 AbdouMaliq Simone
Research Professor of Sociology Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Lila Leontidou Professor of Geography University of Peloponnese Dimitris Dalakoglou Professor of Social Anthropology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (infra-demos) Chaired by Yannis Kallianos Post-Doc Fellow in Anthropology Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (infra-demos) May 12th, 2018 Netherlands Institute at Athens, Makri 11, 117 42 Plaka 18:00-20:30 Following the seminar that infra-demos.net organised in November 2017 in Amsterdam, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, we would like to invite you to our next seminar which will take place in Athens in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute at Athens. The seminar will focus on the relationship between infrastructure and crisis to discuss everyday innovations associated to socio-technological forms of participation arising within the infrastructural gap (IG). The infrastructural gap (IG) which emerged in the West after the rupture of the 2008 crisis refers to the difficulty of the state and private sector to sustain infrastructural networks. At issue is the fact that within this new infrastructural condition transformative potentials and innovative socio-technical practices have risen to produce innovative forms of civil activity, and thus explore non institutional ways of political participation. Infrastructures lie at the core of this process, both as sites of contestation where the previous model of urban governance can be challenged and as spaces through which technological innovations and new crisis-resilient socio-technological systems can emerge. The seminar touches upon these issues and beyond in order to explore the production of infrastructural relations in times of crisis and turmoil. The seminar is co-organized by the infra-demos project, the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The seminar will take place at the Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA), Makri St. 11, Athens, 11742, from 18:00-20:30 followed by a wine reception. We look forward to seeing you there.
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29/9/2018 12:16:18
The best way to deal with a crisis is to plan different ways on how it can be solved. When a crisis happens, everything seems to be chaotic. Everyone is always panicking and that is the main reason why they find it hard to come up with a concrete solution. One problem can have multiple solutions, so be open to resorting into numerous ways on how you can deal with your crisis. In this way, you will be able to assure that your crisis will be actually be solved and not become a long-term problem. Leave a Reply. |
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