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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Romola Sanyal (Newcastle)

Collection: City Seminar

Institution: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Created: Fri 28 Oct 2011

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

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

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