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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