The Urbanscapes cluster of WUR’s Centre for Space, Place and Society invites you to two exciting lectures on 5 and 6 June 2024 by visiting scholars Mary Lawhon (Edinburgh) and Nate Millington (Manchester). Working at the cutting-edge of urban geography, infrastructural studies, and urban political ecology, their talks problematise the widely-held aspiration of modern water infrastructures, like piped networks and reservoirs, to provide miraculous ‘technofixes’ to water insecurity or floods and droughts in (peri)urban spaces of the global South. The speakers draw on longstanding research in (South) Africa and Brazil, and contribute to the decentering of the formal-informal infrastructural divide, as well as to possible future infrastructure (modest) imaginaries in the (peri)urban spaces. The sessions will have ample time for interactive question-answer, and will be followed (in the afternoon) by a PhD and advanced MSc discussion session with the two scholars.
When: 5-6 June, 2024, from 11.00
Where: Speaker’s corner, Impulse Building, Wageningen University
Please register here before May 31st: register here
Please reach out to Sumit Vij (sumit.vij@wur.nl) or Robert Coates (robert.coates@wur.nl) if you have any questions.
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