Some of the most interesting moments at the Situated Urban Political Ecology (SUPE) Workshop has been the process of (1) building ways of understanding of cities that takes differences seriously, and (2) picking lessons from different contexts. Great ideas coming through, with overlapping questions like how do we mobilize political theory to understand urban environments, and what is the best way to instigate conversations across diverse cities? How do we negotiate of social identity and the collective in the work on Urban Political Ecology? Are there better methodologies and approaches in achieving this? How do we deal with key problems between research and policy gap? The workshop also reflected on finding common vocabulary, negotiating the situtatedness of theory and practice, as well as positionality, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. There were also some broad discussions about how ideas from the Global South could travel and inform wider push and re-definition of urban issues. Namwase Sylvie
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:10:07 +0000