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Linda Peake, York University

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Thinking about Feminist Comparative Urban Research 1: the GenUrb Project

Chair: Linda Peake

In this panel session, we explore feminist urban approaches to comparative research with a focus on the GenUrb project (Urbanisation, Gender and the global south: a transformative knowledge network). Working across race, class, sexuality and gender, the members of this project have been conducting research for a three-year period in in a range of small, mid-sized and mega cities, namely Cochabamba, Delhi, Georgetown (Guyana), Ibadan, Ramallah and Shanghai. Our aim in this session is twofold:
(i) to generate feminist and decolonial approaches to the study of urban place-making and urbanisation through a comparative analysis of cities in the ‘global south’;
(ii) to expand on how GenUrb, a longitudinal feminist comparative urban research project, can further feminist theoretical contributions to current debates about comparative urban research.

Speakers –
1. A Genealogy of Feminist Comparative Urbanism, Mel Mikhail and Linda Peake
2. GenUrb: thinking Comparatively, Elsa Koleth, Faranak Miraftab, and Beverley Mullings
3. Are our urban stories comparable and translatable? : on writing from India and China, Anindita Datta and Penn Ip
4. Working with GenUrb - Araby Smyth

Non-Presenting Participants Agenda