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Seeing the local in the global and the global in the local<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This half-day seminar explores different perspectives on how urban and regional studies can bridge the gap between global processes and their local manifestations. Rather than treating \u201cthe global\u201d and \u201cthe local\u201d as separate scales, we approach them as mutually constitutive. The central question is: under what conditions, and through which mechanisms, are the local and the global co-produced? And which tools can urban studies provide us with to understand this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two keynote perspectives anchor the discussion. Presenting her recent work on care-oriented public policies in Latin American cities, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez Rivadulla<\/strong><\/strong> tells the story of care networks created along those policies, from the bottom up through ethnographic observation, interviews and focus groups. Christian Schmid<\/strong>, in his co-edited volume with Monica Streule, Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building Through Comparison, <\/em>approaches urbanization comparatively across cities, using spatial variation to show how global dynamics are translated and reconfigured in different contexts. Taken together, the two books propose different ways to unpack the entanglement of local and global urban processes, bringing temporal and spatial approaches into dialogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The roundtable extends this conversation by focusing on methods, concepts, and levels of analysis. It begins by asking how participants define and approach the “local” and the “global” in their research. It then turns to microsociology in practice: how do we move from locally grounded empirical material to interpretation, what challenges arise at the micro level, and when does “the global” enter the analysis? Finally, the discussion addresses theory and levels of abstraction, examining how scholars connect micro, meso, and macro perspectives. The central question is methodological: what does it mean to empirically ground the global in the local, rather than assert it theoretically?<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 13:00-14:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keynote: Relational Work Between Civil Society and the State: Feminizing Local Policy in Bogot\u00e1<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez Rivadulla, <\/strong>Full Professor, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia<\/p>\n\n\n\n Care work is increasingly entering welfare discussions across the world. Latin American countries have made progress in implementing care-oriented public policies. A celebrated example is the District Care System (SIDICU) introduced in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, in 2020. The policy aims at alleviating women\u2019s unremunerated care burden through social services, education and recreational activities offered at Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado) in underprivileged urban areas. This innovation has already received several international prizes and is being replicated in other cities and countries. In this presentation, Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvarez-Rivadulla will speak about how it works and what are some of its effects, but also about the conditions that made this policy innovation possible. In particular, as part of the broader comparative project Change Stories <\/a>that has put Bogot\u00e1, Belfast and Belo Horizonte into dialog, the talk will argue that relational work between the state and civil society is crucial for progressive social change, focusing on the relational work between activist bureaucrats and civil society leaders. While existing literature shows that social movement embeddedness within the state helps explain why some governments achieve more egalitarian outcomes, this structural concept lacks micro-level foundations. Based on more than four years of ethnographic work this research unpacks the underpinnings of making progressive social policy changes, especially in poor and permeable states. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Coffee Break (14:45-15:00)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 15:00\u201316:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roundtable<\/span>: Global Analysis of Microsociology<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Francesca Ferlicca<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Researcher, Urban School, Sciences Po <\/p>\n\n\n\n Antoine Guironnet<\/strong>, Postdoctoral Researcher, CEE, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ankit Sikarwar<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, CRIS, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coffee Break (16:45-17:00)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 17:00-18:45<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keynote: Vocabularies for an Urbanizing Planet: Theory Building Through Comparison<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Christian Schmid,<\/strong> Professor Emeritus, ETH Zurich<\/p>\n\n\n\n The urban world has fundamentally changed in the last few decades. A wide range of urbanisation processes are generating a multitude of urban outcomes, resulting in complex and often surprising urban territories, which are disturbing conventional understandings of the urban: novel patterns of extended urbanisation are crystallizing in agricultural areas, rain forests, and the oceans, provoking manifold social struggles and challenging inherited conceptions of the urban as a bounded zone and a dense settlement type. This diversification of urban forms requires a differentiated view on the dynamics of urbanisation. The challenge is not only to analyse the multitude of urban territories, but also the various urbanisation processes that are transforming those territories and generating those forms. This means that the spatial units of analysis \u2013 conventionally based on demographic, morphological or administrative criteria \u2013 have to be reconsidered. Urbanisation processes do not simply unfold within fixed or stable urban \u2018containers\u2019, but are actively producing, unsettling and churning urban territories, and are generating new urban configurations. The essential task, therefore, is to investigate the historically and geographically specific dynamics of urbanisation processes. A new vocabulary of urbanisation is required that helps us to decipher these rapidly mutating urban territories and to facilitate discussions and common understandings of urbanisation. These observations have sparked fundamental debates about the epistemology of the urban (Brenner and Schmid 2015). Starting from Henri Lefebvre\u2019s theory of the production of space, we developed the concept of planetary urbanisation as a tool for better understanding the contemporary patterns and pathways of urbanisation. This planetary perspective inevitably calls into question familiar positions and understandings in urban studies. It requires decentring the analytical perspective on urbanisation, adopting an excentric position and leading careful analyses on the ground. In this contribution I discuss our recent research that explored various urbanisation processes and the related struggles across the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18:45-19:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n Closing remarks and discussion <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Xavier Timbeau<\/strong>, OFCE, Sciences Po<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Alvarez-Rivadulla <\/strong>is Full Professor of Sociology at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogot\u00e1 and is currently a visiting scholar at CRIS and the Urban School at Sciences Po. Her work addresses inequalities, social policies, and cities, with an emphasis on processes and using mixed methods. She is the author of the books Squatters and the Politics of Marginality<\/em>, on the political history of the informal city in Montevideo, and Costly Opportunities<\/em>, on social mobility in segregated societies, based on a longitudinal study of high-achieving underprivileged individuals entering elite universities in Colombia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Christian Schmid <\/strong>is a geographer and urban researcher. He is Professor emeritus of Sociology at the Department of Architecture, ETH Z\u00fcrich. His scientific work focuses on planetary urbanisation, comparative urban analysis, and theories of urbanisation and space. He is a founding member of the International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA). He authored an encompassing reconstruction of Henri Lefebvre\u2019s theory of the production of space, published by Verso in 2022. Together with architects Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Marcel Meili, and Pierre de Meuron, he co-authored the book “Switzerland: An Urban Portrait” (2006), a pioneering analysis of extended urbanisation. He is also the co-editor of two recently published books on planetary urbanisation: “Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison” (with Monika Streule), which examines urbanisation processes in eight large metropolitan territories; and “Extended Urbanisation: Tracing Planetary Struggles” (with Milica Topalovi\u0107), presenting case studies in diverse territories of extended urbanisation across the globe. Both books are available as open access at Birkh\u00e4user Publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Francesca Ferlicca <\/strong>is an urban scholar working at the intersection of informality, climate risk, and socio-ecological transformation. Her doctoral thesis from the University IUAV of Venice\u2014recognized with the “Best Thesis on Sustainable Urban Development in Latin America and the Caribbean 2021-2022” by CEDEUS (Chile) and REDEUS_LAC\u2014examined integral regularization policies in Buenos Aires’ informal settlements through a relational lens. Her scholarship appears in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR) and Equilibri, alongside contributions to volumes by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. She has consulted for the Provincial and City Governments of Buenos Aires, CIPPEC, and the Inter-American Development Bank. Her current postdoctoral project, “Nature in the City,” funded by the Gerard B. Lambert Foundation, examines climate adaptation across informal settlements in the Global North and South. It advances two connected lines of inquiry on water-related risks (flooding and water scarcity) and urban informality in Latin America. The first examines community-led climate adaptation in flood-prone informal settlements, foregrounding residents’ collective agency\u2014through everyday maintenance, small-scale infrastructure, and organised claims-making\u2014and arguing that adaptation is a political practice that produces situated expertise and claims to urban belonging. The second investigates how flood risk is actively manufactured through the expansion of informality into high hydrological-risk zones, tracing how informal land markets and speculative pressures reorganise peri-urban ecologies and generate contested risk landscapes. Together, these lines bridge the literatures on urban informality and environmental governance to examine how informal urbanism simultaneously produces and responds to environmental precarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Antoine Guironnet<\/strong> is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for European Studies (CEE) as part of the European\u00a0ReHousIn project<\/em>. Trained as a political scientist, he holds a PhD in urban and regional planning. As an urban political economist, he studies the financialization of the production of the built environment with a focus on power relationships between state and corporate actors across scales, and their political, economic, and socio-spatial transformations in major metropolitan areas, particularly in France. His most recent articles on housing have been published in\u00a0Environment & Planning A: Economy & Space,<\/em>\u00a0International Journal of Housing Policy<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Housing Studies<\/em><\/a>. He has also contributed to the debate on asset management capitalism in the forthcoming\u00a0Elgar Handbook on Financialization and Space<\/em><\/a>, as well as with the book\u00a0L\u2019empire urbain de la finance<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(with Ludovic Halbert, Amsterdam Editions, 2023). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal\u00a0M\u00e9tropoles<\/a><\/em>, where he has previously served as\u00a0co-editor in charge of book reviews (2018-2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ankit Sikarwar <\/strong>is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS). His research examines environment-population interactions across multiple scales – from individuals and rural communities to urban centres, sub-national, national, and international contexts. His work addresses critical questions: How can environmental risks and their overlapping effects be effectively measured? Who is most exposed and vulnerable? How can the heterogeneity of impacts below administrative boundaries be captured? He also investigates the structural barriers that hinder equitable solutions, particularly in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), where socio-economic inequalities and environmental risks intersect most acutely. To address these complex research questions, he employs an interdisciplinary approach, combining geography, population studies, and advanced spatial analysis techniques such as remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Xavier Timbeau<\/strong> est directeur principal de l\u2019Observatoire fran\u00e7ais des conjonctures \u00e9conomiques (O.F.C.E), centre de recherches en \u00e9conomie de Sciences-Po. Il travaille dans le domaine de l\u2019analyse macro\u00e9conomique, de la pr\u00e9vision macro\u00e9conomique, de la mod\u00e9lisation \u00e9conomique et de l\u2019\u00e9conom\u00e9trie appliqu\u00e9e. Outre les questions de conjoncture, d\u2019analyse de la crise et de politique budg\u00e9taire dans la crise, ses sujets de recherche ont port\u00e9 sur l\u2019estimation du ch\u00f4mage d\u2019\u00e9quilibre et la fiscalit\u00e9 du capital, les questions d\u2019in\u00e9galit\u00e9s dans l\u2019\u00e9ducation sup\u00e9rieur ou le fonctionnement du march\u00e9 immobilier. Membre du conseil scientifique du Cr\u00e9doc, du bureau de l\u2019AFSE, du conseil scientifique de la Revue Economique. Il enseigne l\u2019\u00e9conomie \u00e0 Sciences-po Paris et \u00e0 Sup\u00e9lec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *The link will be sent to you after your registration<\/p>\n\n\n\nProgramme<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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