Dear all,
We are organising a session at the upcoming RGS IBG Annual International Conference 2024 titled: "Decolonising Urban Futures: Mapping alternative socio-spatial narratives from the Global South". Please send your paper title, abstract (250 words max.), email address and affiliation to Dr. Nian Paul at [log in to unmask] by 29 Feb 2024.
About the session:
For centuries, colonialism and imperialism have functioned as systems of spatial organisation on both global and local scales (King 1989), leaving enduring legacies that continue to present significant urban challenges today. Contemporary efforts to address social (Oyewùmí 2011; Bonnett 2002; Stam and Spence 1983) and environmental injustices (Adger et al. 2001; Gilberthorpe and Rajak 2017) in cities through urban planning and environmental management often trace back to colonial and neo-colonial practices (Ha and Schneider 2016; Zwischenraum Kollektiv 2017). These practices include reliance on infrastructure-intensive solutions to urban issues and an extractivist worldview. Informed by a universal approach to knowledge production (Said, 1978), contemporary city-building tends to overlook the diverse social, temporal, and spatial continuities and discontinuities shaped by colonial legacies. This tendency results in generalizations about 'non-Western' urban forms (cf. Bishop et al., 2003; King, 2004; McFarlane, 2006a; Robinson, 2006), effectively erasing the perspectives of the 'other' in the urban production process (Bhambra 2014).A radical decolonising approach to (re)imagining cities can be a critical apparatus for recovering the voices and experiences of communities that allows for transgressing discourses of progress and universality on which colonial urban planning and design were founded.
The session invites papers from diverse disciplines to examine and explore alternative urban futures using decolonial lens. Topic of interests include but not limited to:
Public spaces and informal practices
more-than-human and co-existence
Decolonising methodologies
Mapping alternatives through pedagogy
(in)equitable urban futures
Sense of place and belonging
Socio-spatial practices and changing relations
Socio-economic and political conflicts
Informality and social innovation
Top-down governance , planning and design
Narratives of negotiations of change in place/space
Cultural history, practices and rituals
Best,
Nian Paul
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