SEED Activities

Bangladesh in transition: A step forward for democracy? Date: Thursday 12 September, 4 to 5pm Description The recent student-led protest movement in Bangladesh, which resulted in the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, marks a very significant political shift in the country’s recent history. The end of Hasina’s 15-year rule has left Bangladesh at a […]

Presentations: Phia van Greunen and Debapriya Karmakar Session Chair: Daniel de Oliveira Vasconcelos Urban ‘informal’ settlement: The emergence of public space It is easy to associate public space and informal settlements with resistance. Public space is always produced through geographies of power that legitimise certain forms of action while marginalising other ways of being. Urban […]

Presentation: Aireen Andal and Andre Ortega Session Co-chairs: Reden Recio and Ethel Villafranca Islands tend to conjure images of tourist beaches or rural peripherality. They rarely figure into the urban studies literature as theoretically generative spaces that can reinvigorate urban knowledge production. In empirical terms, urban studies mainly foreground inland spaces and barely represent the […]

Presentation: Xiao Ma Session Co-chairs: Shiva Nouri and Kazi Fattah Sitting at the intersection of China’s rise as a global power and its growing role in global transport infrastructure and service provision, the changes in bilateral relations between China and Australia present critical social, environmental, and geopolitical challenges for both countries. This study investigates transnational infrastructure […]

Session 1 Recorded Session

Presentation: Sanjeev Routray Discussants: Ishita Chatterjee, Ash Alam, Eric Gaisie & Adrian Marin Toro Session Co-chairs: Erich Wolff & Nabanita Islam This book describes the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and it demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes […]

Presentations: Pamela Cajilig, Ha Minh Hai Thai, and Diah Asih (Roro) Purwaningrum Session Chair: Redento Recio Recorded Session Learning Southern urbanisms in the time of COVID-19: Methodological implications, empirical insights, and ethical dilemmas The multi-dimensional aspects and impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have reshaped the landscape of scholarship. Researchers in different parts of the globe […]

Concurrent Sessions on 1) Housing, Space and Place-making; 2) Resilience and Research Methods; 3) Socio-Spatial Justice December 14, 5:00-6:30pm (Melbourne Time) Recorded Sessions

Presentations: Johanna Brugman and Katrina Ganzon Session Co-chairs: Neeraj Dangol and Manas Murthy Recorded Session

Presentations: Boonanan Natakun and Sombol Mokhles Session Co-chairs: Yuan Wei and Martin Arias-Loyola Recorded Session

Presentation: Jimly Al Faraby Session Chair: Soumya Dasgupta Recorded session

Presentations by: Lutfun Nahar Lata and Christopher Kelly. Session Co-chairs: Febe De Geest and Ibrahim Yakubu

Presentations by: Noel Manzano and Erich Wolff Session Co-chairs: Francesca Ferlicca and Rewa Marathe

Presentation by: Sandra Carrasco, Neeraj Dangol and Majdi Faleh Session Co-chairs: Stephanie Butcher and Mahsa Meshgar

Presentations: Madhulika Sahoo and Sambath My Session Co-chairs: Diah Asih Purwaningrum (Roro) and Tanzil Shafique

PANEL SESSION 1: STATE & INFORMALITY  Chaired by Reden Recio  November 27, 5:00 – 6:15 PM, Melbourne time  Housing politics and the nightmares of spatial planning in indigenous communities: A review of colonial experience in Tamale, Ghana  (Ibrahim Yakubu, University for Development Studies, Ghana)   Infrastructure provision in informal settlements: the challenges and opportunities for co-production […]