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Seminar
SoSe 22: The Urbanization of the Global South
Adrian Lerner Patron
Comments
In 2007, for the first time, most of the inhabitants of the world lived in cities. During the twentieth-century, the percentage of urban population exploded. A crucial part of the transformation of the Earth into a majority urban planet took place in the so-called Global South: in the capitals, metropoles, regional hubs and second-tier centers of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. This seminar explores why and how this change took place, what urbanization meant for the people who experienced it and the polities they inhabited, how it influenced politics and culture at diverse scales, what it all meant for the global ecosystem, and what it might mean for its future. We will interrogate how global urbanization might help us rethinking key categories (including those that organize the course), scrutinize the broad patterns of the process of urbanization, and, in what constitutes the core of the course, focus on case studies that showcase the potential of different approaches to urban history to understand the modern world. close
14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2022-04-20 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-04-27 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-05-04 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-05-11 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-05-18 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-05-25 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-06-01 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-06-08 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-06-15 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-06-22 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-06-29 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-07-06 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-07-13 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2022-07-20 12:00 - 14:00