Pre-Conference of Irish Geographers Workshop: ‘Post-Crash Cities: Housing Financialisation, late-Neoliberalism and Community Responses’ 8-9 May, 2018
The increased intertwining of finance and real estate was a prelude to and intimately bound up with the global economic crisis, yet the aftermath has been particularly dynamic as new roles are cast for private-equity firms and other financial actors in the ‘for-rent’ residential sector and as states engineer new policies to further affirm the treatment of housing as a financial asset. One upshot of these new post-crash configurations of cities has been to accentuate sharply the vulnerability of urban communities, left with fewer state protections and buffers to resist urban marginalization.
This workshop brings together the latest theories and empirical findings in the research field surrounding contemporary cities and late-neoliberalism, taking into account the ‘aftermath’ of the global economic crisis and its different implications – from political-economic arrangements to more micro consequences for urban communities, such as housing accessibility crises, marginalized citizenries and raising socio-spatial segregation. It does so with a multi-disciplinary approach that seeks to better unify geographical, economic, political, sociological and anthropological understandings of the intertwining of global processes of financialisation of housing and gentrification with neoliberal urban policies at different scales.
Keynotes include:
- Manuel Aalbers, Associate Professor of Social and Economic Geography at the University of Leuven (Belgium).
- Eveline Althaus, Urban Anthropologist and Researcher at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
- Marie Antoinette Glaser, Director of ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich (Switzerland).
- Amy Horton, Lecturer in Economic Geography at University College London (UK).
- Ugo Rossi, university Researcher in Economic and Political Geography at the University of Turin (Italy).
Check out the full list of speakers here: https://post-crashcities.eventbrite.ie
Geography: Post Crash Cities Workshop
This pre-conference workshop is organised by Sinéad Kelly and Lidia K.C. Manzo @ Maynooth University, Department of Geography with the generous support of Maynooth University Conference & Workshop Fund, Irish Research Council, MU Department of Geography.
Attendance is free and we hope that you will all enjoy it!
Register here: https://post-crashcities.eventbrite.ie
For enquires about this workshop please contact: lidia.manzo@mu.ie
All details can be found on the MU Department of Geography website: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/geography