Online lecture: The Epistemic Tangles of Urban Inhabitation

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In this lecture Professor Beth Perry will excavate foundational ideas, lexicons and practices of a new research field around ‘urban epistemics’, before providing some specific examples on how this produces particular “epistemic tangles” of urban inhabitation which shape how people come to know the city, how they are subjected to different processes of epistemic exclusion and knowledge politics; and what this means for researchers in different institutions, in the context of an equally exclusionary knowledge production system.

This event is a part of the project ‘Epistemes of Non-Dominant Inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decenter urban knowledge’. It is led by Dr Paroj Banerjee (DPU, UCL). The co-investigators of the project are Dr Raffael Beier (TU-Dortmund, Germany) and Dr Ishita Chatterjee (O.P.Jindal Global University, India).

This is being delivered in collaboration with the DPU Dialogues in Development and is part of the first of the three events/workshops of the seminar series. ‘Global epistemes of non-dominant urban inhabitation’ is the inaugural event where 30 under-represented and early career scholars will join in hybrid format. The rest of the activities are invitation-only and include the following activities:

• Keynote lecture by Professor Catalina Ortiz – invitation only
• Mentoring Session by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay – invitation only
• A DPU Dialogues in Development Session – Short presentations by workshop participants
  Discussion and planning for the special issue
• Inhabiting North Kensington before and after Grenfell: Walking Tour led by Professor Flora Cornish (LSE). This is part of the local engagement aspect of the project wherein the participants engage with London based activists to understand how ‘global’ cities like London grapple with questions of housing negligence, violence, and inequality.