EUROPE
II Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes: Mirades a l’organització col·lectiva
05/12/2023
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12 i 13 de desembre
Entrada lliure
Patience and promise: See the trains pass over a bridge
11/06/2021
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“Promise and failure of infrastructure.” Article in the framework of the symposium of the Congrès Català d’Antropologia (COCA 2022).
‘Sacar al pájaro’. Stigmatization and public space in Besós, Barcelona – José Mansilla
31/05/2021
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Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
“Homeless, moving margin” – Joan Uribe and Carla Rivera
26/05/2021
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Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
“La intifada del Besòs, 1990. From exploitation to exclusion” – Manuel Delgado
21/05/2021
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Excerpt from the presentation made in the framework of the “I Jornades de Marges i Perifèries Urbanes”.
Workshop of the ICA’s research groups: Multiple approaches, alliances and perspectives from anthropology.
16/05/2021
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Perifèries Urbanes participates on May 19th at 6.00 p.m., along with other ICA working groups. Prior registration is required.
First Conferences on Margins and Urban Peripheries
09/05/2021
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This conference will take place on May 13th and will be organised by the research groups Perifèries Urbanes and Cultura Popular i Conflicte (ICA).
IV course on Ethnographic methods in planning research
28/01/2021
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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.
Gentri-Fric-Acció, debates in Barcelona
13/11/2019
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Four days of debate in La Cinètika, a squatted social space in the neighborhood of Sant Andreu, Barcelona
Five years since the conflict in Gamonal
10/07/2019
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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.
They died because they were poor
24/09/2018
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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…
Camping in September
17/09/2018
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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!
Auto-construction: for an autonomy of housing
04/09/2018
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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
The second earthquake
31/07/2018
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“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.
All cities are possessed
16/02/2018
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“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 […]
WORLD
Stop the genocide!
28/11/2023
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The members of the working group Perifèries Urbanes of the Catalan Institute of Anthropology (ICA) express their deepest solidarity with the Palestinian people, suffering 75 years of illegal colonialism by the state of Israel, and request all Catalan and European academic institution to suspend their collaboration with Israeli universities, until […]
Zero rating and the infrastructure of political (mis)communication in Brazil – Raquel Rennó and Juliana Novaes
24/02/2022
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Presented initially at II COCA, Universitat de Girona, January 2022 as part of the panel on Promise and Failure of Infrastructures
Symposium “Promise and failure of infrastructure: technologies in everyday life” – COCA2022
17/06/2021
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CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS TO THE 2nd CATALAN CONGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY.
Infrastructure and water: Community management of aqueducts in San Bernardo (Colombia)
15/06/2021
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Sur Desarrollo Journal. Collaboration of Camila Méndez.
Spirits of the diaspora: Ritual and urban space between Casablanca and Barcelona – Stefano Portelli
30/05/2021
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OACU research seminar. Thursday June 3rd at 18.30h.
First Conferences on Margins and Urban Peripheries
09/05/2021
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This conference will take place on May 13th and will be organised by the research groups Perifèries Urbanes and Cultura Popular i Conflicte (ICA).
A conference on urban research and activism in the US
03/08/2019
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From September 12 to 14 a conference on urban activism in Harvard will debate on the links between urban struggles and research activities.
Criminalization of the housing movement in Brazil
25/07/2019
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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 gentrification in Kurdistan
17/10/2016
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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.
City Life Vida Urbana: How evicted turn into activists
23/03/2016
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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.
Life in the ruins of old Nanjing
30/10/2015
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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.
El Haouma, that is, the neighborhood
09/06/2015
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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.
Sydney, a (post)colonial city
22/11/2014
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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.
Root shock: how the destruction of black communities hurt the US
01/04/2014
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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.
Unlearning the colonial roots of planning
28/12/2013
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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.