Conveners
SS_08 TRANSFORMATIVE PLANNING ACTIONS FROM THE SOUTH: NEGOTIATING THE PAST FOR ALTERNATIVE FUTURES
- Christine Mady (Aalto University)
- Joumana Stephan
- Ohoud Kamal
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...
The exploration of drivers behind space provision, particularly public space, and the extent to which they are influenced by past (often colonial) ideas and concepts is an area of great interest to Global North and South scholars (Webster, 2007; Carmona et al, 2008; Lara-Valencia & García-Pérez, 2013; Rigolon et al, 2018; Low & Iveson, 2019). This presentation looks at processes of land...
The challenges of urban environments in the Global South are numerous, interlinked, and complex. They include rapid growth, limited resources, poverty and informality, migration, displacement, social exclusion, war and climate change. Moreover, societies globally are undergoing transitions, yet they occur in shorter time spans in the Global South: rural to urban migration, navigating pathways...
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...
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...
