Event overview
Down by the crossroads where the city calls - the Inaugural Lecture of Professor AbdouMaliq Simone
Tuesday 26 January 2010 - 5.30pm - 6.30pm
Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, AbdouMaliq Simone will deliver his Inaugural Lecture entitled ‘Down by the crossroads where the city calls’. The lecture will be introduced by Deputy Warden, Professor Simon McVeigh.
Admission is free, all are welcome. The lecture is un-ticketed, but please e-mail inaugurals@gold.ac.uk or telephone 020 7919 7033 if you plan to attend.
Lecture summary:
We know many things from a vast collection of studies on cities in the Global South, yet what do they mean, and for whom? Does the need to address the provision of urban rights, citizenship, and services, and to remake the structural conditions that link urban growth to dispossession, mandate against demonstrations of efficacy and vitality on the part of poor in ways other than their political actions? Are there ways of representing, or at least pointing to practices of city-making that are cognizant of the city as a fundamental aspect of global capitalist relations, yet recognize the city as a viable arena of experimentation that continuously hones the aspirations and concomitant practices for different ways of living?
The proposed presentation explores the ways in which various central city districts in Africa and Southeast Asia configure collective action, taking advantage of gaps in the techniques and powers assembled through the rubric of “normative” governance—with its assumptions about subjectification, control, and productivity—to provisionally consolidate unanticipated articulations among different territories and economies across the city.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Jan 2010 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
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