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 […]
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 […]
State repression and social movements: the case of Abahlali and recent Brazilian uprisings
‘State repression and the Right to the City in South Africa: the story of the shack-dwellers movement of South Africa’ S’bu Zikode and ‘Brazilian uprising: Police violence diffusion and the update of the internal enemy’ Matheus Grandi S’bu Zikode, founder of the ‘shack-dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa Matheus Grandi, Visiting Researcher in Leeds, Contested Cities Brazil […]
