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Newsletter November 2019
Centre for Urban Studies
NEWS
Open Calls - Seed Grant and Seed Grant XL
Two new calls for Seed Grant proposals are now open. In this round, the Centre for Urban Studies will launch a round of regular Seed Grants (€2.500) to support and facilitate research initiatives of CUS’ research staff, both permanent and temporary. Additionally, in this round, we are launching a special round of Seed Grants XL (two grants of €10.000 each).
The application deadline is 6 December 17.00. 
> Find the full call online
Alexander von Humboldt Lecture Series 2019-2020
A new series of Alexander von Humboldt Lecture Series has started!

In this series Radboud University Nijmegen will be exploring the affective dimensions of urban public spaces. Beginning by reframing the public spaces of cities as spaces of affect and emotion, they will focus on how integration is a matter of how urban experience is patterned, lived and organised. Problems of integration, exclusion, disintegration, fragmentation as played out in the public space of our future cities can only be understood and effectively dealt with if we also take these material and affective aspects into account.

Speakers
  • Steve Davies, Project for Public Spaces (PPS), New York, USA
  • Prof. Janine Dahinden, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Prof. Sophie Watson, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
  • Prof. Ben Anderson, Durham University, UK

For more information on the lectures and location please click below
> More information and registration
Postdoctoral Researcher
The Centre for Urban Studies and the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies (GPIO) are currently inviting applications for a postdoctoral researcher in Urban Studies and Urban History to study existing and historical forms of commoning in urban public space in the project Common Spaces? A long-term study of the use of public spaces in Amsterdam, 1880 to the present, supervised by Prof. Robert Kloosterman and Dr. Claartje Rasterhoff.
> More information and application
The City Unfinished Podcast
Brought to you by an enthusiastic group of podcasting newbies, The City Unfinished is a podcast experiment that brings together urban researchers and residents around the political practices, tensions and challenges shaping our cities today. Its point of departure is the urban as a process; one that is continuously sharpening and shifting the tools and approaches we use to make sense of it. In this podcast, some of the less travelled analytical routes into this process are explored through informal interviews and open discussions, in which no-one has the figurative last word.

The series kicks-off with a three-episode season focused on the embodied dimension of urban politics in Amsterdam, the city where we - Carolina Maurity Frossard, Anastasiya Halauniova, Elisa Fiore and Sarita Jarmack - are based.

Listen to the podcast on Spotify, Itunes or Soundcloud!

This podcast made possible by a Seed Grant awarded by the Centre for Urban Studies.
> Read a CUS blogpost on this podcast
Trainings for the Not-Yet
Community-to-community trainings, with artists, organizers, activists, dancers, cooks, and more.

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht, announces Trainings for the Not-Yet, a project convened by artist Jeanne van Heeswijk. An exhibition that unfolds through a series of trainings in civic engagement, radical collectivity, and active empowerment, the project brings together collaborators from various fields and communities to create and practice alternative imaginaries of being together in the face of the pressing emergencies that shape the world today.

Those researchers interested in institutions and community change through activism click below to check out the training sessions with a.o. David Harvey.
> More information and training programme
Call for Applications: Institute for the Geographies of Justice 2020
Antipode's 8th Institute for the Geographies of Justice: Housing Justice in Unequal Cities.

In partnership with the Housing Justice in #UnequalCities Network, the Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA, and La Hidra Cooperativa in Barcelona, the Antipode Foundation will convene the 8th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ) from June 15 to 19, 2020, in Barcelona, Spain. In keeping with the mandate of Antipode, IGJ 2020 will take up questions of research and scholarship in radical geography. In addition, this Institute will focus on the theme of housing justice. Learning from housing justice movements in Catalunya and Spain, and strengthening housing justice as a field of inquiry through theory and methodology, the Institute will pay close attention to the relationship between radical geography and social justice struggles.

IGJ 2020 is open to doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and recently appointed junior faculty (normally within three years of appointment) who have a demonstrated interest in housing justice.

Application deadline:
Applications are due by January 10, 2020. Click below to apply.
> Apply here
Reconceptualising Urban Politics
Territories, interests and institutions of European Cities in the 21st Century.

On the 16th of October, Jennifer Robinson presented her vision for urban theorisations which emerge from and speak to the diversity of urban experiences across the world at Pakhuis de Zwijger. CUS members Justus Uitermark and Virginie Mamadouh reflected and reacted on Robinson's presentation. If you were unable to attend the event, you can rewatch the presentation and discussion by clicking on the link below.
> Rewatch 'reconceptualising urban politics'
Royal Honour
Royal Honour
On Friday the 18th of October during his valedictory lecture, professor Sako Musterd, former CUS director, was knighted as Member in the Order of Oranje Naussau. He has been awarded this honour for his outstanding work in urban geography and for being an authority within his discipline.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Masterstudio 2019
21 November | Seminar International Experiences of Self-Building
Join us for an exclusive seminar where international experts in the field of self-build share their knowledge and discuss current debates within the field of self-build on three different continents.

ARCAM will host an international seminar on self-build experiences in the context of the exhibition The Right to Build with professionals from Latin-America, Africa and Europe. Self-build experiences in the North and the South could hardly be more different. Yet, the underlying tension of economic and social-cultural drivers are very well comparable and generate lessons of experience in both directions. The seminar positions the commissioning role of the inhabitants vis-à-vis the economic powers that capitalise on the growth of cities, on the one hand, and the social and cultural powers of the urban population claiming the right to the city on the other. Inhabitants cooperate and organise to mobilise public and political support against economic exclusion.

Programme and speakers

  • 15.00-15.20: Willem Salet (University of Amsterdam)
    The Right to City: A Framework to Compare International Self-build Experiences
  • 15.20-15.40: Camila D’Ottaviano (University of São Paulo)
    My LifeMy House- Entities Program
  • 15.40-16.00: Nicky Pouw (University of Amsterdam)
    Self-building in Contested Spaces: Livelihoods and Productivity Challenges of the Urban Poor in Africa
  • 16.00-16.20: Ledio Allkja (POLIS University, Tiranë (Albania)
    From Neighbourhood Self-regulation to City-Building
  • 16.20-16.40: Suzana Pasternak (University of São Paulo)
    The Institutionalization of Self-Build Programs in Brazil and Latin-America
  • 16.40-17.00: Debate with the audience
    Moderated by Stan Majoor (Hva) and Daniël Bossuyt (UvA)
Date: 21 November 2019
Time: seminar programme from 3 to 5 pm / exhibition open from 1 pm
Location: ARCAM Amsterdam Architecture Centre
Address: Prins Hendrikkade 600, 1011 VX Amsterdam
Tickets: € 7,50
> More information and registration
Exhibition | The Right to Build - Self-Build between Dreams and Reality
All over the world, people are building their own homes. Sometimes this stems from a strong personal desire, at other times it follows from necessity. The Right to Build presents a snapshot of iconic, diverse types of self-build which have manifested themselves in Amsterdam and Almere in the past ten years. These initiatives are mirrored with international examples from the same period. The exhibition focuses on the tension between personal initiatives and regulations.

The exhibition was created on the initiative of the University of Amsterdam, partly funded by the Centre for Urban Studies, and arranged with the help of René Boer and Mark Minkjan (Failed Architecture).

Exhibition date: 28.06 – 08.12.2019
Location: the Amsterdam Architecture Centre.
> More information
PHD DEFENCES
The Urban Auditory Experience
The Urban Auditory Experience
On the 6th of November, from 14.00 - 15.00, Edda Bild will defend her doctoral thesis 'Understanding the Urban Auditory Experience: linking uses, users and environments'.

All are welcome at the Agnietenkapel!
WORKING PAPER SERIES
(Re)inventing single living: Tokyo share houses as commodified, individualized sharing
In context of increasing housing market pressures and an international swell in the formation of non-family households, especially among younger-adults, this paper examines share house (shea-hausu), an increasingly popular form of private rental housing in Tokyo. This study is framed in relation to shifting socioeconomic and demographic conditions affecting single, young Japanese adults, their aspirations and life-courses, as well as forms and practices in Japanese housing.
> Read the paper
Dark Disneyfication: Staging Authenticity on Airbnb
Urban areas around the world are currently seeing a surge in tourists on the hunt for “real urban experiences” with New York City, and in particular Brooklyn, providing the most emblematic example of these trends. This taste for urban authenticity has linked up with the simultaneous rise of urban digital platforms, such as Airbnb, effectively cater to this form of tourism by providing access to residential homes in areas outside of urban centers, adding a sense of being integrated in the everyday urban fabric. In this new Working Paper, Petter Törnberg identifies a number of themes in how both reviewers and hosts partake in staging and performing “new urban tourism”, which simultaneously shapes an imaginary of what is meant by urban authenticity.
> Read the paper
Recent Publications
A. Nikolaeva, M. te Brömmelstroet & J. Ranson
Smart cycling futures: Charting a new terrain and moving towards a research agenda

M. Hoekstra
Placing self and Other: Imaginaries of urban diversity and productive discontent

Y. van Leynseele & M. Bontje
Visionary cities or spaces of uncertainty? Satellite cities and new towns in emerging economies

L. Bertolini
Bridging the Implementation Gap

L. Chiappini 
Conclusion: Enabling Alternative Urban Futures

E. Grassiani
Mobility through Self-Defined Expertise: Israeli Security from the Occupation to Kenya 

I. Roex & F. Vermeulen
Preemptive measures against radicalization and local partnerships in Antwerp 

L. van de Kamp
Women and the Afro-Brazilian Pentecostal War in Mozambique

M. Stapper & M. van der Veen
Consultants as intermediaries: Their perceptions on citizen involvement in urban development 

Y. Tzaninis
Cosmopolitanism beyond the city: discourses and experiences of young migrants in post-suburban Netherlands

F. Vermeulen, M. Kranendonk & L. Michon
Immigrant concentration at the neighbourhood level and bloc voting: The case of Amsterdam 

D. Zandbergen & J. Uitermark
In search of the Smart Citizen: Republican and cybernetic citizenship in the smart city

M. Glaser, M. te Brommelstroet & Luca Bertolini
Learning to build strategic capacity for transportation policy change: an interdisciplinary exploration

L. Mügge, M. Kranendonk & Floris Vermeulen
Migrant votes ‘here’and ‘there’: Transnational electoral behavior of Turks in the Netherlands 

M. Bontje
Shenzhen: satellite city or city of satellites? 
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