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Julian Agyeman (Department Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, USA)08/07/2025, 09:00Oral
In his talk, Julian will outline the concept of 'just sustainabilities' as a response to the ‘equity deficit’ of much sustainability thinking and practice. He will explore his contention that who can belong in our cities will ultimately determine what our cities can become. He will illustrate his ideas with examples from urban planning and design, food justice and the ‘Minneapolis Paradox’.
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Ayda Eraydın (The Middle East Technical University)08/07/2025, 09:30
As the ideological frameworks of post-neoliberalism and post-modernism approach their endpoints, we find ourselves in a transitional phase, a period Antonio Gramsci described as the interregnum, where the old order is dying but the new has yet to be born. This in-between moment, marked by uncertainty and disorientation, also holds the paradoxical potential for transformation. Contemporary...
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Federico Savini (University of Amsterdam)09/07/2025, 09:00
Green growth is currently the dominant paradigm in spatial planning. This approach equates living standards with economic wealth and assumes that technological innovation can reconcile the increase of financial wealth with ecological targets. However, it is increasingly evident that green growth fails to achieve social and ecological objectives. Today, growth aggravates, rather than...
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Yuri Kazepov09/07/2025, 09:30Oral
In the last decades, we witnessed the development of a relatively new line of research on the role of welfare policies addressing the social consequences of the ecological crisis and of the green transition. Concepts such as sustainable welfare, just transition, or and eco-social justice, have been used to portray the challenges ahead and the need for a paradigm shift. The urgency to challenge...
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