City Seminar Podcast
1) 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) Abstract: This pap...Show More
City Seminar - 18 May 2015 - Welfare, Neighbourhood and New Geographies of Diversity
1:13:00 | Jun 16th, 2015
2) 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 announced that it would b...Show More
3) City Seminar - 3 November 2014 - Refugees and the Urban Poor: In Two Palestinian Enclaves
Silvia Pasquetti (University of Cambridge) Abstract This paper builds on recent theorizing about refugee camps as urban sites and about the relationships between the urban poor and refugees (...Show More
4) 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 increased urban insecurity, ‘...Show More
5) City Seminar - 30 April 2014 - (Im)mobilizing Bangkok: motorcycle taxi drivers and street protest
(Im)mobilizing Bangkok: motorcycle taxi drivers, street protest, and the fragility of power in the Thai capital Claudio Sopranzetti (University of Oxford) Abstract This talk explores the mobi...Show More
6) 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 examine how violence as...Show More
7) 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 on the performativit...Show More
8) City Seminar - 4 March 2014 - Theorising Cities Now
Theorising Cities Now: Putting Comparison to Work for Global Urban Studies Dr Jennifer Robinson (University College London) Abstract This paper argues that global urbanism, the commitmen...Show More
9) City Seminar - 25 February 2014 - Informal Urban Citizenship in Buenos Aires: Migration, Informality and Visions for a just City
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 definitely the case in Ar...Show More
10) 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, individualistic notions of entr...Show More