Category: Past Events
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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”
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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? -
Mar 12, 2020 / Research Seminar #5 / Bread for advancing the right to the city
This presentation describes the creation of a cooperative bakery whose significance is fourfold -
Nov 14, 2019 / Research Seminar #4 / Street entanglements
Since the 1980s, Metro Manila’s Baclaran district has carved out a niche as a bargain hub for shoppers looking for affordable products.infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/11/14/nov-14-2019-research-seminar-4-street-entanglements
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Oct 10, 2019 / Research Seminar # 3 / Superkilen: Exploring human-nonhuman relations
Superkilen is a much-lauded contemporary urban public space that has been widely photographed and the subject of public talks, articles, interviews, short films, books and awards, including the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016. -
Sep 12, 2019 / Research Seminar # 2 / Citizen-led Transport Justice
What does the generation of an alternative politics look like in the vexed arena of planning for future urban transport? The urban sociologist Mini Sheller (2018) in her new book Mobility Justice: The politics of movement in the age of extremes calls for the establishment of a new mobility commons.infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2019/09/12/sep-12-2019-research-seminar-2-citizen-led-transport-justice
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