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We are pleased to announce that our graduate conference *Urban Activism:* *Staking Claims in the 21st Century City* will take place on *September 12-14, 2019* at the Barker Center, Harvard University 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 https://urbanactivism2019.org/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urbanactivism2019.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=qNJQo_ARKaJpukTyhvrwM-AOqB1whHKZoE9dlcO61XM&m=sDha0A9w5E7l2Y8lcRugz6qGyrQHU_54oDQKAoV3Sgc&s=mtOJIwWccWP13LOBIp9STYmPouqVUfZCT6_ZI99cGPY&e=> https://www.facebook.com/events/2369503203319833/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urbanactivism2019.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=qNJQo_ARKaJpukTyhvrwM-AOqB1whHKZoE9dlcO61XM&m=sDha0A9w5E7l2Y8lcRugz6qGyrQHU_54oDQKAoV3Sgc&s=mtOJIwWccWP13LOBIp9STYmPouqVUfZCT6_ZI99cGPY&e=> // please circulate! // This conference emerges from the shared need to create a collective discourse on *how critical urban research and urban political activism are increasingly converging* and creating a common field of inquiry and action. It connects scholars in various fields such as planners, geographers, historians, and critical urbanists with activists working on housing rights and the right to urban identity and the city more generally. Together, we will discuss *a number of theoretical, methodological, and practical questions*, including: How shall communities and activists be involved in the production of knowledge? What constitutes the archive and evidence? What possibilities are there to disseminate the knowledge produced? Can scholarship suggest political solutions? Who are the agents of this story? What is the relationship between the state and the market in displacement processes? Can we think beyond the framework of structure and agency? How does ideology make its way into research and action? What is the appropriate scale of analysis? A consideration of cities as different as *Beirut, Istanbul, Athens, Barcelona, Johannesburg, São Paulo, and Boston* sheds light on commonalities that point to a single dynamic operating on a global scale, which is at play in the various distinctive manifestations apprehended at the local level in very different contexts. While a consideration of global, structural transformation can contribute to an understanding of the specificities of every case, the global phenomenon itself cannot be fully captured without *a serious engagement on the local scale* with the social, cultural, economic and political processes in which each specific case is embedded. A global understanding can only contribute to local struggles if it remains attentive to the subjectivity of local communities within their particular context as they experience and think it. *Keynote Speakers:* Professor Michael Herzfeld (Harvard, Dept. of Anthropology), Professor Loretta Lees (Leicester, Dept. of Geography) *Attendance is free of charge.* *For more information*, please contact: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] -- Stefano Portelli Postdoctoral Fellow at Leicester University, Department of Geography affiliate with Harvard University's Department of Anthropology http://napolimonitor.it/la-citta-orizzontale/ http://periferiesurbanes.org ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * To unsubscribe please click here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS&A=1 ***************************************************************