Urban popular economies in the global war regime

And May 21 22
University of Padua
Conerence Room, Palazzo Liviano
Piazza Capitaniato, 7, Padova
Transmission: https://unipd.link/economie-popolari 

The international seminar “Urban Popular Economies in the Global War Regime” will take place in the Conference Hall of the Palazzo Liviano in Padua, Italy, on May 21 and 22, 2026. The seminar is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU and the University of Padua, within the framework of the STARS Grants@Unipd 2023 ECOPOP program – Popular Economies in Latin America: urban territories and self-organization in Colombia.

The event will be co-organized and will feature the participation of several research groups that contribute transnationally and transdisciplinarily to debates on popular economies in Latin America, Africa, and Asia: the CLACSO Working Group "Popular Economies: Theoretical and Practical Mapping," the Urban Popular Economies Collective, the Socioeconomics, Institutions, and Development Group of the National University of Colombia, in collaboration with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the journal Tracce Urbane – Italian Journal of Urban Studies. Several of the contributions presented at this seminar will be published in the next issue of this journal, dedicated to popular economies in the context of the global war regime, edited by members of the CLACSO Working Group "Popular Economies: Theoretical and Practical Mapping." 

This event will follow up on the international exchange of research, critical debates, and analytical and political perspectives that began more than ten years ago and contributes to linking the CLACSO Working Group with international research experiences, as happened with the 2024 meeting "Urban Transitions and Popular Economies: How to Inhabit Differently?", in La Paz and El Alto, Bolivia, and will also link with various research experiences from Italy and Europe.

Participate
Cristina Cielo (Flacso Ecuador and GT CLACSO) – AbdouMaliq Simone (Sheffield University, Urban Institute) – Alioscia Castronovo (DISSGEA UNIPD and GT CLACSO) – Andrea Caracausi (DISSGEA UNIPD, Department Director) – Yenny Carolina Ramírez (GSEID UNAL Colombia and GT CLACSO) – Martha Bernal (GSEID UNAL Colombia and GT CLACSO), Natalia Hernández Fajardo (UNAL Colombia and UNISA) – Juan Felipe Duque (Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla and Ruhr University Bochum) – Rupali Gupte  (School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai, India) – Prasad Shetty (School of Environment and Architecture, Mumbai, India) – Felipe Magalhães (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil) – Carlo Cellamare (Sapienza, University of Rome) –  Alberto De Nicola (Unibo) –  Dario Nardini (DISSGEA) – Elvira Pietrobon (ISH-Bamako, Mali) – Andrea Buchetti (Unipd) – Sara Mengato (Dublin City University) – Alessia Pontoriero (Laboratorio di Studi Urbani DICEA Sapienza) – Lorenzo Baldasseroni (LabSU-Roma Tre) – Martino Chiarini (Sapienza Università di Roma) and Matteo Codelupi (Lab Communalia, Unisa). 

Organized by
CLACSO Working Group on Popular Economies. Theoretical and Practical Mapping
Collective of Urban Popular Economies
Socioeconomics, Institutions and Development Group of the National University of Colombia, in collaboration with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and the journal Tracce Urbane –
Italian Journal of Urban Studies.

Live stream at the following link: https://unipd.link/economie-popolari