The Right to the City

dublin | education | event notice Friday May 06, 2011 17:53 by Mick - Campaign for the Old Dublin City Arts Building cityartscampaign at gmail dot com

open discussion forum

The Talking Shop is a new discussion forum organised by the Campaign for the Old City Arts Building and the Provisional University. Our first session looks at The Right to the City. Seomra Spraoi 6.30 Monday 16th of May

Anyone living in Dublin over the last decades can see that today the city itself is at the centre of social transformation and in particular the expansion of neo-liberalism. In this context the ‘right to the city’ has been proposed as an important demand for social movements. In this session we’ll look at the politics of cities today (property crisis, gentrification, NAMA etc.) and talk about the right to the city as a way of fighting back.

People might want to read David Harvey’s Right to the City (although it’s a bit academic):

http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2740

You can also check out this video of Harvey talking about ‘accumulation by dispossession’:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a9TAbQHzjQ&feature=related

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