Activitat cancel·lada: Seminari de recerca: Exploring the links between infrastructure-led development, urban transformation, and inequality in the New Silk Road

El proper dimarts 27 de juny tindrà lloc el Seminari de Recerca: Exploring the links between infrastructure-led development, urban transformation, and inequality in the New Silk Road, aquest seminari forma part de les Activitats formatives del Programa de Doctorat en Geografia del curs 2022-2023

Abstract
In this talk, we will discuss the links between infrastructure-led development, urban transformation and inequality in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). By drawing on postcolonial geographies, my goal is to offer a relational analysis of divergent trajectories of socio-spatial urban change driven by BRI projects in Athens, Chancay, Colombo, Kathmandu and London. My key argument is that urban transformation driven by the BRI signals the emergence of a new form of infrastructure-led urbanisation. This engenders both new urban formations and new urban politics that, despite variegated expressions across different contexts, are reconfiguring urban space and are transforming the social geography of each city by creating, facilitating or exacerbating social, environmental, and spatial inequality.

Elia Apostolopoulou, actualment a l’ICTA; te una RyC i ha estat vinculada al dept. de Geografia de la uiniversitat de Cambridge. Es editora de la revista “Dialogues in Human Geography”. Treballa en temes de geografía económica i geografía urbana des d’una perspectiva critica i en els darrers anys ha estat molt interessada en el programa xinès del New Belt and Road sobre les massives inversions xineses arreu del món i com aquestes están reconfigurant ciutats i territoris a escala global. Podeu veure el seu CV a: https://www.bcnuej.org/elia-apostolopoulou/

(Totes les activitats són gratuïtes. Les persones participants rebran un certificat de
participació corresponent al 100% de l’assistència a les activitats)

Persona de contacte (inscripcions i certificacions): Alba Palma (alba.palma@uab.cat).