Decolonial approaches in Urban Studies: lunchtime discussion and reading group

PhD students and others are welcome to a lunchtime discussion of Decolonial approaches in Urban Studies, with Dr Monika Streule, currently visiting fellow at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies and UCL Geography. She will open up a discussion based on her recent publication in IJURR which considers decolonial approaches in the context of Mexico City.

As respondents, we will hear from Huda Tayob (Bartlett School of Architecture UCL and LSE), whose work stretches from Cape Town to Nairobi and Minneapolis, and Tania Guerrero (UCL Geography), who also works on Mexico City.

All are welcome, a sandwich lunch and coffee will be provided. Please sign up on Eventbrite to register your interest.

The discussion is in the context of the evening Urban Salon panel, From postcolonial critique to decolonizing urban studies.

Readings to prepare:

Escobar, Arturo (2007) Worlds and knowledges otherwise. Cultural Studies 21(2-3), 179-210.

Schwarz, Anke and Monika Streule (2016) A Transposition of Territory: Decolonized Perspectives in Current Urban Research. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 40(5), 1000-1016.

Further information:

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