<Fair City Amsterdam> Fwd: (updated) // Urban Activism 2019 Graduate Conference // Harvard University, September 12-14

[Patrice Riemens]

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Subject: (updated) // Urban Activism 2019 Graduate Conference // Harvard 
University, September 12-14
Date: 2019-07-27 14:38
 From: INURA Common Office <contact at INURA.ORG>
To: INURA at YORKU.CA

URBAN ACTIVISM:
STAKING CLAIMS IN THE 21ST CENTURY CITY

will take place on SEPTEMBER 12-14, 2019

at the Barker Center, Harvard University

12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138
https://urbanactivism2019.org/ [1]
https://www.facebook.com/events/2369503203319833/

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This conference emerges from the shared need to create a collective
discourse on HOW CRITICAL URBAN RESEARCH AND URBAN POLITICAL ACTIVISM
ARE INCREASINGLY CONVERGING and creating a common field of inquiry and
action. It connects scholars in various fields such as planners,
geographers, historians, and critical urbanists with activists working
on housing rights and the right to urban identity and the city more
generally.

Together, we will discuss A NUMBER OF THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL, AND
PRACTICAL QUESTIONS, including: How shall communities and activists be
involved in the production of knowledge? What constitutes the archive
and evidence? What possibilities are there to disseminate the knowledge
produced? Can scholarship suggest political solutions? Who are the
agents of this story? What is the relationship between the state and the
market in displacement processes? Can we think beyond the framework of
structure and agency? How does ideology make its way into research and
action? What is the appropriate scale of analysis?

A consideration of cities as different as BEIRUT, ISTANBUL, ATHENS,
BARCELONA, JOHANNESBURG, SÃO PAULO, AND BOSTON sheds light on
commonalities that point to a single dynamic operating on a global
scale, which is at play in the various distinctive manifestations
apprehended at the local level in very different contexts. While a
consideration of global, structural transformation can contribute to an
understanding of the specificities of every case, the global phenomenon
itself cannot be fully captured without A SERIOUS ENGAGEMENT ON THE
LOCAL SCALE with the social, cultural, economic and political processes
in which each specific case is embedded. A global understanding can only
contribute to local struggles if it remains attentive to the
subjectivity of local communities within their particular context as
they experience and think it.

ORGANIZERS: Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe, Joan Chaker, Stefano Portelli

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Professor Michael Herzfeld (Harvard, Dept. of
Anthropology), Professor Loretta Lees (Leicester, Dept. of Geography)

_Attendance to panels, the round table, and associated events is free of
charge._

FOR INFORMATION, please contact: stefanoportelli1976 at gmail.com,
aylin.yt at gmail.com, joanechaker at g.harvard.edu

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Stefano Portelli

Postdoctoral Fellow at Leicester University, Department of Geography

affiliate with Harvard University's Department of Anthropology

http://napolimonitor.it/la-citta-orizzontale/

http://periferiesurbanes.org [2]

_________________________
Dr. Philipp Klaus
INURA Common Office
Hardturmstr. 261
CH-8005 Zürich
_________________________
+41 44 563 86 92
ph.klaus at inura.org
www.inura.org [3]___________


Links:
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[1] 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urbanactivism2019.org
[2] http://periferiesurbanes.org/
[3] http://www.inura.org