October 28, 1-2pm at the Forbes Lab in the Irvine Building.
‘Everything is Being Disturbed’: Unsettling the Space(s) of Global Infrastructure Along the Northern Corridor
In an era of massive investment in global infrastructure projects new demands are placed on urban-regional scholarship. Accounting for the geographies through which these initiatives proceed, and subsequently generate remains a challenging task given the scale, intensity and speed. In this talk I propose a way to think otherwise around the notion of unsettlement. We develop this from a methodological approach that ‘follows the global infrastructure project’ highlighting how in the making of these large-scale investments all kinds of disparate but connected social relations, environments and economies become unsettled.
The work develops from two projects that are proceeding in eastern Uganda as part of the Northern Corridor; the rehabilitation of the Northern Spur railway and establishment of the Sino-Ugandan Industrial Park.