Laboratoire CESSMA (2014-2015) – axe « villes et urbanisation »
Olympe de Gouges, rue A. Einstein, 75013, salle 805 (8è étage)
Organisation : Marianne Morange & Amandine Spire
Vendredi 7 novembre 2014 : 14h-17h
Karen E. Till, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland Maynooth. Memory-Work, Caring for Place and the Right to the City: Lessons from the Global South
(séance organisée par Pauline Guinard)
Critical analyses of urban space that privilege representations of the city as property ignore the complex spatialities and temporalities of the lived city for most residents in the world, thus limiting our understanding of the city, as well as the possibilities for urban change and more just futures. In recent years, postcolonial and indigenous scholars have called for radical retheorizations of ‘the city’ to understand how to transform ongoing legacies of urban inequality, spatial segregation and displacement. They call for a deeper appreciation of the lived realities of most of the inhabitants of our world.