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AESOP ANNUAL CONGRESS 2025

7–11 Jul 2025
Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul
Europe/Istanbul timezone

Session

SS_08 TRANSFORMATIVE PLANNING ACTIONS FROM THE SOUTH: NEGOTIATING THE PAST FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES

SS8
8 Jul 2025, 16:00
E1-01 (YTU Davutpasa Campus)

E1-01

YTU Davutpasa Campus

Conveners

SS_08 TRANSFORMATIVE PLANNING ACTIONS FROM THE SOUTH: NEGOTIATING THE PAST FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES

  • Christine Mady (Aalto University)

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  1. 2013. Beyond Erasure: Alternative Understandings of Colonial Legacies in Urban and Rural Spaces
    Dr Kundani Makakavhule (University Of Pretoria)
    08/07/2025, 16:00
    SS 08 | Transformative planning actions from the South: Negotiating the past for alternative futures
    Oral

    Colonial histories persist in contemporary urban and rural landscapes through processes of erasure, resistance, and re-imagining. This presentation examines case studies from several countries in the Global South. Cases from Mumbai, Argentina, Ecuador, Malaysia, and South Africa, reveal how communities contest the ongoing entanglements between coloniality and contemporary spatial...

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  2. 1985. Modern, Restorative, Sustainable? Examining Neo-colonial Urbanism and Commons in the Global South
    Dr Ailen Suyai Pereyra (CONICET Córdoba - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina), Dr Cecilia Mercedes Quevedo (CONICET - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
    08/07/2025, 16:10
    SS 08 | Transformative planning actions from the South: Negotiating the past for alternative futures
    Oral

    Cities in the Global South are experiencing profound processes of urban renewal that, like to capitalism, need to be understood in their inherent dualities and tensions. These processes involve transformations that simultaneously produce and destroy, accumulate and dispossess, and oscillate between dominant narratives and dissident practices. This paper examines three neighbourhoods in the...

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  3. 2032. Decolonial Strategies for Urban Greenery – Initiating Change in Urban Landscapes
    Meeri Pitkänen
    08/07/2025, 16:20
    SS 08 | Transformative planning actions from the South: Negotiating the past for alternative futures
    Oral

    Environmental degradation is a severe challenge in the rapidly expanding cities in the Global South. Amidst the uncontrolled urban growth in low- and middle-income countries, a tendency prevails to follow the same environmentally destructive pathways and mindsets that the wealthier colonial powers have laid out in the past. The greatest obstacle is the mindset of contemporary societies: lack...

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