AESOP 2024 ANNUAL CONGRESS | EVENING EVENT

36th AESOP Annual Congress 2024 Paris, France
“GAME CHANGER? Planning for just and sustainable urban regions”

Evening event 07

Shifting the paradigm: Redefining the power dynamics in South-North collaborations 

 Organizers :  

  • Subhashree Nath, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development
  • Abhijeet Chandel, TU Delft

Speakers:  

  • Gautam Bhan, Indian Institute of Habitat Settlements (IIHS) 
  • Sukaina Bhardwaj, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)   
  • Robtel Neajai Pailey, London School of Economics (LSE) 
  • Ratoola Kundoo, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) 
  • Rachel Lee, TU Delft
  • Neelakshi Joshi, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development

As the bilateral collaborations between South and North becomes the apparent way towards just and sustained sustainable regions, it is time to break free from the ‘white gaze’, a term coined by Robtel Neajai Pailey. These collaborations are marred with a dominance of Western knowledge brokerage and an implicit mindset that measures development, for e.g., of cities, climate agendas and socio-economic and cultural processes through a ‘Western conceptualisation of worldly development’ (Pailey, 2020, p.5). However, such a conceptualisation of development in the name of modernity – a concept originating from Europe, which as Walter D. Mignolo points out, is a narrative that celebrates Western achievements while hiding at the same time its darker side, “coloniality” (Mignolo, 2011, p.4) Therefore, today’s “global modernities” implies “global colonialities” (ibid. p.5), often observed when organisations in the North set research and policy agendas for the global South. Planning also has colonial roots, being historically used in the dispossession, oppression, and marginalisation of indigenous communities, creating norms of space appropriation and segregation, and othering the indigenous people (Ugarte, 2014).Against this background, this session aims to explore “game changers”, that addresses extant structural inequalities in South-North collaborations. It calls upon speakers and presenters to engage in discussions regarding the existing challenges and chart a path towards just and equitable collaraborations.

LOC

The Local Organising Committee

/Marco%20Cremaschi
Sciences Po
Marco Cremaschi
Professor, Director of the Master Program in Urban Planning, CEE, Chair
/Eleonora%20Russo
Sciences Po
Eleonora Russo
General Secretary, CEE, Co-Deputy Chair of the LOC, Coordination of the Event, Finance and Operations Administrator
/Ilaria%20Milazzo
Sciences Po
Ilaria Milazzo
Executive Director, Urban School, Co-Deputy Chair of the LOC, registration, internal affairs
/Jérôme%20Baratier
Sciences Po
Jérôme Baratier
Adjunct professor Urban Management
/Florence%20Faucher
Sciences Po
Florence Faucher
Professor, director of the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics
/Charlotte%20Halpern
Sciences Po
Charlotte Halpern
Senior research fellow, director of the Executive Master Gouvernance territoriale et développement urbain
/Sukriti%20Issar
Sciences Po
Sukriti Issar
Associate professor, director of the Master program Governing the large metropolis
/Patrick%20Le%20Galès
Sciences Po
Patrick Le Galès
CNRS research professor
/Giacomo%20Parrinello
Sciences Po
Giacomo Parrinello
Research fellow, director of the Master program Governing Ecological Transitions in European cities
/Champaka%20Rajagopal
Sciences Po
Champaka Rajagopal
Adjunct professor Urban Planning (India)
/Tommaso%20Vitale
Sciences Po
Tommaso Vitale
Dean, Urban School
/Eric%20Verdeil
Sciences Po
Eric Verdeil
Professor, Director of the Master Program in Urban and territorial strategies, CERI