Kent Interdisciplinary Centre for Spatial Studies
- KISS International Symposium: Cities Against Nationalism? This event hosted by KISS and the School of Anthropology and Conservation, brought a group of leading international scholars to investigate the relatively under-theorised research field of urban geopolitics and nationalism. The symposium explored the rising tensions between national and urban regimes, with particular reference to the plight of minorities and immigrants, for more info see here.
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- Francesco Chiodelli, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy, Resisting exclusionary nationalism-populism in the urban arena?
- Abigail Gilbert, Barking and Dagenham Council, London, UK, What role for “New Municipalism” in addressing the Populist Impulse?
- Igor Calzada, University of Oxford, UK, Small European Stateless City-Regions: Constructing (Civic/Metropolitanised) Nationalism?
- Amny Athamny, University of Toronto, Canada, Dutch Cities: Going Dutch or Not?
- Nufar Avni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, Between the national and the urban: The double-edged sword of Neighbourhood Councils in East Jerusalem
- James Anderson, Queen’s University Belfast, UK, How do cities shape nationalist conflicts?
- Nada Elfeituri, UCL, UK, The Re-Emergence of Traditional Governance in Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, The Case of Benghazi Libya
- Gruia Badescu, University of Konstanz, Germany, Towards syncretic place-making: Architectural practice and resistance to nationalism.
- Keynote I: Oren Yiftachel, Ben Gurion University and UCL, UK, Urban Displaceability and the rise of (Neo)Nationalism.
- Keynote II: Michael Gentile, University of Oslo, Geopolitical Fault-Line Cities in a world of Contested Cities.
- Vote of thanks: Jonathan Rock Rokem, University of Kent.
- Supported by KISS, Organized by SoCriL (KLS) on the work of Didier Fassin (French anthropologist, sociologist and physician) (13/06/2016) – Professor Didier Fassin spoke on his most recent work on Prisons (L’Ombre du monde. Une anthropologie de la condition carcérale, Seuil, Paris, 2015).Other books include The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry Into the Condition of Victimhood (2009), Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present (2011), Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing (2013), and At the Heart of the State: The Moral World of Institutions (2015). Colleagues from Kent and elsewhere gave papers on his work or related work. More information on Professor Fassin’s work and biography can be found here.
- KISS Annual Workshop 2017-18 (July 2018): Researching and Teaching Spatially at the University of Kent.
- Gabriele D’Adda – The response of PAH – Plataforma Afectados por la Hipoteca (Platform of people affected by mortgage) to the precarization of the right housing: the case of Barcelona
- Francesco Salvini – Precarity, University Spatial Logic
- Eleanor Jupp – Spaces of Austerity and Activism in the UK
- Mia Tamarin – Water commodification as conflict pacification: the case of Palestine – Israel
- Gian Giacomo Fusco – Law, Space and Discipline: The case of the Ghetto
- Vince Miller – An overview of my space-related work
- Glenn Bowman – Fieldwork, Identification and Perspectival Reversals: Participant Observation in the Old City of Jerusalem
- Jessica Smith – Spatial Dynamics of Registration: An Ethnographic Study of Religion, Gender, and Locality at the Beaney House of Art & Knowledge
- Helen Carr – Thinking Grenfell Tower Through Space And Time
- Thanos Zartaloudis – The Archipelago of Protocols
- Robert Fish – Public dialogue as resistance and transformation: my work in the environmental arena
- Naomi Woods – A legal research student taking up space
- Juha Virtanen – Poetry as/and Resistance
- Rocio von Jungenfeld – Flows and the Perception of Environments
- Aki Pasoulas – Research in progress
- Roundtable – Our Research as a Space of Critical Study and Resistance with David Ayers & Thanos Zartaloudis
