Testing the umbrella term of the parochial, this talk by CITY Institute senior visiting scholar Anke Schwarz will address authoritarian and nativist spatial imaginations and practices as well as exclusionary territorializations. Reading the urban as a territory in relation urges urban researchers to pay attention to unequal power relations inscribed in its materiality, representations and techniques of regulation. Scrutinizing a parochial logic of exclusionary worldbuilding around territorial subjectivities and insular forms of place-based community formation, the talk outlines epistemological and ontological parochializations that come to the fore across various scales. It draws on empirical examples from Europe, namely reconstructive architecture in Berlin and Dresden, identitarian discourses around ‘The European City’, and moralistic othering inscribed in public order regulations from the Italian context.
Research seminar at the CITY Institute at York University. Discussant: Stefan Kipfer
Thursday Sept 19, 2024 at 11:00 am, Kaneff Tower, Room 519