City Seminar

1:13:00 | Jun 16th, 2015

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

48:55 | Dec 4th, 2014

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

38:49 | Nov 10th, 2014

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

34:54 | Jun 3rd, 2014

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

46:41 | May 9th, 2014

(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

53:49 | May 9th, 2014

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

32:40 | Mar 13th, 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 on the performativit...Show More

58:47 | Mar 10th, 2014

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