Cities of Dignity: Urban Transformations around the World - Book Presentation
Channel: RosaluxEuropa
Date: 2020-12-10

Global urbanization maintains mutual constituent relationships with the main patterns of domination in our societies, shaping their development. However, cities are sites of intense political disputes as urban populations have organized to meet the challenges of everyday life, resist dispossession, and defend their rights. What conditions and strategies enable radical transformation in urban contexts? What kind of economic and political processes can sustain radical urban transformations? In this book presentation and dialogue session, we will deal with these questions and more, as well as explore the tremendous transformative potential of cities through concrete cases from around the world.

Moderators:  Mabrouka M’barek (co-editor), Tunisia/USA and Miriam Lang, Ecuador

Interventions:
Mary Ann Manahan and Maria Khristine Alvarez, Philippines: Urban transformations around the world
Asume Osuoka, Nigeria/Canada: Solidarity, struggles and visions of social change in the slums of Lagos 
Aseem Mishra and Sandeep Virmani, India: Building democracy from the bottom up in the City of Bhuj 
Bryce Detroit, USA: The role of art in the struggle of black communities against gentrification 
Commentator: Juliana Goes Morais, Brazil
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2020 

Organizers: 
Global Working Group Beyond Development
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels Office
Global Tapestry of Alternatives