CITYINDUSTRIES

CityIndustries is an international research network which gathers scholars from different countries and disciplines, such as Social and Cultural Anthropology, Sociology, Human Geography, Political Sciences and Urban Planning. The network aims to investigate processes of urbanization and industrialization, and to better understand how these processes are related through space and time in terms of materialities, social practicies, mechanisms of knowledge production, symbolic meanings, and affective atmospheres... CityIndustries is funded by the federal state of Hamburg and coordinated by the University of Hamburg and Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg... We understand such relations as complex, multi-scalar and open-ended entanglements that include multiple actors, technologies, and discourses, and which have diverse foreseen and unforeseen consequences. Such entanglements can be characterized as productive since they result in new forms of urbanity and new modes of industrial..

Primary location: Hamburg Germany