Neil Smith (Anthropology, CUNY)
"Urban Revolution"
Friday, March 13th 4:15-6pm
George Ignatieff Theatre (!), Larkin Building
In this lecture, I take as a starting point several recent urban revolts and move quickly to a survey of urban revolts in New York City specifically. The point here is to argue that urban revolts are inevitable, as both Lefebvre and Foucault have argued, but that the issues provoking such revolts, while heavily focused on questions of class exploitation, are highly diverse. The lecture then moves to engage Lefebvre's text of the same title. I conclude by talking about "The Right to the City," also inspired by Lefebvre, but an organizing format that currently inspires myriad local urban organizing efforts.
Discussant: Kanishka Goonewardena (Geography, UofT)
Dystopic Horizons Realty
Industrial Ruins...beautified
Urban Nature
Right to the City
