing-A-political-economy-approach/Aalbers/p/book/9781138092907 In Defence of Housing by David Madden and Peter Marcuse https://www.versobooks.com/books/2111-in-defense-of-housing