2298 ‘CITY perspectives’ (1) What Theories Do We Need for a Revitalized Urban Praxis?
Thursday 6th April • 10:00 AM – 11:40 AM New Hampshire, Marriott, Fifth Floor
CHAIR: Bob Catterall (CITY)
PANELISTS: Mark Davidson (Clark), Sharon Meagher (Widener), Eduardo Mendieta (Penn State), Miguel Robles-Duran (New School)
This panel brings scholar-activists with different disciplinary perspectives together to discuss the role(s) that theory plays in constructing an urban and planetary praxis, both by taking a look at some analyses published in CITY and critically reflecting on our own work as scholar-activists.
Sponsorships: Urban Geography Specialty Group; Socialist and Critical Geography Specialty Group; Routledge.
Does the result of the US election change everything? How must we describe and theorise this and act now?
AAG SESSION ONE498 CITY Panel II: Capitalisation and Materiality: post-colonial thought and urban-rural revolts
Thursday 6th April • 1:20 PM – 3:00 PM New Hampshire, Marriott, Fifth Floor
CHAIR: Bob Catterall (CITY)
PANELISTS: David Simon (Royal Holloway) Andrea Gibbons (Salford) Miguel Robles-Duran (New School) Nasser Abourahme (Columbia) Antonis Vradis (Loughborough)
How do we fight back and organise toward a revitalized urban and planetary praxis? This second CITY panel brings scholars-activists together to discuss the ways in which we can organise ourselves politically in the eye of the storm.
Sponsorships: Routledge.
AAG SESSION TWO
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SOURCES
CITY journal: Analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action. Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group:www.tandfonline.com/ccit
CITY journal website: Critical analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action www.city-analysis.net/
Gibbons, A. and D. Humphry (2017) “Endpiece: From LA to Standing Rock and beyond: A holistic reading of confluences” CITY: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action. 20 (6) CITY website version http://www.city-analysis.net/ 2016/11/29/andrea-gibbons-talks-to-debbie-humphry/
Davidson, M and K. Iveson. 2015. “Beyond City Limits” CITY: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action. 19 (5): 646-664
Shaw, K. 2015. “The intelligent woman's guide to the Urban Question” CITY: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action. 19 (6): 781-800
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Contents List tor 20.6Editorial: Trump's Inauguration of counter-revolution? More GroundingsBob Catterall
Urban eco-geopolitics: Rio de Janeiro’s paradigmatic case and its global contextMarcelo Lopes de Souza
Unprecedented natures? An anatomy of the Chennai floodsPushpa Arabindoo
Infrastructural gap: commons, state and anthropologyDimitris Dalakoglou
Urban regeneration ‘from the bottom up’: Critique or co-optation? Notes from Milan, ItalyChiara Rabbiosi
“The Wire” as seen from FranceMarie-Hélène Bacqué and Amélie Flamand
Linking race, the value of land and the value of lifeAndrea Gibbons
The incredible shrinking Japan: Cinematic representations of urban declineFernando Ortiz-Moya and Nieves Moreno
Endpiece: From LA to Standing Rock and beyond: A holistic reading of confluencesAndrea Gibbons and Debbie Humphry
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