SPACE/SUBJECTIVITY. Vernacular of endurance in Dehli's Slums and Homeless spaces
How can we speak of the subjectivity of the urban poor without resorting to the language of victims or survivors?
Why is it that habitats are given secondary importance in explanations of the wellbeing, identity and mental life of the dispossessed?
This lecture explores the ways of the dwelling environment and dwelling practices in subject formation. It draws on evidence of forbearance in a Delhi slum showing dependencies between biography, materiality and spatial atmosphere, and on evidence of abjection in a strip on the Yamuna river where the homeless camp out without the benefits of commoned ground,
dependent on the vital work of intermediaries. The lecture makes the case for co-habitability, place
curation and baseline service in a political economy of equal opportunity and welfare.
Speaker
Ash Amin is professor of geography at Cambridge University and a Fellow of the British Academy, having held the post of Foreign Secretary and Vice-President from 2015 to 2019. His recent books include Land of Strangers; Arts of the Political, with Nigel Thrift (Duke University Press); Releasing the Commons, coedited with Philip Howell; and Seeing Like a City, with Nigel Thrift. He is currently writing a book on the politics of coexistence in Europe.
Organizers
This event is organised by professors Michele Lancione and Francesca Governa.
The lecture series is organised by professors Camillo Boano, Francesco Chiodelli and Michele Lancione
- In person: No registration is needed
- Online: You need to register at he following link
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