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AL2195 Lecture 1
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Introduction to the course
Lecture 1 Introduction and Uneven Development Part 1
Foregrouding historical and geographical relations to understand the uneven and unequal development of the world, geographies of difference, origins of capitalism, colonization, racial capitalism, and some of its contemporary active remains.
Also introducing a search for “Southern knowledge centres” and
How to think critically about the name of the course
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Henrik Ernstson
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AL2195 Lecture 2
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Lecture 2 Uneven Development & Political Ecology Part 2
Models of development, critique of linear and modernist notion of development, “waiting room of history,” political ecology of sugar as an historical world ecology commodity, compared with lithium batteries, production of inequality.
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Henrik Ernstson
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Student consultation hours (HE)
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4 Nov 2021, 13:00 to 15:00
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AL2195 Lecture 3
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Lecture 3 Thinking from the South Part 1 - Urban environments and heterogenous infrastructure.
Challenging from where the city and urbanization can be understood, developing a case for Southern urbanism, how this fits within the wider historical and geographical frame from lectures 1 and 2, critique of urban planning and the idea of “heterogenous infrastructure”, sothern knowledges.
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Henrik Ernstson
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AL2195 Lecture 4
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Lecture 4 TFS:P2: From the Nubian Forest to the Self-Help City - Guest Lecture Dr Joe Mulligan.
Focus on Nairobi, Kenya, historical analysis and case-based and practice-based work to intervene, based on years of architectural and place-based analysis.
Introduction to group work ÖVN1 and finding your group. Preparation task for Seminar 1.
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Guest lecture: Dr Joe Mulligan with Henrik Ernstson
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Student consultation hours (HE)
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11 Nov 2021, 13:00 to 15:00
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AL2195 Lecture 5
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Lecture 5 What counts as development? Nairobi. Guest Lecture Dr Wangui Kimari.
Role of state in producing informality and illegality, how imperial and colonial remains are active in current city planning with police brutality, community based organisation and resistance, the problematic role of NGOs, coloniality.
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Guest Lecture Dr Wangui Kimari with Henrik Ernstson
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AL2195 Seminar 1A (obligatory half class)
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Sharing of preparation to other groups. Feedback from peers. Individual feedback to each group from the teacher. Decision on how to move forward.
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Henrik Ernstson
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AL2195 Seminar 1B (obligatory half class)
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Sharing of preparation to other groups. Feedback from peers. Individual feedback to each group from the teacher. Decision on how to move forward.
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Henrik Ernstson
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Student consultation hours (HE)
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25 Nov 2021, 13:00 to 14:30
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AL2195 Lecture 6
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Lecture 6 Political ecology and uneven development: Cape Town and three analytical methods
Situating uneven development and exploring contemporary situation through water, electricity, and housing. Further developing the idea of how postcolonial theory helps to re-think political ecology.
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Henrik Ernstson
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Student consultation hours (HE)
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30 Nov 2021, 13:00 to 15:00
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AL2195 Lecture 7
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Lecture 7:1 [ONLINE] Large-scale infrastructure, coloniality and uneven development
Interactive online and asynchronous lecture. Engage with two readings and one video. Send in comments to discussion list.
We are living in an “infrastructure-led” mode of development some claim. How to understand this? Is this a re-colonization through new modes of extraction or are their progressive possibilities embedded here?
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Henrik Ernstson
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AL2195 Lecture 8
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Lecture 8 Summing up the argument of uneven developmnet, thinking from the South and political ecology
In particular think about infrastructure from above and below and the centrality of infrastructure and technology in developmentalist discourse.
Feedback on INL1 and PEER1. Discuss what is a good essay and how to prepare well for INL2.
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Henrik Ernstson
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Student consultation hours (HE)
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9 Dec 2021, 13:00 to 15:00
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AL2195 Seminar 2A (obligatory full class)
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Each group present their insights of their case study and share lessons learnt on how to approach “messy realities” about places you might not have visited.
Each group has 15+5 minutes followed by general discussion to capture the learning from our community of inquiry. What are the wider questions we have addressed? And what is still to be addressed.
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Henrik Ernstson
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AL2195 Seminar 2B
(obligatory full class)
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See above.
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Henrik Ernstson
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AL2195 Seminar 2B
(obligatory full class)
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See above.
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Henrik Ernstson
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Student consultation hours (HE)
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16 Dec 2021, 13:00 to 15:00
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