Collective identities, governance and empowerment in megacities

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Titre

Collective identities, governance and empowerment in megacities

Sujet

, aménagement urbain, gouvernance, mégapole, politique urbaine, identité, conflit urbain, architecture, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine

Description

Organisers' description :

The Eighth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality on “Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities” took place from 11 – 16 June 2008.

An international essay competition was organized in summer/autumn 2007 to address and to analyze issues relating to different forms of urban fragmentation and processes of identity (re-) configuration. Competition participants were also invited to explore best practices by state, municipal and civil society actors to cope with corresponding conflicts and difficulties and to reflect on new civilizing arrangements resulting from civic engagement in the urban context.

In response to the call for papers, the Foundation selected 45 young(er) scholars to participate in three workshops and panel discussions held at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and the Humboldt-University Berlin.

Social structures in megacities workshop :

Mariana Cavalcanti - “From Shack to House to Fortress: The Favela Dwelling as a Total Social Fact"
Zvikomborero Theodore Chadambuka - “Urban Dwellers and Politics: The Case of Operation Murumbatsvina, Harare, Zimbabwe”
Neslihan Demirtaş - “The Impacts of Neoliberal Policies and Identity Politics on Low Income-Settlements in Turkey: The Case of Boğaziçi Gecekondu Neighbourhood of Ankara”
Alberto Martin Di Peco - “Crossing Greater Buenos Aires with Rallyconurbano”
Yannan Ding - “Handling Emergency in Megacities: A Case of South China under Snow Storm in 2008”
Ajay Gandhi - “Vernacular Citizenship and Everyday Governance Amongst India’s Urban Poor”
Esther Hérnandez-Medina - “A Tale of Two Cities: Mexico City, São Paulo and the Chances for Citizen Participation in Latin America’s Megacities”
Clarissa Huguet - “Uncontrolled Urban Growth and COAV – Is There a Relationship between Rapid Urban Growth and the Involvement of Children and Youth in Armed Violence?”
Astrid Ley - “Moving Targets as a Coping Strategy: Re-thinking Emergent Patterns and Relations of Organized Urban Poor Groups”
Colin McFarlane - “Sanitation in Mumbai’s Informal Settlements: Governance, Infrastructure and Cost-Recovery”
Oliver Schwedes - “Mobile Cities - Reinventing Urban Mobility”
Daniela Vicherat Mattar - “Urban Planet, Walled World: Questioning the Nature of the Urban Bond”
Penny Weller - “The Modernity of Megacities: Echoes in History, Power and the Politics of Difference”
Felix Wemheuer - “Governing the Body of the Peasant Worker in China’s Cities: Dangerous Sexual Desires of the ‘Other’ in the Official Discourse” Urban conflicts, identities and architecture workshop: Eşref Aksu - “Towards A Cosmopolitan Identity?: Globalisation, Urbanisation, and Social Transformation”
Felicitas Becker - “’Floating Populations’ and Ideological Innovation in African Cities”
Synnøve Bendixsen - “Islam as a New Urban Identity? Young Muslims in Berlin”
Matias Sendoa Echanove - “Master Cities & Defiant Neighborhoods”
Bianca Freire-Medeiros - “Empowerment through Tourism? Notes from a Favela with a View”
Luise Heidenreich - “Collective Memory, Identity and Place Making in Reunified Berlin”
Lalit Khandare - “People’s Voices in Democratizing Cities: A Case of Mumbai”
Sabrina Krank - “Cultural, Spatial and Socio-Economic Fragmentation in the Indian Megacity Hyderabad”
Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka - “Dynamism of Conflict in Kano: Response to a Threatened Identity”
Vladimir Rouvinski - “A Trouble in the Heavens: Human (In)security, Identity and Fragmentation in Cali, Colombia”
Monika Salzbrunn - “Translocal Urban Spaces: Negotiating Legitimacy through Festive Events”
Thomas Soehl - “Ethnic Difference and Scale: Locating the City”
Aleksandra Stupar - “Hatching the Ugly Ducklings of Globalization, Megacities between Visions and Illusions”
Deniz Yonucu - “From Workers to Criminals: Marginalization and Criminalization of the Urban Poor Populations of Istanbul” Urban governance and city planning workshop : Matthias Bernt - “Informal Urbanisation, Self-Organisation and ‘Socialism of the 21st Century’: The Caracas Experiment”
Christopher Capozzola - “The Devolution of Disaster: Popular Politics and Regional Governance in Metropolitan Manila”
Shiuh-Shen Chien - “‘Urban Governance, Chinese Style - A Perspective of Asymmetric Decentralization“
Daniela Coimbra de Souza - “Governance challenges in metropolitan areas: the case of the industrial ABC Region in São Paulo, Brazil"
Pramita Harjati Budihardjo - “Urban Poor Community Empowerment through Environmental Improvement and Income Generation Initiatives: North Jakarta, Indonesia”
Sandra Kürten - “’Không dấm lên cỏ’ – ‘Do Not Step on the Grass’. Assessing State-Society Relations in Urban Vietnam”
Matthieu Lietaert - “Cohousing: Flexible Village-Like Communities inside Big Cities”
Elena Nechaeva - “Interethnic Harmony and Governmental Policy in the City-State of Singapore”
Ifeanyi Onwuzuruigbo - “Cities, Insecurity and the Rise of Ethnic Vigilant Organisations in Nigeria”
Urmi Sengupta - “Assessing Four Pillars of Housing Reform in Kolkata: A Zero Sum Situation”
Alfonso Valenzuela-Aguilera - “Spaces of Trust: Crime, Surveillance and the Social Control of Space in Latin American Megacities”
Tara Van Dijk - “The Need for Ethnographic Reconnaissance in Urban Governance Studies”
Michael Waibel - “Mega-Urban Growth, Informality and the Issue of Governability: Towards Theorising Specific Informal Dynamics in a Wider Context”
Christian Wuttke - “Intercity Competition in China’s Pearl River Delta”

Créateur

Multiple authors

Éditeur

Irmgard Coninc Stiftung

Date

11 - 16 June 2008

Format

Type

Autre

Identifiant

http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/index.php?id=117