
“Homeless, moving margin” – Joan Uribe and Carla Rivera
Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
Perifèries Urbanes participates on May 19th at 6.00 p.m., along with other ICA working groups. Prior registration is required.
This conference will take place on May 13th and will be organised by the research groups Perifèries Urbanes and Cultura Popular i Conflicte (ICA).
This IV edition of the course Ethnographic Methods in Planning Research is part of the emerging debate on the contributions of ethnographic studies to architectural research.
Four days of debate in La Cinètika, a squatted social space in the neighborhood of Sant Andreu, Barcelona
“Promise and failure of infrastructure.” Article in the framework of the symposium of the Congrès Català d’Antropologia (COCA 2022).
Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
Perifèries Urbanes participates on May 19th at 6.00 p.m., along with other ICA working groups. Prior registration is required.
This conference will take place on May 13th and will be organised by the research groups Perifèries Urbanes and Cultura Popular i Conflicte (ICA).
This IV edition of the course Ethnographic Methods in Planning Research is part of the emerging debate on the contributions of ethnographic studies to architectural research.
Four days of debate in La Cinètika, a squatted social space in the neighborhood of Sant Andreu, Barcelona
In 2014 some residents of Burgos fought a battle against the project of a boulevard planned to cut through their neighborhood. The conflict was so harsh that the City Council had to suspend the project.
It was a scandal when the UK opposition proposed to take over empty buildings to house survivors of Grenfell fire. But in the past politicians already adopted this kind of measures to face the housing crisis; obviously, forced by the squatting movement…
Three interesting events this September: European Housing Action Camp in Lisbon from 21st to 25th, Right to the City Camp in Prague from 27th to 29th, Yimby festival in Boston from 20th to 23rd!
John F. C. Turner (*1927) is an English architect known for its engagement with the study and practice of self-construction. He was influenced by Patrick Geddes and anarchism, he studied in London’s Architectural Association, and very soon developed an interpretation of planning and architecture that does not overlook the relationship with its users
“Emidio di Treviri” is a working group performing research action in the areas hit by the 2016-2017 earthquake in central Italy. They are showing how the political management of post-catastrophe housing, consumption, health, are increasing social inequalities to the point of creating a social earthquake, even worse than the real one.
“The aim is not to heal a sick space, but to free it from its evil condition: to save it. Urban space must be regenerated, its vices turned into virtues, its inhabitants redeemed from sin. The real enemy is not disorder, chaos, or poverty; the real enemy is the devil […]
Neighborhoods are the collective ability of people to acknowledge the existence of the other. No surprise they are constantly under attack. With them, also the knowledge they represent are attacked, and the words and concepts that in neighborhoods are born and grow.
Presented initially at II COCA, Universitat de Girona, January 2022 as part of the panel on Promise and Failure of Infrastructures
CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 2nd CATALAN CONGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY.
Sur Desarrollo Journal. Collaboration of Camila Méndez.
OACU research seminar. Thursday June 3rd at 18.30h.
This conference will take place on May 13th and will be organised by the research groups Perifèries Urbanes and Cultura Popular i Conflicte (ICA).
From September 12 to 14 a conference on urban activism in Harvard will debate on the links between urban struggles and research activities.
Last June 24th four activists for housing were arrested in São Paulo, Brasil, while seventeen others linked to the movement for squatting were put under arrest; fifteen more are threatened of detention. The arbitrariousness of the operation is another signal of the steady drift towards fascism of the state of […]
War and urban renewal mingle
in south-eastern Turkey, where the government wages its war against the kurdish movement also through the demolition of traditional neighborhoods and the displacement of residents in huge public-housing blocks.
Boston has today the highest income divide of the US: evictions invariably hit latinos or afroamerican neighborhoods. City Life / Vida Urbana since the 1970s keeps building a network of mutual aid among those who suffer the consequences of these housing policies, also through the use of theater, rituals, symbols.
The anthropologist Ye LIN invites us to look at the demolition of a neighborhood in Nanjing – very near to the spot in where the Youth Olympic Games were held in 2014. Ye studies the impact on the residents of the whole process, also highlighting how our idea of “community” influences the way we judge this kind of interventions.
What happened to these young men that were so celebrated in 2011, the main actors of the so-called ‘arab springs’? In recent years we only hear news about politicians, leaders, terrorists… but what about normal people, where have they been? The answer is simple: in their neighborhoods. In Hay Hlil, in Oukacha, in Hezbet el Haggana, where there is the same anger and frustration that there was before the protests.
On the occasion of the opening of “Australian ‘Ndrangheta”, webpage of a UCL research group of which our friend Stephen BENNETTS is a member, we propose a series of interesting videos and texts from the other corner of the world, on topics such as the expulsions of Aboriginese from native lands and urban neighborhood as Sydney’s Redfern.
Mindy Fullilove calls “root shock” the trauma suffered by 1600 Afro-American communities displaced from the city centres of the US since 1949. In her book “Root Shock” (2004) she uses the metaphor of transplantation, a trauma after which, if repeated, many plants can’t recover. Even the transition from the pleasure of jazz, born in the old ghettos, to the anger of rap, product of the new peripheries, is a manifestation of root shock; it is a trauma for those who suffer it, and for society as a whole.
We have been long aware that urban planning, in itself, has something to do with colonialism. But we hadn’t still found a perspective so complete as the one developed by the Australian urbanist Libby PORTER, who studies urban planning as an instrument for spatial exclusion of the aboriginal population: urbanism as a complement and continuation of colonization.
As opposed to the orientalist stereotypes depicting Kathmandu (Nepal) as a place out of time and of the world, the social reality of Nepal reveals an admirable vivacity. Artists and intellectuals participate in this debates, contributing to make it a laboratory of postsecularism and “multiple modernities”.
Seminarios OACU – Antropología del Conflicto Urbano:
¿Cómo cambia la ciudad? ¿cómo reaccionamos los habitantes a las transformaciones de nuestro entorno? El Grupo de Trabajo de Periferias Urbanas del Instituto Catalán de Antropología pretende buscar formas de abordar las dinámicas de modificación del paisaje humano que acompañan las transformaciones del paisaje urbano, es decir, las ciudades. Estando allí, en las periferias, es decir lejos de los centros de poder; creando vínculos nuevos con sus habitantes; intentando comprender, explicar, describir, siempre en dirección de una aplicación práctica y pública del conocimiento.
El proyecto Repensar Bonpastor y nuestro grupo de trabajo han sido reseñados por Denise Lawrence-Zuniga en American Anthropologist vol.114, sept.2012, pp.526-527. Bajar PDF del artículo :: un interesante episodio
Beltrán Roca nos ha mencionado en Libre Pensamiento, n.71, primavera 2012, como un ejemplo de "la antropologia anarquista que casi existe". Pau Vidal también habla brevemente de Perifèries Urbanes en Vilaweb.
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