AK Urban Geographies in the Global South
19. – 20. April 2024 in Bonn
Registration until 10.04.2024
| Friday, 19.04.2024 |
Saturday. 20.04.2024 |
| 12:30 – 13:00 Registration
13:00 – 14:00 Session 1: |
8:30 – 10:00 Session 4: Urban Politics |
| 14:00 – 14:30 Break | 10:00 – 10:30 Break |
| 14:30 – 15:30 Session 2: Thinking with and beyond infrastructures II: Green infrastructure |
10:30 – 12:30 Session 5: Peri-urban geographies |
| 15:30 – 16:00 Break | 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break |
| 16:00 – 17:30 Session 3:
Thinking with and beyond infrastructures III: Urban waterways
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13:30 – 14:30 Session 6: Mobility and Migration |
| 17:30 – 18:00 Break | |
| 18:00 – 19:30 Keynote: Mary Lawhon Infrastructure and the ´circular city´: The politics of scale, squiggles and sanitation. |
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| Dinner |
| Friday, 19.04.2024 |
12:30 – 13:00 Registration
13:00 – 14:00 Session 1
Thinking with and beyond infrastructures I: Transformations of urban realities
| 1 | Helena Cermeño (Universität Kassel) and Katja Mielke (Bonn International Centre for Conflict Studies) | Revisiting the Urban and Question at Extensions of Lahore: Peoples Infrastructural Labour towards (Im-) Permanent Settlement |
| 2 | Hanxi Wang (University College London) |
Outgrowing the System: Everyday Encroachments, Adaptations, and Cultivations of Urban Infrastructures |
| 3 | Raffael Beier (Technische Universität Bochum) |
Unsettling housing programmes: Why do some resettled dwellers not occupy their new units? |
14:00 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 15:30 Session 2
Thinking with and beyond infrastructures II: Green infrastructure
| 4 | Charrlotte Adelina (Freie Universität Berlin) |
Planty infrastructures and vegetal place-making in Coimbatore |
| 5 | Patience Mguni* | What does the implementation of Nature-based Solutions in Cape Town and Johannesburg look like? Exploring pathways of nature-based climate action in African cities. |
| 6 | Katherina Rochel* (University Utrecht) |
Nature as contested urban infrastructure: troubling trees in Malawi |
| 7 | Will Bauer (University Erlangen-Nürnberg) |
Between Dreams and Tarmac: Assessing pathways for inclusive Nature-based Solutions in Lilongwe City, Malawi. |
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:30 Session 3
Thinking with and beyond infrastructures III: Urban waterways
| 8 | Afra Foli (University of Amsterdam) |
River and drain: ambiguity in the waterways of Accra |
| 9 | Valentine Opanga (Center for Development Research) |
Territoriality, informality, and community formation along the Nairobi River: A Case of Pumwani-Majengo and Korogocho Wards |
| 10 | Viswesh Ranmmohan*
(Central European University) |
The Many-Headed Underdevelopment: Theorizing second-order dependency. |
| 11 | Tade Rücker und Rainer Wehrhahn (Universität Kiel) |
The Role of Water Infrastructure in Peripheral Urbanization – Findings from the Margins of “São Paulo |
17:30 – 18:00 Break
18:00 – 19:30 Keynote: 18:15 – 19:30 Keynote
Mary Lawhon (University of Edinburgh)
Infrastructure and the ´circular city´: The politics of scale, squiggles and sanitation
Dinner
| Saturday, 20.04.2024 |
08:30 – 10:00 Session 4
Urban Politics
| 12 | Yunpeng Zhang (University College Dublin) |
Informal Politics in Mega-Urbanisation: Lessons for and from China |
| 13 | Eric Sebastian Kalversberg (Universität Bonn) |
It needs a Dancefloor to Dance: The Power of Transnational City Networks in bringing together Knowledge and Politics |
| 14 | Julian Schwabe (Universität Marburg) |
The effect of focusing events on transformation processes in Beijing: Revisiting the “Airpocalypse” of January 2013 |
| 15 | Klaudia Khan* (Alight NGO) |
Claiming the city space – feminist movements in Pakistani cities |
10:00 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12:30 Session 5
Peri-urban geographies
| 16 | Milap Punia (JNU Delhi) |
Urban Geographies in the Global South with reference to the National Capital Region, INDIA. |
| 17 | Carsten Butsch (Universität Bonn) |
The effects of periurban transformation on agriculture and waterscapes – a case study from Pune |
| 18 | Yajna Sewmohan*
(University of Pretoria) |
Permanence, transience, precarity and (dis)continuities in peri-urban Mankweng, Limpopo Province, South Africa. |
| 19 | Gertrud Schaab (Hochschule Karlsruhe) |
A coproduction project towards transformative pathways for sustaining peri-urban livelihoods in Mankweng (Limpopo, South Africa): What we have learned so far and what we are aiming at. |
| 20 | César Simoni Santos (USP São Paulo) |
Crime as a category to the political economy of space: new contents of the peripheral urban sprawl in São Paulo city |
12:30 – 13:30 Break
13:30 – 14:30 Session 6
Mobility and Migration
| 21 | Annisa Shaharin (Universität Stuttgart) |
Production of space by translocal migrants in Zambia |
| 22 | González-Pavicich Consuelo*
(Autonomous University of Barcelona) |
(Multi)territorialities of Latin American (in)migrants in the metropolitan area of Alto Hospicio-Iquique (Tarapacá region, Chile) |
| 23 | Pearl Wematu Puwurayire
(Technical University Brandenburg) |
Hybrid Mobility Delivery Configurations in Sunyani – Ghana |
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28.03.2024, changes possible