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Urban Informality and Relationality
29 November 2024, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm
A FRINGE Centre event with Dr Colin Marx and Dr Nikhilesh Sinha
This event is free.
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Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
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SSEES
Location
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Masaryk roomUCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies16 Taviton streetLondonWC1H 0BW
Dr Colin Marx and Dr Nikhilesh Sinha, will join the FRINGE Centre to stimulate a transdisciplinary discussion starting from what kinds of urban research questions can be addressed within an analytical framing of ‘relationality’. They have recently edited a book: Urban informality and the built environment that has been published within the FRINGE series. In the book, they argue that urban informality should be understood relationally, i.e. constituted by multiple, overlapping relations with other social phenomena through constitutive feedback loops. The seminar will aim to zoom in on the concept of relationality in the context of cities in the global South as a platform to engage with the Eurasian context.
About the Speakers
Colin Marx
is Professor of Urban Development Planning and the PhD Programme Director. He is a town planner, adult educator and geographer by training, and has have extensive experience in community-driven struggles against inequalities in African cities. A consistent focus of his work has been how to identify and act in relation to power relations that produce or sustain urban inequities. He explore how power is mobilised, sustained and used to generate urban environments through the conditions of impoverishment and informality that characterise many cities in the Global South.
In the Development Planning Unit, he directs the PhD programme. He lead a module on The City and its relations with a focus on urban land issues as part of the MSc Urban Development Planning and a Research Methods Seminar Series for MPhil students.
Nikhilesh Sinha
is a Professor of Economics & Finance and Chair of Research Ethics at Hult International Business School, London. He received his PhD from the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at University College London. He holds also undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Economics, as well as a Masters of Laws. Nikhilesh's research spans the fields of urban economics, development studies, financial regulation and institutional economics.