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Part 1: Lectures, each Tuesday 16-16.30 CET (digital) Part 2: Weekly plenary and group work, each Tuesday 16.30-18.00 CET (digital) 14 sessions during the summer term 2021 (13.04.2021 to 20.07.2021) zoom-code will be sent via eCampus or email to all registered and accepted participants Content of the course The Hungarian-Austrian social scientist Karl Polanyi characterized as “Great Transformation” (1944) the deep social change of the 19th and 20th century towards industrial capitalism and nation states with corresponding tensions between market and state regulation, commodification and social norms and values, unleashed economy and participatory democracy. In the 21st century, we observe deep restructuration and social change in all formerly industrial cities. These great transformations refer to legal and regulative frameworks, to social diversity and coherence, to cultural and cognitive mappings in arts and literature as well as to migrations and the use of space. Currently, climate change, digitalization, biotechnologies, transnationalization and pandemic-fuelled restructuring of home and office as well as other social innovations boost the socio-ecological transformations in post-industrial cities. Part 1: This course offers an interdisciplinary overview of basic societal changes in big post-industrial cities. It is embedded in the efforts of the UNIC-network of eight post-industrial cities (Bilbao, Bochum, Cork, Istanbul, Liége, Oulu, Rotterdam, Zagreb) to strengthen common teaching and research activities and to boost mobility and inclusion of students and fellows between the participating universities. This course is composed by inputs of scholars from different scientific disciplines of the UNIC universities. All sessions will be organized digitally in Zoom and rely on a course on the Moodle platform. Each session will begin with a life or recorded video conference of a specialized scholar of one of the UNIC universities. Participants of the course will then have the chance to deepen their knowledge concerning the related topic based on readings and discussions. Part 2: Smaller working groups will produce specific outputs like papers, presentations or videos and bring together students from different universities and disciplines. Preliminary thematic structure: Great transformations in Post-industrial Cities (PIC, introduction, course dynamics ) History and testimonies of industrial pasts in PIC (lecture, plenary/group work) Shifts in economy and employment (lecture, plenary/group work) Shifts in population, education, and social inequality (lecture, plenary/group work) Shifts in governance and regulative regimes (lecture, plenary/group work) Shifts in culture, discourses and public life (lecture, plenary/group work) Super-diversity I: class, ethnicity, religion and gender (lecture, plenary/group work) Super-diversity II: social movements and organizations (lecture, plenary/group work) Super-diversity III: literature and public discourse (lecture, plenary/group work) Super-diversity IV: landscapes of social practice (lecture, plenary/group work) Spaces of work, care and socializing in PIC (lecture, plenary/group work) PIC, super-diversity and social innovation (lecture, plenary/group work) Presentation and discussion of group work Presentation and discussion of group work |
