Episode 4: Gabriel Silvestre and Guillermo Jajamovich, 'The afterlives of urban megaprojects.'

In this episode, Gabriel Silvestre, a lecturer in urban planning at Newcastle University in England, and Guillermo Jajamovich, an Adjunct Researcher at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, tell the inside story of researching, writing, and publishing their article, “The afterlives of urban megaprojects: Grounding policy models and recirculating knowledge through domestic networks.” Introduction to the podcast: 00:00 The authors & their article: 3:10 The article’s focus & purpose 5:38 Writing together: 15:40 Choosing a journal: 20:29 Addressing comments from reviewers: 26:19 Writing for English-language journals: 35:56 Wise advice for fellow authors: 41:59 Authors’ hopes for their article: 48:37 Podcast credits & further information: 53:49 The article was published in 2022, in Volume 40 Issue 7 of Politics & Space. It is Open Access on the journal’s website, so you can read along: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23996544221082411