Urban Space and Social Segregation in Asia and the Netherlands

07/12/2007 - 15:00

7 December 2007
15.00-17.30 hrs, with drinks afterwards

Language: English; Entrance free. r.s.v.p.

"Major change is occurring in the ways cities are controlled, suggesting a new era of neoliberal apartheid. This is evident in four ways: (a) the growing fear of insecurity in cities (b) increasingly class-based residential segregation (c) the contraction of public space through commercialisation and surveillance (d) increasing privatisation of urban management, services and amenities."

This argument by urban anthropologist Dr. Michael Pinches forms the core of this workshop. Four speakers (including Dr. Pinches) explore major trends in spatial and social segregation in cities in Asia and the Netherlands. They include an architect, a social geographer, and two anthropologists, who will cover Manila and Cebu, Jakarta, Shanghai, and cities in the Netherlands.

Programme

15.00-15.15 - Opening by Dr. Rosanne Rutten (Anthropology, University of Amsterdam)

15.15-15.45 - Dr. Michael Pinches (Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia), "Neoliberal Apartheid? Segregation and Urban Governance in the Philippines"

15.45-16.05 - Dr. Lizzy van Leeuwen (Meertens Institute, KITLV), "Segregation as Top Design: Spatial Exclusion in Jakarta -- Private and Public"

16.05-16.25 - Gregory Bracken (Department of Architectural Theory, Delft University), "Smoke and Mirrors: A Foucauldian Genealogy of Post-socialist Shanghai"

16.25-16.45 -  Dr. Wim Ostendorf (Geography and Urban Planning, University of Amsterdam), "Segregation and Integration in The Netherlands: Visions and Facts".

16.45-17.30 -  Discussion chaired by Dr. ir. Jeroen de Kloet (International Institute for Asian Studies)

17.30-18.30 - Drinks in Café De Jaren (Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20)

For more information and reservation, please email Jeroen de Kloet: b.j.dekloet@uva.nl