Taking her recently published book Ethnography of Urban Territories (2018) as a starting point for this Talking Points Seminar, Monika Streule invites exploration and discussion of the experimental, critical and self-reflective use of differing methods in today’s urban studies.

Programme 

Oct 10

6-8pm, IAS Common Ground

IAS Turbulence: Helen Margetts on 'Political Turbulence'

Oct 10

6-8pm, Gustave Tuck LT, UCL

Book Launch: 'Preventing Palestine' Dr Seth Anziska

Oct 11, 6-8pm, IAS Common Ground

IAS Book Launch: Shanghai Sacred

Liz Hingley, Dr Katherine Swancutt, and Dr Clare Melhuish Chaired by Professor Claire Dwyer

Oct 12,

4-7pm, IAS Common Ground

IAS Book Launch: Keywords for Today

Marc Alexander, John Mullan, Lynne Murphy, Terttu Nevalainen, Antoinette Renouf, Louise Sylvester 

Oct 16

6-8pm, IAS Common Ground

IAS Talking Points: Towards a Citizen’s Atlas of London

Prof Phil Cohen (IAS Senior Visiting Research Fellow) Respondents: Professor Muki Haklay (UCL) and Professor Ben Campkin (UCL)

Oct 17

6-7pm, IAS Forum

IAS Film Screening: Tsukiji by Allan Sekula

Oct 19

6-8pm, IAS Common Ground

IAS Lies Public Lecture Series: Akram Zaatari

Oct 24

6-8pm, IAS Common Ground

IAS Book Launch: Approaching the Sea - Allan Sekula’s Fish Story

Steve Edwards, Tamar Garb, Jonathan Stafford, Andrew Witt

Oct 29

5.30-8pm, IAS Common Ground

The Agora Europe Series on the European Political Space #5: Brexit and Migration

• Satvinder Juss (King’s College),
• Lorenzo Marsili (Diem25),
• Niccolo Milanese (European Alternatives),
• Chantal Mouffe (University of Westminster),
• Simone Oggionni (Articolo 1 MDP),
• Andrea Pisauro (Oxford Psychology),
• Marina Prentoulis (The University of East Anglia/Another Europe is Possible),
• Uta Staiger (UCL European Institute),
• Francesco Tava (University of the West of England),
• Albert Weale (UCL Political Science),
• Jonathan White (LSE)

Oct 30

6-7.30pm, Room tbc

Building the Dream by Lonnie Bunch

chaired by Professor Tamar Garb (Director of the IAS) closing remarks by David Lammy (Member of Parliament)

25 October 2018

1:15pm to 2:45pm,  

African Studies Seminar: Ini Dele-Adedeji on Known unkwowns and unknown unknowns

The UCL African Studies Seminar welcomes Ini Dele- Adedeji from SOAS for the second seminar of the Autumn Term: 'Known unkwowns and unknown unknowns: perception, reality, and disputation in the field of study on Boko Haram.'

13 November 2018

7pm to 9pm,

IAS Talking Points Seminar: Doing Mobile Ethnography

We are delighted to welcome Dr Monika Streule (IAS Visiting Research Fellow) for her talk: 'Doing Mobile Ethnography: Following the Metropolitan Urbanization Processes of Mexico City.' Respondents: Professor Haim Yacobi (The Bartlett DPU, UCL) 

13 November 2018

 7:30pm to 9pm,

Comparative Moods: Language, Diversity and Kinship in a Changing World

Comparative literature departments and programmes in the United Kingdom are often located within units of – broadly conceived – modern languages and cultures. Our symposium wishes to shed light on this complex disciplinary framework by exploring 

Tue 13 November 2018

18:00 – 20:00 GMT

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Taking her recently published book Ethnography of Urban Territories (2018) as a starting point for this Talking Points Seminar, Monika Streule invites exploration and discussion of the experimental, critical and self-reflective use of differing methods in today’s urban studies. Deriving from an intense empirical and theoretical commitment to the urban question in Mexico City since 2005, the book offers on the one hand a compelling close look at everyday life in this metropolis and literally invites us to roam the streets of Mexico City. On the other hand, it also suggests a novel interpretation of urbanization processes by focusing on inherent but often underrepresented power relations in the production and appropriation of urban territories. One of the main concerns of the book unfolds around the question of how qualitative-empirical methods, such as ethnography or qualitative mapping, can be adapted in order to explore contemporary urban conditions. Dr Streule seeks to contribute to current debates by proposing a socio-territorial perspective and by introducing specific methodological design of a mobile ethnography that enables qualitative analysis of large and heterogeneous urban territories. By suggesting different representations of the urban, she thus emphasizes how important it is to entangle empirical and theoretical conceptualizations transductively in order to further decentre urban knowledge production.

Streule, Monika (2018) Ethnografie urbaner Territorien. Metropolitane Urbanisierungsprozesse von Mexiko-Stadt. aus der Reihe Raumproduktionen: Theorie und gesellschaftliche Praxis Band 32. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot. ISBN: 978-3-89691-294-7

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