Dr Matina Kapsali
Funding period: 13 May 2024 – 14 May 2024
Type of funding:
Other Grants
This grant was awarded as a follow-up to Grassroots Infrastructures of Social Reproduction in European cities: developing urban counter-topographies.
While an ongoing crisis of care has impacted the livelihoods of urban communities across the world, it has at the same time spurred innovative communal practices and forms of urban life. Building on and contributing to recent debates in urban and feminist geography on social reproduction and urban infrastructures, this two-day workshop (May 30-31) will bring together emerging and leading scholars and activists/practitioners from both the Global North and South in order to explore: 1) the ways that grassroots infrastructures are built and sustained through the everyday struggles of urban residents; and 2) how these infrastructures function as a dual form of urban social reproduction and political transformation. This workshop will be the first meeting of a proposed network of scholars across contexts working around themes of urban and socio-material infrastructures. The goal of the network is threefold: 1) to make connections between early career scholars doing similar work across contexts; 2) to generate the exchange of new ideas and thoughts and to spark future collaborations and events (academic and otherwise); and 3) to foster connections between early career scholars, more senior researchers, and activists in order to bring these groups into dialogue with the network. Other outputs from the event will include a digital zine, which will be housed, along with recorded workshop sessions and additional resources, on a website created for this purpose.