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Class Character of Urban Policy and Planning: From Urban Neoliberalism to Dark Conservatism?

  • When Dec 16, 2019 from 06:00 to 08:00
  • Where Universitätsstraße 3b; 10117 Berlin; R002
  • Attendees Stale Holgersen, Uppsala University (Chair) Prof. Talja Blokland, Humboldt University
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Title: Class character of urban policy and planning: from urban neoliberalism to dark conservatism?

 

Speaker: Stale Holgersen, Uppsala University

 

(Abstract below)

 

ENGLISH

The Think and Drink Series is presented by the Georg-Simmel-Center for Metropolitan Studies @ HU Berlin

-> on Mondays 6pm ct Room 002 (Ground Floor)

-> Universitätsstraße 3b / 10117 Berlin

-> Free & open to anyone interested in Urban Sociology, no prior registration needed

-> Talks and discussions take place in English language (with few exceptions)

 

More info:

https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/stadtsoz/think_drink

 

ABSTRACT

In this presentation Holgersen focuses on social class as a social relation, and discusses the class character of urban policy and planning. And he will do so by examining recent trends in Scandinavian urban policy/planning, where the liberal in neoliberal ideologies are arguably being replaced by conservative ideology - often in xenophobic and highly authoritarian versions. His paper will discuss the implications such changes might have for class, for urban policy and for our cities.