Libby Porter
Principal Research Fellow
Global, Urban and Social Studies
RMIT University
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Libby Porter is a Vice Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow where she leads research on the politics of urban land, property rights and dispossession.Libby is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has held academic appointments in the UK and Australia. Prior to that, she worked in policy and research in the Victorian public service and was a member of the Expert Advisory Panel for Melbourne 2030. She is Assistant Editor for Planning Theory and Practice, and is a co-founder and ongoing member of Planners Network UK.
Research Interest
Urban planning
Publications
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 Possessory politics and the conceit of procedure: Exposing the cost of rights under conditions of dispossessionÂ
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By any means necessary: urban regeneration and the "state of exception" in the Commonwealth Games 2014Â
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Unsettling planning's paradigms: toward a just accommodation of indigenous rights and interests in Australian urban planning?
