[oberlist] ES* cfp/conf: From CONTESTED_CITIES to global urban justice - critical dialogues

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http://contested-cities.net/congreso2016/en/home/

The CONTESTED_CITIES CONFERENCE will be a forum of radical academics,
practitioners and activists from different theoretical, disciplinary and
geographical backgrounds coming together to probe the multiple forms of
urban injustice that shape cities across the world. Cities have always
been contested spaces in which struggles over different political visions
of urban development, planning and life take place; yet urban contestation
is increasing. In recent years this has been manifested through austerity
urbanism, crisis politics and processes of financialisation. Millions of
urban citizens are experiencing dispossession, displacement and expulsion
on a daily basis; their ‘right to the city’ has been denied by diverse
forms of neoliberal and authoritarian urban governance. At the same time
there is growing global resistance and counter-strategies to these
injustices, varying in form, scale and approach. The conference will
develop counter-dialogues and perspectives, fighting against these
injustices, in an attempt to think beyond neoliberalism.

The Conference will take place in Madrid (Spain). This city is at the
heart of radical urban struggles; the centre of the 15-M movement. 15-M’s
urban and anti-capitalist demands shook the obsolete Spanish
party-political system, creating a laboratory of contestation. Such new
urban initiatives challenge the established order, and provide radical
insights into alternative practices of everyday life. The conference will
hear from first-hand experiences of this and other struggles for urban
justice.

The Conference will be structured around the following five streams:

Concepts for critical urbanisms – Beyond the new global urban question

The global urban housing question

New regimes of expulsion – shedding light on the violence of displacement

New forms and limits of gentrification

The New Urban Alternatives- Social Movements, Their Socio Spatial
Practices and the Use of Visual Methodologies


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