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The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar specializing in urban ethnography. They are particularly interested in individuals committed to building a deep scientific understanding of cities and processes of urbanization around the world, and researchers developing innovative methods and practices…
Read MoreCall for Abstracts: RC21 Conference September 18-21, 2019, Delhi/ India Convener: Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe STREAM 5: Roundtable and Walkshop Engendering the City: Interdisciplinary Research on Intersectionality and Everyday Urban Practices How we want to live and envision social and spatial futures is negotiated in cities. Equal rights to expression and access to the city are…
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We are very delighted to announce the release of our workshop publication, which is based on lectures, discussions and collaboration during the KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Urban Everyday Life” at Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies, Humboldt-University of Berlin, September 5-8, 2018. A workshop dedicated to the discussion of ethnographic, architectural, and…
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“Doing Urban Ethnography: New interdisciplinary and methodological approaches to comparative urban research” (P3) The Panel is part of the RC21 Conference @ Delhi, September 18th–21st, 2019: In and Beyond the City: Emerging Ontologies, Persistent Challenges and Hopeful Futures. (Panel Abstract (P3) Academic, as well as non-academic disciplines with a research interest in urban transformation processes,…
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We want to thank all the participants, speakers and the organizing team for sharing time and thoughts with everyone at the workshop, for your insightful criticism and good energy, both of which kept us going through 3.5 days packed with information and inspiration! THANKS TO Prof. Alexa Färber Prof. Ignacio Farias Prof. Talja Blokland Prof.…
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DAY III | KOSMOS Workshop “Beyond Urban Transformation” Urban transformation focuses primarily on the process of gentrification, urban renewal, neo-liberalization of the city, and housing (Smith 1996, Brenner 2002, Larsen 2016). Understanding these processes requires on-the-ground research on the everyday struggles and resilience of urban actors who are constantly adapting to emergent twenty-first century challenges,…
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Mary Dellenbaugh-Loose and Stavros Stavrides discussed a variety of issues around urban commons and commoning as process and practice. Around the question of power relations that define, sustain or disable urban commoning, Stavros clarified that the sharing of power is both a precondition and result of commoning, power thereby to be understood as something done…
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