Recent years have seen a surge in new urban-based political and social movements, in experiments in local governance, in redefinitions of what it means to be an urban citizen, in innovative forms of protest, activism and grassroots initiatives, as well as in alternative forms of urban living, infrastructural arrangements, and economic practices. At the same time, expanding modernist visions or models of ‘world cities’ are reshaping – and newly dividing – the urban South.

More people now live in cities than outside them, increasingly so in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and many of the major political contestations as well as cultural and technological innovations of the 21 st Century occur in urban settings. This is an exciting moment for studying the urban in its global diversity, both substantively and theoretically, especially drawing on the histories, lived realities, knowledge and perspectives emerging in and through the global South. This course aims to explore several critical theoretical and methodological dimensions of empirically and historically grounded research from and on cities in the global South, that are part of an emerging Southern urbanism challenging older, Northern-driven paradigms that have long dominated urban scholarship and practice. Submission of working paper/chapter: Monday 23 March, 12.00 Specific rooms will be identified later.Ĭourse: 30 March – 1 April 2020 (2.5 days)Īpplication deadline: Monday 2 March 2020, 17.00 The course takes place at the South Campus of the University of Copenhagen, where it is being co-convened by the faculties of Theology (Centre of African Studies) and Humanities (Department of Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies). New applications will be warmly welcomed at that time. The conveners are planning to hold the course at a later date and will re-advertise it accordingly. Southern Urbanism: Exploring Urban Realities, Theories and Research PracticesĬANCELLED / POSTPONED: Due to the coronavirus situation both in Denmark and globally, we have had to cancel the PhD course on Southern Urbanism: Exploring Urban Realities, Theories and Research Practices due to be run at the University of Copenhagen 30 March – 1 April 2020.

Cities of the global south reader