Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies

City and space in the Global South - Urban space, community and Wellbeing

Friday 17 July / 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm (Germany & South Africa) / 9:00 am - 11:00 am (Mexico)

Conference Panel with:

Erika Alcantar (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México): The tradition of tequio: the power of space lived in community practices in the city

Birgit Hoinle (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): Urban Agroecology in Bogotá – connecting city and country-side by planting alternatives of Buen Vivir

Anele Ganta (University of Witwatersrand): Cape Town, and the Story of a Brick

Moderation by Georgina Cebey  (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

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Biographies of Speakers

Erika Alcantar García

Erika Alcantar García is PhD-Student at the Facultad de Arquitectura, UNAM. México

Licenciada en historia y maestra en urbanismo por la UNAM. Es miembro del OBSINTER del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales y de la Red Iberoamericana de Historia Urbana. Profesora titular de la licenciatura en urbanismo de la UNAM desde 2015, en las áreas de Proyectos y de Cultura urbanística, en donde imparte los cursos “Investigación I”, “Filosofía de la Ciudad” e “Historia del Urbanismo popular”. Actualmente estudia el doctorado en urbanismo en la UNAM, dentro de la línea de “Teoría y cultura urbanística”. Realiza la tesis que lleva por título “Forma urbana y culturas urbanísticas: tensiones en el modo de producción del espacio en la Ciudad de México (1960- 1988)”. Ha publicado como autora el capítulo “La política del transporte en la Ciudad de México durante la primera mitad del siglo xx: la evolución de un ámbito de la política urbana”, La movilidad en la Ciudad de México. Impactos, conflictos y oportunidades, el artículo “La forma de las ciudades en el sur global: hacia la reivindicación de la cultura urbanística popular en la Ciudad de México durante el siglo XX” para AIPUR [en dictaminación]; y como coautora los artículos “El urbanismo popular en México” y “5 hitos en la historiografía del suburbio en la Ciudad de México” en Urbana. Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos sobre a Cidade.

Birgit Hoinle

Birgit Hoinle studied politics and geography in Tübingen and Niterói (Brazil). She recently finished her doctorate in geography at the University of Hamburg on (peri-)urban agriculture and processes of spatial empowerment in Colombia. During field research (2014 – 2016), she built up an universitary cooperation with the program of geography of Universidad Externado de Colombia and coordinated a series of conferences on ‚Urban Agroecology and Territories of Peace between City and Country-side (Hoinle et al. 2019). Since April of 2019, Birgit Hoinle coordinates at the International Center for Ethics in Science (IZEW) the Studium Oecologicum, a program for Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Tübingen University.

Anele Ganta

Anele Ganta is a PhD Candidate, Urban Geography, University of the Witwatersrand

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