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SUMMARY:Planetary Urbanization and the Right to the City - Dr Andy Merrifi
 eld\, Murray Edwards College\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Charlie Barlow
DESCRIPTION:In 1989\, Henri Lefebvre voiced the hypothesis that the right 
 to the city was nothing more than a "new revolutionary concept of citizens
 hip." He implied revolutionary citizenship is not a right: it has to be ta
 ken\, recreated anew\, struggled for—not rubber-stamped. Today's revolut
 ionary citizens are citizens without rights\, disenfranchised urban citize
 ns the world over. Revolutionary citizens carry _SHADOW PASSPORTS_. Our sh
 adow passports express a citizenship waiting in the wings\, a solidarity h
 aunting the mainstream\, floating through frontiers\, across designated ch
 eckpoints\, sometimes even straying between academic disciplines. For hold
 ers of shadow passports\, homeland securities and border control agencies 
 know nothing about our true identities\; and official maps rarely tell us 
 where to go: they’re useless in helping us re-orientate ourselves\, in h
 elping us find ourselves\, in helping us discover one another. This paper 
 investigates\, and tries to put a fresh spin on Lefebvre right to the city
  thesis and on the possibilities for participatory democracy.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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