In 2024/25 TCG NCAT will concentrate on ‘Urban Futures: Entrepreneurial states, private capital and new forms of citizenship in the making of cities’. Our research focuses on new contexts of urbanism that involve fundamental shifts in the ways cities are designed, governed and lived in. Contemporary urban life reflects transformations in relationships between the state, markets and citizens. We explore how urban life is influenced by changes across these different registers and levels. As states are exhorted to become more ‘entrepreneurial’ and private capital undertakes ‘state-like’ activities, citizens negotiate varying relationships with the two, both resisting and conforming to new conditions of urban life. This flux, in turn, is the crucible in which new imaginations of the state, the market and personal and social identities are being formed. TCG NCAT is especially interested in exploring i) Urbanism and new forms of exclusion and inclusion; ii) Privatisation, social life and city-making; iii) The rural-urban interface; iv) Democracy and the ‘digital’ turn in urbanism.
Coordinators:
- Prof. Dr. Martin Fuchs, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- Prof. Vidhu Verma, JNU, New Delhi
Members:
- Prof. Rajeev Bhargava,Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
- Prof. Lajwanti P. Chatani, The M. S. University of Baroda
- Prof. Florian Hoffmann, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
- PD Dr. Bettina Hollstein, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- PD Dr. Antje Linkenbach-Fuchs, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- PD Dr. Andreas Pettenkofer, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- Prof. Dr. Beatrice Renzi, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
- Prof. Valerian Rodrigues, Ambedkar University, Delhi
- Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt/ KFG Postwachstumsgesellschaften, Jena
- Prof. Sanjay Srivastava, SOAS University of London
- Dr. Awadhendra Sharan, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
- Dr. Hanna Werner, Max Weber Kolleg, University of Erfurt
