Add to ORKGWhat does living in the megalopolis mean and how does the 'uncertainty' the megalopois imposes upon its citizens (infrastructurally or in terms of livehood opportunities) become a driving force in people's lives? This keynote lecture presented some aspects towards a comparative reading of daily life in two of the global south's major megalopolises: Mexico City, 'el monstruo' and KInshasa in an attempt to de-center standard western urban theory.Comité Científico Diane Davis (Harvard) Luis Bojorquez (LANCIS, UNAM) Martha Delgado (Fundación Pensar) Hallie Heakin (Arizona-University) Netzahualcóyotl Vázquez (CESOP) Felipe de Alba (CESOP) Enrique Esquivel (CESOP)status: publishe
The international event ‘African Perspectives’ has been a joint initiative of the Faculty of Archite...
The Centre of Fine Arts (BOZAR) launched the 2016 Summer of Photography in Brussels on the theme ‘Ur...
‘What sort of collective life and what sort of knowledge is to be gathered (...) once modernity has ...
Filip De Boeck presented some results of his ongoing collaboration with photographer and visual arti...
The international conference ‘Urban Property, Governance and Citizenship in the Global South’ was he...
Exploration of the notion of 'suture' to read the city in the Global South in new and alternative wa...
This lecture addressed the tensions between life as lived on the ground by millions of urban residen...
Drawing on ethnographies of divinatory systems and of urban life in Central Africa, this presentatio...
International Conference of the Research Network on Religion, AIDS and Social Transformation in Afri...
For some years now, scholars in a range of fields have been arguing that canonical approaches to urb...
No single political institution controls space. Neither in recent democracies nor in one-party regim...
The text of this lecture is published by Duke University's Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)on its...
Kinshasa, the capital of the DRCongo, is a city that counts amongst the African continent’s largest ...
This presentation offers a reflection on the legacy of colonial modernist architecture in Kinshasa (...
In this selection, from Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne’s Urban Theory Beyond the West (2011) urban anthr...
The international event ‘African Perspectives’ has been a joint initiative of the Faculty of Archite...
The Centre of Fine Arts (BOZAR) launched the 2016 Summer of Photography in Brussels on the theme ‘Ur...
‘What sort of collective life and what sort of knowledge is to be gathered (...) once modernity has ...
Filip De Boeck presented some results of his ongoing collaboration with photographer and visual arti...
The international conference ‘Urban Property, Governance and Citizenship in the Global South’ was he...
Exploration of the notion of 'suture' to read the city in the Global South in new and alternative wa...
This lecture addressed the tensions between life as lived on the ground by millions of urban residen...
Drawing on ethnographies of divinatory systems and of urban life in Central Africa, this presentatio...
International Conference of the Research Network on Religion, AIDS and Social Transformation in Afri...
For some years now, scholars in a range of fields have been arguing that canonical approaches to urb...
No single political institution controls space. Neither in recent democracies nor in one-party regim...
The text of this lecture is published by Duke University's Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)on its...
Kinshasa, the capital of the DRCongo, is a city that counts amongst the African continent’s largest ...
This presentation offers a reflection on the legacy of colonial modernist architecture in Kinshasa (...
In this selection, from Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne’s Urban Theory Beyond the West (2011) urban anthr...
The international event ‘African Perspectives’ has been a joint initiative of the Faculty of Archite...
The Centre of Fine Arts (BOZAR) launched the 2016 Summer of Photography in Brussels on the theme ‘Ur...
‘What sort of collective life and what sort of knowledge is to be gathered (...) once modernity has ...