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.