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SUMMARY:Closing Session: Urban Geographies in/from the Global South - Research gaps and ways forward
DESCRIPTION:closing discussion about lessons learned and ways forward.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/closing-session-urban-geographies-in-from-the-global-south-ways-forward/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T163000
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SUMMARY:Transforming periurban futures. Water-based livelihoods in the urban fringe area of Pune.
DESCRIPTION:By Sarah Luft (University of Cologne) and Carsten Butsch (University of Cologne\, University of Bonn) | \nWith ongoing urban extensions and population growth in Indian cities\, periurban areas gain importance. These spaces are assigned diverse functions\, including food and water supply\, providing livelihoods\, and ecosystem services\, while repositioning along the urban-rural continuum. Periurban areas are confined by multi-layered structures\, yet\, they immerse in an institutional urban-rural vacuum with new actors emerging. These processes shape the access to resources\, such as water\, cause realignments of existing structures\, and thus define periurban transformations. \nThe project “H2O – T2S in urban fringe areas” addresses these transformations in the urban fringe of three Indian metropolitan cities (Pune\, Hyderabad\, Kolkata). It investigates particular contexts of water-based livelihoods\, water as a consumption good\, and water-related institutions and governance\, contributes to understanding site-specific drivers of vulnerabilities and engages periurban capacities to create more sustainable future pathways. The project combines a mixed-methods research in six periurban villages over a period of three and a half years. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic\, our plan to involve local stakeholders to participatorily develop transformation pathways could not be realized and was amended to a gradual\, modified Delphi method with local actors\, and Indian and international experts. During a three-rounded scenario-based planning exercise\, the participants identified\, compared and prioritized scenarios\, determined possible tipping points and forecasted decision-making steps towards more sustainable periurban futures. \nThe presentation will provide an insight into our research findings with a focus on water-based livelihoods in the village Paud in periurban Pune as an example for one of the six villages studied in the project.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/transforming-periurban-futures-water-based-livelihoods-in-the-urban-fringe-area-of-pune/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T160000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
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SUMMARY:Peri-urbanization in the global south – thinking beyond universalizing concepts
DESCRIPTION:By Alexander Follmann (University of Cologne) | \nThe term peri-urbanization has been widely used to describe a range of different processes that transform rural areas to a mix of rural and urban spaces. It is empirically clear that the urban periphery of the global south hosts the most dynamic processes of urbanization in the contemporary world. It is also conceptually accepted that to better understand these diverse processes of urbanization\, scholars must decenter global urban theory and build new vocabularies and theories from the south. Although there is a burgeoning literature on peri-urbanization\, the conceptual debate about peri-urbanization’s distinction from urbanization is rarely considered. In this talk\, I argue that the universalizing use of the term ‘peri-urbanization’ risks obscuring the existing diversities of rural-to-urban transformations across the Global South and beyond. I outline a critical review of the southern geographies of peri-urbanization identifying three interrelated conceptual vectors (territorial\, functional\, and transitional) for understanding the peri-urban concept\, and sketch recent developments in the field. Then\, peri-urbanization is reframed as an umbrella concept\, which embraces multiple theoretical concepts.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/peri-urbanization-in-the-global-south-thinking-beyond-universalizing-concepts/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T152000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T153000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
CREATED:20220225T151712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T151736Z
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SUMMARY:Discerning land use transitions in peri-urban areas of India: The relevance of mixed-methods research
DESCRIPTION:By Manisha Jain (Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development) | \nThe 21st century urbanisation process unfolding under globalisation and neoliberalisation in the global South is characterised by rapid transition of land uses in peri-urban areas\, specifically juxtaposition of rural and urban uses\, neglect of formal policy and planning\, inequality\, informal structures (for infrastructure delivery) and environmental degradation. These transformation processes are often linked and shape peri-urban areas. As urban areas expand into peripheral areas\, land use transition take place from primarily agricultural or vacant land to residential\, commercial\, transport and recreational uses. Recent research has established substantial urban expansion at the cost of arable land and surface water\, and predicts further similar trend in Asian and African regions. Given the predicted increase in urban population and further increased pressure on natural resources\, management of peri-urban spaces (land uses) poses significant challenges for planners. These spaces have become critical sustainability frontiers and present an opportunity for reforming governance structures for framing a sustainable development pathway. \nIn this speed talk\, I argue that the opportunities presented by peri-urban areas cannot be realized by relying on traditional approaches and instruments or through existing institutions. I take the case of census towns in India to explain land use transitions in peri-urban areas. I exemplify the use of mixed-methods research in discerning complexities associated with the peri-urban land use transitions.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/discerning-land-use-transitions-in-peri-urban-areas-of-india-the-relevance-of-mixed-methods-research/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T151000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T152000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
CREATED:20220225T151419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T151419Z
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SUMMARY:Coffe and tea break
DESCRIPTION:10-minute break
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/coffe-and-tea-break/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T144000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T151000
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SUMMARY:Predicting Urban Land Use Changes in Kap Choeng District of Thailand Using a CA–Markov Model
DESCRIPTION:By Namfon Phramaingam and Worawit Jitsukka (Mahasarakham University) | \nThe National Economic and Social Development Council has developed an economic development strategy to stimulate economic activity in Thailand’s border market\, leading to investment in the commercial sector at Chong Chom market. The purpose of this study is to evaluate and predict land use changes in the Kap Choeng district of Surin province\, Thailand\, using Theos images from 2009 and Sentinel-2 MSI images from 2019. Visual interpretation was used to characterize agricultural\, forest\, urban\, water\, and miscellaneous. Land use maps were assessed\, and the CA-Markov model was used to predict the urban change in 2029. The study shows that the overall accuracy of land use maps was 90.03% in 2009 and 90.95% in 2019. Between 2009 and 2019\, water covered 2.81% of the land area. Agriculture\, forest\, urban\, and miscellaneous\, on the other hand\, decreased by 59.83%\, 30.80%\, 5.01%\, and 1.55%\, respectively. The number of people living in urban areas has decreased as a result of the conflict between Thailand and Cambodia between 2009 and 2019. The creation of a commercial and residential area by the government to support economic growth in the border market may have an influence on the economic activity in Chong Chom. However\, because of the Chong Chom market’s assets\, which include its closeness to Cambodia\, the predicted urban land change in 2029 is a rise of 5.06%. Investors may feel pressured into constructing properties. Due to border market growth\, the government will be compelled to boost economic activity in urban regions in the future. \n  \nKeywords: Urban land change; Land use changes; CA-Markov model; Chong Chom Market; Thailand
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/predicting-urban-land-use-changes-in-kap-choeng-district-of-thailand-using-a-ca-markov-model/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T144000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
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SUMMARY:Earth Observation supports landslide risk assessment in Medellín\, Colombia
DESCRIPTION:Marta Sapena (1)\, Marlene Kühnl (1\,2)\, Klaus Martin (2)\, Hannes Taubenböck (1\,3) \n1 German Aerospace Center (DLR)\n2 Company for Remote Sensing and Environmental Research (SLU)\n3 Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) \nLandslides are the most frequent natural disaster in Colombia\, coupled with cities growing unplanned and informal towards high-risk areas due to land scarcity. Earth Observation (EO) has a powerful capability for supporting risk reduction and adaptation. The ongoing German-Colombian research project ‘Inform@Risk’ is developing a low-cost and site-specific Early Warning and Evacuation Systems (EWES) in a low-income and self-built neighborhood (https://www.bmbf-client.de/en/projects/informrisk). This multi-scale project illustrates how the combination of EO with other data sources improves knowledge on landslide risks of many urban dwellers. We use very high resolution\, multi-temporal  and multi-sensoral remote sensing data (e.g.\, from drones\, Landsat\, Sentinel and TanDEM-X data) combined with ancillary data (e.g.\, census population and hazard maps) to produce up-to-date and better estimates of areas\, people an assets at risk. \nAt the city level\, we found exposed areas doubled in the last 25 years. Formal and informal developments were located using the morphologic proxy of built-up structures\, combined with downscaled population revealed that 1 out of 10 people is simultaneously exposed to landslides hazard and living in informal settlements. At the neighborhood level\, we produced unprecedentedly detailed geo-information. We identified an average of 50 houses being built per year in a high risk-prone area of 40 hectares. Estimates showed nearly 4\,600 residents in the EWES location\, of which 40% are at very high risk. This project exemplifies of how environmental\, economic and social risks proxied from space and combined with other data sources provides a comprehensive picture for decision-making.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/earth-observation-supports-landslide-risk-assessment-in-medellin-colombia/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T143000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
CREATED:20220225T150642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T150642Z
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SUMMARY:Assessment of urban land surface temperature intensity over four cities in different ecological zones of Nigeria
DESCRIPTION:By Ayansina Ayanlade (University of Vienna) | \nThis study examines the contributions of different land cover types and variation in ecological locations on the intensity of urban LST over four major cities in the different ecological zone of Nigeria. Remote Sensing techniques were used to measure the LST intensity over different cities.  The contributions of different landscape types to urban LST intensity were examined\, using contribution index (CI) and Landscape index (LI) methods. The results revealed that the spatial and temporal changes in the LULC have greatly influenced the LST in the cities\, though this varies from identified LULC. Changes in estimated LST vary from 0.120 C to 10 C yearly\, while the changes are much intensified in the core section of the cities. The contribution of each landscapes varies\, -0.25 < CI > -1.17 for sink landscape and 0.24 < CI > 1.05 for source landscape. The results further reveal that as LI >  1\, the contribution of source landscape to intensity of LST is lesser than that of sink landscape\, but LI <  1 shows that source landscapes contribute more to intensity of LST than sink landscapes. This might be as a result of changes in the vegetation cover between 1984 and 2019 as revealed in LULC change. Loss in the vegetal cover is anthropogenically induced leading to an increase in built-up and impervious surfaces resulted in mean monthly and yearly temperature changes. It is observed that the core and densities areas of cities witnessed higher LST compared with the rural area.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/assessment-of-urban-land-surface-temperature-intensity-over-four-cities-in-different-ecological-zones-of-nigeria/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T140000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
CREATED:20220225T144229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T144229Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch break
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URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/lunch-break-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T123000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
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SUMMARY:[Cancelled] Politics of Legitimacy and Nature Governance: The Preservation of Banyan Trees in Guangzhou
DESCRIPTION:By Yimeng Yang (National Taiwan University) | \nThis presentation has been canceled. \nTaking urban tree preservation in Guangzhou as an empirical case\, this paper seeks to examine how the local government in China consolidates the legitimacy of its rule through nature governance\, and how it responds to state oversight while pacifying social resistance through different nature governance techniques. The discussion will focus on the social controversies and policy-making surrounding the management of banyan trees in Guangzhou between November 2020 and October 2021. Findings show that the local government adjusted its tree management policies three times to consolidate three different types of legitimacy of rule: (1) to consolidate the ideological legitimacy of Guangzhou as a modern metropolis by promoting tree species renewal\, (2) to consolidate the procedural legitimacy of government-led policy-making by incorporating public participation in the face of the ensuing citizen resistance\, and (3) to consolidate the performance legitimacy of environmental protection by further promoting the ecologization and heritagization of trees in the face of political scrutiny from the central authority. This paper argues that nature governance is a political process of legitimacy construction for local governments that mediates between the state and society. Examining the evolutionary mechanisms of nature governance techniques will also help to further explore the particular state-society relations in authoritarian China.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/politics-of-legitimacy-and-nature-governance-the-preservation-of-banyan-trees-in-guangzhou/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T123000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
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SUMMARY:The Politics of Environment in Pakistan
DESCRIPTION:By Tajreen Midhat Jafri (Habib University\, Karachi) | \nEnvironment which once remained on the peripheries of the development debates\, today holds an important place in Pakistan’s political discourse. For example\, the Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI)\, led by Imran Khan\, prioritized addressing environmental problems as part of its election campaigns. After coming to power in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2013\, PTI initiated the Million Tsunami Tree project in 2014. Thereafter\, after Imran Khan became the Prime Minister in 2018\, his inaugural speech addressed environmental concerns to the nation by highlighting issues such as heatwaves\, urban flooding\, pollution of the sea\, waste management\, and eco-friendly tourism. However\, my paper contends that the government’s environmental ideology is stemming from a specific strand of environmentalism\, termed as ‘Environmentalism of the Rich’ that emerged in the West (primarily the United States) as a result of a post-materialist or post-industrialist society (Guha & Martínez Alier\, 1997). This kind of environmentalism\, turns nature itself into a good to be consumed. On the other hand\, another strand of environmentalism that Guha (1997) terms as ‘Environmentalism of the Poor’ is prevalent\, yet suppressed in Pakistan. There are movements/conflicts that may come across as political movements\, but are rooted in questions of who should have control over natural resources (Rizvi 2019). These conflicts/movements have emerged in the Global South\, primarily as a result of the ecologically disruptive development processes impacting livelihoods (Watts & Peet\, 2004; Nixon\, 2011). In a highly securitized political environment\, those who protest against these ecologically disruptive processes of pursuing economic growth are deemed as anti-state (Akhtar\, 2021). The paper will explore the contradictions in the policies and the national politics of environment to establish that the Government’s environmental ideology is one that is suited to the increasing processes of neoliberalisation in the country\, where nature/environment is re(organized) by power relations. Through this paper\, I hope to contribute to existing literature on the politics of environment in the Global South (and Pakistan in specific) which\, just like development\, is a process for resource capture.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/the-politics-of-environment-in-pakistan/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T120000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
CREATED:20220225T143424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T143424Z
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SUMMARY:Digital innovations and water services in cities of the global South
DESCRIPTION:By Godfred Amankwaa (University of Manchester) | \nThere is no doubt that digital water — the use of digital technologies in the water sector — is growing\, with evidence of widespread adoption and use across countries. Many water service providers are investing in new technologies not only to improve infrastructure performance and enable existing systems to operate more efficiently\, but also to make new service delivery models possible.  However\, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the hype and hope of digital technologies to tackle water sector challenges\, especially in developing countries. It is in this context that we are witnessing a growth of interest in the discussion\, evidence case studies and research on digital water in the global South. How have digital water innovations (DWIs) been implemented and what has been the impact?  And how is the growing implementation of digital water innovations in global South cities researched?  This paper presents a first systematic literature review of  urban digital water innovations in the global South\, analysing a total of 43 papers using a range of thematic categorisations.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/digital-innovations-and-water-services-in-cities-of-the-global-south/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T233000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
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SUMMARY:Governing Urban Environment in the Era of E-technologies: An Indian Experience
DESCRIPTION:By Jaydip De (Barasat Government College) | \nFollowing the technological advancements\, good governance of the urban environment is continuously coming into the focus. The guidelines of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are making valuable inroads to ensure urban sustainability. Human\, being the prime sculptor of the environment is always influencing nature. During the last three decades\, increasing adaptation and application of e-technologies are creating opportunities to think about the modalities of public administration in new ways\, particularly in the developing world. During the COVID-19 phase\, e-activities have gained a landslide increase in the number and duration of using virtual media. Hence\, craving out new ways to govern the urban space also. In this context\, this present study concentrates on the problems\, dimensions\, modalities\, and scopes of e-technology application for environmental governance of urban India. An in-depth review of available literature using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses-PRISMA (Moher\, Liberati\, Tetzlaff\, & Altman\, 2009) approach forms the base of this study. Since SCOPUS is the largest reliable source of the published research database\, it has been considered for sampling the literature. The potentialities of e-technologies in urban environmental governance are examined thoroughly. Several models are proposed where the incorporation of e-technologies with the traditional system may boost up the mechanism of service delivery and ensure public participation from the doorstep. Therefore\, the tools of digital participation in this neo-modernised socio-cultural system are anticipated to have an enhanced impact on the nourishment of the urban ecosystem.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/governing-urban-environment-in-the-era-of-e-technologies-an-indian-experience/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T104000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T110000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
CREATED:20220225T142150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220225T142150Z
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SUMMARY:Coffee and tea break
DESCRIPTION:20-minute coffee and tea break
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/coffee-and-tea-break-3/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T101000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T104000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
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SUMMARY:Digital transition in marketplaces in Ghanaian cities: Insight from Accra and Kumasi markets
DESCRIPTION:By Lewis Abedi Asante (Kumasi Technical University) | \nThousands of informal traders and shoppers converge\, on daily basis\, in densely-packed marketplaces in African cities to transact business. In these marketplaces\, the traditional means of payment is cash. Several trader associations are formed among the different commodity groupings in the marketplaces to control trading space\, promote trader welfare and settle trader disputes. This presentation explores the changes that have occurred in marketplaces in Ghanaian cities since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on case studies of urban marketplaces in Accra and Kumasi\, we observed the adoption of digital technologies by traders to protect themselves against the COVID-19 disease. While cash remains the major form of payment\, mobile money is growing as an alternative form of payment among traders. Rather than the traditional in-person meetings\, some trader associations have resorted to using the Whatsapp platform to record voice message and share information among members. The study reflects on the prospects and implications of altered routines in the marketplace facilitated through digital technologies. Although digital penetration is still quite low in African cities\, our examples of vernacular use demonstrate the prospect of digital transformation. Those new forms of technologically mediated exchange and communication promise equal access\, but it also may deepen already existing biases.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/digital-transition-in-marketplaces-in-ghanaian-cities-insight-from-accra-and-kumasi-markets/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T094000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T101000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
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SUMMARY:The Smart Grid\, insecurity and urban governance in Kingston and Rio de Janeiro
DESCRIPTION:By Francesca Pilo (Utrecht University) | \nThis presentation aims to contribute to recent debates on the politics of smart grids by exploring their installation in low-income areas in Kingston (Jamaica) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). This presentation illustrates how\, in both contexts\, the installation of smart metering is used as a security device that embeds the promise of protecting infrastructure and revenue and navigating complex relations framed along lines of socioeconomic inequalities and urban sovereignty – here linked to configurations of state and non-state (criminal) territorial control and power. By unpacking the political workings of the smart grid within changing urban security contexts\, including not only the rationalities that support its use but also the forms of resistance\, contestation and socio-technical failure that emerge\, this presentation argues for the importance of examining smart grids at the conjunction between urban and infrastructural governance\, including the reshaping of local power relations and spatial inequalities\, through globally circulating devices. \n 
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/the-smart-grid-insecurity-and-urban-governance-in-kingston-and-rio-de-janeiro/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220325T094000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
CREATED:20220224T160619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220321T121215Z
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SUMMARY:DAY 2 - welcome to day two
DESCRIPTION:Day two of the workshop with 3 sessions: \n\n(i) Reflecting on urban digital transitions;\n(ii) Questioning urban environmental policies; and\n(iii) Making sense of of peri-urban and land use transitions
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/day-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T173000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
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SUMMARY:[Keynote Lecture] Muted technoscapes? Unearthing smart city experiments\, technologies and practices in/from the global South
DESCRIPTION:Prince K. Guma is a researcher of cities\, infrastructures and technologies in eastern Africa and currently a Research Fellow and Assistant Country Director at the British Institute in Eastern Africa. His recent work\, at the intersection of STS\, urban studies\, and postcolonial studies\, examines the contingent and place-based articulations of cities\, and how these are mediated through the diffusion and uptake of new plans\, technologies and infrastructures both small and big. His findings are hoped to provide a menu for new explorations and contribute insights to debates on technology and urbanity in the global South and beyond.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/keynote-lecture-muted-technoscapes-unearthing-smart-city-experiments-technologies-and-practices-in-from-the-global-south/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T161500
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SUMMARY:Coffee and tea break
DESCRIPTION:15-minute coffee and tea break
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/coffee-and-tea-break-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T160000
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SUMMARY:The right to the city and sound housing policies for the poor – analysing policy arrangements in urban Indonesia
DESCRIPTION:Christian Obermayr (University of Innsbruck) | \nAdequate and affordable housing for the poor remains one of the great challenges of the 21st century. Despite all efforts in the past housing policies have largely failed. This paper develops a normative compass and conceptual framework based on Henri Lefebvre’s right to the city and the policy arrangement approach for studying governance and housing policies in two Indonesian cities\, Surabaya and Surakarta\, known for their good urban practices. The goal is to reveal the characteristics of local governance that allow sound housing policies to emerge. Based on a mixed-methods approach\, consisting of 50 expert interviews\, a survey (n=23) and social network analysis (n=22)\, applied housing policies (resettlement policies\, social housing\, participative self-help approaches etc.) and governance conditions are studied. The results show that sound housing policies (participative\, people-centred\, pro-poor) do emerge under non-hierarchical modes of governance shaped by multiple and diverse actors\, shared power relations\, inclusive discourses and oriented towards a normative goal – the right to the city. \n 
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/co-indonesia/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T153000
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SUMMARY:Adaptive Spatial Typologies: Creative Solutions for Informal Settlements in Thailand
DESCRIPTION:By Adrian Lo (Thammasat University) and Karin Kalinta (Thammasat University) | \nAs the world rapidly urbanizes\, with an expected 7 billion people living in cities by 2050\, some three billion people will be living in informal settlements or inadequate housing. Moreover 50% of urban employment is found in the informal economy. Though seen as a blight to the city\, the work and everyday practices of these people demonstrate how they are indeed the lifeblood of the city. Thailand has made leaps forward in addressing the situation of the urban poor through bottom-up community secure housing programmes as well as top-down models for upgrading informal settlements. Although these initiatives are effective in ‘reactively’ managing the urban challenges after they arise\, they do not ‘preventively’ solve the real issue of the prevalence of slums or squatter settlements in the first place. \nThis research asks how can cities promote inclusive and sustainable urbanism\, particularly for the urban poor thus allowing them to participate as citizens? The paper explores different design tactics of channeling the creative and adaptive capacities of urban low-income and poor communities in the Global South to create spaces for themselves\, allowing them to exercise their right to the city. \nBy harnessing architectural and urban design strategies\, the design research aims to mediate between the formal and the informal\, learning from the innovative\, ingenious\, and self-organized adaptations from informal urban practices. The outcomes show how necessity creates its own internal logics which may look disorderly from an outsider\, but highly systematized and coherent from within\, challenging formal design solutions to informal issues.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/adaptive-spatial-typologies-creative-solutions-for-informal-settlements-in-thailand/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T150000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165541
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SUMMARY:Why poor people leave state housing in South Africa: getting along or getting on?
DESCRIPTION:By Raffael Beier (TU Dortmund University) | \nSince 1994\, South Africa’s government has significantly invested in the provision of low-cost housing as a means to fight the legacy of apartheid. The provision of ‘free housing’ for homeownership to non-white urban poor should not only fight informal housing and historical inequality but also promote socio-economic progress of so-called beneficiaries. However\, by leaving state houses\, some people provoked anger among politicians\, confused about beneficiaries throwing away their most valuable asset while moving back to shacks. Conceptually\, there are indeed doubts whether people would move upwards if they sell or let state houses. Rather\, one assumes displacement to worse living conditions as a result of inappropriately located and inflexible state housing and the related inability to sustain a living inside the house. \nHowever\, so far hardly any research has looked closely at experiences\, rationales\, and strategies behind people’s decision to leave ‘free housing’. What motivates them and where do they move? Do they leave to survive or because they aspire to something better? In this paper\, I use own biographical interviews with 27 people that sold or let their state houses in the Gauteng to analyse ‘leaving’ from people’s perspectives. I argue that for many people\, ‘leaving’ can connect to long-term life and housing ambitions while simultaneously being a means to cope with shocks\, mass unemployment\, and persistent inequality. Stressing the macroeconomic and societal embeddedness of housing projects\, ‘leaving’ may be understood as people-led reconfigurations of social policy\, challenging normative dualisms of downward vs. upward mobility and progress vs. failure.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/why-poor-people-leave-state-housing-in-south-africa-getting-along-or-getting-on/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T143000
DTSTAMP:20260525T165542
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SUMMARY:The unequivocal all-encompassing “slum”: reflecting on the politics and geographies behind the lexicons for urban self-built settlements
DESCRIPTION:By Daniela Beltrame\, Joaquin Benitez\, Karenna Groff\, and Amelia Seabold (University of Buenos Aires) | \nMost of the literature in development and urban studies relies uncomfortably on an English lexicon to refer to neighborhoods with substandard built environments and insecure forms of tenure in the Global South. Practitioners and researchers alike have pointed to the genealogies of colonialism and stigmatization behind concepts like “slum” and “shanty town”\, while also noting that seemingly more aseptic wording like “informal settlement”\, “urban informality” or “human settlements” may be technically inappropriate or one-dimensional. International exchanges have failed to create consensus to renovate these lexicons: time and again they have fallen back to referring to these neighborhoods as “slums” and “informal settlements”.3: 3: rtThis article presents a critical reflection on the loci of enunciation and associated politics around the English lexicon we use to refer to communities living in substandard built environments and/or lacking formal ownership in the Global South. We do not aim to propose an alternative idiom but to question the existing one and account for how it was shaped by politics\, esthetics and geographies of colonial development. If slum characteristics are highly heterogeneous across geographies\, is the word slum a universal signifier for anything that does not match the hegemonic standard for housing? Has the word ‘slum’ lost its meaning and become an empty signifier in development studies? What images\, feelings and ideas are cast when the lexeme slum is used? Ultimately\, this piece calls on practitioners and academics to critically reflect on the politics of language and the geographies of knowledge behind their concepts.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/the-unequivocal-all-encompassing-slum-reflecting-on-the-politics-and-geographies-behind-the-lexicons-for-urban-self-built-settlements/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T124500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T140000
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SUMMARY:Lunch break
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URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/lunch-break/
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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SUMMARY:Gentrification in Jordan: The Abdali  Redevelopment project as a case study
DESCRIPTION:By Ruba Alomary (Ferrara University) | \nThe purpose of this research is to examine and define gentrification in the context of Amman’s Abdali Urban Redevelopment Project. Demonstrating the implications of the Abdali project on the urban fabric in the context of gentrification.Gentrification has attracted widespread attention since its birth in London and several east coast U.S cities in the 50s and 60s. Nowadays gentrification is a process experienced by cities around the world not only confined in the global North (Lees\, Shin\, & López-Morales\, 2016). \nCase Study: The Abdali redevelopment project was launched in 2003 on government-owned land formerly a military site (brownfield). Embodied the largest single plot of land within the city of Amman that is available for private development\, by relying on the agendas of privatization and liberalization\, considering the private sector to be the main engine for growth.The Abdali project is still an ongoing project with two phases to be completed. Although the project faced several obstacles leading to the suspension of construction for years\, before the completion of the first phase and the official opening in 2014. \nMethodology & findings: The researcher employed mixed methods approach by integrating spatial maps and quantitative data represented by statistical indicators to investigate the research questions. The findings have revealed that although the project has been impacting the residential and commercial fabric in the adjacent area in terms of land-use change\, displacement for residents\, properties values augmentation and traffic problems. There is a lack of data available on a sufficiently granular temporal and spatial scale & a lack of empirical evidence of the extent of the displacement occurring in the examined area. To overcome this limitation the researcher will employ a qualitative approach to infer the patterns and processes of displacement.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/gentrification-in-jordan-the-abdali-redevelopment-project-as-a-case-study/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T122500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T123500
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SUMMARY:Dynamics of Seeing\, and Speaking with the State: Information transparency and Participatory urban governance
DESCRIPTION:By Riby Rachel Mathew (CEPT University\, Gujarat India) | \nInformation transparency is an essential tool of public institutions to inculcate democratic legitimacy\, accountability\, public trust\, institutional effectiveness\, and engagement with citizens to govern. While in recent times\, cities have been deploying digital technologies to improve governance and to promote citizen-driven city-making through the use of ‘Open Data’. In this digital era\, Open Government Data (OGD) initiatives have become vital for public institutions to promote informed decision making\, to ensure transparency in governance\, etc. In this context\, the study aimed to explore the relationship between information transparency and citizen participation in the urban governance realm. The case study has been carried out in Kerala India\, as Kerala is a state having an institutionalized system for participatory planning and also integrated Community Based organizations into the local planning system. The study reveals multiple forms of transparency exist\, based on the nature of information and mode of information\, and the degree of citizen participation is determined by various socio-political and economical factors. Therefore\, “Open Government Data” programmes of the public institutions are merely a technology-driven application and don’t foster citizen participation\,  rather nurturing new business models in govt data extraction. \n 
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/dynamics-of-seeing-and-speaking-with-the-state-information-transparency-and-participatory-urban-governance/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T115500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T122500
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SUMMARY:Community Building\, Cultural Agency\, and Spatial Resistance in the Neoliberal City: Barrio Tampiquito in Monterrey
DESCRIPTION:By Emanuela Buscemi (University of Monterrey\, Mexico) | \nTampiquito is a neighborhood located in the wealthy municipality of San Pedro Garza García\, part of the Metropolitan Monterrey Area (MMA) in Nuevo León\, México. In the 2010s\, amid local widespread urban violence\, while public and private institutions promoted the militarization of public space\, in Tampiquito inclusive cultural and spatial practices were introduced from below to regenerate trust and counter organized crime. In this chapter\, quotidian practices of citizenship\, as well as cultural and spatial resistance\, will be examined by unpacking the neoliberal paradigm of the city\, especially in relation to social cleavages and through the lens of government planning policies. The methodology relies on an ethnographic work carried out in 2020 in Tampiquito. The chapter contributes to urban and resistance theories in the Global South by linking questions posed by local de-precarization activism with wider aspirations\, as well as cultural and urban practices.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/community-building-cultural-agency-and-spatial-resistance-in-the-neoliberal-city-barrio-tampiquito-in-monterrey/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T112500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T115500
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SUMMARY:‘Illegalities’ and accretive displacement in Delhi\, India
DESCRIPTION:By Saeed Ahmad (Georg-August Universität Göttingen) | \nThis paper illustrates a process of accretive displacement through a historical-ethnographic study of the demolition of a Muslim Mosque in the Jangpura-Bhogal locality of Delhi\, India. Adhering to ideals of ‘world-class city-making’ and the attendant counter-discourse of obstructive ‘illegalities’\, state authorities in 2011 demolished the Noor Masjid\, a mosque built by a now absent slum cluster (removed in 2006). Following public outrage by the city’s Muslims and political leaders\, the state sanctioned the rebuilding of the mosque close to the original site in 2012. This paper charts the pre-history and aftermath of the material displacement to highlight an unintended process of Muslim erasure in Delhi. \nFirst\, it traces the legal strategies of Jangpura-Bhogal’s middle-class residents\, to establish the mosque’s illegality. Citing violations of the Delhi urban Master Plan’s intended land-use and the site’s attendant ‘encroachment’\, residents mobilise state and judicial authorities leading to the material displacement of the mosque. However\, the legal resolution of the conflict and the mosque’s reconstruction initiates new narrative strategies to disavow the space. Thus\, secondly\, the paper highlights how local public discourse employs common xenophobic tropes\, the site’s origins in the material space of the absent slum\, and the religious needs of present and propertied non-Muslim populations\, to relegate the mosque’s presence to an elsewhere\, outside the spatial imaginary of Jangpura-Bhogal. Through this\, I show how imagined urban planning ideals rather than overt ideological efforts to deny Muslim presence\, lead to the displacement of Muslim religious space.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/illegalities-and-accretive-displacement-in-delhi-india/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T111500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T232500
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SUMMARY:City Branding in Global South: Examining urban strategies in African cities
DESCRIPTION:By Mohamed Waheed Fareed (The Higher Institute of Engineering Alshorouk Academy Egypt) | \nCity branding is commonly focused on wealthy mega cities\, such as Vienna\, London\, and Dubai\, based on concepts and business models of branding theory. In contrary to such concept\, this speed talk focuses on city branding in medium-sized and less known cities of Africa.This talk suggests that the urban development of cities is positively related to the use of branding strategies. This suggestion is studied among 6 African cities in different geographical locations throughout the continent: three cities in north Africa and three in sub-Saharan Africa region. Empirically\, this talk focuses on branding case studies of African cities. By analyzing the development of the studied city branding over the course of time and aspects of both territorial and relational origins\, situating destination branding practices within a wider sustainable development scope. Main findings suggest that local governments should align both their city branding strategies and future development goals together.
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/city-branding-in-global-south-examining-urban-strategies-in-african-cities/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20220324T231500
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SUMMARY:Coffee and tea break
DESCRIPTION:15-minute coffee and tea break
URL:https://www.transient-spaces.org/event/coffee-and-tea-break/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop Urban Geographies in the Global South
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