Southern Urbanism(s): Locating Cities in Research on the Global South

The Cambridge Urbanism in the Global South (UGS) working group and the Consortium for the Global South invite participation in the first Tricontinental Tea Seminar of 2018/19. This informal series is intended to connect researchers working in different departments and disciplines within the University of Cambridge, to share knowledge, and to explore the potential for future collaborative projects.

Discussions on Southern Urbanism(s) are fast gaining track within academia and development trends, as cities across the Global South are among the most rapidly urbanising in the world. This seminar invites Cambridge-based scholars to think with cities. E.g., how does the urban condition affect and shape the production of knowledge and scholarly critiques? How do urban changes affect multidisciplinary research taking place in cities of the Global South? How are research questions transformed when we consider an urban perspective? Do cities play a particular role in ongoing social, political, cultural, and epistemological transformations? What does it mean to study the Urban South from the perspective of a polarised and extreme city like Cambridge?

If you would like to give a short presentation (up to 5-minute each), please email ucam-ugs-owner@lists.cam.ac.uk with your departmental affiliation and topic. You will be contacted soon after with further details.