The lecture series focuses on how political-economic relations shape and constrain policies aimed at promoting urban sustainability. The lectures bring together scholars who have examined urban sustainability across scales from the local to the global and further to the planetary and problematized the “methodological cityism” of urban studies. The lectures also highlight the importance of examining urban sustainability dynamics beyond Eurocentric contexts and including themes such as racial capitalism into inquiries about urban sustainability.
The lectures are open to the members of the university community as well as to the general public. The lecture series is also available as a study module for Tampere University students, and the course registration is already open on SISU. Students taking the lectures as a credit-yielding option present essays on the theme at a student mini-conference at the end of November.
If you are participating, please note that the lectures are followed by a wine&snacks receptions for informal discussions. To avoid waste, please sign-up for the receptions on the Postcape researh project website.
Schedule
21.9. 16–18 (Paavo Koli Hall, Pinni A): Daria Krivonos (University of Helsinki) on Ukrainian migration, racial capitalism and labour
12.10. 16–18 (Paavo Koli Hall, Pinni A): Özlem Celik (University of Helsinki) on The political economy of green urban development
26.10. 16–18 (Paavo Koli Hall, Pinni A): Derek Ruez (Tampere University) on The politics of compassionate urbanism
2.11. 16–18 (Paavo Koli Hall, Pinni A): Ville Kellokumpu (University of Oulu) on The violent abstractions of ’the urban’: From a depoliticized urbanism towards a political economy of space
16.11. 16–18 (Paavo Koli Hall, Pinni A): Mika Hyötyläinen (Uppsala University) on From welfare cities to property cities: The political economy of public real estate
30.11. 15–19 (Paavo Koli Hall, Pinni A): students’ miniseminar
The lecture series is sponsored by STUE action grant.
More information: Course coordinator Mikko Poutanen, mikko.poutanen@tuni.fi.