Living in urban spaces


Workshop: Urban Precarity
From 27 to 29 March 2019 the workshop entitled “Urban Precarity” took place at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (MPI). Workshop participants examined how urban life is shaped by various experiences of precariousness. Ethnographic field studies shed light on the multifaceted aspects of precarity.

Günther Schlee, Director of the Department `Integration and Conflict´ welcomes the participants of the workshop `Urban Precarity´ ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Christian Laheij und Brian Campbell, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, introduce the topic of the workshop ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Nolan Kline, Rollins College, Winter Park Florida, USA ■ Title of his talk: Policing and Precarity: urban immigration enforcement in the US south ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Agathe Menetrier, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) / École normale supérieure, Paris ■ Title of her talk: “He is a VIP Refugee”: the city as a precarious transit point for queer asylum seekers in Dakar ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

John Comaroff, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA ■ Discussing the papers of session I ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Christoph Brumann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), chair of session I, talking to John Comaroff, Harvard University during a coffee break ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

James Carrier, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Chair of session II ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Julie Soleil Archambault, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada ■ Title of her talk: From Aspirational Compromise to Suburban Bliss: reimagining the city in a Mozambican suburb ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Anne Allison, Duke University, Durham, USA ■ Discussing papers of session II ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Günther Schlee, Director of the Department `Integration and Conflict´, Chair of the keynote lecture ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Rebecca Bowers, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK ■ Title of her talk: Navigating the City: exploring migrant mobility and precarity in Bengaluru ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Katrien Pype, Leuven University, Belgium ■ Title of her talk: Of Salvation and Solution: dealing with social precarity in contemporary Kinshasa ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Ursula Rao, Leipzig University, discussing papers presented in session III ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Tabea Scharrer, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Chair of session IV ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Martijn Oosterbaan, Utrecht University, the Netherlands ■ Title of his talk: Cynicism and Hope at the Ruins of Urban Security in Rio de Janeiro ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Rachael Scicluna, University of Malta / Ministry for the Family, Secretariat for Social Accommodation, Malta ■ Title of her talk: Queering Policymaking: the urban, experiential and gender in Malta ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University, Sweden talking to Asta Vonderau, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Asta Vonderau, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of session V ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Robin Balliger, San Francisco Art Institute , USA ■ Title of her talk: Painting over Precarity: community public art and the optics of dispossession, gentrification, and governance in West Oakland, CA ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Anne Allison, Duke University, talking to organiser Christian Laheij, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Organiser, Brian Campbell, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and Agathe Menetrier, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, during a discussion ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Ursula Rao, Leipzig University, talking to Günther Schlee, Director of the Department `Integration and Conflict´ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

John Comaroff, Harvard University, and Julie Soleil Archambault, Concordia University, during a discussion ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

Günther Schlee, Director of the Department `Integration and Conflict´ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Nolan Kline, Rollins College in Winter Park, engaged in a discussion ■ Photo: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
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