Landscapes and urban social movements at the heart of the ICTA conference

Christy (Chryssanthi) Petropoulou will speak on the many examples of social movements in public spaces, as well as popular urban self-construction movements which can be found throughout the history of Mediterranean Europe and Latin America. The researcher will also present current examples existing in Greece and question the role these movements play in periods of crisis and political change.

Dr Petropoulou holds a PhD in Human Geography and is lecturer in Urban Geography at the University of Egeo, Greece and in Human Geography at the Hellenic Open University. Christy is member of the LIVE - CNRS Laboratory of the University of Strasbourg I and has worked in several architecture, urban planning and geography universities, including the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the National Technical University of Athens. She has written two books and several articles on urban development, urban landscapes and urban social movements.

The conference will be offered open and in Spanish, and has been organised as part of the European Network of Political Ecology. ENTITLE project, led by ICTA.