The city as the southern question

Organizzato da: Into the Black Box
Con: Ranabir Samaddar (Calcutta Research Group), Francesca Governa (Politecnico di Torino), Michele Lancione (Politecnico di Torino), Enrica Morlicchio (Università di Napoli Federico II) e Niccolò Cuppini (SUPSI)

Il seminario intitolato The city as the southern question – un’analisi della vita urbana al di là della prospettiva nord-centrica – analizzerà come le città del Sud del mondo incarnino storie di lotta, disuguaglianza e trasformazione. Da Calcutta a Napoli, scopriremo come gli spazi urbani siano plasmati dalla migrazione, dal lavoro e da geografie contese. Insieme, ripenseremo al significato di «città» in un’epoca di iper-urbanizzazione e solidarietà frammentate.

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“Inspired by Antonio Gramsci’s reflections on the problem of the South, it shows that the question of southern urbanism is about the anomalies and growth of southern cities, the histories of struggles, technological and logistical reorientations, new zoning practices of neoliberal capitalism and the remaking of urban geographies towards a possible urban future that aims to be just. Crucially, it asks whether today’s city is a seamless formation of several overlapping phases of growth or if there is a decisive break today, marked by the hyper growth of these cities. To understand the implications of these questions for visions of an urban future, this volume takes a number of southern cities of Asia and Europe as case studies, including Kolkata, Mumbai, Chittagong, Beirut, Athens, Naples and Marseille. It shows how these cities are paradoxically marked by both fractured geographies and new types of popular mobilisations, solidarities and an ethic of protection and care, showing this to be the core of the Southern question, constituting the urban experience of our time”