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Welcome to the 12th Annual Anthropology in Transit Conference at the University of California, Irvine. We’re happy to welcome graduate students from a variety of disciplines presenting here this weekend on our theme of Spatial Knowledges and Imaginaries. This conference is run for graduate students and by graduate students. Without the volunteer support of our colleagues in the Anthropology department, our administrative team - Olga, Cory, and Tami, and the chair of our department, Dr.

What would it mean to look at the “city” as an institution that is becoming increasingly privatized, rendering it intentionally socially and geographically toxic to many current residents? This project aims to comprehend urban planning in the U.S. as a social and material reordering of cities that is largely being dominated by private, knowledge-producing institutions.