City Seminar
| Created: | 2011-10-28 11:12 |
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| Institution: | Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities |
| Description: | Graduate Group - City Seminar |
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This collection contains 35 media items.
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City Seminar - 1 December 2014 - Relocating Urban Asylum
Relocating Urban Asylum: Forced Migration and the Revanchist Production of Marginality
Jonny Darling (University of Manchester)
Abstract
In 2010, the UK Home Office...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Thu 4 Dec 2014
City Seminar - 11 February 2014 - Performance, Power and Place of the Hustle Economy in Nairobi, Kenya
Tatiana Thieme (University of Cambridge)
Abstract
Conceptualizations of small-scale, self-employed work in low-income urban economies tend to offer apolitical,...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Thu 27 Feb 2014
City Seminar - 11 March 2014 - Mapping Urban Spatial Practices and Cultures of Dissent in Lahore and London
Nishat Awan (University of Sheffield)
What role do dissenting practices have in the making of urban space? Using two diverse examples, from London and Lahore, I will focus...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Thu 13 Mar 2014
City Seminar - 12 February 2013 - Ordinary Topologies: Everyday Life in and out of Ramallah
Dr Christopher Harker (Lecturer in the Department of Geography, Durham University)
Abstract
This talk seeks to conceptualise and value some of the quotidian geographies...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 25 Feb 2013
City Seminar - 12 March 2013 - Urban Politics, Learning, and Inequality: Informal Sanitation in Mumbai
Dr Colin McFarlane (Reader in the Department of Geography, Durham University)
Abstract
The global sanitation crisis is rapidly urbanising, but how is sanitation produced...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Thu 14 Mar 2013
City Seminar - 12 November 2013 - Mobilising Shack Dwellers in Post-Apartheid South Africa
S’bu Zikode (Founder of Abahlali baseMjondolo)
Abstract
Abahlali baseMjondolo – the largest social movement in South Africa – brings together shack dwellers across the...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 15 Nov 2013
City Seminar - 14 January 2014 - The New Urban Question
Andy Merrifield (University of Cambridge)
Based on the forthcoming book of the same title, the talk will trace the connections between radical urban theory and political...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 20 Jan 2014
City Seminar - 16 October 2012 - An Infrastructure for Freedom?: Common Things and Res Publica in a Contemporary...
Dr Oleg Kharkhordin (Rector, Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St.Petersburg)
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 19 Oct 2012
City Seminar - 18 May 2015 - Welfare, Neighbourhood and New Geographies of Diversity
Welfare, neighbourhood and new geographies of diversity: rethinking the ethnography of super-diversity at the margins of the city
Mette Louise Berg & Ben Gidley (Oxford)
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Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 16 Jun 2015
City Seminar - 20 May 2014 - Living the Security City: Navigating Karachi’s Enclaves
Sobia A. Kaker (London School of Economics/Newcastle University)
Followed by Cities at Cambridge: Post-Graduate Networking Mixer
Abstract
In an environment of...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 3 Jun 2014
City Seminar - 21 February 2012 - Urban Reflections - Filmic Narratives of Place, Planning and Change
Mark Tewdwr-Jones is Professor of Spatial Planning and Governance at University College London Bartlett School. His work is multi-disciplinary, spanning planning, politics and...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 5 Mar 2012
City Seminar - 21 May 2013 - A Tale of Four Cities: Does Ethnic Diversity Lead to Urban Conflicts?
Radu Carciumaru (Lecturer, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg)
Sherrill Stroschein (Senior Lecturer in Politics, UCL)
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Thu 6 Jun 2013
City Seminar - 22 April 2014 - Intimate City: Violence,Gender,Ordinary Life in Delhi Slums
Intimate City: Violence, Gender, and Ordinary Life in Delhi Slums
Ayona Datta (University of Leeds)
Abstract
In this paper I use the notion of the intimate city to...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 9 May 2014
City Seminar - 22 November 2011 - How Cities Cope with Obduracy and Vulnerability
City planning initiatives and redesign of urban structures often become mired in debate and delay. Despite the fact that cities are considered to be dynamic, innovative and...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 28 Nov 2011
City Seminar - 22 October 2013 - Public Health Work in African Cities
Sustaining the Life of the Polis: Pasts and Futures of Public Health Work in African Cities
Ruth Prince (Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Dr Noemi...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 28 Oct 2013
City Seminar - 25 February 2014 - Informal Urban Citizenship in Buenos Aires: Migration, Informality and Visions for a...
Tanja Bastia (University of Manchester)
In a number of cities in the Global South, cross-border migrants have played a major role in shaping the urban landscape. This is...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 28 Feb 2014
City Seminar - 25 October 2011 - Contested Spaces and Urban Citizenship in India
Romola Sanyal (Newcastle)
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Fri 28 Oct 2011
City Seminar - 26 February 2013 - Fluid Cities: Circulation and the Politics of Mobility
David Pinder (Lecturer in Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London)
Abstract
Cities are profoundly mobile. Yet they are also in many ways fixed, solid and...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 5 Mar 2013
City Seminar - 26 November 2013 - Gated/Gating Community: The Settlements Complex in the West Bank
Ariel Handel (Tel Aviv University)
Abstract
The claim that the settlements in the West Bank are gated communities might seem trivial. Those are an explicit example of a...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Mon 9 Dec 2013
City Seminar - 27 November 2012 - The Urbanism of Exception: Not-To-Design and the Paradoxes of Informalities
Dr Camillo Boano (Senior Lecturer and Course Director of MSc Building and Urban Design in Development, Co-Director of the UCL Urban Lab, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit,...
Collection: City Seminar
Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Created: Tue 18 Dec 2012