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Newsletter December 2019
Centre for Urban Studies
Newsletter December 2019
NEWS
Open Calls - Seed Grant and Seed Grant XL
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
Relevant NWO calls
Relevant NWO calls
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. This podcast is produced by Carolina Maurity Frossard, Anastasiya Halauniova, Elisa Fiore and Sarita Jarmack.

Episode 1 and 2 are now live!
In the first episode Justine Laurent talks to Anastasiya Halauniova about peeing in the city. As you’ll hear, peeing is political and not all bodies are offered the same conditions for this basic – and often urgent – human need. 
Episode 2 is all about Amsterdam sounds and soundscapes. Is Amsterdam a loud city? Also, what does it mean to be a loud city? Is it all about the decibels, or are other factors also shaping whether or not an urban sound is heard as a pleasure or a nuisance? Listen to our conversation with urban sociologist Edda Bild and find out!

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
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
  • 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
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
UPCOMING EVENTS
Masterstudio 2019
Masterstudio: The Common City?
How can planning promote and regulate urban commons? What are the new frontiers of the urban commons? What infrastructures and architectural forms do the commons require and produce? How will urban governance adapt to the challenges of commoning? The yearly Masterstudio (13-18 January 2020), organized by Federico Savini and Zef Hemel, will address these questions in order to rethink planning processes towards principles of commoning.

On Wednesday 15th, the Studio will host a public debate at Pakhuis de Zwijger, at 19:30 (see website of Pakhuis de Zwijger)

All days are open to external participants. Please register by sending email, contact information and professional address to n.detmar@uva.nl
> For more information and the program
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
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
Other recent Working Papers
> Selling black places on Airbnb: Colonial discourse and the marketing of black communities in New York City
> Lifestyle enclaves in the Instagram city?
　
> On the stickiness of territorial stigma: diverging experiences in Amsterdam’s most notorious neighborhood
> The suburbanization, segregation and changing geography of different forms of poverty in Dutch metropolitan regions
Recent Publications
F. Savini
The economy that runs on waste: accumulation in the circular city

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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