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74175-01 - Übung: Community Organizing and Urban Struggles for Housing Justice in Basel (3 KP)
| Semester | Herbstsemester 2024 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende |
Jonas Aebi (jonas.aebi@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn)
Jacob Geuder (jacob.geuder@unibas.ch) |
| Inhalt | In the “Urban Struggles” course we explore how urban transformations redesigning entire neighborhoods emerge from the co-creation between government officials, investors, and the public. In 2019, the pharma multinationals Novartis and BASF announced the sale of KlybeckPlus, a former industrial site with an area of more than 40 soccer fields located in the working-class neighborhood Klybeck. The buyers were Swiss Life, the biggest insurance company of Switzerland, as well as Central Real Estate, a new holding created by Swiss banks and pension funds. The owner change took the public by surprise since the canton of Basel-Stadt already started a participatory process invoking the idea that the population would be able to participate in the planning of a new neighborhood. Since then, a multitude of migrant groups, parties, community organizations, housing activists, artists and cultural spaces struggle against the ongoing financialization of their neighbourhood and a socially just development of the Klybeck. The concept of “financialization” suggests that housing, land, and inhabitants are increasingly treated as mere financial assets. Short-term expectations of returns and land speculation regularly affect people’s livelihoods and create new urban inequalities. Are the limits of democracy demarcated by where the interests of investors and private property speculation starts? We explore how forms and practices of local democracy are changed when urban governance and speculative urbanism work hand-in-hand to increase portfolio returns. |
| Lernziele | The course introduces methods to investigate financialization in Basel as well as the practices and experiences of local forms of contestation. Students learn to: - Engage theories of the financialization of the city, urban movements, community organizing, and right to the city struggles; - Document urban struggle in a broad sense, that is, understanding the diverging goals and methods of different community organizations and other actors and the effects on democratic governance; - Conduct small-scale urban ethnographies, including interviews and narrative analysis; and - Co-create documents in collaboration with grassroots initiatives to communicate findings to the broader public. |
| Anmeldung zur Lehrveranstaltung | Register / De-register |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|---|
| einmalig | Siehe Einzeltermine | ||
Einzeltermine
| Datum | Zeit | Raum |
|---|---|---|
| Montag 20.01.2025 | 10.00-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 21.01.2025 | 10.00-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Mittwoch 22.01.2025 | 10.00-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Donnerstag 23.01.2025 | 10.00-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Montag 27.01.2025 | 10.00-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Dienstag 28.01.2025 | 10.00-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Mittwoch 29.01.2025 | 10.00-16.00 Uhr | Kollegienhaus, Hörsaal 119 |
| Module |
Modul: The Urban across Disciplines (Master Studiengang: Critical Urbanisms) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Prüfung | Pass / Fail |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Urban Studies |