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Newsletter February 2019
Centre for Urban Studies
NEWS
Stay Tuned: CUS and ACHI Joint Seed Grant
Stay Tuned: CUS and ACHI Joint Seed Grant
The Network Day on 24 January was a great succes. As a result of this day and collaborations between CUS and ACHI-CREATE, a Joint Seed Grant will be launched this Spring.
Please stay tuned for more information.
Vacancy: Researcher Urban Geography
The research project ‘Bright Future for Black Towns’ – financed by the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe – is looking for a(n) (urban) researcher.

Application deadline: February 27th.
> More information
Publication Working Paper no.26
The CUS working paper no.26 'Commoning mobility: Towards a new politics of mobility transitions' by Anna Nikolaeva, Peter Adey, Tim Cresswell, Jane Yeonjae Lee, Andre Novoa and Cristina Temenoshas now been published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers (open access).
Read the full paper here.
Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe launches new research and innovation agenda
The Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe has presented its updated Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, SRIA 2.0. This strategic agenda aims to align European R&D with global urban challenges. The agenda will guide the activities and research priorities in the programme until 2026.

Visit their website to read about the new strategic agenda and to see the current projects on which several CUS members are working
> More information on the strategic agenda
UPCOMING EVENTS
Masterstudio 2019
15 February: Commoning in and around the UvA conference
What if knowledge (again) becomes a common good? How can the university serve commoners, citizens and activists with such knowledge? In Amsterdam, how can we finally start experimenting on a large scale with commons as real, ecologically responsible and humane alternatives to privatization, gentrification or bureaucratisation? And when does the UvA, according to citizens, students, activists, teachers, commoners and researchers, actually meet the conditions that this social transformation entails?

To answer these questions you are invited to the conference 'Commoning in and around the UvA' by Commoning UvA and Commoning Meta Amsterdam on February 15th. On this day, UvA students and teachers will come together with organized citizens and activists from the city to define the role of the UvA in the city and map opportunities for concrete cooperation.

15 February from 13.30 to 18.00
Location: Doelenzaal, University Library
Singel 425, 1012 WP, Amsterdam
> For questions
1 March: Seminar Omgevingswet
There is a lot of talk about the Omgevingswet (the Environment and Planning Act), but what is really written into the new law? The new Environment and Planning law will be effective in 2021 and changes the way environmental and planning processes will take place. During this seminar we delve into the case of GOUDasfalt. We will discuss the case with the implementation manager, citizens that are involved in GOUDasfalt and Saskia Bisschops, a researcher that critically examines GOUDasfalt.

1 March, 15-17hrs, REC B1.02

Everybody who is interested in law, cities and society is welcome!
> Email to register
Save the date: Public Seminar Omgevingswet
On March 28 CUS-members Tuna Tasan-Kok and Michiel Stapper a.o. are organizing a public seminar on the Omgevingswet at Pakhuis de Zwijger.

The evening will start with a crash course on the Omgevingswet. Thereafter, a panel discussion on two cases (Amsterdam and Zaandam) will follow with municipal experts, residents and developers. 

More information on the programme and guests will follow.
PhD Defenses
Thomas Straatemeier will defend his doctoral thesis 'Joint Accessibility Design. A Framework to Improve Integrated Transport and Land Use Strategy Making.' on 13 February at 14:00.

All are welcome at the Agnietenkapel.
> More information
WORKING PAPER SERIES
Material politics: utility documents, claims-making and construction of the ‘deserving citizen’ in Rio de Janeiro
This working paper by Francesca Pilo' argues for developing a relational and materialist approach to citizenship through an ethnographic study of the electricity bill. It analyzes the uses and meaning of this document for favela residents, the state and the private electricity provider, within projects to regularize illegal connections and the so-called ‘pacification’ program, a state-security policy to re-establish state territorial control. As such, this article expands analysis of documents as material mediators of social and political relations, and proposes an understanding of citizenship as a negotiated process involving people, state and non-state actors and objects.
> Read the paper
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