Veranstaltungen
Urban Studies and Centre of African Studies, Basel
Veranstalter:
PRECURBICA Project and Swiss Society for African Studies.
International Workshop: "Liquid Urbanisms in Africa: Thinking Climate Adaptation with and through Water"
Faced with rising sea levels, cities across the globe are being remade to confront the threat of water. Using water as a way of seeing through, with and about climate-related urban issues, this workshop invites a critical examination of the urban/water interface in African coastal cities, particularly in the context of climate change.
The workshop, co-organized by the PRECURBICA project (Precarious Urbanism in Coastal Cities in Africa) and the Swiss Society for African Studies, aims to bring together urban planning and critical social theory by exploring the diverse ways African urban communities are adapting their lives and environments to climate change induced changes (e.g. rising sea level; extreme climatic events etc.) in coastal areas. Through a focus on various real-world examples based on in-depth qualitative empirical research, including but not limited to the practices of street-level bureaucrats, fishing communities, home-builders, residents’ associations and city planners, the workshop seeks to uncover new modes for living in and with the “urban sea”.
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