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Exhibition "Landscapes and Policies of Urban Transformation. Perspectives from Anthropology" at the Catalunya campus CRAI
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The exhibition "Landscapes and Policies of Urban Transformation. Perspectives from Anthropology" presents the posters made by students of the Postindustrialism, Globalization and Urban Space subject of the Master's in Urban Anthropology, Migrations and Social Intervention and can be visited in the lobby of CRAI campus Catalonia where the students' posters are shown on a TV screen.
In this activity, the students have put into practice theoretical and ethnographic resources to address the processes of transformation and production of urban space in the context of late capitalism. These processes of change are often structured in international economic and social flows that impact the cultural dynamics of the regions, interconnecting realities.
During the neoliberal globalization process, multiple debates have developed at different levels about the effects on urban life, in cities and regions of the new command roles of certain global capitals in a political context of retreating the social function of the State. These are theoretical discussions that range from the annihilation of space and neoliberalism to the theorems of the global city and that allow us to analytically structure current urban phenomena.
Combining these different theoretical frameworks, and providing appropriate case studies, the students expose the elements necessary for the construction of global space as an object of ethnographic study, which involves focusing on the political, symbolic and material frameworks involved in urban transformation.
These posters emphasize the anthropological interest in urban space through a relational perspective that allows us to identify the multiple factors and agents involved in such dynamics of sociocultural change. These are the operating legitimizing narratives and the role of the administration, the emergence of new imaginaries and actors within the transformed space and the assortment of local practices of contestation and resistance within the framework of a territory struggling to be produced and signified globally.
