Workshop "Social Structures in Megacities"
Chaired by
Michael Bommes (Professor of Sociology, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrück University, Germany)
- Mariana Cavalcanti (Anthropology, Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
“From Shack to House to Fortress: The Favela Dwelling as a Total Social Fact"
Download Paper (PDF) - Zvikomborero Theodore Chadambuka (Human Rights Lawyer, Harare, Zimbabwe)
“Urban Dwellers and Politics: The Case of Operation Murumbatsvina, Harare, Zimbabwe”
Download Paper (PDF) - Neslihan Demirtaş (Media and Communication, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey)
“The Impacts of Neoliberal Policies and Identity Politics on Low Income-Settlements in Turkey: The Case of Boğaziçi Gecekondu Neighbourhood of Ankara”
Download Paper (PDF) - Alberto Martin Di Peco (Architect and Journalist, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
“Crossing Greater Buenos Aires with Rallyconurbano”
Download Paper (PDF) - Yannan Ding (Urban Geography, University of Leuven, Belgium)
“Handling Emergency in Megacities: A Case of South China under Snow Storm in 2008”
Download Paper (PDF) - Ajay Gandhi (Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven, USA)
“Vernacular Citizenship and Everyday Governance Amongst India’s Urban Poor”
Download Paper (PDF) - Louis-Patrick Haraoui (Medicine and Anthropology, University of Montréal, Canada)
“The Orientalist’s Sore Biomedical Discourses, Capital and Urban Warfare in the Colonial Present”
Download Paper [password protected] (PDF) - Esther Hérnandez-Medina (Sociology, Brown University, Providence, USA)
“A Tale of Two Cities: Mexico City, São Paulo and the Chances for Citizen Participation in Latin America’s Megacities”
Download Paper (PDF) - Clarissa Huguet (Human Rights Lawyer and Coordinater, Children and Youth in Organized Armed Violence Program, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
“Uncontrolled Urban Growth and COAV – Is There a Relationship between Rapid Urban Growth and the Involvement of Children and Youth in Armed Violence?”
Download Paper (PDF) - Astrid Ley (Architecture and Urban Design, Technical University Berlin, Germany)
“Moving Targets as a Coping Strategy: Re-thinking Emergent Patterns and Relations of Organized Urban Poor Groups”
Download Paper (PDF) - Colin McFarlane (Geography, Durham University, UK)
“Sanitation in Mumbai’s Informal Settlements: Governance, Infrastructure and Cost-Recovery”
Download Paper (PDF) - Oliver Schwedes (Sociology, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany)
“Mobile Cities - Reinventing Urban Mobility”
Download Paper (PDF) - Daniela Vicherat Mattar (Social and Political Science, European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
“Urban Planet, Walled World: Questioning the Nature of the Urban Bond”
Download Paper (PDF) - Penny Weller (Human Rights Law, Victoria University / Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
“The Modernity of Megacities: Echoes in History, Power and the Politics of Difference”
Download Paper (PDF) - Felix Wemheuer (Sinology, University of Vienna, Austria)
“Governing the Body of the Peasant Worker in China’s Cities: Dangerous Sexual Desires of the ‘Other’ in the Official Discourse”
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