Cities of Extremes

A preliminary programme.

Monday 15 October

10.30 – 11.00
Opening of the ISS Lustrum Week:
Louk de la Rive Box (ISS Rector)
Gonzalo Ortiz (ISS Alumnus; Quito City Council, Ecuador)

11.00 – 12.30
Mary Racelis (Ateneo University Manila): Claiming a Future from a Problematic Present. Meanings of Urban Citizenship for Slum Youth in Metro-Manila
Abdumaliq Simone (Goldsmiths University London): Remaking Cities, Many Ways at a Time

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.30
Dennis Rodgers (London School of Economics): Slum wars in Central America
Alain Gilbert (University College London): Extreme Thinking about Slums and Slum Dwellers. A Critique

15.30-16.00 coffee

16.00 – 17.30
Daniel Chavez (Transnational Institute): Learning from Latin America: The Global Expansion in Participatory Budgeting
Erhard Berner & Joop de Wit (Institute of Social Studies): Progressive Patronage? NGOs, CBOs and the Limits to Slum Dwellers' Empowerment

Tuesday 16 October

9.00 – 10.30
Asef Bayat (Institute for the Study of Islam/ Leiden University): Radical Religion and the Habitus of the Dispossessed: Does Islamic Radicalism have an Urban Ecology?

10.30-11.00 cofee

11.00 – 12.30
Mona Fawaz (American University in Beirut): Neo-liberal Urbanity: A View from Beirut’s Peripheries
Ayse Pamuk (San Francisco State University): Residential Settlement Patterns and Path to Homeownership for Migrants/Immigrants in the Global South and the Global North

12.30 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 16.00
Georgina Gomez (Institute of Social Studies): A Tale of Three Markets. The poor, the wealthy and the middle class go shopping in Argentina
Rema Hammami (Bir Zeit University, Palestine): Living with Checkpoints
Sheela Patel (Slum Dwellers International): Claiming Citizenship

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee
16.30 – 18.00 Closing session: What have we learnt?

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Organised by the Institute of Social Studies and the Journal Development and Change.