Watch recording here:
https://youtu.be/GZaWQIbGHRk
Speakers:
AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield)
Fernando Resende (UFF - Brazil)
Roberto Robalinho (UFF - Brazil)
Chair: Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen)
Description:
The discussion follows a number of routes opened up by AbdouMaliq Simone’s forthcoming book, The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture (to be published with Duke UP in 2022). The panelists will consider the notion of ‘the surrounds’ as a concept that allows us to taken into consideration of all the ways in which urban (surplus) populations are captured and extracted from, what are those multidimensional, unsettled domains, which - while incorporated into urban systems and their extended reproductions - remain a locus of invention, a reworking of collective life, and uncanny rebellion.
About:
AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow, the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield and Honorary Professor, the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town. His latest publication is Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance for an Urban South. Polity Press, 2018.
Fernando Resende is Professor of Media Studies at the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is currently a Visiting Fellow at the University of Tübingen.
Roberto Robalinho is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Tübingen.