The Emerging Asian Urbanisms event series at the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) will explore the diverse processes and practices of urban planning in Asia. Urban planning and urban studies programs in Canada lack sufficient exposure to prevalent theories and practices in Asian contexts. The series draws upon the calls made by Ananya Roy and Jennifer Robinson, among others, to go beyond the North American context and investigate “new geographies of theory” as fertile sources of uncovering new ways of understanding urbanism everywhere. For more information, contact Yasir Hameed at yasirh@yorku.ca.
2019-20 EVENTS
In 2020, we will host a Film Exchange Workshop on Asian Urbanisms on 14 January 2020. The call for films is available here. The deadline is 15 December 2019 for film submission. For more information, please contact Yasir Hameed (yasirh@yorku.ca) or Sabika Zaidi (sabikaza@yorku.ca).
SERIES ORGANIZERS
2019-20
Yasir Hameed (Environmental Studies), Amardeep Kaur (Geography), Shabnam Sukhdev (Cinema and Media Studies), Sabika Zaidi (Environmental Studies), Sabrina Zhou (Cinema and Media Studies)
2018-19
Amardeep Kaur (Geography), Nabeel Ahmed (Environmental Studies), Meg George (Social Anthropology), Yasir Hameed (Environmental Studies)
2017-18
Nabeel Ahmed (Environmental Studies), Anupama Aery (Environmental Studies), Kenneth Cardenas (Geography), Amardeep Kaur (Geography)
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