City Talks | Timothy Mitchell on the Materialities of Political Economy and Colonial History

Описание: In this first installment of City Talks, Omar Jabary Salamanca and Nasser Abourahme discuss with Timothy Mitchell his latest work and his ongoing thinking around questions of urban political economy and political theory. More specifically, we learn about his use of the term "capitalization" and what it might mean for thinking about the built environment. Mitchell also reflects on the role of public space during the Arab uprisings, issues of urban and rural informality, as well as the ways the "material turn" and close attention to the technical help us see colonialism in different ways.

City Talks provides a platform for conversations around the social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental transformations that define the historical and contemporary geographies of the Middle East and beyond. Bringing together voices from critical scholars, activists, and artists, it seeks to explore the ways racialized, gendered, and class-based social orders come into being, materialize, and are resisted through the fabric of bodies, space, and time.

Theme and Time Markers:

00:00:07 | Representation, colonialism, and the city
00:01:54 | Political economy, capitalization, and the city
00:14:35 | Capitalization versus rentierism or rent economies
00:21:14 | Provincializing materiality
00:26:09 | The “material turn” and colonialism
00:32:47 | Methodological encounters with the archive
00:39:43 | Reading the archive in non-representational ways
00:43:15 | Arab uprisings and public space
00:50:26 | Urban (and rural) informality

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