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Cities of Dignity: Urban Transformations and the Struggle for the City!

Curriculum

  • 10 Sections
  • 40 Lessons
  • 10 Weeks
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  • Section 0: Welcome and how the course works
    3
    • 1.1
      Module 1: Welcome
    • 1.2
      Module 2: How the Course Works
    • 1.3
      Module 3: Course Overview
  • Section 1: The Urban Question – Cities, Capitalism, and the Right to the City: Framing the City as Terrain of Struggle and Liberation
    7
    • 2.1
      Module 0: Introduction
    • 2.2
      Module 1: What is the Urban Question? Cities, Capitalism, and the Global Architecture of Power
    • 2.3
      Module 2: Accelerated Imperialist Wars and the Crisis of Global Capitalism
    • 2.4
      Module 3: Right to the City – Theory and Praxis
    • 2.5
      Module 4: Occupy and the Reclaiming of Urban Space: From Protest to Possibility: The Urban as a Space of Struggle and Transformation
    • 2.6
      Module 5: Reflecting on Your City
    • 2.7
      Quiz: Section 1
      5 Questions
  • Section 2: Urban Commons – Reclaiming Land, Space, and Infrastructure, Municipalism in Practice
    6
    • 3.1
      Module 0: Introduction
    • 3.2
      Module 1: What Are Urban Commons? Concepts and Foundations
    • 3.3
      Module 2: Reclaiming Land and Housing – Commons in Action
    • 3.4
      Module 3: Municipalism and Urban Governance
    • 3.5
      Module 4: Mapping and Reimagining Commons in Your City
    • 3.6
      Quiz: Section 2
      5 Questions
  • Section 3: Everyday Economies – Markets, Currencies, and Social Reproduction
    6
    • 4.1
      Module 0: Introduction
    • 4.2
      Module 1: Community Currencies and Economic Autonomy in Kenya
    • 4.3
      Module 2: Informal Markets and Resistance in San Roque, Ecuador
    • 4.4
      Module 3: Migrant Streets, Collective Power – Top Manta and the Urban economy of Barcelona
    • 4.5
      Module4: Social Reproduction and Feminist Economies
    • 4.6
      Quiz: Section 3
      5 Questions
  • Section 4: Reclaiming Territory – Urban Resistance, Anti-Racism, Care, and Collective Life
    5
    • 5.1
      Module 0: Introduction
    • 5.2
      Module 1: Black Resistance and the Reclaiming of Territory in Brazil
    • 5.3
      Module 2: Community-Led Urban Planning in Bhuj, India
    • 5.4
      Module 3: Mapping Territory, Memory, and Resistance in Your City
    • 5.5
      Quiz: Section 4
      5 Questions
  • Section 5: Coloniality and the Postcolonial City
    5
    • 6.1
      Module 0: Introduction
    • 6.2
      Module 1: Theorizing the Colonial City: For whom is the city a border?
    • 6.3
      Module 2 Margins of the Metropolis: Colonial Urbanism and the Struggle for Place in Makoko
    • 6.4
      Module 3 Unmaking Empire, Remaking the City – Reflecting on Decolonial Urbanism Where You Are
    • 6.5
      Quiz: Section 5
      5 Questions
  • Section 6: Decolonial and Liberation Urbanism – Black Radical Approaches on Turtle Island (United States)
    5
    • 7.1
      Module 0: Introduction
    • 7.2
      Module 1: Cooperative Models and Solidarity Economies
    • 7.3
      Module 2: Decolonizing Production – Incite Focus, Detroit Fab Lab
    • 7.4
      Module 3: Sounding the Future – Afrofuturism, Culture, and Urban Resistance
    • 7.5
      Quiz: Section 6
      5 Questions
  • Section 7: Crisis and Rupture – COVID-19, Climate, War and the Urban Future
    5
    • 8.1
      Module 0: Introduction
    • 8.2
      Module 1: Street Justice in a Pandemic: Top Manta’s Mutual Aid Response to COVID-19 in Barcelona
    • 8.3
      Module 2: Climate Is Colonial: Indigenous Perspectives from Aotearoa
    • 8.4
      Module 3: Tikkīyahs in Gaza: Mutual Aid Under Siege
    • 8.5
      Quiz: Section 7
      5 Questions
  • Section 8: Building the Urban Future – Municipalism and Translocal Solidarity
    5
    • 9.1
      Module 0: Introduction
    • 9.2
      Module 1: How Urban Struggles are Connected on the Global Scale?
    • 9.3
      Module 2: Transnational Solidarity for Radical Urban Transformation
    • 9.4
      Module 3: Fearless Cities – Translocal Hope, Local Power and Global Contradictions
    • 9.5
      Quiz: Section 8
      5 Questions
  • Course Recap
    1
    • 10.1
      Urban Struggles, Global Futures: Course Recap and Reflections
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Debates

Debates Industrial Politics

Webinar: The Transformation of Industrial Politics

Sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Global Working Group Beyond Development. Monday, July 28, noon Register here Industrial policy is largely state-led and state-focused. […]

Debates Industrial Politics

Webinar: The Future of Industrial Policy

sponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Global Working Group Beyond Development. July 8, 10 am EST Register here Over the last decade, mainstream […]

Debates Green Colonialism

Webinar on The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism: Global Justice and Ecosocial Transitions

As the ecological and climate crisis deepens, the Global North has put forward (false) solutions such as renewable energy, electric cars, carbon trading, and green […]

Debates Debts and Reparations Gatherings

[2023] Debts and Reparations (Jackson)

We are daughters for freedom, we are cimarronas, we are the Mississippi, the Cauca, the Magdalena, the Atrato… we are happy and rebellious caribbeans, we […]

Debates Gatherings Just Transition

[2022] Just transitions (Dakar)

Between the ecological modernization of capitalism and the multi-crisis: how to build the eco-social transformation the world needs? The Global Working Group Beyond Development[1] met […]

Debates Democracy

Commenting on “Revolutionary Immanence?”

by Aram Ziai The article is a highly interesting piece which demonstrates the author‘s familiarity with the theoretical debate about anti-capitalist revolutions as well as […]

Democracy

Commenting on “Revolutionary Immanence?”

by Aram Ziai The article is a highly interesting piece which demonstrates the author‘s familiarity with the theoretical debate about anti-capitalist revolutions as well as […]

by Giorgos Velegrakis
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Revolutionary immanence? Exploring the political idea of social movements

by Giorgos Velegrakis

Can social movements democratise democracy?

by Maxime Combes

Soumitra Ghosh’s “Revolutionary Immanence? Exploring the Political Idea of Social Movements”

by Giorgos Velegrakis

On reading Esteva’s ‘Beyond the Democratic Nation-State’

by Ariel Salleh

Just Transition

[2022] Just transitions (Dakar)

Between the ecological modernization of capitalism and the multi-crisis: how to build the eco-social transformation the world needs? The Global Working Group Beyond Development[1] met […]

What mark have the Yellow Vests left on French democracy?

“For the democratic production of democratic societies” – Lessons from the transition from social-movement-driven to state-legislated consultations on extractive projects in Peru

On the Cusp: Reframing Democracy and Well-Being in Korchi, India

[2016] Overcoming the Development Imperative (Brussels)

Gatherings

Debates Debts and Reparations Gatherings

[2023] Debts and Reparations (Jackson)

We are daughters for freedom, we are cimarronas, we are the Mississippi, the Cauca, the Magdalena, the Atrato… we are happy and rebellious caribbeans, we […]

Debates Gatherings Just Transition

[2022] Just transitions (Dakar)

Between the ecological modernization of capitalism and the multi-crisis: how to build the eco-social transformation the world needs? The Global Working Group Beyond Development[1] met […]

Debates Gatherings Just Transition

[2016] Overcoming the Development Imperative (Brussels)

Given the highly uneven dynamics of global capitalism and the constantly occurring crises in many regions of the world, the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels Office, invited to a first meeting to enhance a transnational exchange of global and local problems as well as resistances and alternatives.

Alternatives in a World of Crisis Debates Gatherings

[2017] Alternatives in a World of crisis (Quito)

FROM STOPPING THE MACHINES OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL DESTRUCTION, TO THE BUILDING OF ALTERNATIVE WORLDS: RETHINKING OUR STRATEGIES FOR SOCIAL CHANGE Jun 15th, 2017 by Raphael Hoetmer From […]

Debates Gatherings Urban Transformation

[2018] Urban Transformations (Barcelona)

URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS AROUND THE WORLD The book Cities of Dignity: Urban Transformations Around the World (July 2020) is the third publication of the Global Working […]

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