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THE CITY TALKS
Fall 2016
Beyond the Postcolonial City: Rethinking the Imperial Legacies of Contemporary Urbanism
Organized by the UVic Committee for Urban Studies
October 27
Views from the Balcony: Space, Class, and Taste in Urban Egypt
Farha Ghannam
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Swarthmore College
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Legacy Art Gallery, 630 Yates Street
Doors Open at 7:00pm
Lecture Begins at 7:30pm
Bio
Farha Ghannam is Professor of Anthropology at Swarthmore College. Her research and teaching focus on globalization, urban life, identity, gender, and embodiment. She is the author of... Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo (University of California press 2002) and Live and Die like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt (Stanford University Press 2013). Her work has also been published in key journals including the American Ethnologist, Visual Anthropology, City and Society, Ethnos, and the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, The Gender of Class: Social Inequalities in a Global Cairo.
Abstract
The Balcony is an important space in Cairo. This space of in-betweenness, both public and private, inside and outside, here and there, comes in different shapes, colors, and sizes. It affords the residents of Cairo not only a functional space but also a socio-cultural medium that allows them to circulate meanings and display their status. In particular, this space allows families in low-income neighborhoods to materialize various inequalities and tastes. Drawing on ethnographic research, theories of practice, and feminist scholarship on new materialism, this talk explores how the balcony connects and separates, enables and limits, and protects and exposes. It shows that the balcony is a productive space for urban studies that helps us account for the multiple disparities and complex forces that structure daily life in cities and shows the agency of urban dwellers in shaping both their individual housing units and the space of the neighborhood at large.
This is a free public event at the Legacy Art Gallery ~ 630 Yates Street
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Run by the Committee for Urban Studies at the University of Victoria, The City Talks is a free public lecture series featuring distinguished scholars drawn from the University of Victoria, across Canada, and beyond. The theme for the Fall 2016 series is: Beyond the Postcolonial City: Rethinking the Imperial Legacies of Contemporary Urbanism.
For more information, please visit www.TheCityTalks.ca
Insights into NGO Management and Design through the Methods and Practice of Anthropology in Brazil
Dr. Margaret Willson
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Canadian Studies Center's Arctic Program at the University of Washington
10:30 a.m., November 4, 2016
Sedgewick C-Wing Room C168
Join us to share conversation and ideas with Dr. Willson about concepts related to development work in Brazil and elsewhere. How can the principles central to anthropology and other academic disciplines contribute to more effective engagements with development practices?
MARGARET WILLSON is a cultural anthropologist whose research and projects have taken her to such diverse places as Papua New Guinea (working with PNG-born Chinese traders, and later in a remote village along the Sepik River), Inner Mongolia, the favelas of Northeast Brazil, and, most recently, Iceland. Her current research interests focus on issues relating to Arctic and Northern concerns, including fisheries, gender and small-scale communities. She is the author of Seawomen of Iceland: Survival on the Edge and Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond.
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