Topic: Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West
Speaker: Gregory Bracken
This seminar presented some of the key ideas contained in the book ‘Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West’ (2020), a collection of essays examining urban communities and societies in Asia and the West. this book is volume two in a series examining care of the self in cities in Asia and the West. The essays highlight challenges to citizenship, and even the right to the city itself. Written by a range of academics from different backgrounds (architecture, urbanism, anthropology, social science, psychology, gender studies, history, and philosophy) their trans- and multidisciplinary approaches shed valuable light on what are sometimes quite old problems, but lead to fresh perspectives and news ways of dealing with them.
More info about the book: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462984721/contemporary-practices-of-citizenship-in-asia-and-the-west
Dr. Gregory Bracken is Assistant Professor of Spatial Planning and Strategy at the Urbanism Department of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands. He is one of the co-founders of Footprint, the e-journal dedicated to architecture theory. From 2009-2015 he was a Research Fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Leiden.
