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Professor Sophie Oldfield speaking at the 16th Swiss Geoscience Meeting
Professor Sophie Oldfield presented the Association of Swiss Geographers and the Geographica Helvetica Lecture: "The Urban as Political Terrain: Collaborative Urban Geography in Everyday Southern City Life", the keynote address in the Human Geography part of the 16th Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Bern from 30 November to 1 December 2018.
This talk explored collaborative forms of urban geography, immersed in the registers, inspirations and meanings of everyday struggles and learning across the southern city. This approach brings together multiple voices, registers and accounts, shaping urban theory in shared spaces across the city. In contexts of extreme urban inequality, this approach to theory building and critique infuses the personal, political, and public struggles through which urban theory is generated, expertise opened up, and solidarity and commitment built. Rooted in the political and physical realities of everyday southern city life, the approach engages the urban as a political terrain.