Διάλεξη με τίτλο "Cities in Global Capitalism" του Ugo Rossi [27/11/2017]
Σας ενημερώνουμε ότι τη Δευτέρα 27 Νοεμβρίου 2017 και ώρα 18:30 θα πραγματοποιηθεί στο Αμφιθέατρο Α.008 του κτιρίου Αβέρωφ η διάλεξη με τίτλο "Cities in Global Capitalism" του Ερευνητή Πολιτικής και Οικονομικής Γεωγραφίας του Πανεπιστημίου του Τορίνο Ugo Rossi.
Ακολουθεί μια μικρή περίληψη της διάλεξης, λίγες πληροφορίες για τον ομιλητή και επισυνάπτεται η σχετική αφίσα.
In the current ‘urban age’, cities are omnipresent in debates over the present and future of capitalist economies and societies. Why have the fates of cities and capitalism become so inextricable in times of globalization? Ugo Rossi’s presentation, which is based on his latest book Cities in Global Capitalism (2017), revolves around this key question, providing an updated overview of the intricacies of today’s city-capitalism nexus, which looks at its multiple driving forces – financialization, entrepreneurship, the housing sector, consumption, technology, the sharing economy – as well as at its internal contradictions and political possibilities.
Mobilizing a Marxian-Foucauldian biopolitical perspective on contemporary urbanism, the author shows how the capitalist logic has come to encompass the entirety of city life. In doing so, he illustrates how cities, particularly after the Great Recession of the late 2000s, reflect the life-oriented construction of global capitalism in both negative and affirmative ways. Engaging in style, this text produces a vivid portrait of the global urban condition, and its characteristic ambivalence, within an increasingly turbulent world economy.
Ugo Rossi is a senior researcher in political and economic geography at the University of Turin, Italy. In Cities in Global Capitalism (2017, Polity, Urban Futures series) he offers a biopolitical understanding of the city-capitalism nexus in the global age. His new co-edited book (with Theresa Enright) entitled The Urban Political. Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism (Palgrave) will come out late this year. He has co-authored the book Urban Political Geographies. A Global Perspective (2012, with Alberto Vanolo) and he is co-editor of the book forum section of the academic journal Dialogues in Human Geography and a member of the Euronomade collective (http://www.euronomade.info/).
