City Debates (at) AUB 2017

"City Debates 2017 explores the emergence of urban-based political movements in various national contexts where “the city” and/or some of its ingredients (e.g. housing, public space, services, livelihoods) have been serving as the basis for new forms of claims. By documenting comparatively these movements through profiling the actors, strategies, tools, networks of solidarity, forms of lesson sharing, and the frames through which claims have been formulated, the Debates seek to investigate critically and comparatively these new forms of collective action. We ask: Are we indeed witnessing emancipatory political claims or, to the contrary, a reduction of the horizons of the political to the minimal necessities of everyday life? Furthermore, as professionals of the built environment, how do such movements affect our practice? How do they change the premises and assumptions of our profession? On what grounds should we engage such social movements and the spaces they create? What can we learn from their tactics and strategies? ..."

2017 . Sous les Pavés, la Plage…

Itineraries of Urban Social Movements

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City Debates 2017 Opening

City Debates 2017 Panel 1: The 'Urban' in Social Movements


City Debates 2017 Panel 2: Alternative Urban Ideals


City Debates 2017 Panel 3 Discontent and Mobilization in the Face of Neoliberal Policies


City Debates 2017 Panel 4 Urban Social Movements and Local Governance

City Debates 2017 Panel 5 Urban Struggles at the Margins


City Debates 2017 Ananya Roy - The Politics of Space & Scale in the Age of Trumpism


City Debates 2017 Roundtable 1: Mobilization Experiences: Emerging Strategies and Frames


City Debates 2017 Roundtable 2: Towards an Urbanisme Engagé


City Debates 2017 Closing Panel Wrapping Up the Debates