Urban geographies of carcerality: from Latin America to the Middle East
Urban Geographies of Carcerality engages, through a series of seminars and academic events, issues intersecting with studies of urban violence, the transfer of patterns of violence from the Global North to the Global South, and the connections between carceral geographies in Latin America and the Middle East. It also examines manifestations of capitalist exploitation and colonial violence in urban space, as well as strategies for resisting such violence.
These seminars are organized in partnership with the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, the National Pedagogic University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil. The project will produce specialized scholarly publications and convene four international seminars across Colombia, Brazil, and Palestine.
The first seminar, titled “Intersections of Settler Colonialism and Capitalist Urbanization: From Latin America to the Middle East,” aims to theoretically relate modes of urban carcerality to the long histories of settler colonialism and capitalist formations across Latin America and the Middle East. This seminar will take place at the National Pedagogic University in Bogotá, Colombia.
The second seminar, titled “Everyday Urban Spaces of Carcerality,” will be held at the Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil. It aims to tackle manifestations of carcerality in urban spaces, including surveillance, urban policing, migrant detention centres and segregation of populations.
The third seminar, hosted at Birzeit University, is titled “Feminist Geographies of Urban Carcerality.” This seminar investigates gendered modes of urban carcerality in homes, prisons, public spaces and employment positions.
The final seminar, also held at Birzeit University, titled “Everyday Urban Spaces of Confrontation,” will focus on individual and collective strategies of resistance against the urban carceral system, as well as the spatial mapping of acts of resistance.
Further information about the research project is available on the Urban Studies Foundation website. Details regarding participation and upcoming events will be announced on this page.
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