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Urban Worlds Workshop: 'Grammars of Urban Injustice'

26th May 2011, 13:45 to 27th May 2011, 17:00, W007, Main Geography Building

Organised by Colin McFarlane & Gordon MacLeod

Day 1: 26th May, 2011

13:45 - 14:00
Introductory remarks: Gordon MacLeod & Colin McFarlane

14:00 - 15:30: Plenary 1
Don Mitchell (Syracuse University): Revitalization, Retrenchment, or the Right to the City? Grammars of Injustice - and Justice - in Shrinking Cities

15:30 - 16:00: Tea and coffee

16:00 - 17:30: Movements, Policy, and Injustice
Margit Mayer (Free University): Comparing right to the city movements across the poverty divide
Rowland Atkinson (University of York): Policy as catharsis: anxiety, frustration and the war on social vulnerability
Colin McFarlane & Gordon MacLeod (Durham University): Writing geographies of (in)justice

Day 2: 27th May, 2011

09:00 - 10:30: Plenary 2
Erik Swyngedouw (University of Manchester): Interrogating Post-Democracy: Reclaiming Equality

10:30 - 11:00: Tea and coffee

11:00 - 12:30: Control, Violence and Contestation
Justus Uitermark (Erasmus University): The dialectic of contention and control in urban and virtual space
Asher Ghertner (London School of Economics): Toward a just aesthetics: Contestations over the "sensible city" in Delhi
Paula Meth (University of Sheffield): Urban immoralities, violence and (un)just claims for justice: women in a changing urban South Africa

12:30 - 13:30: Buffet lunch

13:30 - 15:00: Rhetoric of inclusionary/exclusionary urbanisms
Loretta Lees (Kings College London): The grammar of 'mixed communities': urban injustice and the Aylesbury Estate, London
Tom Slater (University of Edinburgh): The Big Society as a "terministic screen": towards an urban sociology of ignorance
Geoff DeVerteuil (University of Southampton): Does the punitive need the therapeutic? A sympathetic critique of current grammars of urban injustice

15.00 - 15.30: Tea and coffee

15.30 - 17:00 Panel session
Lynn Staeheli (Durham University)
Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge)
Harriet Bulkeley (Durham University)
Patsy Healey (Newcastle University)

Contact r.j.pears@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.

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