CRISIS AND HOPE: PERSPECTIVES ON RESISTANCE
On 7th September John Holloway will give a public lecture titled: Greece: Hope drowns in the Reality of a Dying World. Or does it? The lecture will start at 19.00 in Broadcasting House, Leeds Beckett University, room BPAG02 The following day, on 8th September John Holloway will be running a workshop titled: Think Hope, Think Crisis from […]
Final two days of Contested Cities Leeds week of talks: Global Urban Justice; voices and struggles from Latin America.
Contested Cities Leeds week of talks concluded with seminars and two successful public debates on Retail gentrification in Santiago Chile by Neil Turnbull and Accumulation by dispossession in cities: UK, China, Argentina with Débora Swistun, Stuart Hodkinson and Paul Waley. Both of these public debates are available to watch again, with links below. […]
Bookchin: living legacy of an American revolutionary
An interview with Debbie Bookchin on her father’s contributions to revolutionary theory and the adoption of his ideas by the Kurdish liberation movement. by Federico Venturini, a member of Leeds Contested Cities group ::::::::::::::::::::::: Federico Venturini: Verso Books has just published The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy, a collection of […]
Global Urban Justice; voices and struggles from Latin America. 16th-19th February public talks
Contested Cities Leeds is hosting a week of debates on urban struggles, displacement, mobility and movements from across the globe, with a particular focus on Latin America. These are all open to the public and will be held at 5pm in the Geography East Building Lecture Theater Contested Citizenship in Latin American Cities? Monday […]
New Trailer MARAKÁ’NÀ: struggles in Rio De Janeiro surrounding the Maracanã stadium
The Grupo Popular Pesquisa em Ação (People’s Group Research in Action) is very happy to inform that the promo of the video MARAKÁ’NÀ is available online at: http://vimeo.com/108362914. The area of the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro is not only a space for leisure, but for many, is a space of struggle. In this documentary, […]
Contested Cities / FILM FESTIVAL / Call for Submissions
The Contested Cities network is an international alliance of critical urban researchers and activists spanning six cities in Europe and Latin America – Leeds, Madrid, Rio, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Mexico City. This September 2nd, in collaboration with the Leeds Social and Environmental Justice Action Network, the Contested Cities network is hosting a film festival, […]
Contested Cities at The Royal Geographical Society Conference- London
26th-29th August 2014 “Co-producing urban contestation across the world: a roundtable with academics and social movement activists” Sara Gonzalez, Stuart Hodkinson and Michael Janoschka Wednesday 27 August 2014, Session 4 (16.50-18.30) Confirmed speakers are: Andrea Carrasco, lawyer and activist in the Platform for those Affected by Mortgages (PAH – Plataforma Afectados por la Hipoteca) in […]
Traditional retail markets: the new gentrification frontier?
Traditional indoor and outdoor markets have become somewhat residual in many British cities but essential for many low income citizens that rely on their affordability. At the same time, the market is being reinvented for a wealthier type of customer interested more in local, environmentally friendly, ethical and “authentic” shopping experience.
Experiences of urban contestation; Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro
On the 19th of February Leeds school of geography hosted the talk “experiences of urban contestation”, benefiting from the presence of Pablo Vitale, a visiting researcher from Buenos Aires and Federico Venturini a researcher from Leeds recently arrived from Rio de Janeiro. The two researchers addressed different aspects of neoliberal urbanization in Latin America, although […]
Tom Slater ‘Grieving for Lost Homes: Territorial Stigmatisation, the Rent Gap, and Displacement’
Tom Slater’s talk focused on his recent research of housing estates in the Edinburgh area. His talk focused in particular on how space in the city is reproduced, people are excluded and profit accumulated.
