BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news107@urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201020T124610 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20201026T180000 SUMMARY:"DWELLING IN LIMINALITIES: THE OTHERWISE CARE OF BUCHAREST UNDERGRO UND" | Lecture by Michele Lancione DESCRIPTION:The lecture explores the politics of life underground in Buchar est\, Romania\, and its capacity to invent a home within an infrastructure \, and overall socio-technical conditions\, which for the many are a matte r of uninhabitability (Amin\, 2014\; Simone\, 2016). The lecture focuses o n a tunnel passing under Bucharest’s central train station\, where a com munity of drug users and homeless people established its home for years. R elying on extensive ethnographic observations\, visual work\, and intervie ws undertaken within the premises of one of Bucharest’s underground cana ls\, the paper traces and illustrates the socio-material entanglements cha racterizing life underground. This is an assemblage of bodies\, veins\, sy ringes\, substances\, and various relationships of power and affect\, whic h speaks of drug addiction and extreme marginalization but also of a sense of belonging\, reciprocal trustiness\, and care (Lancione\, 2019a). The g oal of this work is to trace the emergence of the infrastructure of ‘hom e’ in the abnormal conditions of life in the tunnels of Gara de Nord and to highlight what that meant in terms of urban politics in Bucharest (Che lcea and Druţǎ\, 2016) and beyond (Butler\, 2011). The paper contributes to debates around homing practices at the margins of the urban (Veness\, 1993\; Vasudevan\, 2015\; Lancione\, 2019b)\, and it promotes a deeper und erstanding of the peculiar politics emerging from the assemblage of life u nderground in Bucharest.\\r\\nThis will be held on Monday October 26\, 18: 00.\\r\\nPlease note that this will be a virtual lecture via Zoom.\\r\\nPl ease register for the event/Zoom link by sending an email to maren.larsen@ unibas.ch. (Students enrolled in the Critical Urbanisms: Current Debates c ourse need not register) X-ALT-DESC:

The lecture explores the politics of life underground in Buch arest\, Romania\, and its capacity to invent a home within an infrastructu re\, and overall socio-technical conditions\, which for the many are a mat ter of uninhabitability (Amin\, 2014\; Simone\, 2016). The lecture focuses on a tunnel passing under Bucharest’s central train station\, where a c ommunity of drug users and homeless people established its home for years. Relying on extensive ethnographic observations\, visual work\, and interv iews undertaken within the premises of one of Bucharest’s underground ca nals\, the paper traces and illustrates the socio-material entanglements c haracterizing life underground. This is an assemblage of bodies\, veins\, syringes\, substances\, and various relationships of power and affect\, wh ich speaks of drug addiction and extreme marginalization but also of a sen se of belonging\, reciprocal trustiness\, and care (Lancione\, 2019a). The goal of this work is to trace the emergence of the infrastructure of ‘h ome’ in the abnormal conditions of life in the tunnels of Gara de Nord a nd to highlight what that meant in terms of urban politics in Bucharest (C helcea and Druţǎ\, 2016) and beyond (Butler\, 2011). The paper contribut es to debates around homing practices at the margins of the urban (Veness\ , 1993\; Vasudevan\, 2015\; Lancione\, 2019b)\, and it promotes a deeper u nderstanding of the peculiar politics emerging from the assemblage of life underground in Bucharest.

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This will be held on Monday October 26\ , 18:00.

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Please note that this will be a virtual lecture via Zoom.

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Please register for the event/Zoom link by sending an email to ma ren.larsen@unibas.ch. (Students enrolled in the Critical Urbanisms: Curren t Debates course need not register)

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