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SUMMARY:International Workshop: "Liquid Urbanisms in Africa: Thinking Climate Adaptation with and through Water"
DESCRIPTION:Co-organized by the PRECURBICA project (Precarious Urbanism in 
 Coastal Cities in Africa) and the Swiss Society for African Studies\n\nFace
 d with rising sea levels, cities across the globe are being remade to confr
 ont the threat of water. The climate crisis meets water and urban life head
  on, manifesting in an array of contact zones that both threaten and give h
 ope to the people who live with them.\n\nUsing water as a way of seeing thr
 ough, with and about climate-related urban issues, this workshop invites a 
 critical examination of the urban/water interface in African coastal cities
 , particularly in the context of climate change. African coastal cities are
  at the cutting edge of water-borne climate change, as they are forecast to
  attract the highest urban growth and commercial investment, but also persi
 stently scripted as the least well equipped to deal with climate-related di
 sasters, making manifest the tension between the imperatives of economic gr
 owth and sustainable urban development.\n\nThe workshop, co-organized by th
 e PRECURBICA project (Precarious Urbanism in Coastal Cities in Africa) and 
 the Swiss Society for African Studies, aims to bring together urban plannin
 g and critical social theory by exploring the diverse ways African urban co
 mmunities are adapting their lives and environments to these challenges. Th
 rough a focus on various real-world examples based on in-depth qualitative 
 empirical research, including but not limited to the practices of street-le
 vel bureaucrats, fishing communities, home-builders, residents’ association
 s and city planners, the workshop seeks to uncover new modes for living in 
 and with the “urban sea”.\n\nThese insights are crucial for reimagining urb
 an futures in times of environmental change, especially for African context
 s, where pessimistic or development-centric narratives of crisis dominate, 
 to develop a perspective of critical hope on sustainable urban development 
 in the face of global climate challenges.\n\nVenue:\n\nHebelstrasse 3, CH-4
 051 Basel\n\nRegistration Fees:\n\nFree for student members of SGAS/SSAS30 
 CHF for employed SGAS/SSAS members and non-member students60 CHF for employ
 ed non-members\n\n(Fees cover coffee breaks and lunches.)\n\nRegistration F
 orm:\n\nhttps://forms.gle/A9qN9iGdxweqDyTD6\n\nOrganised with support of th
 e Swiss Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities SAGW/ASSH
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