(Zusammenfassung in Englisch)
The Urban Salon is a London-wide network exploring international and comparative urban issues. In this panel, Pushpa Arabindoo, Catalina Ortiz, Monika Streule and Lisa Tilley will bring together insights from scholarship and urban experiences from different contexts (India, Columbia, Mexico and Indonesia) to explore the challenges and openings for decolonising urban studies. (How) can the terms of knowledge production in urban studies be transformed, to support the possibility of a decolonised and global urban studies?
- Pushpa Arabindoo: Decolonising as an ‘ontological turn’: An ethnographic theorisation from Chennai
- Monika Streule: Decolonialism is a practice
- Catalina Ortiz: Mestizo Urbanism: decolonial insights for urban studies
- Lisa Tilley: Speculative Wastelands and the Contradictions of ‘Use’ in Jakarta
- Chair: Jennifer Robinson
Invited lecture at the Urban Salon at UCL Urban Lab, December 6 2018, London
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