Critical Perspectives on Urban Political Economy Conference

Critical Perspectives on Urban Political Economy Conference

26-27 May, Turku, Finland

Photo Credit: Özlem Celik, Turku Cathedral, 2023

Critical Perspectives on Urban Political Economy Conference is a collaborative effort of Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), Tampere Urban Research Network for Sustainability (TURNS), and Nordic Urban Political Economy Network (NUPE). The conference welcomed papers that scrutinize the contemporary dynamics of financialized forms of neoliberal urban transformations within the cities from critical perspectives looking into new risks, new forms of self-organisations, such as commons, grassrooted logics of urban development.

Registration for the conference is now closed.

Location for all the sessions: Natura Building, University of Turku, Lecture Hall XI, 2^nd floor University of Turku

Coffee Breaks: Natura Building 3rd floor

Lunch: Galilei restaurant, Agora Building

Evening Keynote: Turku Main Library, Linnankatu 2

PROGRAMME

FIRST DAY

8:30 Coffee served

09:00 – 09:15 Welcome & opening words

Özlem Celik and Panu Lehtovuori

09:15– 10:15 Keynote lecture: “Silent resistance: Politics of transformation in Nordic neighborhoods”, Päivi Kymäläinen, Tampere University

10:15-10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 11:30 Session 1: Activism and Grassroots Practices

Chair: Özlem Celik

Activist identities in motion: the changing roles of cycling advocates, Christoph Fink, Universität Wien, Helsingin Yliopisto

Emerging Otherness: Practices of Positive Fragmentation in Urban Space, Irina Garnets, Independent, practicing architect

Place Attachment and Circular Practices Intertwined: Learning from Historic Wooden Urban Neighbourhoods, Oleksandra Nenko, University of Turku

11:30-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-13:00 Session 2: Urban Entrepreneurialism and Housing

Chair: Oleksandra Nenko

The Limits to urban entrepreneurialism in the non-profit sector; lessons from four Danish housing associations, Matthew Howells, Aalborg University

How municipalities efforts to govern urban shrinkage impact the local housing system, Eija Meriläinen, Örebro University

Letting Housing Rule, Leaving Housing Behind: Housing Question and the Question of Uneven Development, Ceren Gamze Yaşar, TED University and Ahmet Suvar Aslan, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University

Creeping gentrification on the waterfront: Segregation and policies against it in Turku vs. the city’s riverfront zone, Katriina Rosengren, University of Turku, Hannu Ruonavaara, University of Turku, Jani Vuolteenaho, University of Helsinki, Konsta Anastasiou, University of Turku

13:00-14:30 Lunch, Location: Galilei restaurant, Agora Building

14:30 – 15:30 Session 3: Local Coalitions and Urban Development

Chair: Xin Liu

Unravelling populist resistance to planning by means of recognition theory of justice, Hanna Mattila, University of Turku

Persuasive power of visual storytelling: Investigating the rationality and power of visualisations within an opportunistic urban growth machine, Aurora Luukkanen, University of Helsinki, Markus Laine, Tampere University, Salla Jokela, Tampere University

University urbanism? Purpose, Plans, Partnerships and Placemaking in UK Campus Development, Georgiana Varna, Newcastle University

15:30 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:45 Session 4: New Frontiers of Urbanism

Chair: Panu Lehtovuori

CIAM and the technoscientific turn of urbanism, Martti Kaartinen, Tampere University

Green Capital Switching: A New Frontier in Financialisation of Urban Development, Özlem Celik, University of Turku and Lina Olsson, Malmö University

17:00 Leaving for the Keynote

17:30- 19:00 Keynote Lecture: European Cities at the crossroad. A spatial political economy perspective on social innovation and neoliberalism, Prof. Dr. Yuri Kazepov, University of Vienna

Location: Turku Main Library, Linnankatu 24

SECOND DAY

10:00 Meeting at the Cathedral

10:00-12:00 Guided City Walk

12:00-13:30 Lunch (At your own expense)

13:30-15:30 Free Discussion and Networking