Programm​

Programm:

Donnerstag, 25.10.2018

• Ab 16.30: Tagungsregistrierung im „Liebesbier“
  
• 18.00: Begrüßung
• 18.15: Key-Note-Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Padraig Carmody (Dublin): „Pathways to generative Urbanism: Insights from South Africa“
• Ab 19.30: Empfang mit Craft-Bier & Finger-food

Freitag, 26.10.2018

• 9.00-12.00: Vortrag-Session I (und Kaffee) (H6)
• 12.00-13.15: Mittagspause (Mensa)
• 13.15-14.15: Prof. Dr. Jörg Gertel (Leipzig): "Geographische Entwicklugsforschung zwischen gesellschaftlicher Relevanz und Bedeutungslosigkeit?" (H6)
• 14.30-16.45: Interaktiver Workshop „Fluchtursachen“ und Entwicklung – Sprengstoff für die Geographische Entwicklungsforschung? (Andreas Gemählich (Msc), Prof. Dr. Detlef Müller-Mahn, & Dr. Nadine Reis - Bonn) (S23)
• 16.45-17.15: Kaffeepause
• 17.15-18.15: Key-Note-Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Fred Krüger (Erlangen): „A Right to the City: Just and Inclusive Cities from African and Global Perspectives” (H6)
• Ab 19.30: Abendessen im Fränkischen Wirtshaus Oskar am Markt

Samstag, 27.10.2018

• 9.00-10.00: Key-Note Vortrag von Dr. Antje Daniel (Wien):  „Locating the Right to the City in Social Movement Research: Social Movements and Urban Resistance in the Global South” (H6)
• 10.30-12.30: Vortrag-Session II (S23)
• 10.30-12.30: Workshop "Citizenship & The City" moderiert von Fabian Schwarz, MA & Prof. Dr. Beate Lohnert (S25)
• 12.30-13.30: Wrap-up (H6)

Keynotes:

• Prof. Dr. Padraig Carmody (Dublin): „Pathways to generative Urbanism: Insights from South Africa“

One of the legacies of apartheid in South Africa is extreme uneven development. This is a result not only of market or private sector led processes, but also state engineering. Under apartheid one mechanism of “deconcentration” was forced removals of “non-whites”, sometimes to new industrial growth points, such as Atlantis in the Western Cape. With the withdrawal of subsidies with the end of apartheid many manufacturers based in Atlantis closed down or withdrew. However, there is now an attempt to revive this flagging industrial centre through a designation as a “green-tech special economic zone” in 2018. Based on primary fieldwork this paper seeks to interrogate the nature, continuities and contradictions of this incipient urban redevelopment. Using a socio-technical regimes perspective it seeks to understand the drivers of this project and whether or not it constitutes a potential pathway towards generative urbanism for the region.

Pádraig Carmody lectures in Development Geography at TCD, from which he holds both a B.A. in Geography and History and M.Sc in Geography. He completed his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Minnesota in 1998, where he was a MacArthur Scholar. Subsequently he taught at the University of Vermont, Dublin City University and St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. He also worked as a policy and research analyst for the Combat Poverty Agency in 2002-3. He is currently a visiting associate professor in the Department of Geography, Energy and Environmental Management at the University of Johannesburg. His research centres on the political economy of globalization in Africa. He is Chair of the Masters in Development Practice and was lead author on the only successful grant proposal in Europe to the MacArthur Foundation in the first round to get seed funding for the programme. He has consulted for the Office of the President of South Africa, amongst others. He is a former editor of Irish Geography and sits on the boards of Political Geography, African Geographical Review, Politics and Development in Contemporary Africa (Zed Books) and Geoforum, where he was previously editor-in-chief. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal Transnational Corporations, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

• Prof. Dr. Fred Krüger (Erlangen): "A Right to the City: Just and Inclusive Cities from African and Global Perspectives"

Rights-based and citizen-oriented approaches to investigating, and creating, just and inclusive cities have gained huge momentum in recent years. However, while citizenship and “just city” issues are broadly discussed in urban contexts in the “West” or “Global North”, they have hitherto largely been underexplored in sub-Saharan African cities. Do Western/Northern notions of a right to the city match the realities of everyday urban lifeworlds in sub-Saharan Africa at all? This keynote attempts to shed some light on current debates but is, by no means, meant to offer solutions for a better understanding of inequity and ruptures in urban sub-Saharan Africa. Its purpose is to stimulate discussion about the usefulness of existing rights-based concepts, and to reflect about knowledge gaps and promising pathways towards a more just, citizen-based urban living environment in sub-Saharan Africa.

Fred W. Krüger is Full Professor of Geography at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. His research and teaching interests, committed to cross-disciplinary approaches, focus on Development Geography and on Urban Studies. Major research fields in the Development Studies arena cover linkages between culture(s) and risk, with a focus on theoretical approaches and the empirical, actor-oriented analysis of poverty (especially in cities), vulnerability, livelihood security, and disaster prevention and preparedness. A regional focus lies on southern Africa. In Urban Studies, he specialises in issues of the „just city“ and the „right to the city“, in urban planning and urban everyday cultures, and the social production of urban public spaces. Current research and teaching activities focus on interlinkages between culture (in its broadest and non-essentialistic sense), human action, the environment, risk and disasters. AfriCity, a major BMBF/DAAD funded project, looks into linkages between adaptation, livelihoods, risks and the right to the city in Sub-Saharan African cities. Research projects funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) investigate into the impact of HIV/AIDS on human livelihoods and society in Botswana. Smaller-scale studies include „Urban Coolture – Why some urban places are hip and others are not“. 

• Dr. Antje Daniel (Wien): „Locating the Right to the City in Social Movement Research: Social Movements and Urban Resistance in the Global South”​

​We are witnessing a shift in the human rights discourse from a transnational to a local human rights advocacy over the recent years. This shift goes along with the expanding growth of local mostly urban human rights initiatives, local protest groups and prefigurative politics which increasingly complement the global human rights movement with pressure from below. The exclusion caused by neoliberal politics and at places where the state is not sufficiently present social movements and other local initiatives claim for fundamental rights such as housing. Thus, the human rights claims increasingly rely to local engagement of the citizens rather than trickling down of the global human rights achievements. This localization of human rights also has implications for understandings of national politics and citizenship, as the relation between the citizens and the state is always context related just as strategies of social movements or creative forms of prefigurative politics are reactions to local urban crisis. In parallel, social movement research continuously recognises the role of the particular context for analysing protest in the so called global South. Social movement theory has emerged mainly in the US and Europe. Thus, the question arises as to whether these approaches are appropriate for an understanding of protests of citizens and prefigurative politics in the global South. The presentation draws form social movement research and discusses how social movement research can be applied and revised against the backdrop of rising local claims of social movements in the cities of the global South and the diverse forms of prefigurative politics as expressions of localizing the global human rights discourse.

Antje Daniel is a substitute professor in development studies at the Department of Development Studies at the University of Vienna. Before she was research assistant and postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Development Sociology at the University of Bayreuth. She is also substitute professor in sociology at AKKON University of Applied Sciences in Humanities in Berlin. Her research interests encompass political sociology, social movements, gender and feminist theory, and utopia. Her recent research project “Aspiring to Alternative Futures in Times of Crisis: Protest and Utopian Communities” focuses on South Africa. In her PhD dissertation at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, she worked on women’s movements in Kenya and Brazil from a comparative view.

Diskussionsbeiträge und Workshops:

Prof. Dr. Jörg Gertel (Leipzig): Geographische Entwicklungsforschung: Zwischen gesellschaftlicher Relevanz und Bedeutungslosigkeit? (Diskussionsbeitrag)

Mit dem Arabischen Frühling (2011) begannen in verschiedenen Ländern Nordafrikas und im Nahen Osten politische und gesellschaftliche Transformationsprozesse, deren Ausgang noch nicht absehbar ist, die jedoch bereits jetzt tiefgreifend in den europäischen Alltag wirken. Dabei spielen junge Menschen der Region eine zentrale Rolle. Auch sieben Jahre später fordern sie weiterhin einen gleichberechtigten Zugang zu Politik, gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe und Arbeit. Mit diesen Forderungen stoßen sie jedoch immer wieder auf Grenzen und erfahren Widerstand. Der Vortrag stellt die Ergebnisse einer Studie der Friedrich Ebert Stiftung vor, in deren Verlauf 2016/2017 über 9.000 jungen Menschen zwischen 16 und 30 Jahren aus Ägypten, Bahrein, Jemen, Jordanien, Libanon, Marokko, Palästina, Syrien und Tunesien in aufwändigen Face-to Face Interviews befragt wurden. Die Ergebnisse sind Anlass für drei weiterführende Fragen: 1. Welche Verantwortung tragen wir und andere Akteure des globalen Nordens an der aktuellen Situation? 2. Wie wird sich der weitere Mittelmeerraum in Zukunft entwickeln? 3. Welche Aufgaben kommen der Geographischen Entwicklungsforschung zu?

Andreas Gemählich (Msc), Prof. Dr. Detlef Müller-Mahn, & Dr. Nadine Reis (Bonn): "Fluchtursachen" und Entwicklung: Sprengstoff für die Geographische Entwicklungsforschung? (Workshop)

Im Rahmen der sogenannten “Flüchtlingskrise” rückt neuerdings Entwicklungspolitik stärker ins Zentrum des öffentlichen Diskurses, wenn auch unter dem umstrittenen Schlagwort “Fluchtursachen bekämpfen”. Eckpunkte dieses neuen Paradigmas wurden 2017 im Marshallplan mit Afrika des BMZ festgelegt. Wie ist diese Neuorientierung der deutschen Entwicklungspolitik aus Perspektive der Afrika- und Entwicklungsforschung zu bewerten? Welche Positionen vertritt die geographische Entwicklungsforschung? Welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich daraus? Diese Fragen sollen in dem interaktiven Workshop diskutiert werden mit dem Ziel, Kontroversen aufzuzeigen und Positionen auszuloten.

Vorträge:

Session I - South America (Freitag 9.00 - 12.00):

Dr. Jan Hutta (Bayreuth): Citizenship in the non-liberal city? Political contestations of gender and sexuality in Rio de Janeiro

Hiram Souza Fernandes (Jena): Urban Social Movements and Their Struggles Towards the ‘Right to the City’. Protest and Creativity as Determinant Features of Democratic Cities in Germany and Brazil

Dr. Sören Weißermel (Kiel): Refusing their “proper place” –
 The struggle for recognition and citizenship in the context of the Belo Monte Dam (Brazil)

Dr. Andreas Benz & Niklas Völkening (Augsburg): Right to the city and urban development in Havana

Session II - Africa & Asia (Samstag 10.30 - 12.30):

Judith Müller (Heidelberg): The Role of Modernity and Citizenship in „Hygienizing“ Leh Town, Ladakh

Dr. Festus Boamah (Bayreuth): Seeing like a ‘modern Ghanaian‘ electricity user: a social geography of (mis)recognition in electricity provision in Ghana

Julian Rochlitz (Bonn): Assembling an SMS-based weather forecast for smallholders in western Kenya: iterative adjustments and the translation of meteorological science into short messages

Paddy B. Kinyera (Bayreuth): Land Claims as Alternative Expressions of Petro-citizenship in Uganda