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SUMMARY:Public lecture: The fugitives - blackness as urban method - Profes
 sor AbdouMaliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism\, Max Planck In
 stitute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)
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DESCRIPTION:As part of the Distinguished Visitors Scheme\, Professor Abdou
 Maliq Simone (Professor of Sociology and Urbanism\, Max Planck Institute f
 or the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) will be visiting the Depar
 tment from Tuesday 3rd to Thursday 5th November 2015.\n\nAbdouMaliq Simone
  is one of the leading urbanists of our time. He has shown repeatedly how 
 misleading is the characterisation of 'failed cities' across Africa and So
 uth-East Asia by revealing the sustaining relations\, networks\, and struc
 tures enabling life in the most precarious of city landscapes. Working ext
 ensively in and at the edges of cities such as Douala\, and Dakar\, in Jed
 dah\, Johannesburg\, and Jakarta\, Simone has crafted uniquely creative me
 thodological engagements at the interface of planning and postcolonial stu
 dies\, urban policy\, global studies\, and critical theory as well as a cr
 itical analytics for comprehending 'rogue urbanism' and the 'cities yet to
  come'.\n\nIn this lecture\, Simone will address the question "What is the
  'common sense' of cities?". With so much attention today focusing on sma
 rt urban government to cope with global uncertainty and turbulence\, where
  should we place the very concrete efforts that constructed the city\, wit
 h all the layers of physical and cultural memory that new regimes usually 
 attempt to cover-up or suppress?  Invoking blackness as an analytical met
 hod\, these questions are addressed through thinking about how long histor
 ies of urban practices deployed by Black residents of cities across the wo
 rld might challenge and reinvent the sense of an urban commons.
LOCATION:Large Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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