Welcome to the PhD in Geography program

Next  Monday, December 4 we will hold the  Welcome Day to the Phd in Geography program, at 10:00 hours  in the Enric Lluch Room (B9/1058).  The Day is dedicated to all the students of the PhD Program and its faculty.

The session, of two hours, will be distributed in a first informative part on issues related to the PhD, and a second part dedicated to the conference of  Dra. Elia Apostolopoulou: "Exploring the links between infrastructure-led development, urban transformation and inequality in China's Belt and Road Initiative"

Description:

In this talk, we will discuss the links between infrastructure¿led development, urban transformation and inequality in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). By drawing on postcolonial geographies, my goal is to offer a relational analysis of divergent trajectories of socio¿spatial urban change driven by BRI projects across the Global South and North. My key argument is that urban transformation driven by the BRI signals the emergence of a new form of infrastructure¿led urbanisation. This engenders both new urban formations and new urban politics that, despite variegated expressions across different contexts, are reconfiguring urban space and are transforming the social geography of each city by creating, facilitating or exacerbating social, environmental, and spatial inequality.

Follow the link to find out more information about the work of Elia Apostolopoulou.

This conference is a training activity of the Program (with certification for doctoral students attending) and is open to everyone.

Registration form for the Welcome Day to the PhD in Geography program