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| Semester | Herbstsemester 2024 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Claske Dijkema (claske.dijkema@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | Neoliberalism is turning cities into hubs for tourism and global finance, leading to gentrification and the erosion of cooperative environments in neighborhoods. In this context, there are also people who build alternatives, often operating on very local scales with limited resources and under precarious conditions. This course aims to explore the question of what a solidarity city looks like, where solidarity is lived in the city and which Infrastructures make this possible. We approach the city as a complex relational entity that is experienced and negotiated by different stakeholders in multiple ways. Three central and interrelated concepts at the heart of the investigation are social justice, care and solidarity. Under the broad term of solidarity cities, we look at urban actors, practices and institutions that are engaged in the urban space to ensure that everyone can participate in the city. In doing so, we address various concepts that are currently being referred to by social movements, such as “caring cities”, “right to the city”, “safe cities”, “infrastructures of solidarity” and “urban citizenship”. We examine how neoliberalism also affects what can be considered public, e.g. public spaces. Hence the course discusses from a spatial perspective the possibilities of collective action and political mobilization within cities. Which experiments that place the needs of all city dwellers (e.g. for housing, (mental) health, education) at the center can we find around us in different Swiss cities? What kind of political philosophy drives these experiments? To what extent are these solidarity initiatives forms of autonomous or intermediary organization or adhere to a humanitarian logic? The main disciplines the course draws on are urban sociology and social geography, but proposed reading also includes texts on political philosophy. The course is organized in three half-day classroom sessions and two full-day explorations of Bern and Zürich. Teachers: Claske Dijkema is Assistant Professor in Diversity and Sozialraum at the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Social Work. Main themes in her work are conflict, empowerment and safety in urban spaces. Her post-doc at swisspeace dealt with urban violence in European cities. At the University of Basel, she carried out a collaborative learning project on decolonising Swiss urban landscapes. Sarah Schilliger is Senior Researcher at the University of Bern and leads an international research project on solidarity movements and citizenship struggles in ten European cities. In her PhD in Sociology at the University of Basel, she carried out a multi-sited ethnography on care workers employed in Swiss households coming from Eastern European countries. |
| Bemerkungen | This course is capped at 15-20 max. Students and prioritizes MA Critical Urbanisms and MA Changing Societies Students on timely registration. *** Important information:*** All spots for this course have been filled, and no further registrations will be accepted. If you have not received a confirmation of your enrollment in this seminar, you will not be able to attend. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | All spots for this course have been filled, and no further registrations will be accepted. If you have not received a confirmation of your enrollment in this seminar, you will not be able to attend. |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| unregelmässig | Siehe Einzeltermine | ||
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Freitag 04.10.2024 | 10.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Mehrzweckraum 035 |
| Freitag 25.10.2024 | 10.15-16.00 Uhr | Field Trip to Bern, -- |
| Freitag 08.11.2024 | 10.15-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Seminarraum 103 |
| Freitag 29.11.2024 | 14.00-17.00 Uhr | Dies Academicus |
| Freitag 06.12.2024 | 10.15-16.00 Uhr | Field Trip to Zürich, -- |
| Freitag 13.12.2024 | 14.15-17.00 Uhr | Alte Universität, Seminarraum -201 |
| Module |
Modul: Resources and Sustainability (Master Studiengang: Changing Societies: Migration – Conflicts – Resources ) Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) Vertiefungsmodul Global Europe: Arbeit, Migration und Gesellschaft (Masterstudium: European Global Studies) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Urban Studies |