About
Grassroots Infrastructures and Urban Social Reproduction
While an ongoing crisis of care has impacted the livelihoods of urban communities across the globe, it has at the same time spurred innovative communal practices and forms of urban life. These grassroots infrastructures - both material and social - are built and sustained through the everyday struggles of urban residents, functioning as a dual form of urban social reproduction and political transformation.
This website serves as a living repository for events and resources that document the transformational potential of these reproductive infrastructures. It houses the recordings of a two-day virtual workshop (May 30-31, 2024) organized by the University of Manchester and the Colegio de México, with funding support from the Urban Studies Foundation, as well as additional resources, including a virtual zine created during the workshop.
The website also serves as a central hub for ongoing collaborations between scholars and community organizations working around themes of urban and socio-material infrastructures. The goal of the collaboration is threefold:
to make connections between early career scholars doing similar work across contexts;
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to generate the exchange of new ideas and thoughts and to spark future collaborations and events (academic and otherwise);
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to make connections between early career scholars doing similar work across contexts;