Frida Timan was a visiting urban studies PhD scholar and ethnographer in 2022. Frida is interested in everyday and mundane forms of policing, regulation, surveillance and control of urban public sidewalks. Her work focuses particularly on sites built explicitly for enjoyment, leisure and interaction, and how racialized and ablebodied belonging is regulated, policed, monitored and ultimately made in such spaces. The role of permits and licenses in this process is also of central concern in Frida’s work. Frida’s research draws on urban theory, critical race theory, scholarship on aesthetic rule, property, and nuisance law broadly defined.
Frida Timan is a PhD Candidate of Human Geography and Urban Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2019-2024). She has a background in Political Ecology, City Planning and Ethnic Studies.