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Increasingly, we have to think about climate change resilience not only in terms of mitigation but also in terms of adaptation. Cities present a challenge and a key to both. But thinking about resilience just in terms of our changing climate is not enough. Annika Marlen Hinze, Ph.D., is an associate professor of political science at Fordham University. She served as the director of the Urban Studies program from July 2016 to June 2024. Her research and teaching focus on urban politics, immigration policy, democratic theory, gender equality, and qualitative and mixed methods research. Specifically, Hinze is interested in housing, transportation, and sustainability, as well as social and immigrant justice in cities. Her first book, Turkish Berlin: Integration Policy and Urban Space (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), compares integration policy and lived integration of second-generation Turk-German women in two Berlin neighborhoods. She is also the co-author (with Dennis R. Judd) of the 10th edition of City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America (Routledge, 2018), as well as the 11th edition of the newly titled City Politics: Cities and Suburbs in 21st Century America (Routledge, 2022), and co-editor (with James M. Smith) of the recently published 8th edition of American Urban Politics in a Global Age (Routledge, 2024). Hinze has been published in journals on topics including immigration, gender equality in academia, urban economic development, and nationalism. She has been a member of the editorial board of Urban Affairs Review since January 2023, and since July 2023, she has been the co-editor of the International Political Science Review, the flagship journal of the International Political Science Association. Hinze was a visiting researcher at the Russell Sage Foundation, where she worked on her book manuscript, A Country Behind A Wall: Immigration Policy, Public Discourse, and the Reality of the Borderlands, during fall 2024.Hinze studied English, North American studies, and modern history at Humboldt University and Free University in Berlin, Germany; holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois, Chicago; and has done field research in Canada, Germany, Turkey, and the United States. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
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