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Humanity’s Urban Future
Online Course
Calcutta Research Group (Kolkata, India) and Thammasat University (Bangkok, Thailand) will jointly conduct an online orientation course on the ‘City of our Time’ under the specific theme, ‘Making and Unmaking of Cities’. This online certificate course will be held in February-March 2025. It will have fourteen lectures (two lectures per one day a week) encompassing accounts of making and unmaking of cities in South Asia and Southeast Asia, issues of urban autonomy and sovereignty, struggles for rights and urban justice, as well as dominant stories that cities tell of themselves. Some of the discussions will be anchored in a political-economy perspective throwing light on forms of labour in global South, which include cities of South and Southeast Asia. These cities as urban centres have always been sites of dispossession, eviction, migration, statelessness, relocation, forcible assimilation, mega projects, rising homelessness, and struggles for political reclamations. The online course will explore the process of urbanisation ideologically, sociologically, economically, and politically - cities that have been built and rebuilt in the wake of violence, epidemics, climate disasters, modernisation and planning, cities that are “futuristic” and smart, cities of refuge and creativity, cities expanding and containing their complexities and tensions, cities bulldozed and recreated, cities home to crime and labour mobilisation, cities trapped in narratives of tragedy, decline as well as progress, encountering their own fetishization, vanishing and mushrooming. "Making and Unmaking of Cities" is an online course designed to present radical engagements with urbanity and it’s excess. |
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