Category: 2020
-
Nov 18, 2020 / InfUr Webinar 7 / Symposium Panel on “Co-production and Governance”
Symposium Panel on "Co-production and Governance" -
Nov 11, 2020 / InfUr Webinar 6 / Symposium Panel on “Informal Settlements”
Symposium Panel on “Informal Settlements” -
Nov 6, 2020 / InfUr Webinar 5 / Gautam Bhan Keynote Lecture: Informality and the Pandemic
Informality and the Pandemic: Thinking about our conceptual vocabularies -
Oct 28, 2020 / InfUr Webinar 4 / Symposium Panel on “Public Space”
Symposium Panel on Public Space Watch here … Presenters / abstracts: ‘Formal’ and ‘Informal’ Modes of Urban Agriculture in Kunming Yuan Wei, University of Sydney The exponential growth of China’s urban sprawl has transformed the once arable land into cities with former rural villages. Several types of urban agriculture (UA) have emerged in urban areas […]infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2020/10/28/oct-28-2020-infur-webinar-4-symposium-panel-on-public-space
-
Oct 21, 2020 / Infur Webinar 3 / Alison Brown Keynote Lecture: Informal Economy in Urban Crisis Recovery
Political upheaval or violent conflict is often characterised by a fundamental failure of governance and the destruction of local economies, and yet in the aftermath of conflict, through informal mechanisms of survival and support, people reconstruct their livelihoods and rebuild urban services. -
Oct 14, 2020 / InfUr Webinar 2 / Symposium Panel on “Rethinking Informality”
Rethinking informality -
Oct 7, 2020 / InfUr Webinar 1 / Kurt Iveson Keynote Lecture: Elite informality in action: the governance of graffiti in Sydney
Discussions of urban informality have increasingly drawn attention to various ways in which it is deployed by elite, as well as marginalised, urban actors. -
June 24, 2020 / Perspectives on Asian Cities: Ways of Knowing the Future / Hosted by ASAA
This panel proposes to look at how the notion of ‘future’ is constructed in three different cities across Asia, namely Manila, Delhi and Kathmandu, with an introductory note on Dhaka. -
Jun 11, 2020 / Research Seminar #7 / Bad Language? Why Informal Settlement should Not be a Euphemism for ‘Slum’
Everybody knows that the phrase ‘informal settlement’ is a widely used euphemism for ‘slum’; avoiding a word that can be seen to cast a stigma on neighbourhoods of the urban poor. -
May 14, 2020 / Research Seminar #6 / Research Solidarity? Navigating Feminist Ethics
What does it mean to undertake international research that is ethically motivated, action-oriented, and undertaken in solidarity with locally-based organizations?
Number of posts found: 11