- Teaching
- Transformations
- October 16, 2023
Transformations I 2023/24. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cities and Urban Processes- Lecture
The seminar complements the lecture “Transformations I” by providing opportunities for the reading of key texts and for group discussions. We will reflect on different approaches to the understanding of cities and urbanization by reading and jointly discussing key texts. The seminar also serves to teach and train basic skills in critical reading and writing for academic purposes. Students will gain an understanding of “academic knowledge claims” and improve their ability to dissect and discuss differences between arguments. Moreover, in this course students will undergo a peer-review process to improve their writing skills and get in touch with common procedures in academic publishing. Requirements are regular attendance and active engagement in class as well as the submission of one review paper. The course is taught in English.
contributors
Prof. Dr. Monika Grubbauer
Professor, History and Theory of the City
Dr. Fabian Namberger
Academic Staff, Postdoc Sociology
2023/2024
Liminal Cities

Urban Life In-between
Faced by a multiplicity of global crises, urban life today has reached a tipping point. Most pressingly, an accelerating climate catastrophe calls for feasible social and ecological alternatives beyond western capitalist hegemony and its dependence on profit-oriented production and excessive mass consumption. Equally, the resurgence of military conflict in and beyond Europe combined with the …