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Humanity’s Urban Future
Conferences The Conference “City as a Southern Question”, organised by the Calcutta Research Group (CRG) on 13-14 November 2024 in Kolkata, in collaboration with Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, University of Naples Federico II, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and several other universities and institutes, was designed as a writer’s workshop. It had presentations of research articles by the contributing authors for an upcoming edited book volume titled ‘City as the Southern Question’ (Routledge, forthcoming). The contributing authors as well as editors presented their research and participated in the discussions both online and in physical sessions in Kolkata. There were also presentations by participants selected from a pool of 100 odd applications received through a call for proposal earlier in 2024. The Conference was conceptualised to re-situate and revisit cities in the South in a rapidly globalising, urbanising world and to re-investigate the North-South relations. Large Southern urban concentrations as islands of industry, services and development are working at the same time as giant branches of Northern corporate capital, determining the grotesque, unbalanced structure of Southern economies. Their role as logistical hubs, which is why they are often port cities, is therefore no accident. The Conference attempted to unfold the myriad facets of Southern urbanisation, from port cities, steel cities, trading towns, railway towns to smart cities, tourism hubs, capital and logistical cities. The Conference aimed at discourse on cities and the questions that need to be asked and thought of by taking into consideration Gramsci’s ‘The Southern Question’, extended through sub-themes such as Transitioning City and Expanding Urban Worlds; Work, Entrepreneurship, Urban Economy; Conflicts and Protests in Urban Spaces; Urban Planning and Urban Future(s); Urban Health; City, Refugees, Migrants and the Stateless; Urban Violence and Justice; City, Climate Change and Sustainability; Representations of the City in Literature, Films, Plays and Popular Culture; Making and Unmaking of Cities, and more. for details... CLICK HERE
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